This is the story of how a group of people brought music back to Afghanistan by creating their own version of American Idol.

The joy they brought to the nation.

You're free completely.

No one is there to destroy you.

The danger they endured.

They said my head should be cut off.

I'm John Legend.

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Welcome to Noble Blood, a production of I Heart Radio and Grim and Mild from Aaron Manky,

listener discretion advised. You're going to. The year 1808, the setting Regency England. There we meet a man called Sir Giles Staverly, a gambling addict who attempted to win back all he had by betting his daughter Serena's hand in marriage and betting her 80,000 pound trust fund.

But he lost once again and unable to face his daughter he instigated and lost a

duel on purpose ultimately killing himself. This left Serena's fate in the hands of the man her father lost to, Lord Justin

Vulcan, who she'd been told was simply the worst sort of rake. She swore she could never

fall in love with a man like Lord Vulcan, but after he invited her to come live

at his estate, Mandrake, the two come to form an unlikely

bond.

But they also had to contend with Justin's scheming mother, highwaymen, gamblers, and smugglers before the two of them

could admit their feelings.

In case you haven't realized, that is, of course, all a work of fiction, a historical romance written long before any of the Bridgertons stepped into their semi-enachronistic shoes.

Published in 1949, A Hazard of Hearts

was just one of over 700 works published by Dame Barbara Cartland, otherwise known as the Queen of

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