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Biography: Rise & Fall opens with a single object that changes everything: a grenade still smoking in a ruined fist, a watch handed over as a dare, an order typed out at 2:40 in the morning. Each episode of this biography series starts there, at the exact hinge point, and works backward and forward until you understand how one decision rewrote an entire life.

This is a narrated documentary series, no host chatting in your ear, no guests to introduce. Just one complete, reconstructed biography per episode, built from letters, court records, interviews, and the small physical details that biography often leaves out: the oath sworn on a dictator's birthday that haunted a man's final years, the window on a spacecraft that let an astronaut see the whole planet at once, the ten-minute swing of a bat that quietly ended a manager's grip on his own clubhouse. These are famous lives, but told through the moments nobody photographed.

The show moves across soldiers, athletes, astronauts, generals, politicians, and reformers, but the throughline of every biography is always the same: rise and fall, and the narrow hinge between them. You will hear how a ten-dollar-a-month pledge from ordinary people brought down a system worth billions, how a young stone-thrower ended up running NATO, how a general's sense of invincibility collapsed with one signed order. These are untold stories in the sense that the headlines everyone remembers rarely explain how it actually happened, minute by minute, choice by choice, biography by biography.

If you want history that feels like it is happening to real people instead of statues, this biography show is built for you. New episodes drop regularly, each one a self-contained biography you can start anywhere. Subscribe to Biography: Rise & Fall and keep a running record of the lives that went up fast, came down harder, and left behind the details everyone forgot to ask about.Copyright OBOMEDIA ENTERTAINMENT Scienze sociali
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  • The fractured hip that ended the life of the man who killed smallpox

    The fractured hip that ended the life of the man who killed smallpox
    Oct 14 2026
    The man who led smallpox eradication lies in a hospice with a fractured hip - how do you fall from killing the disease that took two million lives a year?

    The fractured hip that ended the life of the man who killed smallpox

    In this episode, we trace Donald Ainslie Henderson’s rise from Epidemic Intelligence Service field epidemiologist to the WHO director who organized seventy-three nations to pursue eradication. We cover the tactics, logistics and personal costs of the campaign and ask what comes next when the world asks him to do it again.

    Person: Donald Ainslie Henderson
    Event: Smallpox eradication campaign
    Location: Geneva
    Date of death: August 19, 2016
    Cause of death: Fractured hip

    - He joined the CDC’s Epidemic Intelligence Service and learned to “go where the outbreak was,” map transmission, and trace contacts.
    - In 1966 he moved to Geneva with his wife Nana Irene Bragg to lead the WHO effort to eradicate smallpox.
    - He organized operations across seventy-three nations while managing vaccine shortages, dangerous field conditions, and political resistance.
    - He championed surveillance-and-containment and ring vaccination instead of mass campaigns, focusing on identifying cases and vaccinating contacts.
    - After eleven years of field work, the global confirmed smallpox case count fell to zero in 1977, leaving Henderson forty-eight and facing new demands.

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    17 min
  • Aerospace software mapped his curves-and Bilbao proved them wrong

    Aerospace software mapped his curves-and Bilbao proved them wrong
    Oct 13 2026
    A Toronto scrap‑metal builder becomes an architect of impossible curves - until aerospace software and Bilbao change the rules. What happens next?

    Aerospace software mapped his curves-and Bilbao proved them wrong

    In this episode, we trace a life that begins on a living‑room floor in Toronto and follows an untrained maker who carried childhood permission into a career of shape and contradiction. It covers his early materials and methods, the structural problem his forms posed, and the aerospace tool that let those forms become buildings - but how did that transfer actually happen?

    Person: Frank Owen Gehry
    Location: Toronto; Santa Monica; Bilbao, Spain
    Date: Birthplace childhood scenes in 1930s-40s; Guggenheim commission 1991; museum opened 1997; death December 5, 2025
    Topic: use of CATIA aerospace software to translate complex curved surfaces into buildable architecture
    Event: Guggenheim Museum Bilbao delivered $3 million under $100 million budget

    - As a boy he built an entire city from hardware‑store offcuts, wire mesh and scrap steel on his living‑room floor.
    - He carried a philosophy of leaving original structures visible inside new work and chose industrial materials like corrugated steel and chain‑link fencing.
    - For two decades his complex doubly curved forms existed only as hand‑made foam and cardboard models that couldn’t be calculated by hand.
    - In the early 1990s his office adapted CATIA, a French aerospace design program, to describe every unique titanium surface in precise digital coordinates.
    - The Guggenheim Bilbao (commissioned 1991, opened 1997) used individually cut titanium panels and was completed $3 million under its $100 million budget.

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    18 min
  • The truck that struck her tour bus shattered the spine that taught her to walk

    The truck that struck her tour bus shattered the spine that taught her to walk
    Oct 12 2026
    A tour bus strike near Scranton leaves a superstar unable to feel her legs after spine surgery; how do you fall from that high?

    The truck that struck her tour bus shattered the spine that taught her to walk

    In this episode, we follow the moments before and after a March 20, 1990 crash that left Gloria Estefan with fractured vertebrae and a damaged spinal cord. The story traces her family’s exile from Cuba, the losses that shaped her drive, and the months of surgeries and rehab that lay ahead - what choices and histories carried her into that ambulance and onto the stage years later?

    Person: Gloria Estefan
    Date: March 20, 1990
    Location: Near Scranton, Pennsylvania
    Event: Tour bus struck by a truck at ~50 mph on icy road
    Medical detail: Two titanium rods inserted along her spine; intensive physical therapy for nearly a year

    - A truck hit the tour bus at approximately fifty miles per hour on an icy road carrying Gloria, her family, and tour equipment.
    - Paramedics found Gloria unable to feel her legs; surgeons discovered fractured vertebrae and spinal cord damage.
    - Two titanium rods were surgically fused to her spine in an operation that lasted hours and were left permanent.
    - She was airlifted to New York the morning after stabilization and told recovery would require almost a year of relearning to walk.
    - Her drive to continue was rooted in a family history of exile from Cuba, lost careers, a Bay of Pigs capture, and decades of caring for an ill father.

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    22 min
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