From Revisionist History: The Alabama Murders
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Pushkin Industries
4.4 • 602 Ratings
🗓️ 30 October 2025
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Here's a preview of a podcast we think you'll enjoy. It's from the new season of Malcolm Gladwell's Revisionist History podcast, The Alabama Murders. Florence, Alabama. 1988. A preacher has an affair. A woman is murdered. One death cascades into more, stretching across decades and leaving no one untouched — victims, bystanders, perpetrators, and those just trying to help. Eventually, the consequences lead to the center of a hot national debate on who should be allowed to live, who should die, and how the state should kill them. On The Alabama Murders, Malcolm asks: why, in our efforts to alleviate suffering, do we so often make it worse? Find Revisionist History: The Alabama Murders wherever you get podcasts.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:04.0 | Hello everyone. |
| 0:05.5 | Tim Harford here, the host of Cautionary Tales. |
| 0:08.7 | We are the podcast that tells you the stories of disasters from the past and what we can |
| 0:13.6 | learn from them today. |
| 0:14.7 | And we've just launched a brand new cautionary club on Patreon. |
| 0:19.7 | We'll be dropping an extra Cautionary Tales episode each month, a bonus interview, and a newsletter |
| 0:25.1 | chock full of behind-the-scenes titbits and anything else we dug up in our research. |
| 0:30.6 | To find out more, go to patreon.com slash cautionary club. |
| 0:41.3 | Push slash cautionary club. Pushkin. |
| 0:43.9 | Hello, hello, Malcolm here. |
| 0:45.7 | Before we get to the episode, |
| 0:47.4 | I want to let you know |
| 0:48.5 | you can get this entire season now, |
| 0:51.6 | ad-free, |
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| 0:57.0 | page on Apple Podcasts or at pushkin.fm.fm. slash plus. Pushkin Plus subscribers can access |
| 1:04.5 | ad-free episodes, full audiobooks, exclusive binges, and bonus content for all Pushkin shows. |
| 1:12.1 | A little while ago, a friend of mine told me, |
| 1:15.6 | you have to meet this person I know. |
| 1:18.0 | Kate Porterfield. |
| 1:19.4 | She's got the strangest job in America. |
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