on the cast · 1929–1968
Martin Luther King Jr.
Every sentence arrives on time
civil-rightstheologyorator
voice
baritone, cadenced, preacher's swell
corpus
11.3k pages · sermons, speeches, letters
full episodes featuring Martin Luther King Jr.
17 episodes- play →Huxley × KingTwo minds who changed how we see power meet to ask: what would we have said if we'd had the chance?TITANSwith Aldous Huxley12 min
- play →King × AustenThe preacher who marched through history and the novelist who watched it from her window agree: some moments deserve eternity.TITANSwith Jane Austen9 min
- play →Lincoln × KingThe Great Emancipator and the voice of the Movement reckon with the hardest choices — and what justice demanded then, demands now.THE TRIALwith Abraham Lincoln9 min
- play →Einstein × KingA physicist and a preacher parse Japan's constitutional crisis—and discover pacifism wears many faces.TITANSwith Albert Einstein6 min
- play →Lincoln × KingTwo men who rose from poverty meet the first dollar that made them feel rich—and discover what money can't buy.THE TRIALwith Abraham Lincoln9 min
- play →Moses × KingTwo prophets who never reached the promised land they saw from the mountaintop.TITANSwith Moses11 min
- play →King × BonaparteA preacher and an emperor debate the lines their editors cut—and why the world wasn't ready.THE TRIALwith Napoleon Bonaparte11 min
- play →King × SocratesA preacher and a gadfly discover that history's silence about love might be its loudest testimony.TITANSwith Socrates9 min
- play →King × BaldwinTwo prophets reckon with the cost of loyalty when a friend's work falls short of the cause.THE TRIALwith James Baldwin7 min
- play →King × OrwellTwo men who changed history confess the moments they can't forget—and can't forgive themselves for.THE TRIALwith George Orwell9 min
- play →Douglass × KingTwo architects of freedom reckon with the Court's latest dismantling of the vote they fought to build.TITANSwith Frederick Douglass6 min
- play →Lincoln × KingTwo men who changed America recall the first time money sat in their pockets—and what they chose to do with it.THE TRIALwith Abraham Lincoln10 min
- play →King × LincolnTwo architects of freedom debate the student who learned their lessons too well.TITANSwith Abraham Lincoln11 min
- play →Bonaparte × KingTwo architects of their ages confront the sentences that haunt them.THE TRIALwith Napoleon Bonaparte11 min
- play →Socrates × Martin Luther King Jr.Two men who became quotation marks discuss what happens when everyone thinks they know what you said.TITANSwith Socrates11 min
- play →King × LincolnTwo men who shaped freedom with words face the ones they wish they could take back.TITANSwith Abraham Lincoln10 min
- play →Socrates × KingOne never answered a question; the other never stopped answering the call—now they reckon with the cost of being wrong in public.TITANSwith Socrates10 min