World's Greatest Love Stories Podcast
1) S1 Episode 12: Del Martin & Phyllis Lyon – The Daughters of Bilitis
Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon have the distinction of being the first gay couple to be married in the state of California. But their journey to the altar is far from an easy one. That's because, after t...Show More
2) S1 Episode 11: Cesar & Helen Chavez - An Unbreakable Union
Cesar Chavez is famous the world over for being a relentless labor leader and civil rights activist who spent a lifetime fighting for the rights of farmworkers and their families. For decades, he work...Show More
3) S1 Episode 10: General Tom Thumb & Lavinia Warren | The World's Biggest "Little" Love Story
On February 10, 1863, a wedding occurs in Manhattan’s Grace Church that takes New York City and the rest of the world by storm. The “fairy wedding” as it will be known, has a guest list that consists ...Show More
4) S1 Episode 9: Eija-Ritta Berliner-Mauer & The Berlin Wall | The “Object” of My Affection
Great love stories come in all shapes and sizes and the one Swedish model-maker Eija-Ritta Eklöf has for her man is no exception. The love affair begins in 1961 when she is just seven years old and wa...Show More
5) S1 Episode 8: Pierre & Marie Curie | Love & Fallout
Pierre and Marie Curie are the most successful and renowned husband and wife team in the history of science. Together they make discoveries in radioactivity (even coining the term ‘radioactivity’) tha...Show More
6) S1 Episode 7: John & Abigail Adams | A Revolutionary Marriage
John and Abigail Adams are arguably, America’s first power couple. John is one of the United States’ founding fathers and its 2nd President. And although she grows up in a time and place when a woman’...Show More
7) S1 Episode 6: Sir Elton John & David Furnish | Saturday Night’s Alright… for Lovin'
Pop icon Sir Elton John may be rich, famous, and wildly successful, but by his own admission, his love life followed a much different trajectory. After years of alcohol and drug abuse which fueled tox...Show More
S1 Episode 6: Sir Elton John & David Furnish | Saturday Night’s Alright… for Lovin'
27:10 | Mar 17th, 2021
8) S1 Episode 5: Tom Hanks & Rita Wilson | My Big Fat Greek Love Story
One of Hollywood’s true power couples, Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson are known the world over for the characters they play on-screen and the red-carpet treatment they receive in life. Lesser known is how ...Show More
9) S1 Episode 4: Jackie & Rachel Robinson | Love, Hate & Baseball
Jackie Robinson is the first black player to make it into Major League Baseball in the modern era. He is also one of the most important and admired people in baseball history… if not in American histo...Show More
10) S1 Episode 3: King Edward VIII & Wallis Simpson | W.E. Are One
Falling in love with and marrying a prince has been written about and fantasized about by women for centuries. So when American socialite Wallis Simpson meets the Prince of Wales in 1931, a fairy tale...Show More