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Podcast: Home Cooking (LS 70 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: Fronds with Benefits (with Jason Mantzoukas)
Pub date: 2020-10-14
Notes from The Listener:
This show about home cookery was one of the only good things to happen in 2020. It isn't publishing new episodes anymore — although I remain subscribed in the hope that a surprise special will drop one day — relistening to Samin Nosrat and Hrishikesh Hirway chat about what they like to cook and eat is a weekly activity for me. This episode with universal podcast guest Jason Mantzoukas is a delight, as he brings his novice questions to the hosts, but you can also select one at random and still enjoy it to the full
We’re joined by actor Jason Mantzoukas, one of our favorite people. He’s a novice in the kitchen who needs a little help getting comfortable with some cooking basics. Plus, we call up Hrishi’s dad, a.k.a. Sumesh Uncle the Food Scientist, for some information on his newest favorite gadget: an air fryer.
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Podcast: The Irish Passport (LS 55 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Destructive Unionism: Part 1, The History
Pub date: 2021-01-24
Notes from The Listener:
Like a lot of British people, I grew up woefully ignorant about Irish history and politics. As an adult, I've been trying to correct that deficiency in my education, and this podcast has been a key part of that. It manages to do what few other shows do: combine serious journalism and historical analysis with an appealing conversational dynamic while not wasting a second of the listener's time. This episode is the first of a two parter about the background to the Irish unionist movement, and is a great entry point to the whole show
With the fallout of Brexit straining the bonds of the United Kingdom, Naomi and Tim look back on a period of history with huge resonance for the current moment. The union that still perseveres today was forged in crisis, as an emergency response by the British government to a Protestant-led Irish rebellion that deeply shook the Westminster government. What followed was a century of betrayal, struggle, and strife, culminating in a desperate attempt by successive British governments to love-bomb the rebellious Irish populace into supporting the union. This was a strategy known as Constructive Unionism: are we seeing its destructive mirror image today?
You can listen to Part 2 here: https://www.theirishpassport.com/podcast/destructive-unionism-part-2-the-current-day/
Follow us on Facebook and Twitter at @PassportIrish.
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Podcast: Hot Pipes One Hour Podcast m4a (LS 32 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Hot Pipes Podcast 269 – Ladies’ Day
Pub date: 2020-09-12
Notes from The Listener:
Themed playlists, with commentary, made up of vintage cinema organ music. People sometimes think I am joking when I say that this is my favourite podcast; I assure you, I am not. There is something both soothing and cheering about the intricate yet catchy melodies woven through these tunes and the host's expertise about this niche in musical history augments the experience. This episode is devoted to performances by women, and includes hits like "Cabaret" and "I Just Called To Say I Love You" as well as more obscure tracks
Ladies' Day
Start
Name
Artist
Album
Year
Comments
Tie A Yellow Ribbon 'Round The Old Oak Tree
Ramona Gerhard Sutton
In Concert At San Sylmar [Monarch DBP-213]
1977
3-32 Wurlitzer, Nethercutt Collection, San Sylmar, CA; Formerly in the Roxie Theatre, Atlanta, GA
3:34
Les Bicyclettes De Belsize
Rosa Rio
Everything's Coming Up Rosa [HMR 855]
1976
4-26 Wurlitzer, LIU Gymnasium, Brooklyn, NY; ex-Paramount Theatre, Brooklyn
7:40
I Was A Fool To Let You Go
Donna Parker
ATOS 2006 Tampa
2006
4-100 Wurlitzer Hybrid, Kirk of Dunedin, Dunedin, FL; 27 May 2006
12:01
Estudiantina
Joyce Alldred
Organising [LTOT CD]
1973
3-6 Compton plus Melotone, Davenport Theatre, Stockport. Lancashire (1937); remaster of 1973 LP
15:02
Who Can I Turn To? (listed as The More I Know)
Wendy Kieffer-Patrick
When Wendy Gets Blue
3-18 Wurlitzer, Uncle Milt's Pizza Co, Vancouver, WA; Originally a 3-13 from the Orpheum Theatre, Seattle, WA; Console from Oriental Theatre, Portland, OR.
19:38
Poupée Valsante
Doreen Chadwick
Oh, Lady Be Good! [Amberlee AML 304X]
1972
4-14 Wurlitzer, Gaumont Theatre, Manchester
22:44
Cornish Rhapsody
Florence De Jong, Ena Baga
More hits from The Organist Entertains [BBC REC 110M]
2-8 Wurlitzer, New Gallery Cinema, Regent Street, London; Ena on piano
26:51
You Do Something To Me
Ann Leaf
The Mighty Wurlitzer: Music For Movie-Palace Organs [New World CD NW 227-2]
1977
4-34 Wurlitzer, Senate Theatre, Detroit, MI
29:57
La Cucaracha; Unknown; Cachita
Pearl White
The Legendary Theatre Organists of Chicago [DSP 1911]
Non-US purchases
US Purchases - contact Jim Stemke
1964
4-28 Wurlitzer, Shea's Buffalo Theatre, Buffalo, NY; 1964 ATOS convention
33:07
Music Box Dancer
Jean Martyn
Home At Last [JME 700]
3-10 Compton, Fentham Hall, Hampton in Arden, Warwickshire; ex-Tower Cinema, West Bromwich
35:42
Row, Row, Row
Margaret Hall
Kitten On The Keys [Margaret Hall Music 001]
1992
3-17 Wurlitzer, Orion Centre, Sydney, NSW, Australia. Formerly 3-15 in Capitol Theatre, Sydney
38:14
Red Roses For A Blue Lady
Carol Williams
Hey! Wurlitzer [Melcot MCT CD 016]
2002
5-80 Wurlitzer, Sanfilippo Residence, Barrington Hills, IL
42:22
Wedding of The Winds
Barbara Sellers
Belle Of The Ball
3 manual Allen 6500 Custom Digital; Music Box Theatre, Chicago
46:30
You Needed Me
Mary Neal
At The Cedarhurst Wulitzer [Mark Records MC 4811]
3-18 Wurlitzer, Core from Paramount Theatre, Aurora, IL; now in Cedarhurst Mansion [Ron & Jean Nienaber Residence], Cottage Grove, MN
50:25
I Just Called To Say I Love You
Candi Carley Roth
Sharing The Love
2010
5-80 Wurlitzer, Sanfilippo Residence, Barrington Hills, IL
55:28
Cabaret
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Podcast: The Working Actor's Journey (LS 31 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Text Work: Hamlet's "Advice to the Players" with Randall Duk Kim and Annie Occhiogrosso
Pub date: 2020-03-10
Notes from The Listener:
Practical advice podcast in which experienced actors share their wisdom with the next generation in their industry. This is a short episode, extracted from a longer conversation elsewhere on the feed. It focuses in on a particular text: the monologue from Hamlet in which the hero gives advice to the actors he has hired. "Let your own discretion be your tutor," he says, and the experts here speak to the necessity for actors to hone their own sense of discretion — an instinct and judgement to what each moment of a play needs
In this episode, Randall and Annie share insights into working on Shakespeare through the appropriately chosen piece, Hamlet’s "Advice to the Players"—the one that begins “Speak the speech I pray you”. You'll hear Randall and Annie discuss:
- Some of the most important advice that actors can take from Hamlet’s words
- How an actor can use and develop his or her own “discretion”
- How to look at Shakespeare’s First Folio, and how to play with it to find all the clues
Plus we chat about why “updated” productions of Shakespeare can make the audience feel distant, and instead, how to make it exciting!
This is such a great session and it was so fun to hear them share how the texts are really like musical scores for actors—showing you how to make sense of these works and perform them! These two are amazing teachers and have so much to share!
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Randall's monologue from Hamlet by Shakespeare - the "Advice to the Players" (from the First Folio) Speake the Speech I pray you, as I pronounc'd it to you trippingly on the Tongue: But if you mouth it, as many of your Players do, I had as liue the Town-Cryer had spoke my Lines: Nor do not saw the Ayre too much your hand thus, but vse all gently; for in the verie Tor- rent, Tempest, and (as I may say) the Whirle-winde of Passion, you must acquire and beget a Temperance that may giue it Smoothnesse. O it offends mee to the Soule, to see a robustious Pery-wig-pated Fellow, teare a Passi- on to tatters, to verie ragges, to split the eares of the Groundlings: who (for the most part) are capeable of nothing, but inexplicable dumbe shewes, & noise: I could haue such a Fellow whipt for o're-doing Termagant: it out- Herod's Herod. Pray you auoid it. Be not too tame neyther: but let your owne Discretion be your Tutor. Sute the Action to the Word, the Word to the Action, with this speciall obseruance: That you ore-stop not the modestie of Nature; for any thing so ouer-done, is frõ the purpose of Playing, whose end both at the first and now, was and is, to hold as 'twer the Mirrour vp to Nature; to shew Vertue her owne Feature, Scorne her owne Image, and the verie Age and Bodie of the Time, his forme and pressure. Now, this ouer-done, or come tardie off, though it make the vnskil- full laugh, cannot but make the Iudicious greeue; The censure of the which One, must in your allowance o're- way a whole Theater of Others. Oh, there bee Players that I haue seene Play, and heard others praise, and that highly (not to speake it prophanely) that neyther hauing the accent of Christians, nor the gate of Christian, Pagan, or Norman, haue so strutted and bellowed, that I haue thought some of Natures Iouerney-men had made men, and not made them well, they imitated Humanity so ab- hominably.
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Podcast: Lore (LS 87 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 30: Deep and Twisted Roots
Pub date: 2016-03-21
Notes from The Listener:
Spooky retelling of the folklore surrounding vampirism. The fear of the dead rising has historic connections to the misunderstanding of real illnesses, the host argues, as well as being a way of characterising and demonising outsiders. Or, perhaps it was all real? "Maybe something evil and contagious has survived for centuries after all, spreading across borders and oceans. It’s certainly left a trail of horrific events in its wake, and its influenced countless tales and superstitions, all of which seem to point to a real-life cause"
When two boys discovered a macabre surprise while playing in a Connecticut gravel pit, they uncovered more than a piece of the past. Their discovery echoes stories that are much older, stories with roots that reach far deeper than anyone might imagine.
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Podcast: Shedunnit (LS 60 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Cryptic Crimes
Pub date: 2021-03-24
Notes from The Listener:
Bonus pick: What do crosswords and crime fiction have in common? A surprising amount, it turns out. Find out more on the new podcast episode from Listener editor Caroline Crampton now. Listen to Shedunnit now at shedunnitshow.com or in your podcast app. Browser subscribers can also take part in the weekly crossword there.
If you can solve a crossword, you can solve a murder.
Thanks to my guest, Hamish Symington. You can find out more about his work at hamishsymington.com and order a custom cryptic crossword from him at customcrypticcrosswords.com.
There are no major spoilers about clues or endings in this episode. However, there is some mention or discussion of the books listed below.
Sources and further information:
— Forever England: Femininity, Literature and Conservatism Between the Wars by Alison Light
— "Who Cares Who Killed Roger Ackroyd?" by Edmund Wilson, first published in the New Yorker on 20 January 1945
— The Crossword Mysteries by Nero Blanc
— "The Fascinating Problem of Uncle Meleager's Will" in Lord Peter Views the Body by Dorothy L. Sayers
— Crossword Mystery by E.R. Punshon
— Close Quarters by Michael Gilbert
— "The Clue" in Two Bottles of Relish: The Little Tales of Smethers and Other Stories by Lord Dunsany
— A Six Letter Word For Death by Patricia Moyes
— Last Puzzle and Testament by Parnell Hall
—Thinking Inside the Box: Adventures With Crosswords and the Puzzling People Who Can't Live Without Them by Adrienne Raphel
—"Clues: Crosswords and Detective Stories" by John Curran in Crime and Detective Stories 79, December 2018
—Cracking Cryptic Crosswords by Colin Dexter
— Two episodes of The Allusionist podcast about crosswords: #8 Crosswords and #62: In Crypt, Decrypt
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Podcast: Show This Thread (LS 24 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Nick Walker | Daytime Snaps | @daytimesnaps
Pub date: 2019-06-13
Notes from The Listener:
Sadly short lived series of interviews with people who run unexpectedly popular Twitter accounts. This one is with the TV enthusiast who shares out of context screenshots from the surreal world of British day time television. The weirdest moment he's captured? "They had two professional clowns on the sofa having a very serious discussion and the topic was about the new IT movie and how it might ruin their careers — they were very stern looking clowns, thinking about their livelihood, but they were still dressed as clowns"
Nick Walker is the creator of @daytimesnaps, a Twitter account which takes screenshots from daytime television shows in the UK and posts them with absolutely no context. Since launching in 2016, it has gained more than 62 thousand followers, including many of the stars of the posts. In this episode Nick reveals all about Daytime Snaps, shares some of his all time favourite posts and also sheds light on his personal approach to Twitter. Find out more in the show notes at https://showthreadpod.com
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Podcast: Serpentine Podcast (LS 39 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: On Practice: Walking
Pub date: 2021-03-05
Notes from The Listener:
Examination of walking as part of contemporary art and politics. After a year of restrictions in which "going for a walk" has been the highlight of the day for many, this piece about how putting one foot in front of the other can be a tool for creativity or resistance feels apt. Exercises include intentionally observing the walkers in a busy street or park and noticing their purpose or lack their of, letting children take the lead when planning a walk, and mapping your area by what can be approached on foot and where access is restricted
On Practice: Walking asks how does walking shape our experience of the city? How can it be used as a tool for resistance and change? Featuring artist Sam Curtis’s Changing Play project with children from the Portman Early Childhood centre, Which Way Now? alongside interviews with anthropologist Tim Ingold, campaign group Voice of Domestic Workers and writer Katouche Goll.
In this episode of On Practice we highlight the work of two of our long-term partners, The Voice of Domestic Workers and The Alliance for Inclusive Education, ALLFIE.
The Voice of Domestic Workers, is a grassroots organisation made up of multi-national migrant Domestic Workers in the UK.
They work to empower migrant domestic workers to stand up and voice their opposition to discrimination, inequality, slavery and all forms of abuse. You can read more about their support network, campaigns here, donate here, or support by purchasing their new Our Journey book
ALLFIE is a Disabled people-led organisation in the UK.
They campaign for the right of all Disabled pupils and students to be fully included in mainstream education, training and apprenticeships with all necessary supports. You can find out more about them here. You can stand up for inclusive education by signing their manifesto or help ALLFIE build a better, more inclusive world by becoming a member of the Alliance.
On Practice is produced by Reduced Listening.
Image credit: Joy Yamusangie
Show Notes
Sam Curtis is an artist and curator based in London. Working with other people is central to his practice. Through dialogue, walking and making with others; his work explores ideas around agency, autonomy, exchange and labour.
He has exhibited and worked with Seymour Art Collective, Whitechapel Gallery, Edgware Road Project: Serpentine Galleries, Turner Contemporary, CREATE London, The Showroom, Eastside Projects, Arts Admin, Ateliers de Rennes Biennale, Beursschouwburg, News of the World and Pi: Artworks Istanbul. He has an MFA from Goldsmiths College and his work is represented by Division of Labour. He is currently curator at Bethlem Gallery.
https://www.serpentinegalleries.org/whats-on/which-way-now/
Portman Centre
The Portman Early Childhood Centre provides education, care and family support services for young children and their families living in the Church Street area of Westminster, North London. These include a nursery school, adult education classes, family support, employment services, parenting groups and workshops.
http://www.westminster-ne-centres.co.uk/en/about/
Tim Ingold
Tim Ingold is Professor Emeritus of Social Anthropology at the University of Aberdeen. He has written about environment, technology and social organisation in the circumpolar North, on animals in human society, and on human ecology and evolutionary theory. His more recent work explores environmental perception and skilled practice. Ingold’s current interests lie on the interface between anthropology, archaeology, art and architecture. His recent books include The Perception of the Environment (2000), Lines (2007), Being Alive (2011), Making (2013), The Life of Lines (2015), Anthropology and/as Education (2018), Anthropology: Why it Matters (2018) and Correspondences (2020).
Voice of Domestic Workers
The Voice of Domestic Workers is an education and campaigning group calling for justice and rights for Britain’s 16,000 migrant domestic workers. They provide educational and community activities for domestic workers – including English language lessons, drama and art classes and employment advice, and mount rescues for domestic workers stuck with abusive employers. Their work seeks to end discrimination and protect migrant domestic workers living in the UK by providing or assisting in the provision of education, training, healthcare and legal advice.
https://www.thevoiceofdomesticworkers.com/ Instagram: @thevoiceofdomesticworkersTwitter: @thevoiceofdws
Disabled People Against Cuts
Disabled People Against Cuts (DPAC) is an organisation for disabled people and allies to campaign against the impact of government spending cuts on the lives of disabled people. Formed on 3 October 2010 DPAC promotes full human rights and equality for all disabled people, and operates from the Social Model of Disability. DPAC was formed by a group of disabled people after the 3rd October 2010 mass protests against cuts in Birmingham, England. The 3rd October saw the first mass protest against the austerity cuts and their impact on disabled people - It was led by disabled people under the name of The Disabled Peoples’ Protest.
https://dpac.uk.net/
ALLFIE
ALLFIE is a Disabled people-led organisation, which seeks to build alliances with individuals and organisations who share their vision. They successfully work with Disabled learners and parents and carers across a very wide range of educational needs, backgrounds and experiences and gain strength from that diversity.
Their relationships and influence stretch over a wide range of networks and alliances interested in education, inclusion, Disabled children’s services, Disabled people’s rights and equality, and human rights more generally. They have an impressive track record in successfully influencing change and a positive reputation nationally and internationally.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJWDUmYv2iY Instagram: @disabledpeopleagainstcuts
Katouche Goll
Katouche Goll is a disability activist and writer. She is passionate about fostering a productive dialogue about the intersection of Black and disabled identities. A recent first-class grad in BA History, Katouche enjoys sharing the knowledge of her degree through her advocacy for Black disabled young people. Featured on platforms such as Buzzfeed (2016), Kandaka (2017), BBC Radio 1Xtra (2018), TABOU Magazine and BlackBallad (2020). Katouche is also a makeup enthusiast who creates online content to promote diversity in beauty and highlight issues of inclusion.
Instagram: @itskatouche
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Podcast: High Street Tales (LS 29 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: North Shields | Time and the Shoe Man | story by Celia Bryce
Pub date: 2021-02-10
Notes from The Listener:
Storytelling podcast from the UK's Historic England organisation, which exists to preserve heritage buildings and widen access to them. This show consists of seven separate stories, each created by a different writer in response to the high street in a different place. The pieces combine folk tales and urban legends to create new fiction rooted in regional traditions. This one is from North Shields, a town in north east England, and combines the feel of a fairy story with a modern meditation on the passing of time
In this episode, the musician and writer Celia Bryce explores North Shields high street in an otherworldly tale which follows a mysterious character on his journey through streets of the past to return a lost shoe to its home.
You can download the ebook of all the stories at https://historicengland.org.uk/highstreettales
Made in conjunction with New Writing North and the series was produced by Sonderbug Productions with thanks to Darren Hayman for use of his song Pram Town.
High Street Tales is part of Historic England’s high street cultural programme; four years of nationwide cultural activity helping to make high streets more attractive, engaging and vibrant places for people to live, work and spend time. The programme is run by Historic England, in partnership with Heritage Lottery Fund and Arts Council England. Follow us on social using @HistoricEngland and using the hashtag #HighStreetTales to stay up to date with the latest High Street news.
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Podcast: Shedunnit (LS 60 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: The Honkaku Mysteries
Pub date: 2021-03-10
Notes from The Listener:
Bonus pick: Seishi Yokomizo, the so-called "Agatha Christie of Japan", sold over 55 million books during his lifetime but was never translated into English. Learn more about the rich tradition of the Japanese whodunnit on the new podcast episode from Listener editor Caroline Crampton. Listen to Shedunnit now at shedunnitshow.com or in your podcast app.
Exploring the thriving tradition of classic Japanese whodunnits.
Thanks to my guests, On Nomoto, grandson of honkaku writer Seishi Yokomizo, and Daniel Seton, commissioning editor at Pushkin Press.
No major spoilers about clues or endings in this episode. However, there is some mention or discussion of the books listed below.
Sources and further information:
— The Early Cases of Akechi Kogoro by Edogawa Rampo
— "The Spider" by Koga Saburo, translated by Ho-Ling Wong and John Pugmire
— Foreign Bodies edited by Martin Edwards
— The Honjin Murders by Seishi Yokomizo
— The Inugami Curse by Seishi Yokomizo
— The Tokyo Zodiac Murders by Soji Shiimada
—“A Brief Introduction To Honkaku And Shin Honkaku Mysteries” by Tara Cheesman
—“The King Of The Golden Age Crime Novel In Japan: Seishi Yokomizo” by Paul French
— Detective Fiction and the Rise of the Japanese Novel, 1880–1930 by Satoru Saito
— “Inheriting the Nation: Seishi Yokomizo’s Kindaichi Novels” by Chiho Nakagawa in Clues: A Journal of Detection, Volume 32, Number 2, Fall 2014, pp. 90–99
— Interview with translater Louise Heal Kawai on the In GAD We Trust podcast
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Find a full transcript of this episode at shedunnitshow.com/thehonkakumysteriestranscript.
Music by Audioblocks and Blue Dot Sessions. See shedunnitshow.com/musiccredits for more details.
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Podcast: A Hint of Fiction (LS 28 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Trials Of the Millenia - Trials
Pub date: 2020-01-22
Notes from The Listener:
Intriguing twist on a common podcasting premise. The two hosts here talk through three stories on a particular theme in each episode, commenting off the cuff as different aspects interest them. What elevates this show above the run of the mill conversational podcast, however, is that only two of the tales are true. The other is a piece of fiction they've written and the listener has to try and spot it — a competitive element that adds to the experience. This instalment is about legal trials through history
Alex and Will put you on trial, and talk about the most curious, oddest and downright strangest trials in human history. We ask the hard hitting questions to open these cases right up. "Can you handle the truth?!" We hope so as you enjoy our episode on trials!
A women exposes herself for a innocent verdict, a pope goes on trial posthumously and a man finds a loophole which allows him to go free on several guilty charges.
****Spoiler Alert*****
Phyrne: https://www.ancient-origins.net/history-famous-people/phryne-ancient-greek-prostitute-who-flashed-her-way-freedom-007571
Cadaver Synod: https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/morbid-monday-cadaver-synod
The Man who did Infinite Crimes: Written by Alexandria Bivens and William Acker
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Podcast: Radio Browser (LS 28 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: The Hatboro Blues with Shawn McCreesh
Pub date: 2021-03-02
Inspired by his piece “The Hatboro Blues”, Shawn McCreesh joins Lindelani and Nontsi to share his experience on growing up in an American town during the opioid epidemic.
"The Hatboro Blues" was originally published in the Autumn issue of Liberties Journal. The piece has been taken down but if you are interested in reading it, please email editors@thebrowser.com.
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Podcast: Stories of our times (LS 58 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Guns, skis and corruption: Biathlon
Pub date: 2021-02-24
Notes from The Listener:
Fascinating dive into a corruption scandal in a relatively low profile winter sport: biathlon, the one that combines cross country skiing and rifle shooting. The international governing body is dealing with allegations of corruption and a former president is accused of taking gifts in exchange for favours. Although this sport is niche, the story raises interesting questions about what integrity should like when a sport is gaining fans and looking to expand. Plenty of parallels with bigger sports are highlighted by the reporters
Three years ago, a dramatic raid at the headquarters of a popular winter sports blew open a scandal at the International Biathlon Union. The former president, Anders Besseberg, has been accused of receiving gifts in return for favours. These are charges he denies. What happens to sporting integrity when those at the top are accused of corruption?
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Guest: David Walsh, Chief sports writer at The Sunday Times.
Host: David Aaronovitch.
Clips used: IBU and Euronews.
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Podcast: Deep Background with Noah Feldman (LS 57 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Becoming a District Attorney
Pub date: 2020-11-12
Notes from The Listener:
Interview with a candidate for the position of District Attorney of Manhattan. This discursive piece both looks at the role as it is today and how it could be reformed to make prosecution more equitable and empathetic. A far cry from the extremely partial view of the US justice system we get from pop culture and news stories, there's a lot of information here packed into a short conversation. As well as speculating about the direction Biden might take on criminal justice, there are case studies given here that demonstrate the system's failings
Tali Farhadian Weinstein, the host of the Pushkin podcast “Hearing” and a candidate to become the next District Attorney of Manhattan, discusses how she thinks local prosecution can be reformed from within.
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Podcast: The Great Indoors (LS 61 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: 10.4 Princess Anne, Nicola Harding, Can't Change it - Make it Work
Pub date: 2021-02-25
Notes from The Listener:
Plummy, cosy British interior design podcast. There are three segments here, of which the first is far and away the best. It deals with a recent viral photo of Princess Anne's living room, which shocked the public with its un-royal clutter and non palatial proportions. They find plenty to laugh at but also applaud the "make do and mend" attitude of one of the UK's wealthiest women. The practical tips section at the end of this show is also worthy of attention, since it has suggestions for how to have a more stylish space without spending money
Is Princess Anne guilty of Design Crimes? Insubordinate subjects Kate and Sophie critique the cluttered glory of the Princess Royal's living room. Leading designer Nicola Harding reveals how to make vintage work, how to bring character to a new build and how to use your purchasing power to save the planet. And listener Calum has accidentally bought a weird sofa and now has to make it work... WHERE WAS THE DESIGN PROCESS CALUM?
Find out more about Nicola's work @nicolahardingandco
Useful links and images are supplied on each of Kate and Sophie’s blogs madaboutthehouse.com and sophierobinson.co.uk or join our Facebook group The Great Indoors
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Podcast: Radio Browser (LS 28 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: The Moral Philosophy Of Giving with Peter Singer
Pub date: 2021-02-16
Hosts Lindelani and Nontsi discuss the moral ethics of giving with the philosopher Peter Singer focusing on the implications of the ethical code for people living in lower and middle income countries.
Reading material mentioned in the conversation:
The Life You Can Save by Peter Singer
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Podcast: Desert Island Discs: Fragment Archive 1970-1986 (LS 35 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: Ivy Benson
Pub date: 1971-10-16
Notes from The Listener:
Surviving fragment from a 1971 radio interview with groundbreaking British jazz musician Ivy Benson. Born in Yorkshire in 1913, she initially funded her musical career by simultaneously working in a factory until she could afford her own instruments. During WW2, her all female ensemble became the BBC's house band and were invited to play at the VE Day celebrations in Berlin in 1945. At the start of her career, she says, so called "girl musicians" were seen as freaks — an idea that didn't survive long once she started playing
Roy Plomley's castaway is bandleader Ivy Benson.
Favourite track: Oh Happy Day by Edwin Hawkins Singers Book: London Sparrow by Phyllis Thompson Luxury: Piano
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Podcast: Desert Island Dips (LS 37 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: #11: Worcester Sauce
Pub date: 2018-03-21
Notes from The Listener:
Conversational podcast about condiments, in which the hosts constantly evolve their list of the five sauces they would choose to take with them if they were being marooned on a desert island. This episode is devoted to the esoteric history of Worcestershire sauce, a thin brown salty liquid that has its origins in the fermented fish sauces beloved by the Romans but emerged in its modern form in England in the nineteenth century as a recreation of an Indian flavouring. Lea & Perrins is its most famous purveyor. Charming and surprising
Tom makes the case for Worcester Sauce. We learn four alternative histories to Lee & Perrins and meet "the fattest young man in the British Army." Tom explores the special relationship with worcester sauce and cruise ships. With special guest: Maple Syrup.
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Podcast: Desert Island Discworld (LS 35 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: 4.5 Aditya Bidikar and Going Postal
Pub date: 2020-11-29
Notes from The Listener:
Book per episode examination of Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels. As with the best interview shows, though, the premise is merely an excuse to conduct wide ranging conversations with interesting people. The guest here is a comic book letterer and has fascinating observations on illustration and fonts. The lettering he does serves as "the final arbiter of how a comic book is read". There is also discussion of Pratchett's Going Postal, a delightful novel in which a con artist is punished by being made to run a city's unrunnable postal service
Comics letterer Aditya Bidikar visits the island to talk about art in a collaborative medium, formative fandoms and the 33rd Discworld novel, Going Postal.
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Podcast: The Daily (LS 91 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)
Episode: France, Islam and ‘Laïcité’
Pub date: 2021-02-12
“Laïcité,” or secularism, the principle that separates religion from the state in France, has long provoked heated dispute in the country. It has intensified recently, when a teacher, Samuel Paty, was beheaded after showing his class caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad.
We look at the roots of secularism and ask whether it works in modern, multicultural France.
Guest: Constant Méheut, a reporter for The New York Times in France.
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Background reading:
- For generations, public schools assimilated immigrant children into French society by instilling the nation’s ideals. The beheading of a teacher raised doubts about whether that model still worked.
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Podcast: Spectacle: Las Vegas (LS 49 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: E1: An American Family
Pub date: 2021-02-10
Notes from The Listener:
Pop culture history series about the origins of American reality television. In depth analysis of the antics of Lisa Vanderpump and Kim Kardashian are promised for later episodes, but this first instalment takes listeners back to the 1970s and a show that arguably began it all: An American Family. Produced as a documentary in 1973, it was billed as a chronicle of one Californian family's daily life. It became salacious when the parents' marriage broke down and when they accused producers of selective editing to bring out the drama
In the first episode of season 1 of Spectacle, we'll go back to the show that started it all -- An American Family. Most probably haven't heard of the 1973 PBS docuseries but many argue it inspired reality TV. The series that followed the Loud family of Santa Barbara became part of the cultural moment -- spoofed on SNL and by Albert Brooks. Host Mariah Smith gets behind-the-scenes details from filmmakers and finds out why the show can't be streamed, anywhere, anymore.
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Podcast: teikirisi (LS 36 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: 007. cuba: a vintage playground
Pub date: 2021-02-10
Notes from The Listener:
Clever conversational podcast about Cuban-American culture and history. This one is the best yet and explores a myth often repeated by prospective visitors to the island: "I want to go to Cuba before it changes." Tourists love the vintage cars, the period architecture and the kitschy keepsakes, but they rarely think about what this sentiment means — wanting a place to stay stuck in the past means that its inhabitants don't get to access things the travellers take for granted at home, like high speed internet or new phones
"i want to go to Cuba before it changes," is something we've heard a lot. in this episode carmen & fryda unpack this sticky subject, the harsh realities of what it really means for Cuba to stay the same for touristy selfies
-Recommended listening -
001. ¡oigo!
003. el periodo especial: scarcity and famine
004. eyes and ears
90 Miles Podcast: https://apple.co/36SDtP8
transcript: https://bit.ly/3q4CSB8
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Podcast: Shedunnit (LS 60 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: The First Whodunnit
Pub date: 2021-02-10
Notes from The Listener:
Bonus pick: Crime fiction is incredibly popular today, with millions of books sold every year. But have you ever wondered what the first "whodunnit" was? Listener editor Caroline Crampton goes all the way back to Ancient Greece to find the answer in her latest podcast episode. Listen to Shedunnit now at shedunnitshow.com or in your podcast app.
What was the first murder mystery, really?
No major spoilers about clues or endings in this episode. However, there is some mention or discussion of the books listed below.
Sources and further information:
— The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie
— Partners In Crime by Agatha Christie
— A Study In Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle
— The Mystery Of A Hansom Cab by Fergus Hume
— The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
— L’Affaire Lerouge by Emile Gaboriau
— Lady Audley’s Secret by Mary Elizabeth Braddon
— The Suspicions of Mr Whicher by Kate Summerscale
— Bleak House by Charles Dickens
— "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" by Edgar Allen Poe
— The Omnibus of Crime (1929) edited by Dorothy L. Sayers
— "The Masque of the Red Death" by Edgar Allen Poe
— "The Fall of the House of Usher" by Edgar Allen Poe
— "The Imp of the Perverse" by Edgar Allen Poe
— Gaudy Night by Dorothy L. Sayers
— The Late Scholar by Jill Paton Walsh
— Uncle Silas by Sheridan Le Fanu
— "A Passage in the Secret History of an Irish Countess" by Sheridan Le Fanu
— The Aeneid by Virgil
— Uncle Silas by Sheridan Le Fanu
— The Labours of Hercules by Agatha Christie
— Oedipus Rex by Sophocles
—“Who Wrote the First Whodunit?” by Steven Saylor
— “Oedipus on the Nile: translations and adaptations of Sophocles’ Oedipus Tyrannos in Egypt, 1900-1970” by Raphael Christian Cormack —“Oedipus the Detective” by Sean Fitzpatrick
— “Oedipus as Detective: Sophocles, Simenon, Robbe-Grillet” by Page Dubois in Yale French Studies, 2005
— “Oedipus versus Sherlock Holmes” by Marios Ploritis and Richard Schechner in The Tulane Drama Review, Winter 1965
—“From Sophocles to Sherlock: economics, literature and the detective story” by Frank Edmund Smith
—“Fergus Hume’s startling story” by Simon Caterson
—"‘The Most Popular Book of Modern Times’: Fergus Hume’s The Mystery of a Hansom Cab (1886)" by Clare Clarke in Late Victorian Crime Fiction in the Shadows of Sherlock
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Podcast: We've Made It (LS 34 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Stash-busting tips
Pub date: 2021-02-08
Notes from The Listener:
Crafting podcast talks through strategies for keeping your hoard of supplies under control. Anyone who has started a hobby like knitting or sewing recently will know how quickly the stash of wool or fabric grows as different projects leave left overs. To maximise limited storage space in the home and to minimise your crafting's environmental impact — producing fabric, for instance, uses a lot of resources – the hosts advocate choosing designs that use up every piece wherever possible before starting something with new materials
We hate to see anything go to waste – even scraps of fabric or yarn. In this episode, Sarah and Zoe share lots of tips and creative ideas to help you use up anything you've got to up, covering everything from mini knitting projects to quick sewing makes. Put your headphones on, make a cup of tea and enjoy this episode while you craft!
Projects of the week:
- How to make a beanbag cover
- Patternless pyjamas
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Podcast: Seen and Not Heard (LS 37 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Prologue One: Community
Pub date: 2020-07-12
Notes from The Listener:
Clever drama series about a newly deaf woman called Bet trying to navigate her changed life. This is one of four shorter prologues to the main series of longer episodes, and it tells the story of her first attempt to go to a sign language class. The other participants make assumptions about her, leaving her nervous and prickly, and she finds that she can feel just as alone among people signing as she can with her inconsiderate family. The whole show is well suited to audio, using sound design to share Bet's auditory perspective
Bet attempts to take some initiative and attend a sign language class.
Content warnings: Mention of illness, mention of alcohol, some strong language, ableism.
Transcript can be found here. (https://tinyurl.com/y6yredlu) Transcripts are also available on our Twitter account.
Seen and Not Heard is written and directed by Caroline Mincks, with sound design by Tal Minear and music by Gavin Crockett.
This episode featured the voices of Chad Brockbrader as James, Cole Burkhardt as Greer, Adelaide Gardner as Jane, Cassie Josephs as Cara, and Caroline Mincks as Bet.
Special thanks to Riley C.J. Kenway and Evan Tess Murray for their consultation on this script.
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Podcast: Out for Blood: The Story of Carrie the Musical (LS 43 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: Chapter 1: From Page to Stage
Pub date: 2021-01-27
Notes from The Listener:
Very detailed oral history of an infamous Broadway disaster — Carrie: The Musical. The hosts discovered a bootleg recording of the show's brief run in the late 1980s during the pandemic and decided to investigate the full story of a production that has become legendary in the trade for technical malfunctions, ballooning budgets and critical disdain. This first episode focuses on where the idea to translate Stephen King's original plot into musical theatre came from and includes interviews with those who took the initial steps
In 1988 the Royal Shakespeare Company teamed up with the creators of Fame to turn Stephen King's horror novel ‘Carrie’ into a musical. The result was one of Broadway's most infamous disasters. For fans Holly and Chris, an obsession was born.
In episode 1, having rediscovered a dusty VHS bootleg of the show in the midst of a global pandemic, they dive into the roots of the ‘Carrie’ story with Stephen King expert and collaborator Bev Vincent, hear from the show’s lyricist Dean Pitchford about the musical’s origins, and chat to original workshop 'Carrie White' Annie Golden (Orange is the New Black, Hair, Desperately Seeking Susan) and her cast-mates Laura Dean and Julie Cohen about those heady early days.
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Out for Blood is hosted by Holly Morgan and Chris Adams, edited by Tom Moores, with original music by Odinn Orn Hilmarson and artwork by Rebecca Pitt.
Out for Blood is a proud member of the Broadway Podcast Network.
Thanks this week to Dean Pitchford, Annie Golden, Laura Dean, Julie Cohen, Bev Vincent and Rich Hawkins.
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THIS WEEK’S LINKS:
- A bootleg recording of the workshop production of Carrie can be found on YouTube.
- Here’s Dean Pitchford and Michael Gore winning the 1981 ‘Best Original Song’ Oscar for Fame.
- A video guide to Alban Berg’s opera Lulu, which inspired the creation of Carrie the Musical.
- Watch the trailer for Brian de Palma’s acclaimed 1977 Carrie movie. Look out for an appearance from Betty Buckley, who goes on to star in the musical.
- Bev Vincent edits the Stephen King newsletter News From The Dead Zone and co-editor (with Stephen King) of the anthology Flight or Fright.
- The iconic Annie Golden performs with The Shirts at a CBGB’s reunion.
- Check out Julie Cohen’s (also known as Jewels Nation) band The Nations and Laura Dean’s YouTube channel Micro Mangia.
- And here’s Laura singing a mashup of Fame/I Sing the Body Electric.
- She dropped out of high school this morning, tonight, she’s a Times Square Hooker! Don’t miss the trailer for Streetwalkin’, the B-movie Annie and Julie were shooting each night during the Carrie workshop! [content warning: boobs]
- Please note that we don’t own any of the content above and we’re not responsible for the content of third-party links – enjoy!
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Podcast: Where Should We Begin? with Esther Perel (LS 79 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)
Episode: A Romantic Revival
Pub date: 2019-11-07
Notes from The Listener:
High point of a very good and rightly popular podcast. Each episode is a recording of a therapy session with the host and her clients. This one features a couple coping with a long history of trauma: she has experienced sexual assault and he lost his first wife to suicide when their children were small. As their therapist, Perel has an intriguing focus on the present physical ramifications of these events. Her practical advice to breathe, sing and move at moments of great difficulty makes a lot of sense
He’s away a lot. She’s a stepmother at home to four children whose mother died by suicide. Is there anything left over for her?
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Podcast: Wiki Walks (LS 34 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Ep.20 – The Tiny Building with 285,000 Businesses Inside
Pub date: 2020-06-23
Notes from The Listener:
Short monologues about the curiosities or “huh, who knew?” pages to be found on Wikipedia. This one focuses on a single, unremarkable building in Delaware, US, which thanks to a tax loophole is technically the registered home something like 285,000 businesses. The so called "Delaware loophole", which originated in a law passed in 1899, allows companies to pay a lower rate of tax, charge higher rates of interest on loans, and in some cases keep the identities of directors and personnel hidden
Episode Notes Thanks to some beneficial corporate tax laws in the state, one forgettably single story building in Delaware is the legal home to nearly ever large US company you've ever heard of....in fact, over 285,000 businesses call this little shabby office home.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporation_Trust_Center_(CT_Corporation)
Instagram // Facebook // YouTube // Twitter
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Podcast: Then Again (LS 29 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: E66 The Not So Sweet History Behind Sugar
Pub date: 2021-01-15
Notes from The Listener:
Local history podcast from Georgia, US, looks at the sugar trade. It's the scope of the conversation between the host and the historian guest that makes this worthwhile. They look both at the ramifications of the Atlantic sugar trade in their home area but also very widely at the broader geopolitical forces that set it all in motion. This episode therefore touches on early 17th century Dutch and British colonisation in the Caribbean as well as slavery and the "Sugar Revolution" that resulted in the plantation system
Episode Notes In this episode, Glen discusses the history of the sugar trade with Dr. Jeff Pardue, Professor of History and the Department Head for History, Anthropology and Philosophy at the University of North Georgia.
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Podcast: Shedunnit (LS 60 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Poison Pen
Pub date: 2021-01-13
Notes from The Listener:
Bonus pick: Ever wondered why anonymous or "poison pen" letters became such a cliché of crime fiction? Well, the new podcast episode from Listener editor Caroline Crampton looks at social history to explain why this became such a staple of murder mysteries. Listen to Shedunnit now at shedunnitshow.com or in your podcast app
Nothing could bad could possibly happen here, the inhabitants of the peaceful English village say to each other. Until the first poison pen letter arrives.
No major spoilers about clues or endings in this episode. However, there is some mention or discussion of the books listed below. Also, be aware there is a very brief mention of suicide.
Books and sources:
—The Moving Finger by Agatha Christie —“The Lernean Hydra” in The Labours of Hercules by Agatha Christie —Unnatural Death by Dorothy L. Sayers —Policemen in the Precinct by E.C.R. Lorac —The Mystery of the Spiteful Letters by Enid Blyton —Overture to Death by Ngaio Marsh —Gaudy Night by Dorothy L. Sayers —Poison in the Pen by Patricia Wentworth —Details of the James Forster poison pen case in Manfield, Yorkshire —"The Poison Pen Letter: the Early 20th Century's Strangest Crime Wave" by Curtis Evans —Fear Stalks the Village by Ethel Lina White
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Podcast: Short Story (LS 47 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: The Garden Party by Katherine Mansfield
Pub date: 2019-06-21
Notes from The Listener:
Expressive, unabridged reading of Katherine Mansfield's 1922 short story The Garden Party. Considered an influential work in the development of the modernist short story, it tackles themes of class, mortality and community. A wealthy family in Mansfield's native New Zealand are preparing for a fancy summer garden party when the news arrives that a working class neighbour has died. They are divided on whether to go ahead with the revelry. The clever shifts in Mansfield's narrative are easy to appreciate in this audio form
A taster of the Classic Stories collection to celebrate midsummer. Read by Clare Corbett.
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Podcast: Radio Browser (LS 28 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Understanding Artemisia Gentileschi with Helen Lewis
Pub date: 2021-01-19
Nontsi and Lindelani chat with Helen Lewis about "how the feminist passion for Artemisia Gentileschi’s life story risks overwhelming her artistic talent." Inspired by Helen's piece titled “Isn’t She Good—For a Woman?”
Reading material mentioned in the conversation:
Difficult Women: A History of Feminism in 11 Fights by Helen Lewis
The Obstacle Race: The Fortunes of Women Painters and Their Work by Germaine Greer
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Podcast: The Show Show: The A-Z of Musicals (LS 32 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 2: 'Anything Goes'
Pub date: 2021-01-10
Notes from The Listener:
Relatively new podcast that promises to go through Wikipedia's alphabetised list of musical theatre shows in order, episode by episode. This second episode is the letter A for Anything Goes by Cole Porter, first performed on Broadway in 1934. This cruise ship based romantic comedy was the original source of two of Porter's best songs, "You're the Top" and "I Get a Kick Out of You", and despite its lightweight plot has had an outsize influence on the stage musical. This is a pretty loose, conversational show, but still enjoyable
In this episode, Geddy and Tom explore one of Cole Porter's greats, 'Anything Goes', and special guest Pascalle Bergmans, star of The Wild Party, shares her incredibly slippery Stage Fright story.
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Podcast: Alone Together (LS 41 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: Adam & Eve On A Raft: Why Lonely People Are Attracted To Diners
Pub date: 2021-01-11
Notes from The Listener:
Podcast about loneliness explores the role that the 24 hour diner plays in this experience and its depiction in western pop culture. Beginning with the 1942 Edward Hopper painting Nighthawks, which shows four customers inside a lighted diner on a dark street corner, the host looks at the way these establishments have operated as a space where people can be alone together. There's also a discussion of how diners became political, as American civil rights activists like John Lewis "sat in" to protest segregationist policies
There’s a famous painting by American artist Edward Hopper of four people sitting in a diner on a dark corner. That theme, in many of Hopper’s works, of people inside looking out, longing for something beyond their walls captured the attention of many at the beginning of the pandemic. Diners have become associated with the place to go for those on their own and wanting connections. This week, we hear from artists, curators, writers and a civil rights scholar about the role diners have played in our culture. So grab a cup of joe and pass the ketchup. Let’s meet at the local diner.
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Podcast: podcast – Centuries of Sound (LS 36 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: 1931
Pub date: 2020-12-07
Notes from The Listener:
Sonic time travelling. The creators of this show are gradually producing audio mixes for every year of recorded sound, beginning with one for 1859. They have now reached the 1930s, and this recreation of 1931 is well worth turning up in the headphones. The Great Depression, Hollywood's golden age, the Mississippi Delta blues — it's all here. There are recognisable hits here, such as Cab Calloway's "Minnie The Moocher", but also plenty of songs that haven't made it to modern anthologies. It's a pleasure to listen like a 1930s music fan
At Centuries of Sound I am making mixes for every year of recorded sound. The download here is only the first 45 minutes. For the full 160-minute version please come to centuriesofsound.com to stream, or patreon.com/centuriesofsound for downloads and a host of other bonus materials for just $5 per month. This show would not be possible without my supporters on there, so please consider signing up or sharing this with someone who may be interested.
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It almost certainly goes without saying that the great depression was difficult time for many people around the world, but in any reshuffling a few unexpected cards will come to the top of the deck. In this darkest year of the period, a few artists were at the apex of their success, and for whatever reason the music and films they made seem to have fixed themselves in the popular consciousness better than anything from the previous few years.
In our just-passed golden age, Cab Calloway hadn’t been doing that well. After a few years of touring around the USA with his more successful band-leader sister Blanche, he’d set himself up in New York with his own group, but following a disastrous debut at the Savoy Ballroom, they split up. Forced to take a job as a singer in the musical Connie’s Hot Chocolates, he found a new band, and by 1930 they were the star attraction at The Cotton Club, and about to release the first million-selling single by an African-American artist.
Minnie The Moocher was not entirely an original piece, in the way that nothing really is. The bulk of it was sourced from a much earlier song called Willie the Weeper, and many of the adaptations had already been made in a 1927 version by Frankie “Half-Pint” Jaxon. Even the sleazy, funky style of Calloway’s band was lifted largely from his sister Blanche, who would also do scat singing not far from the “hi de hi de hi de ho” refrain. But there’s no denying that Cab himself is an electrifying presence, even ninety years later – where Louis Armstrong is warm and welcoming, he’s aggressive, preening and feline in a way we won’t really get again until the birth of rock & roll. The song is pretty shocking too – beneath the flimsiest of euphemistic slang terms it’s a story about cocaine and opium use and open displays of female sexuality, and you have to wonder how many listeners got that – I would wager the answer is “surprisingly many” – though perhaps not Al Bowlly, whose version I probably won’t be including in the 1932 mix.
1931 was a bumper year for this sort of thing in Hollywood too. Though the censorship regimen The Hays Code was officially adopted in 1930, it wouldn’t really be taken seriously until 1934, and it feels like producers were going as far as they could before someone stopped them. High profile movies this year include morally-ambiguous gangster pictures Little Caesar and The Public Enemy, stories about a secretary-turned-prostitute (Safe In Hell), lurid parties (Dance, Fools, Dance) and open mockery of religion (The Miracle Woman.) This was a massive year for horror movies too, with the release of the classic versions of Dracula, Dr Jekyl and Mr Hyde and Frankenstein, the latter directed by James Whale, an openly-gay British man whose career would later be derailed by his open conflict with Hitler a few years before the rest of the western world joined in.
Hollywood might have been having a golden age, but the same cannot of course be said about the record business – in fact movie musicals were really the only growth area for musicians this year. While some companies had remained afloat in 1930, further economic shocks from Germany had now done for what was left of their business. Of course important bandleaders were still being recorded, but the expeditions to record across The South had mostly withered and died.
The vital exception to this is the guitar blues coming out of the Mississippi Delta. Skip James from Bentonia, Mississippi and Son House from Lyon, Mississippi both managed to make their way to Grafton, Wisconsin, to record for Paramount Records – the songs they recorded were some of the final echoes of the explosion of 1927, but they resonated more than almost any others, and after 30 years away from the microphone for both performers, their discovery by blues fans in the early 1960s would make them a vital piece in the development of music in the remainder of the century.
Tracklist
0:00:23 Will Rogers – Bacon, Beans, and Limousines (Excerpt 1)
0:00:29 Cab Calloway and His Orchestra – Minnie The Moocher
0:03:36 James Cagney – The Public Enemy Piano Scene (Excerpt 1)
0:03:42 Harlem Footwarmers – Rockin’ in Rhythm
0:06:03 Colin Clive – Frankenstein (Excerpt 1)
0:06:31 The Boswell Sisters – It’s You
0:09:35 The Mills Brothers – Nobody’s Sweetheart Now
0:11:57 Isaac Pitman – Pitman’s Gramophone Course (Excerpt 1)
0:12:03 Jazz-Band Sam Libermann – Sandeman
0:14:26 Will Rogers – Bacon, Beans, and Limousines (Excerpt 2)
0:14:32 Hazekiah Jenkins – The Panic Is On
0:16:54 Will Rogers – Bacon, Beans, and Limousines (Excerpt 3)
0:17:13 Bessie Smith – Need A Little Sugar In My Bowl
0:18:40 Bessie Smith – Safety Mama
0:20:04 James Cagney – The Public Enemy Piano Scene (Excerpt 2)
0:20:10 Louis Armstrong & His Orchestra – Lazy River
0:23:14 Johnny Mack Brown – Berk Jarvis’ Inspirational Speech from The Great Meadow (Excerpt 1)
0:23:23 Skip James – Hard Time Killin’ Floor Blues
0:25:22 Johnny Mack Brown – Berk Jarvis’ Inspirational Speech from The Great Meadow (Excerpt 2)
0:25:38 Duke Ellington Orchestra – Creole Rhapsody
0:30:13 Chants Populaires Tahitiens – Chant D´Amour
0:31:03 Sol K. Bright – Tomi Tomi
0:33:08 Ronald Colman – Arrowsmith (Excerpt 1)
0:33:14 Fatma El Chameya Sudaneya – Gawadallah
0:34:30 DJelouwei Wenike Ahlanon – Pantanon
0:34:57 Fredric March – Dr Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Excerpt 1)
0:35:38 Kju Pora – Ke Tre Urat Për Matanë (Across Three Bridges)
0:36:19 Peter Lorre – Kangaroo Court Scene from M
0:36:48 Alexander Mossolov – Zavod, Symphony Of Machines
0:38:09 Colin Clive – Frankenstein (Excerpt 2)
0:38:22 Albert Whelan – My Brother Makes the Noises for the Talkies
0:41:08 Groucho Marx – Monkey Business (Excerpt)
0:41:17 Toña La Negre – El Cacahuatero
0:43:05 Mahatma Gandhi – 1931 Oct 20 – English (Excerpt 1)
0:43:14 Paul Robeson – River Stay Away From My Door
0:44:57 Beans Hambone & El Morrow – Beans
0:46:43 Laurel and Hardy – One Good Turn (Excerpt 1)
0:46:50 Gene Autry – Do Right Daddy Blues
0:48:53 Will Rogers – Bacon, Beans, and Limousines (Excerpt 4)
0:48:59 Willie Brown – Future Blues
0:50:19 James Dunn – Scene from ‘Bad Girl’
0:50:29 Skip James – Cypress Grove Blues
0:52:24 Skip James – Devil Got My Woman
0:54:10 Rev. Emmet Dickenson – Hell and What It Is (Excerpt 1)
0:54:18 Bryant’s Jubilee Quartet – I’ll Be Satisfied
0:55:39 Mahatma Gandhi – 1931 Oct 20 – English (Excerpt 2)
0:55:52 Maddilla Satyamoorthy – Violin Instrumental- Parimala Rangapathey (Kambhoji)
0:57:04 Mahatma Gandhi – 1931 Oct 20 – English (Excerpt 3)
0:57:09 Jimmie Rodgers & The Carter Family – Jimmie Rodgers Visits The Carter Family
1:00:23 Jimmie Rodgers – Mississippi River Blues
1:01:49 Ramsay Macdonald – Speaks To The Nation (Excerpt 1)
1:01:54 Leroy Carr – Papa’s On The House Top
1:03:22 David Lloyd George – Speaks To The Nation (Excerpt 1)
1:03:24 The Baltimore Bell Hops – Hot And Anxious
1:04:21 Don Redman – Shakin’ The African
1:06:58 Claudette Colbert – The Smiling Lieutenant (Excerpt)
1:07:09 Mississippi Sheiks – Bed Spring Poker
1:08:51 Will Rogers – Bacon, Beans, and Limousines (Excerpt 5)
1:09:09 Slim Smith – Bread Line Blues
1:12:22 Arthur Henderson MP – General Election 1931
1:12:36 Al Bowlly accompanied by orchestra – I’d Rather Be A Beggar With You
1:14:23 Norma Shearer & Robert Montgomery – Private Lives (Excerpt)
1:14:29 Cab Calloway and His Orchestra – Kicking The Gong Around
1:16:57 James Cagney – The Public Enemy Piano Scene (Excerpt 3)
1:16:59 Noble Sissle and His Orchestra – The Basement Blues
1:20:11 Bela Lugosi – Scene from Dracula (Excerpt 1)
1:20:14 Seger Ellis – Montana Call
1:23:31 Jean Renoir – La Chienne (Excerpt)
1:23:42 Les Freres Péguri – Enivrante
1:25:00 René Clair – À nous la liberté
1:25:12 Uncredited Pinpeat Ensemble – Teb Bantom (Cambodia)
1:26:01 Pierre Laval – Speech About His Forthcoming German Visit
1:26:10 Fujiyama Ichiro – Sake ha Namida ka Tameike ka
1:27:40 FT Marinetti – Sintesi Musicali Futuriste
1:28:14 D. Busuttil u il Cumpanija Musica V.Ciappara – Festa ta Rahal
1:29:11 Carlo Satariano – Maddalena
1:29:25 Adolfo Carabelli Y Su Orquesta Tipica – Me Vuelves Loco
1:31:08 Fredric March – Dr Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Excerpt 2)
1:31:15 Washboard Rhythm Kings – Call Of The Freaks
1:33:59 Wallace Beery – The Champ 1931 (Ending scene) (Excerpt 1)
1:34:15 Ted Lewis and his Band – Dallas Blues
1:36:34 Glen Gray and his Orchestra – Casa Loma Stomp
1:39:25 Albert Whelan – Pass! Shoot!! Goal!!!
1:41:31 The Mills Brothers – Tiger Rag
1:43:23 Laurel and Hardy – One Good Turn (Excerpt 2)
1:43:35 Bing Crosby And The Mills Brothers – Dinah
1:45:11 Ronald Colman – Arrowsmith (Excerpt 2)
1:45:20 Wilmoth Houdini – I Need a Man
1:47:34 Edward, Price of Wales (future King Edward VIII) – Speech on trade with Argentine
1:47:40 Cuarteto Flores – Cecilia
1:49:40 Ramsay MacDonald – General Election 1931
1:49:55 Julio J. Martínez Oyanguren – Jota
1:52:27 Adolphe Menjou – The Front Page Ending scene (Excerpt 1)
1:52:32 G.Cefai – Imhabba fuk il bahar
1:54:24 Rev. Emmet Dickenson – Hell and What It Is (Excerpt 2)
1:54:46 Sam Collins – Lonesome Road Blues
1:55:58 Wallace Beery – The Champ 1931 (Ending scene) (Excerpt 2)
1:56:06 Sexteto Okeh – Estrella De Oriente
1:57:35 James Cagney – The Public Enemy Piano Scene (Excerpt 4)
1:57:41 Clyde McCoy & His Orchestra – Sugar Blues
2:00:32 Marlene Dietrich – Jonny
2:01:41 Comedian Harmonists – Mein Lieber Schatz Bist Du Aus Spanien
2:04:25 Ambrose And His Orchestra – Yes, Yes (‘My Baby Said Yes’)
2:05:30 James Cagney – The Public Enemy Piano Scene (Excerpt 5)
2:05:35 Jacques Renard & His Orchestra – As Time Goes By
2:07:01 Isaac Pitman – Pitman’s Gramophone Course (Excerpt 2)
2:07:18 Akropong Singing Band – Monyi Moho Adi
2:08:29 Marguerite and Razanatsoa – Dia Veloma I Said Omar
2:10:21 Rev. F. W. McGee – Fifty Miles Of Elbow Room
2:13:00 Silver Leaf Quartette of Norfolk – Daniel Saw the Stone
2:14:22 Rev. Emmet Dickenson – Hell and What It Is (Excerpt 3)
2:14:37 Willie Walker – Dupree Blues
2:16:21 Son House – My Black Mama – Part I
2:18:11 Ramsay Macdonald – Speaks To The Nation (Excerpt 2)
2:18:18 A. Kostis – I Filaki ine Scholio
2:19:21 Bela Lugosi and A Wolf – Scene from Dracula (Excerpt 2)
2:19:38 Josef Pizio – Pidkamecka Kolomyjka
2:20:15 Adolphe Menjou – The Front Page Ending scene (Excerpt 2)
2:20:29 Middle Georgia Singing Convention No. 1 – Bells of Love
2:21:48 Boswell Sisters – Shout, Sister, Shout
2:22:48 Clark Gable – Possessed (Excerpt)
2:22:49 Sato Chiyako – Kage o Shitaete
2:23:44 Winston Churchill – General Election 1931 (Excerpt)
2:23:51 Kyle Wooten – Choking Blues
2:25:37 Ted Lewis & His Band feat. Fats Waller – Royal Garden Blues
2:28:32 Mahatma Gandhi – 1931 Oct 20 – English (Excerpt 4)
2:28:46 Louis Armstrong – Stardust
2:32:18 The Charleston Chasers – Basin Street Blues
2:34:43 British Pathe – The Crisis! (1931)
2:34:46 Adolphe Menjou – The Front Page Ending scene (Excerpt 3)
2:34:48 Al Bowlly with Ray Noble & His Orchestra – Goodnight Sweetheart
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Podcast: Radio Browser (LS 28 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Understanding Disability with Joanne Limburg
Pub date: 2021-01-12
Nontsi and Lindelani chat with Joanne Limburg about her personal journey with disability and the impact it has had on her family, social and professional life. Inspired by Joanne’s piece titled “Am I disabled?”
Reading material mentioned in the conversation:
Disability Visibility by Alice Wong
The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-Time by Mark Haddon
Inspiration Porn
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Podcast: The Cipher (LS 58 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: 1. The Parallax
Pub date: 2020-12-26
Notes from The Listener:
Beginning of a ten part science fiction thriller about a mysterious code and the race to apprehend a possibly otherworldly serial killer. In an echo of the WW2 Bletchley Park code breakers, 16 year old Sabrina is recruited to the investigation after she cracks the parallax problem that is baffling the world's brightest minds, and the tale unfolds from there. Two performances lift this series above the standard audio sci fi offering: Star Trek's George Takei narrates beautifully and Chance Perdomo adds the perfect amount of sardonic wit
A mysterious puzzle appears online.
A fiction podcast starring Anya Chalotra and Chance Perdomo about finding a killer whilst finding yourself…
Cast: Sabrina – Anya Chalotra Benny – Chance Perdomo Harry – Enzo Cilenti Isabella – Hera Hilmar Mr Ahmed – Nabil Elouahabi Dr Usman – Cyril Nri Efrat – Olivia Popica Lucy – Molly Harris Other parts: Clare Corbett, Stephen Mitchell, Philip Desmeules
Production Team: Written & Created by Brett Neichin with additional writing by Janina Matthewson Script editing by Mike Walker Music by Benbrick and Mark Henry Phillips Editing & Sound Design by Steve Bond Sound Assistant, Makashe Ogbon Assistant Producer, Eleanor Mein Trails by Jack Soper
Produced by Emma Hearn Director and Executive Producer, John Scott Dryden Commissioning Editor, Jason Phipps Commissioning Producers: Rachel Simpson, Ella Woods and Eli Sessions
Recorded at Sonica Studios, London The Cipher is a Goldhawk Production commissioned by BBC Sounds.
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Podcast: Writ Large (LS 39 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Bushido
Pub date: 2020-11-12
Notes from The Listener:
Well produced show about literary history tackles a seminal work by the Japanese writer Inazō Nitobe. Born in 1862, Nitobe travelled widely outside of his home country and was repeatedly startled by the misunderstandings of Japanese culture that existed in the United States and Europe. He wrote his introduction to the samurai code and ethics, Bushido: The Soul of Japan, in English to redress this balance and it was published in the US in 1899. As well as recapping its contents, this episode also examines the book's reception in Japan
Nitobe Inazō wanted to explain Japan to Westerners, particularly morality as it is taught in Japanese society. He was born a Samurai in 1862. In his book Bushido: The Soul of Japan,Inazō Nitobe explains the moral foundations of traditional Japanese society to a Western audience through “the way of the warrior,” Bushido.
Harvard Professor David Howell is the Robert K. and Dale J. Weary Professor of Japanese History and Professor of History at Harvard University and the Chair of the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations. He’s also author of the books Capitalism from Within and Geographies of Identity in Nineteenth-Century Japan.
See more information on our website, WritLarge.fm.
Follow us on Twitter @WritLargePod.
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Podcast: Herpetological Highlights (LS 39 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: 039 An Appetite for Arboreality
Pub date: 2018-11-17
Notes from The Listener:
If you thought you didn't need to listen to over an hour of two experts talking about arboreal snakes, you were wrong. The deep yet matter of fact enthusiasm exuded by these two researchers for "scaled and slimy animals" is palpable throughout and makes their subject here — snakes that climb trees as part of their survival techniques — fascinating even for the completely indifferent. In each episode they run through the relevant academic studies on their topic and present it to the listener in a digestible fashion
Snakes, they’ve adapted to all sorts of environments. But what exactly has changed to allow them to take to the trees? This episode we check out what it takes to be arboreal and the impacts of taking arboreal prey. We head to the neotropics for the Species of the Bi-week for a colourful new snake. FULL REFERENCE LIST AVAILABLE AT: herphighlights.podbean.com
Main Paper References:
Harrington, S. M., Haan, J. M. D. E., Shapiro, L., & Ruane, S. (2018). Habits and characteristics of arboreal snakes worldwide: arboreality constrains body size but does not affect lineage diversification. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, XX, 1–11. https://doi.org/10.1093/biolinnean/bly097/5056838
Siers, S. R., Yackel Adams, A. A., & Reed, R. N. (2018). Behavioral differences following ingestion of large meals and consequences for management of a harmful invasive snake: A field experiment. Ecology and Evolution, 8(20), 10075–10093. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.4480
Species of the Bi-Week:
Bernarde, P. S., Carlos, L., Turci, B., Abegg, A. D., & Franco, F. L. (2018). A remarkable new species of coralsnake of the Micrurus hemprichii species group from the Brazilian Amazon. Salamandra, 54(4), 249–258.
Other Mentioned Papers/Studies:
Allen WL, Baddeley R, Scott-Samuel NE, Cuthill IC. 2013. The evolution and function of pattern diversity in snakes. Behavioral Ecology 24: 1237–1250.
Blouin-Demers, G., & Weatherhead, P. J. (2001). An experimental test of the link between foraging, habitat selection and thermoregulation in black rat snakes Elaphe obsoleta obsoleta. Journal of Animal Ecology, 70, 1006–1013. https://doi.org/10.1046/j.0021-8790.2001.00554.x
Das, I. (2010). A field guide to the reptiles of South-East Asia. London: Bloomsbury.
Glaudas, X., & Alexander, G. J. (2017). Food supplementation affects the foraging ecology of a low-energy, ambush-foraging snake. Behavioral ecology and sociobiology, 71(1), 5.
Ford, N. B., & Shuttlesworth, G. A. (1986). Effects of variation in food intake on locomotory performance of juvenile garter snakes. Copeia, 1986, 999–1001. https://doi.org/10.2307/1445298
Fritts, T. H. (2002). Economic costs of electrical system instability and power outages caused by snakes on the island of Guam. International Biodeterioration & Biodegradation, 49, 93–100. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0964-8305(01)00108-1
Secor, S. M., & Diamond, J. (1998). A vertebrate model of extreme physiological regulation. Nature, 395(6703), 659–662. https://doi.org/10.1038/27131
Wasko, D. K., & Sasa, M. (2012). Food resources influence spatial ecology, habitat selection, and foraging behavior in an ambush-hunting snake (Viperidae: Bothrops asper): An experimental study. Zoology, 115(3), 179–187. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.zool.2011.10.001
Other Links/Mentions:
Ahaetulla fronticinctca feeding from the California Academy of Science - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlRHNYUr-PU
Music:
Intro/outro – Treehouse by Ed Nelson
Other Music – The Passion HiFi, www.thepassionhifi.com
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Podcast: Radio Browser (LS 28 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: 52 Things I Learned In 2020 with Tom Whitwell
Pub date: 2021-01-05
Inspired by the piece 52 Things I Learned in 2020, Lindelani and Nontsi speak to the author Tom Whitwell about his list of interesting things he learned in the year 2020.
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Podcast: Radio Browser (LS 28 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Understanding Cheating with Alicia Walker
Pub date: 2020-12-22
Inspired by the interview Men who have affairs: An Interview with Alicia Walker, conducted by Arielle Kuperberg, Lindelani and Nontsi speak to the Dr. Alicia Walker about her studies on cheating and how to better understand what cheating is.
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Podcast: Radio Browser (LS 28 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Everyone Should Be In The Crossword With Michelle McGhee
Pub date: 2020-12-15
Inspired by the piece Who’s in the Crossword, Lindelani speaks to the co-author Michelle McGhee about inclusion in the crossword and the experience of existing within marginalized and underrepresented cultures.
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Podcast: In Strange Woods: A Musical Podcast (LS 55 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: 1: Chapter 1 - A Man Who Cannot Be Saved
Pub date: 2020-12-14
Notes from The Listener:
Ambitious podcast musical from the production house that made cult fiction series The Bright Sessions. This is the first chapter, which introduces the setting — a rural Minnesota town on the edge of a forest. The writers have cleverly flirted with podcasting's true crime obsession by centring the plot around the mysterious disappearance of a local teenager, although it then grows far beyond those conventions. The original music is completely integrated, made in a folk pop style that fans of Stephin Merritt and Nick Cave will appreciate
When teenager Jacob Wells goes missing in Whitetail National Forest, it sends shockwaves through his small community. A frantic search ensues and what happens next will change his sister Peregrine's life forever.
In Strange Woods is a production of Atypical Artists and executive produced by Jeff Luppino-Esposito, Brett Ryback, Matt Sav, Lauren Shippen, and Briggon Snow. Please visit instrangewoods.com for more information.
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Podcast: 5 Minutes in Church History with Stephen Nichols (LS 61 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: The Pulpit
Pub date: 2020-06-24
Notes from The Listener:
Brief weekly lessons in religious history, produced by a Presbyterian ministry with a mission to provide theological education. This instalment is about the origins of the pulpit, a central object in Christian worship and architecture. One of the earliest references to it is in a letter from 250CE, but it was superseded in importance by the altar by the medieval era. The tradition to which this show belongs seeks to return it — and the "word of God" that it represents — to prominence. An interesting, if partial, account
Some ministers preach from pulpits, others speak from lecterns, and some stand beside a table. Does it really make any difference? On this episode of 5 Minutes in Church History, Dr. Stephen Nichols observes the significant role of the pulpit from the earliest centuries of the church.
Read the transcript: https://www.5minutesinchurchhistory.com/the-pulpit/
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Podcast: Radio Diaries (LS 62 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: Centenarians (Still) in Lockdown
Pub date: 2020-11-20
Notes from The Listener:
Life affirming conversation with two centenarians who are cheerfully seeing out the Covid-19 pandemic. Joe Newman is 107 and only recently gave up driving his red convertible. His fiancée Anita Sampson just turned 100 — the producers sent them a recording device so he could capture her reaction to the virtual birthday party he organised. Here, Joe also shares his memories of the 1918 flu pandemic. Every night they kiss and say "I hope to see you in the morning" and every morning they check the other is still breathing
It’s been 9 months since Joe Newman (107) and Anita Sampson (100) recorded their story about surviving the 1918 pandemic, getting older, and staying in love during lockdown. We’re thrilled to announce they just won a Third Coast Award! We share their story and check in with them in Sarasota, Florida where COVID cases are surging.
Support this week from AcornTV and their new series “A Suitable Boy” from the BBC.
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Podcast: Little Yarns (LS 46 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Shore in Noongar
Pub date: 2020-03-08
Notes from The Listener:
Series about Australia's many first languages, spoken by peoples all over the continent and now in need of restoration after centuries of suppression and colonisation. In each episode, the host "visits" a different place and is taught a few words of a regional language by a friendly speaker. Here, we go to the Noongar Nation in the south west of Australia. This show from the country's public broadcaster is aimed at children, but the clear diction and translation is really suitable for anyone curious about the topic
We're going back to the Noongar Nation to visit our Wirlomin Noongar friend, Cassie. She's going to show us the hidden meanings of some of her favourite Noongar words.
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Podcast: Are They Canceled? (LS 26 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Is Ellen DeGeneres canceled?
Pub date: 2020-04-07
Notes from The Listener:
Mostly lighthearted look at cancel culture. The hosts take it in turns to present the case for a celebrity, dissect their behaviour and then conclude by deciding whether that person is "cancelled" or not. The subject of this investigation is Ellen DeGeneres, the American comedian and talk show host best known for coming out as a lesbian on television in 1994. While acknowledging her groundbreaking stance then, the hosts raise questions about her more recent actions, including defending fellow celebrities accused of homophobia
She may have been the first gay person, but that was over 20 years ago! These days, she's friends with everyone and it's really annoying. But is she canceled? Only Ramneet and Jared know the answer.
- Kevin Hart interview
- George Bush defense
- Gayest Episode Ever: Ellen Comes Out*
Twitter/Instagram: @aretheycanceled
Website: aretheycanceledpodcast.com
Co-Created and Co-Produced by your hosts, Ramneet and Jared
Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/aretheycanceled)
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Podcast: Describing A Rock
Episode: Red Rocks
Pub date: 2020-11-09
Notes from The Listener:
Beautiful short essays describing rocks. Of course, there's much more here than just adjectives about stone: each episode transports the listener temporarily to where the host is and invites you to contemplate the landscape together. Here ancient sandstone formations are observed while resting on a hike up a mountain. The language and delivery of this show are contemplative and calming, and it's worth giving your whole focus for its short duration. This, the first new episode in over a year, is really excellent
Ancient sandstone.
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Podcast: Radio Browser (LS 28 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Shocking art vs Shocking subjects
Pub date: 2020-12-08
Lindelani and Nontsi chat with Sophie Haigney, about her piece featured in the Browser (titled Making Art Bad Again) about shock, protest, and visual art in the age of Trump and what similarities or differences exist in the South African context.
Mentioned in the episode:
Brett Murray
Ayanda Mabulu
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Podcast: Futuremakers (LS 43 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: 2: The Plague of Justinian
Pub date: 2020-11-29
Notes from The Listener:
Part of a series about plagues of centuries past. This one, from the sixth century, is often considered to be the first "plague pandemic", spreading through the eastern Mediterranean and northern Africa and eventually killing millions in Europe. It is named for the Emperor Justinian because he is thought to have contracted the disease and then recovered at the outbreak's height, when around 10,000 people a day were dying in his capital city of Constantinople. Medical historians here put this in the context of other, better known, disease events
Welcome to the Eastern Roman Empire in the sixth century. This time, Peter discusses a plague that historians and medical experts agree was likely the first plague pandemic humanity experienced. You may not have heard much about the emperor Justinian I, or why he’s got a plague outbreak named after him, but by the end of this episode you’ll hear just how devastating and long-lasting this pandemic was. This episode is part of our History of Pandemics season - follow Professor Peter Millican as he talks to researchers from around the world about some of the devastating pandemics humanity has experienced. Peter and his colleagues will discuss ten major outbreaks: from the Plague of Athens to the West African Ebola outbreak, via the Black Death, Smallpox and Cholera, and ask how these outbreaks have shaped society, what we may be able to learn from them today, and where we might be heading? Find out more at https://bit.ly/TheHistoryOfPandemics
Futuremakers is created in-house at The University of Oxford, and presented by Professor Peter Millican, from Hertford College. The voice actor for this episode was Liz McCarthy. The score for the series was composed and recorded by Richard Watts, and the series is written and produced by Ben Harwood and Steve Pritchard.
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Podcast: The Sink: A Sleep Aid (LS 44 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: Session One: Wet Ham Slice
Pub date: 2020-10-28
Notes from The Listener:
Part 'help to sleep' meditation, part dark comedy sketch show, part binaural soundscape. This show is difficult to define, which is why it is such a pleasurable piece — even for the most jaded and omnivorous listener, it will be surprising. The humour is akin to the peculiarly British bleakness of something like The League of Gentlemen or the work of Chris Morris. Familiarity with ubiquitous wellness apps like Calm or Headspace can add an extra layer of enjoyment, since the writer is parodying our desire for dreamless oblivion
New subject beginning Sink treatments. Subject has been having an “absolute full shocker” of a year. Symptoms include:
Sleeping badly Difficult toes Overwhelming dread Creep Blinks too big
Suggested treatment: 6 week course, beginning with session one: Initial Dream Investigation.
We highly recommend listening to this and all the episodes from the beginning and on headphones or a good set of speakers. The Sink is written by Natasha Hodgson It is produced by Andy Goddard
It stars Alice Lowe, Jason Forbes, Celeste Dring, David Elms and Natasha Hodgson.
The music is written by David Cumming.
The script editor was Gareth Gwynn.
It is a BBC Studios Production.
About the team:
Andy Goddard is a podcast producer and sound designer responsible for many hit podcasts & radio programs including Wooden Overcoats, Armstrong and Miller: Time Ghost and A Very John Kearns Christmas.
Natasha Hodgson is an award-winning writer, actor and comedian and singer. Her TV writing credits include the BAFTA award-winning Amazing World Of Gumball and Bravest Warriors, created by Adventure Time’s Pendleton Ward. Her other performance credits include appearances on Newsjack Unplugged, Tom Neenan is Not All Men, Tech Tech Boom and Front Row on BBC Radio 4 and The Beef and Dairy Network podcast. She has also written and starred in award-winning musical Operation Mincemeat and is a founding member of award-winning comedy theatre company Kill the Beast.
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Podcast: Shedunnit (LS 60 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Spoiler Warning (No Spoilers)
Pub date: 2020-11-25
Notes from The Listener:
Bonus pick: Is it still worth reading a whodunnit when you know who done it? The new podcast episode from Listener editor Caroline Crampton looks at how spoilers operate in the world of murder mysteries. Listen to Shedunnit now at shedunnitshow.com or in your podcast app
Is it still worth reading a whodunnit if you know… who done it?
Thanks to my guests Jim Noy of The Invisible Event and Kate Jackson of Cross Examining Crime. Jim is on Twitter @invisible_event and Kate is @ArmchairSleuth.
Thank you to everyone who supported the Shedunnit Pledge Drive, we did it! You can still join the Shedunnit Book Club if you’d like of course — and I’ll keep the discounted gift offer valid through until the end of the year — but the threshold is already met and there will be more regular episodes coming in 2021.
NB: Despite the title, there are no major spoilers in this episode. However, there is some structural discussion of the books listed below.
Books and sources: —Antidote to Venom by Freeman Wills Crofts —The Julius Caesar Murder Case by Wallace Irwin —Post Mortem by Guy Cullingford —Gaudy Night by Dorothy L. Sayers
Please note that some of the links here are affiliate links — if you buy from an independent bookshop via bookshop.org the sale price remains the same but the podcast receives a small commission.
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Find a full transcript of this episode at shedunnitshow.com/spoilerwarningtranscript.
Music by Audioblocks and Blue Dot Sessions. See shedunnitshow.com/musiccredits for more details.
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Podcast: the Sharp End Podcast (LS 57 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: A Tribute To Fiona
Pub date: 2020-07-01
Notes from The Listener:
Conversational podcast about mountaineering accidents. Each episode features climbers with a story to tell, which the host gently teases out as a way of helping others in the sport avoid disaster. This one sees three friends describe how the fourth member of their group died during a canyoneering trip in Utah in February 2020. Lots of tears, plus details about carabiners and rappelling systems. Not necessarily a listen for an emotionally fragile moment, but worth it if you can: the concept works surprisingly well
Four friends from all over the United States met in eastern Utah in February 2020 to go canyoneering. They were all experienced canyoneers and had done trips together before. As they exited Angel Cove Canyon by the final rappel of the day, Fiona, 33, was the last person down. In Episode 54 of the Sharp End, Fiona's three companions describe what went wrong with her rappel and share some stories about their remarkable friend.
The Sharp End is presented by Mammut, with additional support from Desert Mountain Medicine and Suunto. This podcast is produced by the American Alpine Club.
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Podcast: Radio Browser (LS 28 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Our grandparents rule!
Pub date: 2020-12-01
This week, Lindelani and Nontsi chat with Alison Gopnik, about her wonderful piece featured in the Browser (titled Vulnerable yet vital) about the importance of grandparents in the life and upbringing of their grandchildren.
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Podcast: Play is the thing (LS 24 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Christmas gift recommendations!
Pub date: 2019-12-07
Notes from The Listener:
Podcast about play hosted by a developmental paediatrician. The interviews in the series are informative, covering topics from neurodiversity to screen time and are always anchored in how playing games of all kinds informs wellbeing. This episode is a break from the usual format, however, and features many previous guests offering recommendations of games that are actually good to give as gifts (and won't end up played once and then forgotten. Many of them suit people of all ages and can be played alone or in a group
Chris Ferguson recommended the Atari 2600 console.
Sam Illingworth recommended Betrayal at House on the Hill
Pete Etchells recommeded Untitled Goose Game
Sam Wake recommended Cain's Jawbone
Nic Whitton recommended the Librarian's Almanaq
Holly Gramazio recommended Board games to create and play
I recommended a few things: The floor is lava
Board games in 100 moves
Quest for El Dorado
Ticket to Ride London
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Podcast: Make-Believe (LS 37 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Lost Books of the Odyssey
Pub date: 2019-03-01
Notes from The Listener:
Live performances of short works inspired by literature and lore. In this one, the company presents five "riffs" on Homer's Odyssey, imagining other incidents that might have happened to hero Odysseus on his way home from the Trojan wars. The combination of real time theatrical performance and deft sound design in this show is brilliant. Although recorded in 2019, it's ideally suited to this year. The intimacy of having the performers in your headphones is a good stand in for attending the theatre in person
Odysseus, the “man of twists and turns”, goes on five new adventures, portrayed by five amazing actors. Sing for our time, too. To contact Make-Believe, email us at talk@makebelieve.fm --------------- Lost Books of the OdysseyBy Jeremy McCarterAdapted from the novel by Zachary MasonMusic composed and sound team led by Mikhail FikselDirected by Jess McLeodExecutive produced by Jeremy McCarter Performed and recorded live at the Harold Washington Library, Chicago CAST (in order of playing Odysseus)Kareem BandealyKristina Valada-ViarsLily MojekwuIan Paul CusterHenry Godinez SOUND TEAMSound designer - Mikhail FikselAssociate sound designer and audio technician - Robert HornbostelRecording engineer - Joe Palermo PRODUCTION STAFFProduction manager - Madeleine BorgStage manager - Brennan T. JonesCommunity manager - Kaitlin Fine POST-PRODUCTIONEditing, mixing, and additional recording by Mikhail FikselAdditional sound design, final mixing and mastering by Joe Palermo Graphic design by Carly Pearlman Equipment provided by TechMagic Designs Make-Believe theme music by Mikhail Fiksel SPECIAL THANKSCatherine Allen and The Den Theater; Brian Bannon and the staff of Chicago Public Library; Carolyn Casselman of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton, and Garrison; Bill Clegg; Nancy García Loza; Nate Marshall; Kevin Reader, Max Temkin, and Cards Against Humanity; Chris Rooney; SAG-AFTRA. PRODUCTION SPONSORSThe Chauncey and Marion Deering McCormick Family Foundation, for an essential launch grantThe Poetry Foundation, our lead season sponsorJoyce Chelberg, whose generosity supports the work of Make-Believe’s actorsAll our donors and supporters To support Make-Believe with a tax-deductible contribution, please visit:https://makebelieve.fm/support-us/
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Podcast: History Extra podcast (LS 70 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: The dispossession of Native Americans
Pub date: 2020-10-12
Notes from The Listener:
Interview with a researcher of Native American history. The conversation focuses particularly on the nineteenth century state-backed removal of indigenous peoples from their lands that was instituted by President Andrew Jackson in 1830 and set off the forced migration to the west often referred to today as the Trail of Tears. The expert is articulate and detailed in his responses, encompassing the nuance of the subject matter while remaining direct in tone. As an entry point into this period of history, this is excellent
Historian Claudio Saunt discusses his recent book Unworthy Republic, which tells the story of the forced expulsion of tens of thousands of Native Americans from their lands by the US government in the mid-19th century. The book has recently been shortlisted for the Cundill History Prize. Historyextra.com/podcast
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Podcast: Radio Browser (LS 28 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Maboneng Precinct
Pub date: 2020-11-24
Inspired by Stefan Al’s “The Air-Conditioned Cowboy”, Nontsi and Lindelani discuss the similarities of the becoming of Las Vegas to that of Maboneng. They further discuss the good and bad that Maboneng Precinct has brought to the community of downtown Johannesburg.
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Podcast: Parsing Science: The unpublished stories behind the world’s most compelling science, as told by the researchers themselves. (LS 28 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Silencing an ALS Gene – Tim Miller
Pub date: 2020-11-10
Notes from The Listener:
Interview series that seeks to uncover the unpublished, often personal, stories from the researchers behind scientific publications. This one stood out both because of the potential significance of the work and the quiet humility of the man doing it. The guest works on targeted gene therapies for ALS (also known as Lou Gehrig's disease), a progressive and degenerative condition of the nervous system. The format of this show, which balances conversation with narration, strikes a good balance between detail and approachability
How could a gene that causes one type of ALS be switched off? In episode 87, Tim Miller from the Washington University in St. Louis discusses his research into therapies that target the single strands of DNA or RNA which cause many cases of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also known as ALS or Lou Gehrig's disease.
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Podcast: Transmissions: The Definitive Story of Joy Division & New Order (LS 52 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: S1E1: Band Meets Singer
Pub date: 2020-10-29
Notes from The Listener:
Expansive, lovingly produced oral history of the Mancunian indie bands Joy Division and New Order. Even die hard fans will find something new in this series, since the creators have managed to get all surviving members to speak on the record in a relaxed and open way. The pace of the story is slow, with this first episode containing a lot of detail about the band's early formation and releases, rather than rushing to the later big hits. It's all narrated by the actor Maxine Peake, who just about keeps her enthusiasm for the topic under control
Maxine Peake tells the story of the beginnings of Joy Division, one of the most influential bands ever. The story begins with a young Bernard Sumner posting a notice in a Manchester record shop: "Band seeks singer".
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Podcast: Podcast: Majlis - Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty (LS 36 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: Majlis Podcast: New Revelations In Kyrgyz Corruption Scheme - November 15, 2020
Pub date: 2020-11-15
Notes from The Listener:
Conversational podcast about the politics of Central Asia. The production is a little rough and ready, but since regular English language analysis of this area is hard to come by, worth persevering with. Listeners should note that it is produced out of Washington DC by the US-funded soft power station Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, best known for its broadcasts to Soviet states during the Cold War. This episode updates listeners on new developments in a massive money laundering and smuggling operation in Kyrgyzstan
On this week's Majlis podcast, RFE/RL's media-relations manager, Muhammad Tahir, moderates a discussion that looks at this latest revelations concerning the alleged corruption network involving the former deputy head of Kyrgyzstan’s Customs Service, Raimbek Matraimov, and Chinese-born businessman Khabibula Abdukadyr, and the theft of hundreds of millions of dollars from Kyrgyzstan.
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Podcast: Radio Browser (LS 28 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: The story of Sikkim’s merger with India with Sunaina Kumar
Pub date: 2020-11-17
This week, Lindelani and Nontsi chat with Sunaina Kumar, about her wonderful piece (featured in the titled Kingdom from which we learn about the "aristocrats, enigmatic wives, and spymasters in the drama of Sikkim’s merger with India." Sunaina's writings: 1. https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2016/11/uighur-exiles-kashmir-heaven-161117133848689.html
(A story of a hidden community of Uighurs living in Kashmir from the time of Silk Route trade)
- https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/peoples-linguistic-survey-of-india-ganesh-devy
(A story on a man who set out to count every language in India, he found 780)
- https://narratively.com/the-diver-who-brings-up-the-bodies/
(A story on a man whose job it is to dive in the water to bring out bodies of farmers who commit suicide in north India)
Sunaina's recommendations for the holiday season:
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I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith and Christmas Pudding by Nancy Mitford
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Vikram Seth's A Suitable Boy and the new adaptation of the book by Mira Nair on Netflix, an enduring story from India
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The Jungle Prince of Delhi by Ellen Barry, widely shared but always worth talking about as long-form inspiration
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Podcast: Lives Less Ordinary (LS 56 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: In bed with an assassin
Pub date: 2020-11-14
Jason P. Howe was a British conflict photographer covering the war in Colombia, when he met a young woman at a bus stop. Her name was Marilyn, and they started a relationship that would last several years.
Over time, it became clear to Jason that Marilyn had another life. She'd disappear at night on her motorcycle. People were scared of her, bars would empty when she entered them. Eventually, she would reveal a violent secret that was shocking even in the context of a warzone. Marilyn was an assassin for Colombian paramilitary forces.
Jason spoke to Outlook's Andrea Kennedy back in 2019.
Image: Jason Howe and Marilyn Credit: Jason P. Howe
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Podcast: Blindspot (LS 58 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Bonus Episode: The Double Life
Pub date: 2020-09-25
Notes from The Listener:
Interview with Emad Salem, an Egyptian army officer who became an FBI informant. At the request of his American handlers, he infiltrated the cell that attacked the World Trade Center in 1993 and helped to prevent several planned follow up atrocities in New York City. He testified against several Al-Qaeda affiliated terrorists in open court, and as a result has been in hiding ever since. Salem is very good at narrating his own life — some of his anecdotes could be lifted straight out of an action film
Emad Salem has been called one of the most successful undercover agents in the history of the FBI. In a rare interview, Salem opens up about the personal price he paid for foiling the Landmarks Plot and bringing down a dangerous terrorist cell.
It’s been more than 20 years since Salem testified against terrorists linked to Al Qaeda in open court; he’s been in hiding ever since. He tells WNYC’s Jim O’Grady what it was like to win the confidence of terrorists who, if they’d found him out, might have killed him on the spot. He recounts wild, heart-stopping episodes in which he’s an inch away from disaster but then saves himself through a combination of bravado and fast-thinking. Salem also talks about the strains borne by his wife and two children since he agreed to become a mole. All of which begs the question, “Was it worth it?”
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Podcast: Answerable Questions with Questionable Answers (LS 48 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: What gives you hope?
Pub date: 2020-11-12
Notes from The Listener:
Conversational podcast with a mildly spiritual flavour. Three friends — a broadcaster, a journalist and a trainee pastor — try to answer a different "big question" in each episode. Their commentary is inflected by their personal beliefs and experiences but they do manage to strike a balance between talking openly about their Christian faith while not seeking to impose that worldview on listeners. Here, they address practical strategies for feeling hopeful when all seems dire — even if it's as simple as feeling grateful for a nice sandwich
Whether there's a pandemic happening or not life manages to present us all at some point with struggles and hardships. On a bigger scale when we look at the state of the planet we can get quite disheartened too. However, hope springs eternal! This week Chris, Marcus and Sarah discuss where they find hope. Whether it's in nature, science, community or singing songs with strangers hope can be found in many places it would seem.
If you're feeling generous then please review this podcast. Also, we can be found on insta and twitter @aqqapod. Thanks and happy listening!
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Podcast: Better Off Dead (LS 49 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: #12 Velvet Ray
Pub date: 2016-03-21
Notes from The Listener:
Profile of a palliative care nurse who became a campaigner for terminal patients' "right to die" after he was diagnosed with incurable cancer. Some of this episode makes for difficult listening, as Ray Godbold and his family live through the practical implications of what, for many, is only an abstract ethical question. As added context it's worth knowing that the year after this episode was published, the Australian state of Victoria passed a voluntary assisted dying law that came into effect in summer 2019
Ray Godbold is a palliative care nurse faced with terminal cancer – but he doesn’t want to die in palliative care.
Robyn and Ray Godbold — Photo: Andrew Denton
Ray knows what some doctors prefer not to admit. He knows that, even in palliative care, not everything can be taken care of; that a patient’s choices about how they die are very limited; and that, sometimes, their dying involves a wildness nobody can predict.
What Ray doesn’t know is that his own death will turn out to be everything he was hoping that he and his family would be spared.
'I've been there when lots of people have had terrible deaths. No matter what palliative care people say, the last 24 to 48 hours of somebody's life can be completely unexpected.'
Ray Godbold
Ray and Robyn Godbold's children: Tara, Ella and Rory — Photo: Andrew Denton
Please note: this podcast is not about suicide. If you are interested in increasing your understanding of suicide and how to support someone experiencing suicidal ideation, visit the Conversations Matter or beyondblue websites.
If you (or someone you know) require immediate assistance, contact one of the following 24/7 crisis support services: Lifeline (13 11 14), Suicide Call Back Service (1300 659 467), MensLine (1300 78 99 78), beyondblue (1300 22 4636), Kids Helpline (1800 55 1800) or eheadspace (1800 650 890).
Ray at Tullamarine Airport — Photo: Robyn Godbold
Know more * Article: 'Right to die: Dr Rodney Syme hands patient Ray Godbold life-ending medication', by Konrad Marshall – Age, 11 May 2015 * Multimedia feature: 'Into the darkness', by Konrad Marshall – Age, 13 November 2014 * Article: 'Dying with Dignity campaigner Ray Godbold farewelled by family', by Konrad Marshall – Age, 19 August 2015 * Article: 'The right to die at home', by Chris Fotinopoulos – Saturday Paper, 5 December 2015 * Transcript of testimony (PDF): 'Standing committee on legal and social issues: Inquiry into end-of-life choices', by Rory Godbold and Tara Szafraniec – Parliament of Victoria, 29 October 2015
In this episode * Ray Godbold * Robyn Godbold * Ella Godbold * Rory Godbold * Tara Szafraniec (née Godbold)
Our theme music was composed by Zig Zag Lane for Zapruder's Other Films, and edited by Jon Tjhia. Music used in this episode includes 'Life Story' (Ólafur Arnalds and Nils Frahm), 'Longplay' (Luke Howard), 'Familiar' (Nils Frahm), 'We're All Leaving' (Arcade Fire), 'Abandon Window' (Jon Hopkins), 'Ain't No Grave Going to Hold Me Down' (Charlie Parr), 'untitled #1 (vaka)' (Sigur Rós) and 'Forty-Eight Angels' (Paul Kelly).
Your stories If you're suffering, or someone you love has died badly – in a hospital, in palliative care, in a nursing home, or at home – add your voice and tell your story here.
Further information Better Off Dead is produced by Thought Fox and the Wheeler Centre.
Executive producers Andrew Denton and Michael Williams. Producer and researcher Bronwen Reid. For Better Off Dead, the Wheeler Centre team includes Director Michael Williams, Head of Programming Emily Sexton, Head of Marketing and Communications Emily Harms, Projects Producer Amita Kirpalani and Digital Manager Jon Tjhia. Editing, sound design and mix on this episode is by Martin Peralta. Additional editing by Jess Fairfax.
Thank you Thanks to Paul Kelly and Sony ATV for the use of his song ‘Forty Eight Angels’.
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Podcast: Radio Browser (LS 28 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Soul-searching Part 2
Pub date: 2020-11-10
Nontsi, Lindelani and X continue the conversation of soul-searching inspired by Morgan Housel's article I Have A Few Questions.
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Podcast: Radio Browser (LS 28 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Our Answers to some of Life's questions asked by Morgan Housel
Pub date: 2020-11-03
Nontsi and Lindelani are joined by X in attempting to answer some "Soul-searching" questions asked by an investment adviser, Morgan Housel. This episode is inspired by the article I Have A Few Questions.
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Podcast: Gone Ramblin' (LS 25 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 1: Why Is That Giant Beaver Holding a Cookie?
Pub date: 2020-08-25
Notes from The Listener:
Good humoured chat show about the Oklahoma panhandle, a 3.6 million acre offshoot to the north west of the state of Oklahoma. Historically, it has been an anomaly, passed between states and occupiers as geopolitical shifts occurred. Even now, this vast area has a population of under 30,000 people and the main industry is agriculture, particularly ranching. The hosts of this show both grew up there and reserve the right to "lovingly poke fun" at this remote, sometimes isolated community
Hayden and Jonathon dive deep into Oklahoma Panhandle facts and ask a question that has plagued deep thinkers for generations: Why is that giant beaver holding a cookie? (Hint: It is a beaver, but that's not a cookie.)
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Podcast: Stories of the Ones that Got Away
Episode: 007: The Girl With No Name
Pub date: 2020-08-22
Notes from The Listener:
Interviews about life's turning points, encapsulated by encounters with "the ones that got away". The anonymous woman who speaks here moved to a new place for a career opportunity and met a man who quickly became a romantic partner. Since circumstances later parted them, she now reflects on what might have been if they had stayed together. The conversation surfaces repressed emotions and tackles serious topics, but there's a good humour to this whole show that prevents it becoming heavy listening
"If you really think you deserve better, you should set those boundaries."
** Notes and attribution:
The song mentioned towards the end is Dja Dja by Aya Nakamura |
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The whimsical music you hear throughout the episode is Sweet Tooth by Big Mean Sound Machine from the Free Music Archive (CC BY-NC-ND) **
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Podcast: Go For Broke (LS 49 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Fear of Investing in BlackPlanet
Pub date: 2020-10-22
Notes from The Listener:
Before there was MySpace or Facebook, there was BlackPlanet, an early social networking site aimed at Black users. As part of this excellent series investigating different facets of the Dot Com Bubble, the journalists here explore why this website – which quickly attracted a dedicated user base, especially among students at America's historically black colleges — failed to pique the interest of venture capitalists after the next big internet hit. This episode combines personal stories with the larger economic themes
Before MySpace and Facebook, there was BlackPlanet. BlackPlanet.com, a social media site targeted to Black users, was immediately popular when it launched in 1999. It allowed users to create their own personal web pages, set up dating profiles, and look for jobs. But venture capitalists and other investors largely overlooked BlackPlanet during the dot-com boom. Meanwhile, other companies like theGlobe.com saw investment money pour in and their valuation skyrocket in the public markets, despite having weak business models and a tricky road to profitability.
How did venture capitalists choose which dot-coms to invest in, and how did their blueprint for investment tip the scales to certain types of companies? And how did the rush to ride the dot-com bubble lead to the crash?
From Epic Magazine and the Vox Media Podcast Network. Hosted by Julia Furlan.
Special thanks to Aliya King, author of the article "The Black Internet Gold Rush That Wiped Away $75 Million in 18 Months." You can read the article here.
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Podcast: Radio Browser (LS 28 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Recommendation with Evangeline Garreau
Pub date: 2020-09-03
This week Uri Bram, Publisher of The Browser, chats with Evangeline Garreau, Writer of May I Recommend, about the art of recommendation and curation.
May I Recommend: Evangeline.website
Twitter: @egarreau
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Podcast: Search History (LS 28 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Have You Seen This Man?
Pub date: 2019-12-02
Notes from The Listener:
Series that explores the intersection of internet culture, education and the ways misinformation can spread. This episode is about an eighteenth century campaigner for the abolition of slavery and how a portrait alleged to depict him became the default image for illustrating stories about Black people from British history. Olaudah Equiano was enslaved as a child and taken to the Caribbean, where he managed to purchase his freedom as a young adult. Here, the host tells the story of how his image became ubiquitous as a symbol
Across the internet, one painting is being used as a catch-all portrait for many 18th century black figures who rose to prominence in Britain. So what's the story behind the portrait? And who is this man really?
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Podcast: What Does It Profit Podcast (LS 45 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Short-selling for the Common Good
Pub date: 2020-10-21
Notes from The Listener:
Interview with a high profile hedge fund manager who deploys short selling strategies both to make money and to participate in the demise of companies that she considers do not add to the net good of society. Those who have seen the 2018 Netflix documentary Dirty Money might be familiar with Fahmi Quadir — she's outspoken and optimistic, particularly about the idea that her profession can be a force for good rather than evil. Thought provoking on ideas of ethical capitalism and consumption
In this episode, we talk with Fahmi Quadir, known as the assassin of Wall Street to some, but a hero to us. Fahmi is one of the world's leading short-selling hedge fund managers who looks to use a short investing strategy to achieve alpha... and to focus the world on companies whose demise makes the world a better place. In our conversation, we hear about two of her iconic trades-- one in pharmaceuticals and one in fintech, but both capturing the attention of the industry and those who hold hope that Wall Street can be a force for good.
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Podcast: Shedunnit (LS 60 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: The Butler Did It
Pub date: 2020-10-28
Notes from The Listener:
Bonus pick: Ever wondered why "the butler did it" became such a cliché? Well, the new podcast episode from Listener editor Caroline Crampton looks at social history to explain why this became such a staple of murder mysteries. Listen to Shedunnit now at shedunnitshow.com or in your podcast app.
Snobbery and murder, all served up perfectly for you on a silver tray.
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NB: There are spoilers in this episode! Please check the list of books mentioned below and come back later if there are any titles there for which you don’t want to hear any major plot details. Consider yourself warned!
Books and sources: —The Circular Staircase by Mary Roberts Rineheart —The Door by Mary Roberts Rineheart —20 Rules for Writing Detective Stories by S.S. Van Dine —“The Adventure of the Musgrave Ritual” by Arthur Conan Doyle —“The Strange Case of Mr Challoner” by Herbert Jenkins —Something Fishy or The Butler Did It by P.G. Wodehouse —“Why do we think the butler did it?” by Nate Pederson in the Guardian —“Should we be concerned by the limitless popularity of period dramas?” by Caroline Crampton in the New Humanist —“Historians, Social Scientists, Servants, and Domestic Workers: Fifty Years of Research on Domestic and Care Work”, International Review of Social History, Volume 59, Issue 2, August 2014 , pp. 279-314 —Snobbery with Violence by Colin Watson —Death and the Dancing Footman by Ngaio Marsh —The Mysterious Affair At Styles by Agatha Christie —Whose Body? by Dorothy L. Sayers —Three Act Tragedy by Agatha Christie —Black Coffee by Agatha Christie —The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie —Why Shoot a Butler? by Georgette Heyer —Busman’s Honeymoon by Dorothy L. Sayers —A Murder is Announced by Agatha Christie
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Podcast: The Stuff Dreams Are Made Of (LS 45 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: The Hunt for the Riddle of Steel, and Also Some Burger King Glasses
Pub date: 2020-10-22
Notes from The Listener:
Extremely nerdy show about collecting film props. The hosts are both career Hollywood types: David Mandel was the showrunner of Veep and a writer on Seinfeld and Curb Your Enthusiasm, while Ryan Condal is working on the Game of Thrones prequel. Given that background, they are able to indulge their passion for this hobby to the full. This first conversation in the series is about the thrill of the chase: how the dedicated collector must essentially become a private investigator in order to track down the prize
Ryan and David take listeners on the hunt for a Conan sword and some missing STAR WARS art. They tell two wild stories from the collecting trenches, demonstrating how they’ll go to any length... or low... to find that next great piece for their collections—from a private eye’s office to the seedy underbelly of LinkedIn!
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Podcast: Radio Browser (LS 28 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: A closer look at Acceptance Parenting with Agnes Callard
Pub date: 2020-10-20
In this episode, Agnes Callard, an associate professor of philosophy at the University of Chicago joins our hosts Lindelani and Nontsi in an insightful discussion on Acceptance Parenting and how it either does or does not apply in their own lives. This episode was inspired by Agnes' recently Browser featured essay Acceptance Parenting
You can find Agnes here:
- Twitter: @AgnesCallard
- Book: http://is.gd/Ze88Za
- Column: http://is.gd/WHyOeh
- The University of Chicago: https://philosophy.uchicago.edu/faculty/a-callard
Mentioned in this episode: * The Road by Cormac McCarthy * Life, Death, and Meaning: Key Philosophical Readings on the Big Questions by David Benatar
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Podcast: Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg (LS 41 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: Learning and Goal-Setting with Michael Simmons
Pub date: 2020-10-14
Notes from The Listener:
Sponsored Content: Clearer Thinking is the brand-new podcast about ideas that truly matter. If you enjoy learning about powerful, practical concepts and frameworks, or wish you had more deep, intellectual conversations in your life, then this is the show for you!
How much time should we set aside for learning? What are the most effective ways of portraying and communicating ideas? Should we set long-term goals for ourselves, or allow our goals to emerge over time? What are the pros and cons of being a celebrity in a field (or in general)?
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Podcast: Stories After Dark (LS 35 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: The Manila Hostage Massacre (2010)
Pub date: 2020-04-16
Notes from The Listener:
Engrossing retelling of a hostage crisis that took place in the Rizal Park area of Manila in 2010. This is the place where presidential inaugurations are often held. As a result, it's a popular destination for visitors to the city. A former police captain hijacked a bus full of tourists from Hong Kong as a way of forcing the authorities to negotiate with him over what he claimed had been an unfair dismissal. Poor handling of the situation resulted in multiple deaths — there is some graphic language here
The Philippines' notoriously slow justice system caused a former police captain to hijack a bus full of Hong Kong tourists in Rizal Park, ending in the death of 9 people. • Listener discretion is advised due to the graphic nature of this story. • Episode photos: instagram.com/p/B_DJKqppvM6 / References: storiesafterdark.home.blog / Facebook page: facebook.com/storiesafterdarkph / Twitter: twitter.com/afterdarkph / For feedback or story suggestions: storiesafterdarkph@gmail.com • Special acknowledgments: (41:40) / Podcast trailer for The Asian Madness Podcast: (42:58)
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Podcast: Nature's Voice (LS 42 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: Puffarazzi 2019
Pub date: 2019-05-30
Notes from The Listener:
Delightful dissection of a multi-year public engagement and research project run by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds in the UK. The charity asked birdwatchers to take as many photographs as possible of puffins carrying fish in their beaks and send them so that seabird conservationists could analyse the birds' diet. The researchers interviewed here explain the process they used to identify the different fish in the pictures and how this information helps the conservation effort for this endangered species
Calling all Puffarazzi! Two years ago the RSPB’s Project Puffin put out a call for photographs of puffins with fish in their beaks. Hundreds were received and they tell a fascinating story about the lives of these iconic birds who are on the red list of conservation concern. On this episode of Nature’s Voice Jane Markham talks to Dr Ellie Owen about why she’s asking for more photos this year. And she meets Rob Hughes one of the volunteers who identified and counted all the fish in the images you sent.
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Podcast: Mark Kermode's Celluloid Jukebox (LS 39 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Closing Credit Music
Pub date: 2017-12-27
Notes from The Listener:
Series from 2017 exploring the relationship between pop music and movies. This episode is about film credits and the music that has been chosen down the years to play while the text scrolls up the screen and people start shuffling out of the cinema. It's hosted by film critic Mark Kermode with lots of music clips played in between his commentary. Among the many bits of trivia that Kermode resurfaces here is the fact that Doris Day declined to be featured on the soundtrack to Heathers because the film contained profanity
Film critic Mark Kermode hosts another highly personal, eclectic tour of his own Celluloid Jukebox - exploring the strange and fascinating relationship between pop music and the movies over the last sixty-plus years. In the final episode of the series, Mark explores closing credit music. Plus tracks heard in Quadrophenia, Diner and Moonlight.
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Podcast: Driving the Green Book (LS 54 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Victor and Alma
Pub date: 2020-09-22
Notes from The Listener:
Documentary series about the Green Book, an annual motoring guide published in America between 1936 to 1966 as an aid to Black travellers navigating segregation and racial discrimination on the road in the era of the Jim Crow laws. As well as general safety advice, the volumes included the details of hotels, restaurants and gas stations that were willing to serve Black motorists. This episode is about Victor and Alma Green, the creators of the book, and sees the hosts visit the project's archive in Harlem, New York
Alma and Victor Hugo Green created The Negro Motorist Green Book to reduce the frustrations of African Americans traveling by car around the country. We visit the Schomburg Center in Harlem, New York to see the Green Book archive for ourselves and learn about the creators’ aspirations for the guide and their hope that one day they would no longer need to publish it.
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Find recommended reading in Apple Books at https://apple.co/alvinhallcollection.
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Podcast: Talk Ain't Cheap (LS 45 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 3: "Flava Flav, Spencer Pratt & Debbie Gibson"
Pub date: 2020-07-16
Notes from The Listener:
Conversational podcast analysing the content offered on the Cameo app, a platform on which fans can pay celebrities to make short personalised videos. It surged in popularity after Covid-19 shut down live sports, live music and film and TV production, with personalities seeking to replace their income or donate to charity while observing quarantine rules. The hosts here focus on who is offering good value for money in this new marketplace and which personalities are overpriced. An insight into a strange new world
This week, Jensen and Danielle continue their deep dive into Cameo accounts with rap legend Flava Flav, reality TV star / crystal enthusiast Spencer Pratt and '80s pop icon Debbie Gibson. It's time to find out who is overpriced and who is a bargain.
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Podcast: Aspen Ideas to Go (LS 46 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: A Conversation with Ruth Bader Ginsburg (Rebroadcast)
Pub date: 2020-09-22
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Rebroadcast of a conversation from 2017 with the late US Supreme Court judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg. It covers her career prior to coming to prominence as the second woman ever to be appointed to the Court, but the really arresting portions of this recording deal with her relationships with her fellow judges. In particular, her views on sharing the bench with conservative colleagues Antonin Scalia and Neil Gorsuch are fascinating — despite their divergent ideologies, she was close personal friends with the former
The late Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the second female justice confirmed to the US Supreme Court, told an Aspen Institute crowd in 2017 that her experiences as a woman gave her a unique perspective on the Court. She talked about her relationships with Justices Sandra Day O’Connor and the late Antonin Scalia. She also explained what it was like to work with newly-elected Justice Neil Gorsuch. Her discussion with Elliot Gerson, an executive vice president at the Aspen Institute, also touched on her book My Own Words. This podcast originally dropped in June of 2017.
As a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, the Aspen Institute is nonpartisan and does not endorse, support, or oppose political candidates or parties. Further, the views and opinions of our guests and speakers do not necessarily reflect those of the Aspen Institute.
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Podcast: Sup Doc: A Documentary Podcast (LS 37 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: 152 - CIRCUS OF BOOKS director Rachel Mason
Pub date: 2020-08-03
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Interview with the director of a documentary about a historic Los Angeles shop that sold books and adult videos for the gay community from the 1960s onwards. The proprietors were the guest's parents; she grew up alongside the business and its clientele. The shop's story touches on key themes from LGBT history, from religious intolerance to the AIDS crisis. This podcast as a whole is an excellent way of discovering new non-fiction films to watch — each episode features a different documentary that is available to stream
Paco and George are excited to have Rachel Mason, the director of Circus of Books, as their guest on the podcast.
Rachel’s parents, Barry and Karen, ran a gay bookstore and porn distribution company out of Los Angeles for over three decades, all while maintaining their tight-knit family, battling the FBI, and living through the AIDS crisis.
Her film is surprising, funny, and heartfelt. It also has a 98% rating on Rotten Tomatoes and is streaming on Netflix.
Rachel Mason is an artist, songwriter, and filmmaker based in Los Angeles. Her debut documentary, Circus Of Books was just nominated for an Outstanding Non Fiction Writing Emmy.
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Podcast: Shedunnit (LS 60 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: The Telephone Call
Pub date: 2020-09-30
Notes from The Listener:
Bonus pick: there's a new episode of Shedunnit, the podcast by Listener editor Caroline Crampton, out today. It's all about why a murder that took place in Liverpool on the night of 20 January 1931 has haunted detective novelists for decades. Listen now.
Why has the murder of Julia Wallace on the night of 20 January 1931 haunted detective novelists for decades? Well, it all comes back to the telephone call.
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Books and sources: —The Nurse Daniels episode of this podcast —The Documents in the Case by Dorothy L. Sayers and Robert Eustace —*The Edith Thompson episode of this podcast —The Scoop by Members of the Detection Club —The Anatomy of Murder by Members of the Detection Club —“The Compassionate Machine” by Margery Allingham, collected in Truly Criminal: A Crime Writers’ Association Anthology of True Crime edited by Martin Edwards —Busman’s Honeymoon by Dorothy L. Sayers —Skin for Skin by Winnifred Duke —Vegetable Duck by John Rhode —The Telephone Call by John Rhode —“Absolutely Elsewhere” by Dorothy L. Sayers, collected in In the Teeth of the Evidence —Personal Call by Agatha Christie —P.D. James on the Wallace case in 2013 —The Skull Beneath The Skin by P.D. James —The Murder Room by P.D. James —The Trial of William Herbert Wallace by W.F. Wyndham Brown —Wallace: The Final Verdict by Roger Wilkes —The Killing of Julia Wallace by Jonathan Goodman*
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Podcast: Watling Street (LS 35 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: Episode Three: In Search of the Omphalus
Pub date: 2017-09-06
Notes from The Listener:
Third instalment of a four part journey along Watling Street, a Celtic and Roman thoroughfare across Britain that ran from Dover in south east to Wroxeter in the north west. The whole series is well worth the time, but this episode is especially notable for its exploration of how this ancient road influenced twentieth century urban planning. The whole "newtown" of Milton Keynes is orientated to account for the historic practice of solstice sun worship, for instance. Listen out for the cameo by famed comics writer Alan Moore
David and John travel to Northampton to meet author Alan Moore and are surprised to discover his role in the building of Milton Keynes. David is even more surprised to discover the newtown was built as a sun temple and watches the midsummer sunrise there with John before Watling Street’s author takes him on a fascinating trip round Bletchley Park.
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Podcast: Solvable (LS 56 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Cancel Culture is Solvable
Pub date: 2020-09-09
Notes from The Listener:
Interview with a linguistics professor about how a deeper understanding of language use can inform the debate about free speech in the time of cancel culture. The minority of "wokesters" who want to shut down reasonable debate should be treated as sharks, he argues, and metaphorically "bopped on the nose" by those of opposing or challenging views. In this scenario, politely standing up to a call out when a difference of opinion is declared problematic is presented as the way to normalise dissent
John McWhorter is a linguistics professor at Columbia University, contributing writer at The Atlantic and hosts the podcast Lexicon Valley. He believes that “cancel culture” is solvable.
Here are a few of the resources related to this episode:
After Ann Coulter Backs Out Of Visit, UC Berkeley Braces For Free Speech Rallies
The Fine Line Between A Bad Date And Sexual Assault: 2 Views On Aziz Ansari
A Letter on Justice and Open Debate
Academics Are Really, Really Worried About Their Freedom
Critical Race Theory
Solvable is produced by Camille Baptista, Jocelyn Frank, Catherine Girardeau and Mia Lobel.
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Podcast: VINTAGE BOOKS (LS 41 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: The WW2 masterpiece you need to read ᛫ Robert Chandler
Pub date: 2020-08-09
Notes from The Listener:
Translator of Vasily Grossman's 1952 novel Stalingrad explains the process of excavating a "definitive" text from multiple drafts and censored versions. Originally published as For A Just Cause, this Russian epic is the first of two stories Grossman wrote about Soviet society in World War Two. The second, Life and Fate, has been widely hailed as a masterpiece, but its prequel did not appear in English until this 2019 translation. Questions of authorial authority and a translator's remit abound here, as well as notes on the craft
We talk to the translator of Stalingrad, the Russian Classic that is Vasily Grossman's prequel to Life and Fate ᛫ Follow us on twitter: twitter.com/vintagebooks ᛫ Sign up to our bookish newsletter to hear all about our new releases, see exclusive extracts and win prizes: po.st/vintagenewsletter ᛫ Music is Orbiting A Distant Planet by Quantum Jazz http://po.st/OrbitingADistant ᛫
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Podcast: Longform (LS 65 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 410: Jiayang Fan
Pub date: 2020-09-16
Notes from The Listener:
Writer Jiayang Fan describes what it is like to become the focus of anti-American nationalist sentiment in China. She and her mother settled in the US when she was seven; Fan is now a well known reporter on Chinese culture and politics. Her mother was diagnosed with ALS in 2011 and is now completely paralysed apart from her eyes, so Fan pays for round the clock nursing care. This was disrupted by the pandemic and her public pleas for help went viral to an extremely unpleasant degree in both the US and China
Jiayang Fan is a staff writer for The New Yorker. Her latest article is a "How My Mother and I Became Chinese Propaganda.""I think considering the unusual shape of our lives—the lives of my mother and I—from bare subsistence to one of the richest enclaves in America … it made me think about what the value of existence is. ... It made me wonder, What should a person be? And how should a person be? And being a writer has been a lifelong quest to answer those questions."
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Show notes
@JiayangFan Fan on Longform Fan at The New Yorker 02:00 "How My Mother and I Became Chinese Propaganda" (New Yorker • Sept 2020) 09:00 "Hong Kong's Protest Movement and the Fight for the City's Soul" (New Yorker • Dec 2019) 40:00 "China's Selfie Obsession" (New Yorker • Dec 2017) 41:00 "China's Mistress-Dispellers" (New Yorker • June 2017) 43:00 "How E-Commerce is Transforming Rural China" (New Yorker • July 2018)
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Podcast: Radio Browser (LS 28 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Surveillance vs Privacy
Pub date: 2020-09-22
Inspired by Adrian Hon’s “Digital Sight Management, and the Mystery of the Missing Amazon Receipts”, Nontsi and Lindelani are joined by X to discuss the surveillance that our devices invite vs our privacy. They discuss private sexual expression in the presence of their computers and furthermore if digital surveillance is welcome or can work together with documenting and assisting in cultural rituals given the present constraints presented by the lockdown restrictions.
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Podcast: The Allusionist (LS 70 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: 121. No Title
Pub date: 2020-09-14
Notes from The Listener:
Live performance of a podcast episode about how deeply embedded notions of gender are in the English language. It ranges widely through the past in an attempt to explain the fundamental inequalities of how we address each other: why is it that a woman's title must reflect her marital status, and why does an honorific need to signify a gender anyway? There are compromises that we try instead — "Ms" and the use of "they" as a singular pronoun, notably — and although imperfect they have a surprisingly long history
In 2014, a seemingly trivial and boring incident at the bank propelled me down a linguistic road via medieval werewolves, Ms Marvel and confusingly inscribed gravestones, to find out why the English language is riddled with all this gender. What’s it FOR? How did it GET there? Will it go AWAY now please? It is, at the very least, taking up brainspace and not paying any rent.
This is a recording of a live performance at the Blueberry Hill Duck Room in St Louis, Missouri on 23 November 2019, and there were visuals happening, so I’ll drop in sometimes to explain them, and I’ve also put a transcript and pictures at theallusionist.org/notitle.
There are swears in this. There are also arguments that will be very useful to you if you ever come up against a denier of singular they. You will definitely win.
The show features Martin Austwick and Richard Zaltzman. The original music is by Martin Austwick. Hear Martin’s songs at palebirdmusic.com or on Spotify, and he’s @martinaustwick on Twitter and Instagram. He also composed the music for the new kids’ science podcast Maddie’s Sound Explorers.
I make two other podcasts, Veronica Mars Investigations and Answer Me This.
The Allusionist's online home is theallusionist.org. Stay in touch at twitter.com/allusionistshow, facebook.com/allusionistshow and instagram.com/allusionistshow.
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Podcast: Slow Radio (LS 51 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: The Flying Scotsman
Pub date: 2020-05-31
Notes from The Listener:
Recording of a journey from Manchester to Carlisle on the footplate Britain's "favourite locomotive", the Flying Scotsman. Apart from a short introduction, there is no narration included, meaning that the listener is immersed completely in the ambient sounds of passengers boarding and coal being shovelled. Once the train is underway, the rhythmic puffing of the engine's pistons is hypnotic and even meditative. An excellent way of escaping the present just by putting on headphones and closing your eyes
A journey on the Flying Scotsman with privileged access to the driver on the footplate.
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Podcast: Another Day Above Ground (LS 28 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: R. U. OK Boomer?
Pub date: 2020-03-21
Notes from The Listener:
There is no better summary of this podcast's subject or style than its own tagline: "A show for, by and about Baby Boomers — it's the podcast for people who have no idea about how to download a podcast." The humorous, humble take of these hosts on later life makes a pleasant contrast to the confrontational way generational differences are usually addressed in the media. This episode is about how identities emerge for particular age cohorts and why millennials and boomers struggle to get along
Hayden Shaw, an expert in examining generational differences joins the three boomers to further explore the chasm between us and Millennials.
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Podcast: Shedunnit (LS 60 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Locked Room
Pub date: 2020-09-16
Notes from The Listener:
Bonus pick: There's a new episode of my own podcast about murder mysteries, Shedunnit, out now. This one is all about "impossible crime" stories and the work of writers like John Dickson Carr, Christianna Brand and Agatha Christie.
A body is found in a sealed chamber, definitely murdered, but there is no way the culprit can have got in or out. How was it done?
Special thanks to my guest Jim Noy. He writes about detective fiction at theinvisibleevent.com, makes a podcast called In GAD We Trust, and once compiled a useful list of his 15 favourite impossible crime novels.
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Books and sources: —The Murders in the Rue Morgue by Edgar Allen Poe (actually published in 1841, not 1843 as I wrongly say in the episode) —A Master of Mysteries by L.T. Meade and Robert Eustace —The Documents in the Case by Dorothy L. Sayers and Robert Eustace —“The Adventure of the Speckled Band” in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle —The Big Bow Mystery by Israel Zangwill —The Great Thinking Machine: “The Problem of Cell 13” and Other Stories by Jacques Futrelle —The Four Just Men by Edgar Wallace —“The Invisible Man” by G.K. Chesterton —“The Round Room Horror” by A. Demain Grange, available in Ye Olde Book of Locked Room Conundrums edited by Jim Noy —Hag’s Nook by John Dickson Carr —The Plague Court Murders by Carter Dickson —The Problem of the Green Capsule by John Dickson Carr —The Problem of the Wire Cage by John Dickson Carr —Green for Danger by Christianna Brand —Tour de Force by Christianna Brand —Death of Jezebel by Christianna Brand —The French Powder Mystery by Ellery Queen —The Crooked Wreath / Suddenly at His Residence by Christianna Brand —Murder in Mesopotamia by Agatha Christie —Hercule Poirot’s Christmas by Agatha Christie —The House That Kills by Noel Vindry —La Treizieme balle by Marcel Lanteaume —Six crimes sans assassin by Pierre Boileau —The Mystery of the Yellow Room by Gaston Leroux —The Honjin Murders by Seishi Yokomizo —Invisible Green by John Sladek —Black Aura by John Sladek —The Case of the Little Green Men by Mack Reynolds —Puzzles Of The Black Widowers by Isaac Asimov —Asimov’s Mysteries by Isaac Asimov —The Real Town Murders by Adam Roberts —Goodnight Irene by James Scott Byrnside —The Opening Night Murders by James Scott Byrnside
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Podcast: Radio Browser (LS 28 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: To have children or not
Pub date: 2020-09-08
In this episode, Nontsi and Lindelani are joined by X Njokweni in discussing the societal, cultural and spiritual obligations of having children in the African context. This conversation was inspired by Rob Delaney’s article “The pain and pleasure of vasectomy"
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Podcast: Zero Hours (LS 54 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: The Sky Is Falling
Pub date: 2019-10-20
Notes from The Listener:
Anthology fiction show with an eschatological flavour. It begins with an episode set in 1722, then each instalment jumps forward 99 years to tell the story of a possible apocalypse in a different century. One for Black Mirror fans. This episode is about a scientist living in a floating city in the year 2217 who is trying to convince a mysterious "agent of the hegemony" that he should be allowed to terminate his research for ethical reasons. The smart concept of this series is backed up by textured sound design and impressive acting
Episode 6: 2217. In a floating city above the clouds, a young researcher must convince a figure of authority to end his current research project, even though it may hold the solution to an imminent crisis.
Written by Zach Valenti and Gabriel Urbina. Story by Zach Valenti. Directed by Sarah Shachat.
Be advised: this episode contains mentions of body horror and human experimentation.
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Podcast: Daily Comedy News Podcast: a podcast about comedians (LS 40 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: The AV Club's list of Obscure Simpson's Characters
Pub date: 2020-03-29
Notes from The Listener:
Daily commentary podcast about comedy hosted by an aficionado of the genre. In this episode, he reads an article listing obscure characters from The Simpsons and provides his own thoughts on the choices. Entries of note include the bio for the "Inanimate Carbon Rod" who beats Homer to the coveted “Worker Of The Week” award and the Rich Texan, who is always on hand to wear a stetson and cheer on capitalism. Listening to this show is like tuning into a talk radio show with a highly specific niche
The AV Club has a list of Obscure Simpsons Characters...Lemonade? Pleeeeze.
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Podcast: Unstructured (LS 43 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: Real DEA Narcos - Javier Peña
Pub date: 2020-04-19
Notes from The Listener:
Interview with Javier Peña, a special agent in the US Drug Enforcement Administration who was part of the manhunt for Medellín Cartel leader Pablo Escobar. He talks through his early law enforcement career as a deputy sheriff in Texas and how the boom in international cocaine smuggling in the late 1980s changed his working life utterly. He volunteered for a DEA post in Bogota, Colombia and lived a hair raisingly risky life investigating Escobar. His story is now the basis of the Netflix series Narcos
This episode is also a video interview at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xb35MYdiVHM
Javier Peña grew up in Kingsville Texas and he first went to Texas A & I University (now Texas A&M University-Kingsville). Where he studied Sociology and Psychology and he later graduated with a Bachelor of Arts. He then began his career in law enforcement in 1977. When he was hired as a Deputy Sheriff by the Webb County Sheriff’s office in Laredo. Javier would dedicate seven years of his life there. Peña began working for the DEA in 1984 where he was assigned as a special agent for the Austin, Texas office, where he worked until 1988.
By 1988, the international cocaine trade had begun to explode, and Peña then volunteered for a new post in Bogota, Colombia. He was sent there along with agent Stephen Murphy. It was there that he participated in the successful manhunt for narcotics kingpin Pablo Escobar. The infamous DEA duo then began unearthing many secrets about how Pablo and the Medellin Cartel really operated. Pena, Murphy, and the Colombian National Police (CNP) then later teamed up to put an end to Escobar’s illegal activities.
Javier Pena is now re-living his story through Netflix and Narcos. Two series of the Narcos series chronicle the extraordinary rise as well as the ignominious death of the world's most notorious narcoterrorist.
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Podcast: Words Lightly Spoken
Episode: WLS 64 Michael Longley reads A Sonnet for Michael Viney (repeat)
Pub date: 2020-03-20
Notes from The Listener:
Podcast of poetry from Ireland, read by poets. This episode features Michael Longley, who is originally from Northern Ireland has spent decades writing about County Mayo in the Republic. The sonnet he reads here is about his neighbour, the naturalist Michael Viney, and all that Longley has learned to see in the world as a result of their friendship. The short introductions that each poet gives to their work in this series are often the best part — there's no substitute for hearing a writer explain how and why something was written
This week in Words Lightly Spoken, a podcast of poetry from Ireland, a chance again to hear the very first episode from January 2019.
In the first episode, Michael Longley, one of Ireland’s greatest poets, read his poem ‘A Sonnet for Michael Viney’. Michael Longley’s work is published by Cape Poetry.
This episode of Words Lightly Spoken was funded by the Arts Council of Ireland.
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Podcast: Intercepted (LS 71 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: Escape From the Nuclear Family: Covid-19 Should Provoke a Re-Think of How We Live
Pub date: 2020-08-05
Notes from The Listener:
Activist and author Naomi Klein guest hosts this political podcast to investigate the likely impact of Covid-19 pandemic on American ideas of the family. The idea is examined here at length from lots of different angles, but it all comes down to this: how will future requirements to isolate change the concept of a "household"? The most engaging section of this episode involves Klein going to visit a long term multi-family compound in Oakland, California, where the inhabitants have already reimagined what it means to live together
As Washington cuts off desperately needed aid to the unemployed, millions of families face the reality that many K-12 schools likely aren’t reopening, and young adults look ahead to a bleak future, reality is setting in that the Covid 19 crisis was not a blip. This week on Intercepted: guest host Naomi Klein argues that it’s time for some big bold thinking about how we can safely live, work, and learn with the virus — and maybe even enjoy ourselves. She takes us to visit friends in Oakland, California who have been living in a multi-family housing compound for years. Longtime environmental justice organizer and co-founder of Movement Generation Gopal Dayeneni explains that living in a democratic community with friends, rather than a single-family home, has meant far more capacity to deal with the labor of lockdown, and far less isolation for everyone. Klein is also joined by Rutgers University- Newark historian Neil Maher to discuss how a reboot of the New Deal-era Civilian Conservation Corps could provide opportunities for young adults to find work, battle climate disruption, and live in their own communities of peers.
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Podcast: My Amazing Body (LS 49 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: The Thyroid
Pub date: 2019-09-04
Notes from The Listener:
Heath series from the government of the state of Queensland in Australia. Each episode takes a different aspect of how we think about bodies — there are instalments about gender, pain, ears, veins — and breaks down the scientific background. Here, the area under the microscope is the thyroid gland. The show fits a lot of information into a short package, interviewing experts and patients with thyroid disorders as well as providing a primer on conditions like Hashimoto's disease and Graves. Informative without being alarmist
Don't know what your thyroid gland does or why it's so important to your health? What are diseases like Hashimoto's and Graves' and how do they affect your thyroid? Is your lethargy or weight gain linked to a thyroid problem? In this episode of My Amazing Body, we explore everything you need to know about the thyroid gland, with interviews featuring endocrinologist Dr Harish Venugopal and Queensland woman Leanne, who shares her story of living with Hashimoto's disease.
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Podcast: The Last Archive (LS 61 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: The Clue of the Blue Bottle
Pub date: 2020-05-14
Notes from The Listener:
Polished, constantly intriguing series about the nature of truth and evidence. It's hosted by the historian and writer Jill Lepore, who chooses different cases from history — of murder, of racial injustice, of public health success — in order to investigate knowledge itself. It's an unlikely blend of academic discourse with popular storytelling, made all the more unusual by the fact that it's mostly presented in the style of a 1930s radio drama. Suitably, this first episode is an early 20th century murder mystery. Somehow, it's all riveting
On a spring day in 1919, a woman’s body was found bound, gagged, and strangled in a garden in Barre, Vermont. Who was she? Who killed her? In this episode, we try to solve a cold case - reopening a century-old murder investigation - as a way to uncover the history of evidence itself. What is a clue? What is a fact? What is a mystery? We put the pieces of the puzzle together: photographs, newspaper articles, a private eye’s notebook, the trial record and, last but not least, a trip to the scene of the crime.
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Podcast: Why Do You Know That? (LS 31 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: 1990's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles with Carlos Santos
Pub date: 2020-04-29
Notes from The Listener:
High energy conversational podcast that invites guests to explain why they know so much about a single topic. Here, the comedian Carlos Santos goes deep on the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles — the four humanoid turtle superheroes named after Italian Renaissance artists who live in the New York City sewers — and specifically the 1990s films about these 1980s comic book characters. There's some strong language as he explains how this unlikely bildungsroman influenced his own formative years. Some strong language
This week, Nadia and Steve talk to actor and podcast host Carlos Santos (@ofcourseitscarlos) about the specific topic of the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie from 1990. Why didn't anyone in Hollywood dare to print the free money this film would've given them? Why were there Pizza Hut ads, but they ate Domino's? Carrie Bradshaw voiceover And I couldn't help but wonder, weren't we all a little Donatello, Rafael, Michelangelo, and Leonardo? Let's do this again some time!
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Podcast: The Hard Problem by Jesse Winters
Episode: The Puzzle of Consciousness
Pub date: 2020-03-26
Notes from The Listener:
Elegant survey of the history of consciousness. The host has pitched this well — it's informative but not so advanced that those who haven't studied philosophy to a high level can't follow. He draws on everyone from Descartes to Dawkins to pull together this overall picture of developing human ideas about why our awareness is as it is. As he says at the outset, it helps in understanding this speculative field to begin from a place of relative certainty: "There's no maybe in consciousness. I definitely am. I definitely exist"
Key References:
Neil Degrasse Tyson 'Astrophysics for People in a Hurry' 2017
John Searle 'The Mystery of Consciousness' 1997
Richard Dawkins 'The Greatest Show on Earth' 2009
David Chalmers 'The Conscious Mind' 1996
Francois Jacob 'The Statue Within' 1995
Rene Descartes 'A Discourse on Method' 1637
Gilbert Ryle 'The Concept of Mind' 1949
Patricia Churchland 'Neurophilosophy' 1986
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Podcast: Radio Browser (LS 28 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: African Intelligence
Pub date: 2020-08-25
In this episode, Nontsi and Lindelani discuss intelligence in the African context. This conversation was inspired by the article titled “Are Humans Intelligent?” by Arram Sabeti.
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Podcast: The Nocturnists (LS 53 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Black Voices in Healthcare - Ep.8: Touch
Pub date: 2020-08-18
Notes from The Listener:
Healthcare podcast explores what is lost in the medical sphere now that physical contact must be minimised to lower virus transmission. "Our hands are the tools that we use to understand what's going on," the host says. There are stories here about hands as diagnostic instruments as well as about how practitioners are finding new ways to form connections with patients without handshakes. This episode is part of a mini series within the show looking specifically at black experiences; the first story here is especially moving
From the physical exams we conduct to diagnose disease to the reassuring handshakes before a surgical procedure, human touch is fundamental to the work we do in healthcare.
Host: Ashley McMullen, MD
Executive Producer: Kimberly Manning, MD
Consulting Producer: Emily Silverman, MD
Podcast Producer: Adelaide Papazoglou
Illustrations by Ashley Floréal
Original music by Janaé E.
Black Voices in Healthcare series sponsors: California Health Care Foundation and The California Wellness Foundation.
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Podcast: Special Collections (LS 25 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Abandoned Cities
Pub date: 2019-01-26
Notes from The Listener:
Trivia and debate about the world's abandoned places, from a podcast that usually focuses on audio tours of museums and galleries. This episode is a break in format for this show — which is first broadcast on a radio station run by Brigham Young University in Utah — and sees producers bring their favourite stories of abandoned, desolate or anomalous places in to the studio to share with the host. Pompeii and Chernobyl feature, but so do some unusual legal loopholes about national parks. Varied and rich in surprising detail
Special Collections usually focuses on museums and place full of stuff, but today we'd like to prove that a lack of stuff can be just as interesting. That's right, we're talking about ghost towns. Is a place abandoned because of its remote location, because of a natural disaster, or maybe even a man-made one? Host Jeff Simpson sits down with our producers--Cole Wissinger, Sage Smiley, and Gracia Lee--to explore these unique and empty places. We explore a fascinating corner of Yellowstone National Park, Kolmanskop, Barrow AK, Centralia PA, Pompeii, Shi Cheng, Chernobyl, Pripyat and so much more. Welcome to our first episode of Special Desolations.
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Podcast: Wild Wild Tech (LS 48 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: 24 to Knives Out - Do Apple iPhones Spoil TV and Movies?
Pub date: 2020-08-07
Notes from The Listener:
Tech podcast delves into how Apple has been intervening in pop culture morality. Director Rian Johnson revealed the truth of this during the press tour for his recent murder mystery film Knives Out: the tech giant will not allow one of their devices to appear in the hands of a fictional villain, meaning that you should always be able to work out if someone is the bad guy in a film just by looking at their phone. It results in strange anomalies: as one guest points out here, movie terrorists always seem to use Dell computers
You can't own an iPhone and be a bad person, at least according to Apple. Director of "Knives Out" and "Star Wars: The Last Jedi" Rian Johnson exposed Apple's strange product placement policy in a video online for Vanity Fair. But hosts Jordan Erica Webber and Joshua Rivera discover that this has been going on longer than most of us would expect. First we hear from Dean Browell, the creator of the The Macintosh Theory, who first noticed these spoilers in commercials and Fox's hit "24." Then Joshua Peterson, a production designer who has seen Apple rules firsthand, and throws a wrench into the spoiler theory. Is Apple's influence on story just aggressive marketing or will it actually ruin creativity in filmmaking?
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Podcast: Radio Browser (LS 28 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Thrifting Tales
Pub date: 2020-08-18
Inspired by Zachary Crockett’s “Meet the company that sells your lost airplane luggage”, Nontsi and Lindelani discuss the trend of thrifting in South Africa, the relationship South African’s have with clothing and some old superstitions around clothing.
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Podcast: Radio Browser (LS 28 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Art Matters
Pub date: 2020-08-11
In this episode, Nontsi and Lindelani discuss how each of them perceive art and the different ways in which it plays a role in their lives.This conversation was inspired by the interview titled “Posthuman Art” by Sam Barker et al.
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Podcast: Richard's Famous Food Podcast (LS 46 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: #6: Natural Wineberg
Pub date: 2019-01-30
Notes from The Listener:
Not easily described. This podcast is a cross between a conventional food documentary — this episode is about the recent surge in popularity of "natural wine" — and a surreal animated series like Adventure Time or Rick and Morty. It's hosted by a pickle with a moustache (the Richard of the title) and his nephew. Naturally, they are on a quest to make a podcast without enraging the "Pod God" or the "Podcast Police". It's a zany concept that works because of the impeccable sound design and the atmosphere it creates
Richard receives an assignment to cover a natural wine fair & enlists the help of his friend, famed radio producer David Weinberg.
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Podcast: Zip Code Economies (LS 41 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: 9: An Economy Like Water
Pub date: 2019-08-20
Notes from The Listener:
Reflective show about microeconomics made by the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco. This episode comes towards the end of the series and is focused on San Diego. It's a place, the host argues, where the local economy created the community, not the other way around. But there are people living in the region who are determined to mould the disparate groups drawn there for work into a cohesive society and solve issues of inequality in housing and access along the way. Hopeful and somewhat inspiring
On our last stop this season, we land in San Diego facing a chicken or egg dilemma: Do communities create economies? Or is it the other way around? To help us solve that puzzle, we talk to the manager of a nonprofit, a hotel CEO, a Colonel in the Marines, and a Spanish teacher—people who might not seem to have much in common, but who have found a shared home in this fluid, ever-changing part of Southern California.
Interviewees:
- Kristen Walker
- Colonel Jason Woodworth
- Robert Gleason
- Dan Watman
Organizations:
- San Diego Workforce Partnership
- Marine Corps Air Station Miramar
- Evans Hotels
- Friends of Friendship Park
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Podcast: Radio Browser (LS 28 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: The Good and Bad of Whatsapp
Pub date: 2020-07-28
In this episode, Nontsi and Lindelani discuss the different ways in which WhatsApp is both good and bad. This conversation was inspired by the article “What’s wrong with WhatsApp” by William Davies.
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Podcast: UnFictional (LS 57 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: The Rowing Man
Pub date: 2020-04-23
Notes from The Listener:
Moving story about failure and finding friends. In 1984, Ove Joensen set out to row from his birthplace, the Faroe Islands, to Copenhagen in Denmark. It's a journey of 1,700 km across the North Atlantic Ocean, which he planned to do completely alone (or rather, with only the company of his black and white cat, Jessica). When bad weather forced him to abandon this first attempt near the Shetland Islands, he was adopted by a remote village. There is wonderful sound design in this piece – listen out for the accents especially
Ove the rowing man. A stranger who came by way of the ocean, and was soon no longer a stranger.
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Podcast: A Funny Feeling (LS 59 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Italian Angel - Listener Stories
Pub date: 2020-07-14
Notes from The Listener:
Paranormal podcast that has adapted to the pandemic by shifting from celebrity interviews to listener submitted stories. It's a change for the better, because the show now reflects the full gamut of unbelievable weirdness experienced by its audience rather than relying on comedians with stories punched up for broadcast. The hosts of this show will either completely charm you or completely irritate you, but if it's the former then this episode about spooky teenage seances and shadow people is an excellent place to start
We're in for some more fun with listener stories! We have a Bloody Mary camp tale from Lauren. Mitchell had a demon infested house. Zovi has a mother-in-law with an Angel on her back. Tonya had a seance and heard some disembodied voices. Peter had an issue with disappearing object, night terrors, and a shadow person. Britta moved into a scary ass house in the Outback.
Please send us your own true paranormal experiences in either a voice memo or e-mail to funnyfeelingpod@gmail.com.
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Podcast: The Rune Cast (LS 33 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 1: Basics of runology and the origins of runic writing
Pub date: 2018-09-25
Notes from The Listener:
Opening episode of a Swedish academic podcast about runology. This beginning provides an excellent primer for this small (and somewhat disputed) field of study. The host explains what runes are, when they were used, and by whom. The guest brings a personal favourite runic inscription to discuss — the Krogsta stone, which dates from the sixth century and is famous for its indecipherable inscription. Ideal show for anyone who has ever wondered what the difference between transliteration and transcription is
The basics of runology. Guest: Henrik Williams.
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Podcast: Working People (LS 44 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: Lucy Lloyd
Pub date: 2019-04-06
Notes from The Listener:
Self taught repair technician makes the case for fixing broken Apple devices. She explains the campaign for a codified "right to repair", which would prevent tech companies building in redundancy and give consumers the right to get devices fixed by independent craftspeople. This interview is part of a long running series that seeks to profile America's working class in the 21st century. The host tends to ramble on this theme for a while at the start of episodes, but it's still worth pushing through to the actual conversations
We talk with Lucy Lloyd, a self-taught Apple product repair and support technician living in Sedan, Minnesota, a town with a population of less than fifty people. We talk about everything from growing up in a small town to setting up her independent repair business in the corner of her mom’s flower shop. We also talk a lot about the right to repair, a really important political issue that directly impacts repair workers like Lucy and all of us who use, consume, and depend on technologies from cars to smart phones.
Additional links/info below...
- U.S. PIRG - Right to Repair
- Repair.org
- iFixit
- Emily Matchar, Smithsonian Magazine, "The Fight for the 'Right to Repair'"
- Nathan Proctor, WIRED, "Corporations are Co-Opting Right-to-Repair"
- Nathan Proctor, WIRED, "Right to Repair Is Now a National Issue"
- Maximillian Alvarez, The Baffler, "The Death of Media"
- Rosie Spinks, The Guardian, "We're All Losers to a Gadget Industry Built on Planned Obsolescence"
- Jason Koebler, Motherboard, "Tractor-Hacking Farmers Are Leading a Revolt Against Big Tech's Repair Monopolies"
- Matthew Gault, Motherboard, "The World Economic Forum Tells Davos: Electronics are 'the Fastest-Growing Waste Stream in the World'"
Featured Music (all songs sourced from the Free Music Archive: freemusicarchive.org)
- Lobo Loco, "Malte Junior - Hall"
- Creo, "Place on Fire"
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Podcast: On A Dark, Cold Night (LS 49 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 94: The Wyrm
Pub date: 2020-02-16
Notes from The Listener:
Brilliant twist on the bedtime story subgenre. This is a podcast for horror-lovers with insomnia, in which a creepily soft voiced narrator tells you slow, spooky stories drawn from mythology and folk tales. This one is about a kingdom plagued by a horrible creature living in a cave. "The most terrible thing about these nightmares was that the creature was real," we are told. Everything about the production of this show enhances its sinister atmosphere, from the host's chilling tones to the whistled theme song
Your Narrator has a story for you about a sleepless warrior and a clever beast.
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Podcast: Boys' Bible Study (LS 37 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: The Penny (2010)
Pub date: 2020-03-01
Notes from The Listener:
Trio of friends watch and analyse contemporary Christian films. Scanning the feed alone is an education in the enormous variety of this kind of content that is available — who knew there was pop culture made specifically for Jehovah's Witnesses? This episode is focused on a 2017 drama called The Penny, in which a former police officer learns lessons about God and fate because of an old coin. The barely concealed subtext is gently mocked by the hosts as they analyse all of the film's 88 minutes
Fate? Luck? Chance? Destiny? Accident? Coincidence? The boys watch Christian crime drama The Penny and learn that absolutely everything happens for a reason. We watched this movie for a reason. You're listening to us for a reason. Maybe if you hadn't decided to put this podcast on, you'd be hearing an impure audio product instead, and then you'd go straight to hell if it were the last thing you ever heard! Just something to think about.
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Podcast: Radio Browser (LS 28 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Our Beloved Languages
Pub date: 2020-07-14
Inspired by Cameron Lombardo’s “A Queer Take On Gendered Japanese” on gender related semantics in the Japanese language. Nontsi and Lindelani discuss the differences, challenges and fun had around communicating in South Africa’s diverse languages.
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Podcast: Discovery & Inspiration
Episode: Marsha Gordon, “Narrating Modern Women’s Experiences: The Complex Legacy of Ursula Parrott”
Pub date: 2020-06-05
Notes from The Listener:
Swift primer on the work of Jazz Age novelist Ursula Parrott. She was a bestseller in her day, with her writing bringing in millions of dollars and film adaptations winning Academy Awards. Yet she died poor and her work has languished in obscurity since. The biographer interviewed here gives some context for how and why her work disappeared from view, as well as dissecting the contradictory elements of Parrott's work — she wrote about female independence, but she also held conservative views about gender
In the 1930s, the writer Ursula Parrott used her novels, short stories, and screenwriting ventures to portray independent women during a period of immense social change in America. Despite this, like many women writers, Parrott’s legacy has been all but erased from the popular imagination.
In this podcast, Marsha Gordon, professor of film studies at North Carolina State University, delves into the way that Parrott’s independence and professional success existed in a complex relationship to her rather conservative views on gender. Understanding Parrott as a woman out of sync with her own time allows us to understand how she was influenced by the limitations of her society even while she envisioned a more progressive future.
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Podcast: Sound Africa (LS 44 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: Covid in Africa Episode 14
Pub date: 2020-06-26
Notes from The Listener:
Anthology feed showcasing audio non fiction from across Africa. This is the final episode of an excellent series about Covid 19 and how it has affected different countries. There are lots of stories covered here, including shocking revelations about large scale fraud with pandemic relief funds in South Africa and Nigeria and some optimistic news about progress in one of Kenya's biggest slums. At the end, the host takes listeners behind the scenes and describes how the show has been made under lockdown conditions
In this our final episode, will look at COVID-19 funds and how they are being distributed in South Africa and Nigeria, We also look at some rays of hope which are starting to emerge from Kibera, one of Kenya’s biggest slums. Finally we will be discussing what happens behind the scenes of the Covid-In Africa podcast, and look to the future, on what’s next for Sound Africa. 473405
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Podcast: Welcome to LA (LS 49 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: The Case of the Missing Sprinkles
Pub date: 2018-06-12
Notes from The Listener:
Beautifully made series about the forgotten histories of Los Angeles. Start with any episode, but this one is especially good, with the host retracing his steps in his first job when moving to the city. He worked as a researcher for a court-based reality TV show, haunting lower tier courts for petty yet juicy disputes that would make good entertainment. It was a cutthroat world, with different shows competing and bribes changing hands. But it all started with a bored game show producer and one ridiculous, outlandish case
The Court TV genre started with a frustrated game show producer who pitched an idea that would make housewives’ fantasies come true. That show tanked. So instead he made “The People’s Court,” eventually creating a lucrative empire that feeds off the petty disputes of everyday Americans. This is the story of the one case that started that empire.
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Podcast: Far Flung with Saleem Reshamwala (LS 55 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Oberammergau
Pub date: 2020-07-01
Notes from The Listener:
Cerebral travel podcast about ideas tied to specific locations. This episode is about the past, present and future of the Oberammergau Passion Play, a tradition created by a 17th century plague and now halted by a 21st century one. The legend goes that in 1633, residents of this Bavarian village vowed to perform a nativity play in perpetuity if God spared them from the bubonic plague. It has been performed roughly once a decade since, attracting international attention from the likes of Adolf Hitler and Henry Ford
Nearly 400 years ago, a tiny town in Germany made a bargain with God: spare its people from the Black Plague and we'll put on a play in your honor... forever. And it worked! Now every decade, the entire town comes together to stage the play, drawing massive crowds to one of the largest religious spectacles in the world. But problematic parts of the play have been challenged, and tensions rise when a new voice tries to update a 2,000 year old story with help from some unexpected allies
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Podcast: The Best Advice Show (LS 47 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Bulk Deleting with Ann Friedman
Pub date: 2020-07-09
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Brief recordings giving practical advice. This one, with well known newsletter writer Ann Friedman, is about inbox management. Friedman doesn't have a strict process for coping with the huge volume of email she gets, but rather views her inbox as an extension of her priorities elsewhere. Therefore, personal friends get a reply within a day, internet acquaintances within the week, and the rest competes for her remaining attention. She also advocates bulk deleting what has accumulated by the end of the week
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Regarding your advice. I’m not particularly interested in platitudes and truisms. I’m after specific, odd, uplifting, effective, real tips from you about how you make it through your days.
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Podcast: The Story Collider (LS 58 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Hypothesis: Stories about having a question that needs answering
Pub date: 2020-01-10
Notes from The Listener:
Personal storytelling show about science. Each episode is themed, this one focusing on stories where the teller had a hypothesis that was tested by events. There are two speakers here, each with a very different take on this. The first is a children's science educator, who describes how she took her students through the process of testing a theory when they became convinced that fire is a living being. The second is a science writer who tests the limits of his insect phobia while covering an event where bugs are served as food
This week we present two stories from people who had hypotheses.
Part 1: Teaching sixth grade science becomes much more difficult when Xochitl Garcia's students start hypothesizing that fire is alive.
Part 2: When journalist John Rennie is assigned to cover an entomological society event where insects are served as food, he sees an opportunity to face his fear of bugs.
Xochitl Garcia is the K-12 education program manager at Science Friday, where she focuses on supporting the inspiring efforts of educators (of all types) to engage students in science, engineering, math, and the arts. She is a former NYC school teacher, who specializes in sifting through random piles of junk that she insists are "treasures," to figure out cool ways for learners to explore scientific phenomena. You can find her making a mess in the name of science education at the Science Friday office, her house, with other educators...you get the picture.
Update: Xochitl welcomed her baby (not fire) into the world on 1/1/2020.
John has worked as a science editor, writer and lecturer for more than 30 years. Currently, he is deputy editor at Quanta Magazine. During his time as editor in chief at Scientific American, between 1994 and 2009, the magazine received two National Magazine Awards. He co-created and hosted the 2013 series Hacking the Planet on The Weather Channel. Since 2009, he has been on the faculty of the Science, Health and Environmental Reporting Program in New York University’s graduate journalism school. John is @tvjrennie and john@johnrennie.net.
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Podcast: The Modern Mann (LS 53 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: The Candidate
Pub date: 2020-02-01
Notes from The Listener:
Gripping documentary about a young British MP's campaign to be re-elected in the December 2019 general election. This is a magazine podcast with lots of sections — the reporting starts at 16m44s. Layla Moran is running for a swing seat in Oxfordshire, and the host follows her through doorstep campaigning, fundraising rallies and the election night count. Like many women politicians now, she receives threats to her life, so security is a prominent theme. She also has to navigate coming out about her sexuality to a hostile press
Layla Moran MP is fighting to keep her seat. There are trolls, there are threats, there are hostile journalists. And throughout the journey, as she campaigns in the 2019 general election... we are at her side.
In this Modern Mann exclusive, host Olly Mann and producer Matt Hill accompany the Liberal Democrats’ rising star as she pounds the streets, battles her opponents, and goes public about her sexuality.
From campaign launch to vote count, we learn what it takes to face the electorate in a divided nation. And, quite by accident, find ourselves documenting someone who may yet become leader of one of Britain’s major political parties...
Elsewhere this episode, Ollie Peart tries out a trio of health trends in this month’s Zeitgeist - getting seriously sweaty at CrossFit, bouldering his way round a climbing course in Poole, and trying his hand at Ayurvedic massage. You’ll never dress your salad with sesame oil again.
Meanwhile, down the Foxhole, Alix Fox advises a listener affected by inflammatory skin condition Lichen Sclerosus. Can a body-mapping app keep the heat in his relationship - even as he applies emollient to stop the burning? Perhaps, if he can uncover the ‘tiny everyday thrills’ of daily sensuality... (For more support about sex with LS, Alix recommends Sam Evans’ blogs for Jo Divine, and the Facebook group LS UK Awareness).
Our record of the month is ‘Your Light’ by The Big Moon, from the album ‘Walking Like We Do’ - follow-up to their Mercury Music Prize nominated debut, ‘Love In The 4th Dimension’.
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We’ll be back on March 1 with a brand new episode. Happy February!
Presenter: Olly Mann. Producer: Matt Hill. Contributors: Ollie Peart, Alix Fox, Layla Moran MP, Randa Moran, James Moran, Neil Fawcett, The Big Moon. Theme Music: Django Django. Graphic Design: Jenny Mann Design. Copyright: Olly Mann / Rethink Audio Ltd 2020.
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Podcast: Geek History Lesson (LS 59 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: 314: Black Heroes Matter
Pub date: 2020-06-09
Notes from The Listener:
Conversational podcast about comics addresses racism and social justice, as well as the positive effect that representative pop culture can have on public opinion. The episode then goes on to highlight the black superheroes already extant in this genre, discussing Miles Morales as Spider-Man, Black Panther, crime fighting lawyer Augustus Freeman from Icon: A Hero's Welcome and the Batwing series. The hosts and their guest strike a good balance between introducing new fans and deeper analysis for aficionados
It's time to talk about what's going on in our world today and discuss why Black Heroes Matter and how they can change the world with special guest Brandon Marino - https://twitter.com/TheBatMarino.
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Podcast: Bodies (LS 63 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: Not This Again
Pub date: 2020-05-13
Notes from The Listener:
Personal story from a journalist, Angelina, who has the neurodegenerative disease ALS. Before, she was a reporter for Vice, living in Brooklyn, and relishing her freedom. Now, she lives with her parents and relies on others for the care that keeps her safe. There's some adult content in this episode, as she discusses sex and drugs — cannabis in particular helps her to talk for long enough to record this. There's a beautiful, hallucinatory quality to this piece, as Angelina talks about her lucid dreams and fantasies of movement
Angelina was a journalist living in Brooklyn when she was diagnosed with ALS. She now lives with her parents. How do you stay true to yourself when you rely on others to keep you alive?
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Podcast: Fall of Civilizations Podcast (LS 66 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: 4. The Greenland Vikings - Land of the Midnight Sun
Pub date: 2019-03-24
Notes from The Listener:
Audio docudrama telling the history of the Vikings in Greenland. It's written and performed to be as suspenseful as possible, and it works: the structure is tight and as a result the listener hangs on every word. The focus of the show is the decline of civilisations, but each episode begins at the beginning and runs through the glory days before analysing the ending. The introduction to Norse culture alongside the settlement politics here is especially good, and the sudden vanishing of the Vikings from Greenland makes for an excellent climax
One of the most unlikely tales of a society’s fall in is the incredible saga of the Vikings of Greenland.
Find out the history of how these European settlers built a society on the farthest edge of their world, and survived for centuries among some of the harshest conditions ever faced by man. Discover how this civilization was able to overcome the odds for so long, and examine the evidence about what happened to cause its final and mysterious collapse. Including Viking poetry, Inuit folktales and thousands upon thousands of walrus.
Credits:
Sound engineering by Thomas Ntinas
Voice Actors:
Jacob Rollinson Jake Barrett-Mills Sebastian Garbacz Special thanks to Jordan Ashley Moore (Ancient Literature Dude) for his readings of Old Norse poetry.
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Podcast: Keep It! (LS 74 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: "Sic Cancel Tyrannis” (with Sam Lansky)
Pub date: 2020-06-24
Notes from The Listener:
Pop culture podcast with a wry take on politics and online discourse. The three hosts have excellent chemistry and are outspoken and highly opinionated, and they manage to make a show about extremely serious subjects that is still uplifting to listen to without diminishing what they discuss. Start anywhere, although this episode about blackface in sitcoms, Hollywood sexual assault allegations, anti-Asian racism and the K-pop fandom's anti Trump campaigning, is great. It's a deep dive into a long week on the internet, essentially
Ira, Aida, and Louis discuss k-pop fans taking down Trump, Chris D’Elia and Ansel Elgort’s sexual misconduct allegations, Tina Fey pulling 30 Rock’s blackface episodes, Megan Amram’s anti-Asian tweets, the queer defiance of Joel Schumacher’s films, and more. Sam Lansky joins to discuss gay dating, LA mysticism, and his new book Broken People. Plus, listeners share their queer Hot Takes on Julius Caesar, parades, and The Parent Trap.
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Podcast: Chameleon Academy Podcast (LS 46 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Crossbreeding Chameleons - should we?
Pub date: 2020-04-04
Notes from The Listener:
Podcast made by an expert chameleon breeder, primarily intended for an audience who share his niche zoological interest. This episode is about crossbreeding different varieties of chameleon, apparently an issue that causes much heated debate within the field. A rare example of a podcast that is so fluent and well made that it's extremely listenable no matter whether you have any existing knowledge or interest in these creatures. The host has a soothing voice and the unusual gift of keeping a conversation flowing with himself
There are a number of issues to consider when answering the question about crossbreeding in the chameleon world. There are many strong opinions out there. I give my opinion, but also present the consideration so you can make your own decision.
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Podcast: Farmerama (LS 45 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Shorts: The Herdsman
Pub date: 2020-02-23
Notes from The Listener:
Reading of a personal story about a herdsman, Charles, who used to work at an extremely intensive dairy farm. This place managed over 1,500 cows and exploited every possible angle to increase efficiency and yield, often at the expense of the mental health of the people who work there and the welfare of the animals. Charles now works at an ethical dairy, where a good working environment for humans and animals is prioritised above profit. The cows prefer it when he wears a green jumper to milk them, so he puts it on every day
At ORFC in 2020, Georgia shared a story called ‘The Herdsman’, a true story which shows what cheap food is doing to the land, the animals and the people involved in its production. Georgia shares the story here for Farmerama
Georgia talks about the role of myth-making and storytelling in building the regenerative farming movement in Episode 53 of Farmerama
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Podcast: Deviate with Rolf Potts (LS 47 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: The power of small choices across decades: The Sgt. John Monk story
Pub date: 2020-01-21
Notes from The Listener:
Well told story of how one man navigated the racism of early 20th century America. John Monk grew up in Louisiana under the Jim Crow laws, served bravely in the military during WW2, and then still faced discrimination when he returned to the US. But he always believed life was about "chess not checkers", and that he could play a long game to improve life for his children and grandchildren. His interview here is supplemented by discussion with his granddaughter, who confirms the success of his strategy
“You have to make moves that will not just impact your today but the lives of folks down the road.” —Kaye Monk-Morgan
In this episode of Deviate, Rolf and Kaye discuss the life of her grandfather John Monk, growing up in Louisiana during Jim Crow, and the extended impacts of sharecropping (13:00); the challenges of assimilating to military life and overcoming racial adversity during World War II (25:00); and how small choices and sacrifices can have an outsized impact on our lives and the lives of others (43:00).
John Monk (1916-2018) was born into a family of sharecroppers in Haynesville, Louisiana. He served in the United States Army through World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War. After retiring from the military he moved to Wichita, where he raised his family and worked as a doorman at Park Lane Towers. Kaye Monk-Morgan is an Assistant Vice President for Academic Affairs at Wichita State University, where she facilitates leadership and professional development opportunities for low-income and first-generation students, especially in science, technology, engineering and mathematics.
Notable Links: * Targeting Black Veterans: Lynching in America (Equal Justice Initiative report) * Long-ago choice leads to life of dreams fulfilled (newspaper story on John Monk) * Hometown Heroes: 101-year-old Army veteran’s secret to life (TV story on John Monk) * Jim Crow laws (local laws enforcing racial segregation) * Sharecropping (agricultural landowner/tenant arrangement) * Harlem Hellfighters (World War I infantry regiment) * Greatest Generation (American demographic cohort) * Fort Knox (United States Army post in Kentucky) * Barrage balloon (anti-aircraft kite balloon used in WWI and WWII) * Quartermaster (senior soldier who supervises barracks) * Drill Sergeant (non-commissioned officer assigned to train new recruits) * Dockum Drug Store sit-in (1958 Wichita Civil Rights protest) * Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967 Sidney Poitier movie) * Exodusters (African Americans who migrated to Kansas in 1879) * Barry Sanders (Wichita-born NFL Hall of Fame running back)
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Podcast: Live! From Tomorrow (LS 30 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Ep 01: We Are Live! From Tomorrow
Pub date: 2020-06-04
Notes from The Listener:
Semi autobiographical comic musical about being a tech entrepreneur. Protagonist Matt Hooper has quit his job at an investment bank to launch a startup that produces a musical variety show called Live From Tomorrow. He starts out as just an annoying guy who won't stop singing in a top hat in a coffee shop, but soon attracts interest from some shadowy investors who think that a singing tech evangelist might be just what they need. Light, silly and very enjoyable, with plenty of Broadway in jokes for the musical theatre fan
In the fall of 2018, Matt Hooper quits his job at an investment bank to become a “song and dance man” with a very unique obsession: innovation. We meet Matt in a coffee shop on the morning of his first live performance, which will be staged at New York City’s new hotbed of innovation, an office building in Hudson Yards. Unbeknownst to Matt, he has drawn the attention of executives from MFB, one of the world’s largest technology companies. Big Tech is eager to engage the startup ecosystem, and Matt might just be the character they need to reach this all-important audience. By episode’s end, having won his first client, Matt and his peers realize: his new life as a singing, dancing ‘innovation evangelist’ might work out after all.
Written by Matt Hooper
Music & Lyrics By: Ben Easton & Mark Levy
All Songs Performed By: Ensemble & The Academy Blues Project (Jim Bloom, Trevor Brown, Ben Easton, Mark Levy)
Score By: Ben Easton
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Podcast: Beautiful Strangers (LS 34 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Allergic to Water
Pub date: 2020-05-05
Notes from The Listener:
Personal story from a woman who is allergic to water. A bath is anything but relaxing for her. "Looking at the water is like looking at a vat of acid". When her symptoms started in her early twenties, she was in counselling for serious trauma (there's mention of child abuse and sexual assault here). Contact with water made her skin sting as if "a million hot poker needles" were being inserted at once. Donated plasma eventually enabled her to take a bath once every two weeks with minimal pain
From taking a bath, to drinking water. Nikki Hurst battles every day as it comes.
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Podcast: Spiritual PTSD (LS 25 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Ep 5 - Six Flags Newsboys and Disability Demons
Pub date: 2020-03-10
Notes from The Listener:
First person podcast hosted by "a recovering exorcist and Christian" (using some explicit language). As a former child pastor in a pentecostal church, he spent a lot of his youth on church related outings. Here, he tells the story of a visit to a theme park when he was 14, which led to the "discovery" that he was a teenage exorcist. Some of the anecdotes related are pretty horrific, such as when he tried to "heal" a disabled person. While not minimising the hurt he caused, the host managed to find the funny side in his religious past
In this episode I tell one of the more embarrassing stories from my radical Christian youth. I later realized this experience lead me to move into an even more intense belief system, ministry and attempted miracles.
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Podcast: Lavender Menace
Episode: Lavender Menace - Episode May 26, 2020
Pub date: 2020-05-27
Notes from The Listener:
Two hour episode of a music radio programme from an independent station in Calgary, Canada. The show focuses on women and non-binary artists but is genre agnostic, skipping between world music, smooth jazz, indie and more. The host introduces the songs but the overwhelming impression is of a dreamy summer afternoon with the radio playing through an open window. This station broadcasts from an indigenous cultural centre and refreshingly foregrounds the First Nations traditions and people involved in its production
Playlist: * Forever - Forever * Claude Fontaine - Strings of Your Guitar * NonaRia - Antri Yuk * Kim Jung Mi - Blow Spring Breeze * Norma Tanega - A Street That Rhymes at 6am * The Orielles - Rapid * Margo Guryan - Hold Me Dancin' * Yucky Duster - Blue Elvis * The Regrettes - Seashore * Frankie Cosmos - Actin' Weird * BBQT - Moldy Melody * King Loser - Surf Lost * Pale Lips - (You Make Me) Wanna Be Bad * The Paranoyds - Ratboy * Ludus - Sightseeing * Wut - Out of Touch * Katie Ellen - Sad Girls Club * Sheer Mag - Expect the Bayonet * Dry Cleaning - Spoils * Otoboke Beaver - Bad Luck * War on Women - Youtube Comments * Babe Corner - Baptize * Cherry Glazerr - Grilled Cheese * Marlaena Moore - Please Don't Cut My Garden * Courtney Barnett - Avant Gardener * Locate S, 1 - Sanctimitus Detrimitus * Pantayo - Eclipse * Blu Shorts - Jet Pack Guy * Pinc Louds - Dream Catcher * Austra - Mountain Baby (ft. Cecile Believe) * Kero Kero Bonito - Waking Up * Game Genie Sokolov - Meet Cute * Sussy - 1BZGAL
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Podcast: 99% Invisible (LS 85 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)
Episode: Suits: Articles of Interest #10
Pub date: 2020-05-26
Notes from The Listener:
Absorbing look at the history of the suit. It comes from Articles of Interest, a mini series hosted within the well known design podcast 99% Invisible, and is one of six recent interlocking episodes about luxury in fashion. This episode covers a lot of ground: from the "Great Masculine Renunciation" of flamboyant clothing kicked off by 18th century British dandy Beau Brummell to the tiny details in modern suiting that separate exemplary tailoring from the mere ordinary. It also looks at the intersection of menswear and masculinity
Menswear can seem boring. If you look at any award show, most of the men are dressed in black pants and black jackets. This uniform design can be traced back to American Revolution, classical statuary, and one particular bloke bopping around downtown London way back in the 1770s.
Articles of Interest is a limited-run podcast series about fashion, housed inside the design and architecture podcast 99% Invisible. Launched in 2018 by Avery Trufelman, the show encourages people to rethink the way we look at what we wear and what it says about us.
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Podcast: Those Happy Places (LS 34 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 29: Theme Park Food and Storytelling
Pub date: 2019-05-31
Notes from The Listener:
Conversation about the "symbiotic and oddly iconic" relationship between theme parks and the food they serve, from a podcast that subjects these attractions to serious critical analysis. Those — like me — who don't frequent these places will listen wide eyed at the artistry and investment that goes into designing these culinary experiences. Of particular interest: how the enormous turkey legs served by Disney became a social media sensation, and how a fictional drink from Harry Potter was made real for park consumption
In this tasteful episode, Buddy and Alice tackle the specific needs of theme park foods, the ways fandom develop around certain foods, and the importance of culinary experiences in the larger scheme of themed spaces. Topics include: Butterbeer, the invention of the Ice Cream Cone, the mysterious rise of the Turkey Leg, the not-so-mysterious rise of the Dole Whip, and a special extended aside on the Blue Bayou.
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Those Happy Places is Produced by Alice White and Edited By Buddy Duquesne. Our theme song is Golden Gate by the California Feetwarmers, Featuring Phil Alvin.
Additional music comes from Kevin Macleod. All Tracks Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License. Tracks in this Episode: Bummin on Tremelo, Space 1990, Fig Leaf Rag, Casa Bossa Nova, Mining by Moonlight, Secret of Tiki Island, BossaBossa, Bossa Antigua, Off to Osaka, Drankin Song, Backbay Lounge, Airship Serenity, Cattails
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Podcast: Radio Browser (LS 28 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Debt
Pub date: 2020-06-02
Notes from The Listener:
Radio Browser is a weekly podcast from our sister publication The Browser, featuring the Listener's international editor Lindelani Mbatha
Inspired by Alex Danco’s “Debt: The First 5,000 Years”, Uri and Lindelani discuss how debt functions in South Africa.
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Podcast: Dead Eyes (LS 62 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: 2 - Tristesse
Pub date: 2020-01-30
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Connor Ratliff has carved out a successful career as a comedian who also plays minor dramatic parts on TV and film. Yet he is haunted by the fact that he was fired by the famous producer of the 2001 mini series Band of Brothers with the following devastating statement: "Tom Hanks has seen your audition tape and he's having second thoughts. He thinks you have dead eyes." Ratcliff is now, 20 years on, via this podcast investigating why Hanks took against him. This episode is about auditions, and features Jon Hamm
A 10-year-old Connor acts onstage in a 1985 production of Oliver! and has a seemingly disastrous first television interview. Years later, a 17-year-old Connor stars in a production of Ordinary People across from Emmy-winning actor Jon Hamm (Mad Men, The Town, Baby Driver), who was a senior in college at the time.
Connor and Jon look back on their time working together and recount their highs and lows in various audition rooms.
Plus, a recreation of Connor's Band of Brothers re-audition scene featuring Nicole Drespel (UCB, Broad City, 30 Rock), and a candid conversation about the audition process with a real New York City casting director.
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Podcast: The Constant: A History of Getting Things Wrong (LS 57 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Suck and Blow
Pub date: 2019-11-19
Notes from The Listener:
Podcast series about getting things wrong profiles Alfred Lawson, a wacky American "inventor" who was, during his long life, a professional baseball player, a pioneer of aviation, a populist politician and the founder of a weird university. His philosophy rested on the rejection of all previous scientific discoveries. The extraordinary thing is that for a while Lawson had great credibility — he was instrumental in creating the forerunners today's airliners — until his descent into eccentricity brought about his downfall
Everything you've ever learned about physics, chemistry, astronomy, and even biology, is wrong. That was the conclusion reached by Alfred Lawson, major league pitcher, avionics pioneer, populist political leader and the founder of the stupidest university ever: The University of Lawsonomy. Come with us for a journey through the life and confounding works of Lawson, the rise of his new science and its rapid, farcical fall. Visit our Patreon here (https://patreon.com/theconstant).Get 10% off your first month of online counseling by visiting:http://betterhelp.com/theconstant (http://betterhelp.com/theconstant) and entering discount code "theconstant".
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Podcast: Changes with Annie Macmanus (LS 55 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: The Fame Game With Sharon Horgan
Pub date: 2019-10-13
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Irish actor and writer Sharon Horgan talks to DJ Annie Mac. The theme of the podcast is "change", and in Horgan's case this is applied to her relatively recent success and the fame it has brought her. She has an odd twilight kind of celebrity: she is recognised while her series is on television, she says, and then immediately goes back to being a nonentity. Some good insights here too on how slow moving a medium TV is — a quick, lucky commission can take three years to get from the initial idea to actually appearing on screen
Broadcaster and DJ Annie Mac returns with series 2 of her podcast Finding Annie. Recorded in the ‘rave shed’ at the end of her garden, expect deeply personal and hilarious discussions on life’s biggest themes.
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Podcast: The Secret Life of Songs (LS 30 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: #2 - One Fine Day / The Chiffons
Pub date: 2020-05-21
Notes from The Listener:
The Secret Life of Songs explores pop's greatest songs to get to the heart of why they mean so much to us. It's a musical celebration of the role songs play in our lives, the way they find their way into our deepest experiences and help shape our understanding of the world.
The 1960s girl group genre might seem an odd place to find tragedy, particularly when it's wrapped in such apparently joyful music as The Chiffons' 'One Fine Day'. Legendary songwriting partners Gerry Goffin and Carole King manage the difficult trick of combining the bright-eyed optimism of new love with the sad certainty it'll never be realised in a song which takes in influences from both doo-wop and opera. It's a wonderful demonstration of the way minor chords and 'blue notes' can make a song more emotionally complex and true-to-life.
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Podcast: The Blindboy Podcast (LS 68 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: Soda Jerk
Pub date: 2020-04-08
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Blockbuster Irish podcast featuring the musings of "Blindboy Boatclub", a character previously best known as one half of 2010s rap duo The Rubberbandits, who wore plastic bags on their heads to avoid recognition. The show is freeform, sometimes just including Blindboy's (occasionally explicit) monologue, and sometimes featuring prose or poetry from other writers. This episode is about the Irish rave scene of the 1990s and the historical parallels prompted by the chicken burgers that were served to revellers
A roasting hot take which interrogates the connection between chicken burgers served in 1990s Irish nightclubs and sandwiches made out of rubber which were served to Irish people in New York bars in the 1890s
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Podcast: Mesto47 (LS 28 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: The Impersonator
Pub date: 2020-04-14
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Audio profile series about characters encountered on the Trans-Siberian railway. The hosts made the 9,288km trip from Moscow to Vladivostok over 28 days, interviewing the people they met along the way. This first episode is about "the other Putin", a man called Vasily who very closely resembles the Russian president and makes a living as an impersonator. He has two university degrees and used to run a fur shop, but now makes a living by being in tourist photos in Red Square and attending birthday parties
There are two almost identical men who wake up every morning, commute to their job at Red Square, and both respond to the name Putin. One is the President of Russia, but this story, is about the other guy.
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Podcast: Make My Day with Josh Gondelman (LS 55 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Make My Day Episode 2: Tilda and the Hounds with Miel Bredouw
Pub date: 2020-04-28
Notes from The Listener:
Podcast game show hosted by American comedian Josh Gondelman. The format is both simple and silly: there is only one contestant (also known as "the winner") and they have to put a positive spin on the world so that Josh can award them points for cheering him up. This episode's guest is Miel Bredouw, host of previously-recommend podcast Punch Up The Jam. She creates an optimistic imaginary blueprint for the future of music festivals after the pandemic, and manages to set the podcast's record high score
Miel Bredouw, comedian and host of the podcast Punch Up The Jam competes to cheer Josh up. Josh asks Miel to design her ideal music festival, which she does, excellently. Miel sets the Make My Day all time high score and wins $100 for the Food Bank for New York City.
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Podcast: Kerning Cultures (LS 54 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Lebanon, USA
Pub date: 2019-02-16
Notes from The Listener:
Heartwarming story of a road trip undertaken in 2016 by a Lebanese photographer visiting all 47 towns in America called "Lebanon". During this journey, Donald Trump won the presidential election, and so his travels in small town America gained a new significance as he went. In Lebanon, South Dakota, he discovered that the cedar tree proudly pointed out to him as a gift from his own country in 1955 was not, in fact, a cedar — a mystery that the podcast then goes on to solve. You can see his pictures at lebanonusa.com
In 2016, Fadi Boukaram planned to visit 47 American towns named Lebanon by road. Then, in Lebanon South Dakota, he discovered that all these other Lebanons have more in common with the country than anybody realised. This week on Kerning Cultures, a story about the surprising history that connects Lebanon, with a string of small towns in the USA.
Special Thanks to Fadi Boukaram, Bass Samaan from Trees of Joy, Linda, and Hazel McRoberts from the Long Branch, and Robert Auld for reading Mayor Jared Carr’s proclamation.
Produced by Alex Atack. With editorial support by Bella Ibrahim, Hebah Fisher, and Dana Ballout. Sound design by Alex Atack. Fact-checking by Zeina Dowidar. Kerning Cultures is a Kerning Cultures Network production.
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Podcast: DUST (LS 64 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: FLIGHT 008 | Dido's Lament: Seat 14C
Pub date: 2020-04-01
Notes from The Listener:
Science fiction series about a non-stop flight from Tokyo to San Francisco that somehow takes off in the present day but lands in the year 2040. Each episode tells the subsequent story of a passenger in a particular seat. Evelyn is an app developer who was in Japan for work making a big pitch to save her company. In 2020 when her flight took off, her partner was in the beginning stages of early onset Alzheimer's and they were facing less than a decade left together, as her memories disappeared. It's a nailbiting, emotional ride
Evelyn always assumed her partner would be the one whose life would disappear, one early-onset Alzheimer's memory at a time. But that was before Evelyn jumped decades into the future... Dido's Lament is written by Aidan J.S. Menuge and performed by Sarah Drew.
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Podcast: Time to Eat the Dogs (LS 39 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Hawaiian Exploration of the World
Pub date: 2020-01-22
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Exploration history podcast looks at how indigenous Hawaiians — the Kanaka Maoli — mapped their world. "The desire to know was a Hawaiian desire," the expert interviewed here says. He draws a straight line from the trans Pacific canoe journeys that kept Hawaiians in touch with Samoa, Tonga and other islands pre colonisation to the travel undertaken by individuals after European contact was made in the eighteenth century by Cook. There's discussion of the wider Polynesian context to these long sea voyages too
David Chang talks about the history of indigenous Hawaiians (Kanaka Maoli) as explorers and geographers of the world. Chang is a professor of history at the University of Minnesota. He’s the author of The World and All the Things upon It: Native Hawaiian Geographies of Exploration.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Podcast: Tales from the Tannoy (LS 40 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 3: The Year the News Broke
Pub date: 2020-04-28
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Voice artists reveal the real life stories behind the recordings. The host doesn't have a famous name, but her voice will be very well known to anyone who has travelled in London — she's the woman who recorded the announcements on the London Underground. Her guest, Gayanne Potter, is the announcer for ITV News — another very recognisable presence to British viewers. Although her role onscreen is to sound "cool, calm and collected" at all times, Potter recently had a complete breakdown, which she explains here
Every night across the UK, the evening news is introduced by the same voice. She has always sounded calm, composed, and confident. That delivery has never wavered, even when life away from the microphone left her feeling quite the opposite. Elinor Hamilton talks to Gayanne Potter. Recorded in February 2020, and produced by Karl Svenson at Tadah Media.
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Podcast: Circle Round (LS 74 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: Granny’s Leather Bag feat. Orla Brady
Pub date: 2020-03-03
Notes from The Listener:
Lovingly sound designed retellings of folk stories from around the world. It's made with children in mind, but there's no reason why it can't be enjoyed by adults. This one is adapted from a version told in Ireland, and follows the fortunes of two very different sisters living on a rural farm — one selfish, one generous. There's also a leather purse of silver coins involved and a family suffering hardship. I don't want to give away what happens, but those familiar with fables will be able to work out what the moral of this story might be, I think
Orla Brady (Star Trek: Picard, Into the Badlands) stars in this Irish tale about three wise animals, two very different sisters, and one bag of silver coins.
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Podcast: Bullseye with Jesse Thorn (LS 64 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: Clipping's Daveed Diggs: noise rap, Hamilton & Sesame Street
Pub date: 2019-10-08
Let's start taking bets for the next person to EGOT: that is, the next person to win an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and a Tony award. Our money is on Daveed Diggs. He's already got a Grammy and a Tony for his fantastic work on the Broadway smash hit Hamilton. So, he's halfway there! Diggs has one of the most varied resumes in entertainment. He's an actor on the small screen. You've seen him on Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, The Get Down, Black -ish and Sesame Street. He's a writer, too – he co-wrote the screenplay for Blindspotting, a movie about violence and gentrification in Oakland, his hometown. He also co-stars in the film. And, if that wasn't enough he's a very talented musician as a member of the rap group Clipping. Diggs joins us to talk about Clipping's new record, his various acting roles, and of course, Hamilton. Let's go!
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Podcast: Art History at Bedtime (LS 44 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: Fra Filippo Lippi (c.1406-1469) by Giorgio Vasari - ‘much addicted to the pleasures of sense'.
Pub date: 2020-04-18
Notes from The Listener:
Bedtime stories from art history, read by the British art historian Bendor Grosvenor. This is an extract from the sixteenth century writer Giorgio Vasari's Lives of the Artists about the fifteenth century Florentine painter Filippo Lippi. It tells the story of how the artist became friends with Cosimo de' Medici and thus the intelligentsia. Lippi was addicted to instant gratification, Vasari says, but if he could not have what he desired, he would include it in his next painting and so "diminish the violence of his inclination"
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Podcast: The Habitat (LS 70 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 1: This Is the Way Up
Pub date: 2018-04-18
Notes from The Listener:
Documentary series about the long term project of sending humans to Mars. These seven episodes follow one cycle of the NASA-funded Hawaii Space Exploration Analog and Simulation, in which six volunteer scientists were isolated inside a dome in a remote part of Hawaii that has a not dissimilar terrain to the red planet. Each crew member kept an audio diary as they contended with the social and technical challenges of their "mission" like communication delays with Earth and a diet of freeze dried food. Moving and uplifting
The crew leaves Earth behind.
The Habitat is a production of Gimlet Media. It’s produced by Lynn Levy, Peter Bresnan, and Megan Tan. Our editors are Alex Blumberg, Jorge Just, Caitlin Kenney, and Blythe Terrell. Music, sound design, and mixing by Haley Shaw. Music supervision by Matthew Boll. Additional music in this episode by Bobby Lord and Elliot Cole. Our credits music in this episode is performed by Ellen O, and written by David Bowie. Our fact checker is Michelle Harris. Special thanks to Kaitlin Roberts, Alexander Overington, and to Neil Scheibelhut. And a very special thanks to the HI-SEAS crew: Andrzej, Christiane, Cyprien, Carmel, Shey, and Tristan.
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Podcast: Westminster Abbey (LS 35 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: Abbeycast: The Annunciation of Our Lord to the Blessed Virgin Mary
Pub date: 2020-03-25
Notes from The Listener:
While there are no services during the coronavirus outbreak, the clergy of the thousand year old Westminster Abbey in London are making a podcast instead of holding services. Whether or not you have any interest in the religious aspect of this, it's a quiet, contemplative listen. The high quality recording picks up the vast, echoey ambience of the building and there's some history provided alongside the Bible readings. The live music sounds wondeful; I chose this for the anthem by Elizabethan composer Orlando Gibbons
A podcast from Westminster Abbey on The Annunciation of Our Lord to the Blessed Virgin Mary, 2020, introduced by the Dean of Westminster, The Very Reverend Dr David Hoyle. Recorded at the Shrine of Our Lady of Pew, Westminster Abbey Introduced by The Very Reverend Dr David Hoyle, Dean of Westminster Address from The Reverend Canon Dr James Hawkey, Canon Theologian Reader: Carol Hawkey Introduction – The Dean Reading – Luke 1: 26-38 (Carol Hawkey) Address – Canon Hawkey Anthem – Orlando Gibbons See, see the Word is Incarnate Prayers, Lord’s Prayer and Blessing – The Dean Music: ‘See, see, the Word is incarnate’ composed by Orlando Gibbons, text by Bishop Godfrey Goodman, performed by the Choir of Westminster Abbey conducted by James O’Donnell (with kind permission of Hyperion Records). This podcast was recorded by members of the Westminster Abbey community who are currently in self-isolation in the Abbey precincts. All personnel practiced social distancing during the making of this podcast.
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Podcast: Second Wave (LS 47 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Pho
Pub date: 2017-10-17
Notes from The Listener:
Personal stories of Vietnamese life in America, beyond the stereotypes and the hangovers from the Vietnam War. This episode is about food, specifically pho, which the host describes as "the definitive Vietnamese noodle soup". Growing up in the Pacific Northwest, this dish marked her family out as different. When her parents wanted to start their own restaurant, they had to learn to cook Thai food because that's the Asian cuisine Americans wanted — then. Now pho is extremely trendy, which brings its own set of problems
When Thanh Tan was growing up, pho wasn’t cool. Now, it’s an “it” dish and it’s taking on a life of its own as more Americans eat and serve it. We look at the origins of pho and how it has come to define who Vietnamese-Americans are in their adopted country.
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Podcast: The Last Bohemians (LS 44 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: 8: Maxine Sanders: the witch queen on casting spells, surviving persecution and the power of sex magic
Pub date: 2020-04-13
Notes from The Listener:
Audio portrait series of fearless, maverick women (with some explicit content). Here the listener is introduced to Maxine Sanders, a prominent figure in the resurgence of British witchcraft in the 1960s. She and her husband became regular tabloid fodder in the 1970s as the media covered their coven and rituals. In this interview, she delivers a stream of astonishing information in a completely matter of fact voice. She performed astral projection as a child, she has seen witches levitate, and once manifested herself a colour TV
Maxine Sanders is one of the country’s most iconic and possibly most controversial witches. In the 1960s and 70s, she and her late husband Alex Sanders were at the centre of Britain’s witchcraft boom. At the height of their fame, they were featured weekly in tabloid newspapers and starred in numerous documentaries and films where they would recreate their dramatic rituals…It was the era when Flower Power and the sexual revolution were in full swing. The Witchcraft Act was repealed in 1951 making it no longer illegal to practise witchcraft, and Maxine and Alex were sexing its image up. Their coven was rapidly growing in size, as more and more people were drawn to the occult, and eventually they moved from Alderley Edge, near Manchester, to Notting Hill in London, where musicians like Jimmy Paige and Marc Bolan flocked to their wild parties. But it was also where a strange set of circumstances saw them linked to Sharon Tate and the Manson Murders in California...
Presenter Kate Hutchinson came across Maxine in a book that she'd bought on her birthday in 2019, from Donlon Books in east London – in it was a striking image of a stunning woman with long blond hair, holding a dagger, in the middle of a circle, and she knew she had to find out more.
We finally tracked Maxine down to her home in North West London, where we sat in her living room, filled with amazing antique books and ancient magic regalia.
What she told us may raise an eyebrow or two, as Maxine recounts her early years in the craft, meeting her husband – the King of the Witches, Alex Sanders, how she dealt with being the subject of a tabloid frenzy week on week, the meaning of being a witch today, what it feels like to do a spell, her experiences of astral projection, sex magic and death, and overcoming persecution.
It's quite a magical ride, so strap in tight.
This episode was produced by Hannah Fisher.
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Podcast: Fake Heiress (LS 61 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Ep 1. Fake Heiress
Pub date: 2019-12-16
Notes from The Listener:
Six part series unfolding the story of Anna Delvey, a multimillionaire socialite and German heiress who turned out to be a complete fraud invented by a Russian fraudster. It was a fairly well covered case — in 2019 the perpetrator Anna Sorokin was convicted on multiple counts in a New York court — but this version is a collaboration between an investigative reporter and a playwright. It weaves drama through the retelling of the case, making it an entertaining listen even if you already know the facts of this bizarre story
Reporting by Vicky Baker Drama by Chloe Moss
Anna Delvey was due to come into a trust fund of $67m on her 26th birthday. She was on her way to establishing the Anna Delvey Foundation, a multi-million dollar visual-arts centre in the heart of New York City. She filled her time with champagne brunches and stays in penthouse suites, as she wined and dined the New York elites to secure investment for her project. It all sounded wonderful.
Except, it was all a lie.
Behind Anna Delvey, the heiress, was Anna Sorokin, the recent magazine intern. Out of nothing, this otherwise unremarkable twenty-something had reinvented herself as a multi-millionaire socialite, conning businesses and friends out of thousands of dollars in the process.
But how? How did she manage to live a life of luxury for so long? How did she make anyone believe her story? How did she get people to trust her enough to give her their money?
Journalist Vicky Baker and playwright Chloe Moss dig deeper into the New York scandal, and mix drama with documentary to tell the story of Anna Delvey's rise and fall.
Anna is played by Bella Dayne Other parts are played by Chris Lew Kum Hoi, Heather Craney, Will Kirk, Scarlett Courtney, Neil McCaul, Clive Hayward, Ian Conningham, Lucy Reynolds, Adam Courting, Greg Jones, Laura Christy, Jessica Turner, Ikky Elyas, Sinead MacInnes.
Director: Sasha Yevtushenko
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Podcast: Home Cooking (LS 70 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: Bean There, Done That (with Josh Malina)
Pub date: 2020-03-27
Notes from The Listener:
Chef helps newly minted home cooks (aka, all of us stuck at home right now) make better meals with what we have. Samin Nosrat, the Iranian-American author of Salt Fat Acid Heat, has an infectious laugh and a seemingly inexhaustible stash of ideas for what to do with food. I was hooked from the very opening when she suggested putting cheese under scrambled eggs so the residual heat melts it onto the toast. The main subject of this episode is beans and how best to cook them. There is also a guest tangent about latkes
Quarantine cooking is no joke—or is it? In our inaugural episode, Hrishi makes one too many puns, Samin answers the eternal bean question (to soak or not to soak), and Josh Malina (@JoshMalina) schools us in the art of the latke.
Visit homecooking.show for a complete list of foods discussed in the episode, as well as cooking resources and a downloadable dancing can!
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Podcast: Born Again Again (LS 47 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: We Told Our Parents
Pub date: 2019-05-27
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Atheist couple narrate the story of how they told their religious parents that they were leaving the church behind. They describe themselves as "learning to live on the other side of religion". It took a year for them to decide to have this talk with their families. During this time they debated whether it was selfish and unduly hurtful to impose their newfound atheism on their parents, or whether it was immoral to conceal that they no longer had faith. In the end, they did it via video call, and the account of it is really moving
"Coming Out" as non-Christian to our family was really difficult.
In this episode we talk about what it was like to tell our parents that we're not Christian anymore.
We talk about how we worked up the courage, how each of our conversations went, and how we feel now that it's finally over.
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Podcast: Alice Cooper's Vintage Vault Podcast (LS 47 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Slash
Pub date: 2020-03-20
Notes from The Listener:
Rock legend Alice Cooper introduces interview highlights from his radio show's archive. He's been presenting Nights with Alice Cooper for 16 years and in between songs he includes conversations with fellow veterans from America's music scene. This is an excerpt from a conversation recorded in 1995 with Slash, the top-hatted lead guitarist of Guns N' Roses. The band has "always been a volatile, stressed out unit," he says, explaining why he left in 1996 (only to rejoin in 2016). Great insight into decades of musical collaboration
Alice looks back at what Slash had to say about Guns 'n' Roses, cocktail napkins, and pinball machines. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Podcast: The Dream (LS 78 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)
Episode: S2 E7: Green Eggs and Scams
Pub date: 2020-02-03
Notes from The Listener:
Investigative podcast takes on the world of wellness, which is riddled with fact-free health claims and pseudo science. The whole series is worth a listen, but this episode stood out for its take down of the new generation of alternative health influencers ushered in by Gwyneth Paltrow's "Goop" brand. Brace yourself for the full debunking of jade eggs and cosmic crystals, and analysis of why people still fork out for these things in spite of everything. There are a few swears in this episode, all of them from Paltrow's quotes, oddly
Influencing a new generation of wellness.
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Podcast: The Antiques Show - Downunder
Episode: The Antiques Show - Discover - Annie Mitchell
Pub date: 2020-04-07
Notes from The Listener:
Quick and efficient primer on the early twentieth century Australian ceramicist Annie Mitchell. She was a pioneer of the "hand built" style of pottery, in which layers of clay are added to the work without the use of a wheel to create asymmetrical, distinctive designs. Mitchell in particular used this technique to imitate nature, adding petals, leaves and seeds to her colourfully glazed pieces. She founded her own school, built a massive kiln and taught hundreds of aspiring artists until her death in 1961. Her work is now very valuable
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Podcast: Funny People Talking (LS 30 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Dr. Evil on Social Distancing and Handwashing During COVID-19
Pub date: 2020-03-27
Notes from The Listener:
Improvised comedy podcast interviews an impressionist who is inhabiting the character of "Dr Evil" from the 1997 film Austin Powers. His response to the coronavirus outbreak is matter of fact, since being quarantined is very similar to his normal life. "I've always worked from my underground lair. . . I'm very close with my evil family," he says. As an evil doctor — who spent 12 years at evil medical school — he's slightly regretful that he didn't invent the virus himself. Silly but enjoyable pop culture parody
SPECIAL MINISODE ON COVID-19: Dr. Evil (the nemesis of Austin Powers) stops by to discuss social distancing, proper hand-washing, and the meaning of evil in the face of COVID-19. Impression for this parody/satire by John Di Domenico.
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Podcast: Israel Story (LS 60 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: From the Vault: Herr Eichmann
Pub date: 2019-11-01
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Interviews with the people who had contact with Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann during his imprisonment in Israel in 1960. Prosecutors were so worried about the possibility of an extra-judicial killing before his trial that those guarding him were chosen because they spoke no German and had lost no family in the Holocaust. But among his interrogators were several survivors and there was disagreement on how courteous to be to the prisoner — should they call the man who organised the murder of millions "Herr"?
To most, Adolf Eichmann - the mastermind behind the Nazis’ ‘Final Solution’ - is the ultimate symbol of evil. But to a small group of Israelis, he was no more than a gaunt and balding middle-aged prisoner. This is the story of those who looked evil in the eye, and lived to tell the tale.
Last week we aired a story about Dr. Yonah Elian, the anesthesiologist who sedated Eichmann during his capture back in 1960. And today we bring you a rerun of another Eichmann story we aired back in a 2016 episode called “Of Numbers and Names.” It is the story of the select few who interacted with Eichmann as he stood trial in Jerusalem - his guards, his interrogators and even his executors. Israelis for whom the encounter with the Nazi officer wasn’t just a moment of national catharsis. It was an intimate experience. Perhaps even too intimate.
This piece was produced by Katie Pulverman with help from Shai Inbal. Special thanks to Yuval Orr, Roy Barzilay, Shlomo Maital and Chanoch Lipperman. The end song, “Efer Ve’Avak” (“Ash and Dust”) is by Yehuda Poliker.
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Podcast: Trade Talks (LS 52 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: 120. Extreme Trade: The Rise and Fall of Glasgow’s Shipbuilding
Pub date: 2020-01-31
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Economist talks through the extreme fortunes of trade in Glasgow, Scotland. In the eighteenth century, tobacco and then linen dominated the city's wharfs, before a vast shipbuilding enterprise took over and made the river Clyde a global destination for maritime commerce. In the twentieth century, a series of poor policy decisions and a delay in adopting new technologies completely scuppered this industry, contributing to the severe unemployment and deprivation in the city today. Erudite yet accessible discussion
What is the Glasgow effect? Richard Davies explains, and tells the gripping economic story of the Scottish city’s boom and bust.
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Podcast: Radio Rental (LS 80 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 04
Pub date: 2019-11-12
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Anthology horror show, with the twist being that all of the stories shared are true (or at least those telling them think they are). Creator Payne Lindsay spent a year sourcing these tales on internet forums like Reddit, tracked down those telling them, and recorded these semi-scripted versions. The frame narrative features Rainn Wilson in character as a spooky video shop owner, playing VHS tapes containing these stories. The highlight here is the stalking story told from two perspectives — many women will recognise it, I think
On today’s tapes…
If You Don’t Slow Down
A man turns out to be a character... in someone else’s nightmare.
Laura of the Woods
A young boy makes a new friend in the woods… but is she who she claims to be?
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Podcast: The Allusionist (LS 70 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: Tranquillusionist: Nmiigea
Pub date: 2020-03-22
Notes from The Listener:
Calming performance of the lyrics from John Lennon's classic 1971 song "Imagine". The words are uttered in reverse alphabetical order, creating a soporific nonsense poem that still somehow retains a shadow of the original because of how well known Lennon's version is. The reading is expressive and beautifully edited, with words soothingly panning across from ear to ear (best appreciated with decent headphones or speakers). The music is based on the song too, putting the original chords in alphabetical order
This is the Tranquillusionist, in which I, Helen Zaltzman, for the purposes of quelling anxiety and stress and sleeplessness, read the lyrics to ‘Imagine’ by John Lennon, with the words arranged in reverse alphabetical order.
This episode resides at theallusionist.org/nmiigea; you can find all the Allusionist episodes, including other Tranquillusionists, at theallusionist.org.
The original music is by Martin Austwick, based on the chords of ‘Imagine’ in alphabetical order. Hear Martin’s songs at palebirdmusic.com or on Spotify, and he’s @martinaustwick on Twitter and Instagram.
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Podcast: Here For You (LS 55 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Ep 1: How Is Everyone?
Pub date: 2020-03-23
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First episode of a new conversational daily podcast covering self care and social connection during coronavirus quarantine. The hosts talk about their own experiences with working from home and doing childcare with a lighthearted, cheerful tone that makes a welcome contrast with news coverage of the same topics. They also discussion ideas of creativity during confinement, in particular dissecting the pressure to produce amazing work while stuck at home, even though anxiety levels are high and distractions plentiful
Welcome to the first episode of Here For You, a daily podcast brought to you by Kate and Doree of Forever35. Kate's been painting rocks and reflects on the pressure to "make magic" in the age of coronavirus. Doree's been doing relaxing yoga and listening to a very Doree-esque podcast.
Our word of the day is: CALM. Our activity of the day is: NO-KNEAD BREAD.
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Podcast: The Next Big Idea (LS 59 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: HABITS: How to Let Go of The Old and Bring in the New
Pub date: 2020-01-14
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Exploration of human habit forming. The main guest, social psychologist Wendy Wood, explains that until recently the majority of study in this area focused on behaviour around the adoption of a new habit — such as exercising more or eating more vegetables — and didn't necessarily check in after time had past to see what makes something stick. She talks about the influence of repetitive practices and friction on how habits are made, using examples like daily writing rituals and quit smoking programmes
Why is it so hard to break bad habits and replace them with good ones? You may think it all comes down to willpower. But social psychologist Wendy Wood says that if you really want to change your life, then you need to tap into your unconscious mind. Wood, who’s just written a book called “Good Habits, Bad Habits,” chats with Next Big Idea Club curator and host of TED’s Work Life Podcast Adam Grant about harnessing the science of habit formation to make positive changes that last.
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Podcast: Radio Spaetkauf Berlin (LS 35 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: RS Lockdown: Clean Your Windows
Pub date: 2020-03-16
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Dispatch from the first day of Berlin's coronavirus lockdown. This upbeat conversational show — made in English by friends who live in the city — is often recorded with a live audience, but now they are alone in an empty comedy club. The city has imposed what the hosts describe as the biggest restriction on personal liberty since the Second World War. Amid the anxiety and the panic, there are upsides: neighbours are making eye contact, strangers are chatting in the shops and people are making phone calls again
"The time for partying is over," Berlin's health senator Dilek Kalayci said, announcing the shut down of the city. Berlin's government has enacted the widest restriction of liberties since the war as it struggles to combat the Coronavirus pandemic. Hosts Daniel Stern, Joel Dullroy and Jöran Mandik record an unscheduled episode in an empty room.
Our correspondent in Maisie Hitchcock joins us via Skype to tell us about pre-lockdown England.
Noah Telson from the Comedy Cafe Berlin tells us about shutting down his business for a month.
What's life like in quarantine in Berlin? We talk via Skype with comedian Ben Maclean.
Worried about your health? Call the Berlin Corona Hotline: 030 90 28 28 28. Don't go out seeking a test.
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Podcast: Field Recordings (LS 46 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Golden Gully, Australia, at dusk – by Camilla Hannan
Pub date: 2020-03-07
Notes from The Listener:
Series of recordings made by sound artists standing "silently in fields (or things that could be broadly interpreted as fields)". This one comes from a town with a population of less than 100 in the north of Victoria province. It was captured at dusk, and as the minutes of rustling cicadas tick by it becomes possible to visualise the scene and the sunset just from the sounds. An ideal 18 minutes of relaxation, or if looped a calming soundtrack to tune out other disturbances. Make sure you listen out for the kookaburra
“Here is a recording I made recently while on an artist residency in Hill End in western NSW. Just under 5 hours west of Sydney. (Population 100 as well as a […]
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Podcast: The Baron of Botox (LS 60 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Easter Sunday | Chapter 1
Pub date: 2020-01-14
Notes from The Listener:
Ten part documentary series about Dr Fredric Brandt, a dermatologist who became the celebrity botox dispenser of choice and eventually developed an addiction to his own product. He was "a man with a surgeon's hands and an artist's eye" who grew his practice into a pop culture phenomenon as the grey area of non invasive cosmetic procedures boomed into a billion dollar industry. It's cleverly made and largely avoids sensationalism, but does deal with subjects like suicide from the start, so proceed with caution
On April 5, 2015, cosmetic dermatologist to the stars Dr. Fredric Brandt is found hanging from an electrical cord at his home in Coconut Grove, Florida. Who or what led to his untimely demise?
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Podcast: Boxing Clever
Episode: 1: Seconds out, round one
Pub date: 2020-03-04
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Detailed conversation about the boxing scene in Norfolk, a rural county in eastern England. The guests here are a trainer and a former British lightweight champion, both of whom worked in the sport in the area this show covers. There are two subjects covered here that appealed particularly: the reverence boxers have for the east London venue York Hall, and the philosophical approach to pre-bout nerves described. "You just have to do the best you can do there and then, and tomorrow we'll all be laughing about it"
Graham Everett and Jon Thaxton talk fights, flapjacks and Fury - and why York Hall is revered by the boxing community.
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Podcast: Because You Watched (LS 31 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Deep Sea Creature Features
Pub date: 2020-02-13
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Podcast where the guests use the highly specific categories created by streaming platforms like Netflix to pitch new ideas for films. The theme for this episode is undersea monsters. Amid plenty of sweary back and forth, they end up making the case for rebooting JAWS and explore the possibilities of human-fish romance in a film called "Love At First Bite". Best of all, they map out a sustainable energy dystopian franchise called "Sea Power", where squid imprisoned in the Thames are used to power the national grid
Becky, Mark and Georgia pitch their best aquatic-themed movie ideas to Rory and in the process discover a fantastical new source of sustainable energy, come up with a new career opportunity for David Beckham, and give JAWS a decidedly futuristic reboot. WARNING: Only listen to the very end if you want to hear the worst Brian Blessed impression ever recorded.
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Podcast: The Resus Room (LS 55 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Angioedema
Pub date: 2019-11-18
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Conversational show about emergency medicine. The hosts are both specialist doctors in the UK and cover cases from their day jobs as well as new research in the field. This episode is about angiodema, the severe swelling of mucus membranes often in the face and neck. It's usually associated with allergic reactions, but there are other causes too. Using an anonymised case he worked on, one host sets out for the other how a substantial knowledge gap on this subject in the medical profession can cause serious harm
Angioedema is something we'll all encounter in the acute setting, whether we recognise it or not...
Understanding the different causes and mechanisms is imperative to ensuring the patients get treatment that is not only effective, but in extremis potentially lifesaving. In this episode we talk through the condition; from clinical presentation, causative agents, mechanisms of action, differentials and the evidence base of treatment.
Get in touch with any comments on the podcast, ensure to read the papers that are referenced yourself and draw your own conclusions.
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Simon & Rob
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Podcast: Election Profit Makers (LS 51 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 22: Back to the Beach
Pub date: 2020-03-03
Notes from The Listener:
Rebooted US election podcast about political betting. This show first ran in 2016, and became very emotional towards the end as the hosts came to terms with what Trump's victory meant for their worldview. It returns now with a more cynical approach, but the old idealism still peeks through occasionally. And there's still the same surreal, almost angry tone to the conversation that initially drew me in. The keen-eared will notice that one of the three hosts is Starlee Kine, formerly of beloved cult podcast Mystery Show
The Election Profit Makers (David, Jon and Starlee) sit down for the first time since 2016, ahead of Super Tuesday and the South Carolina Primary, to place bets on their least non-favorite Democratic nominees.
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Podcast: Sum of All Parts (LS 49 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: 14.0 The labradoodle of regret
Pub date: 2019-09-19
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Australian storytelling show about numbers. This episode is about dog breeding and the phenomenon of "designer dogs", where unlikely types of dog are crossed to create new and fashionable strains. By far the most popular of these is the labradoodle, created by breeding a labrador and a poodle. But the man who first did this now regrets it enormously — he was trying to create a hypoallergenic guide dog for someone, but by attaching a cute name he triggered a world wide breeding trend that has harmed dogs' health
Wally Conron invented the labradoodle, one of the world's most popular dogs. He now considers the breed his "life's regret".
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Podcast: Citation Needed (LS 65 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: The Spanish Inquisition
Pub date: 2020-01-01
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Slightly cheesy conversational podcast about the fact-less state of the modern internet. The three hosts read the Wikipedia entry for a particular topic — this episode is about the Spanish Inquisition, but they range widely through the series — and then discourse on it as if they are experts. They deliberately do no other proper research, because as their tagline puts it, "this is the internet and that's how it works now". A small exception was made for this subject, with one host rewatching Monty Python sketches to prepare
The Tribunal of the Holy Office of the Inquisition (Spanish: Tribunal del Santo Oficio de la Inquisición), commonly known as the Spanish Inquisition (Inquisición española), was established in 1478 by Catholic Monarchs Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabella I of Castile. It was intended to maintain Catholic orthodoxy in their kingdoms and to replace the Medieval Inquisition, which was under Papal control. It became the most substantive of the three different manifestations of the wider Catholic Inquisition along with the Roman Inquisition and Portuguese Inquisition. The "Spanish Inquisition" may be defined broadly, operating in Spain and in all Spanish colonies and territories, which included the Canary Islands, the Kingdom of Naples,[citation needed] and all Spanish possessions in North, Central, and South America. According to modern estimates, around 150,000 were prosecuted for various offenses during the three-century duration of the Spanish Inquisition, out of which between 3,000 and 5,000 were executed (~2.7% of all cases).
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Podcast: Candidate Confessional - Defeated Politicians Tell All (LS 49 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: The Only Person Ever To Lose An Election To Mitt Romney
Pub date: 2017-09-13
Notes from The Listener:
Interviews with defeated politicians about what went wrong. The title of this episode is out of date, since Mitt Romney did win a Senate seat in Utah in 2018, but it remains an excellent listen. There’s enough narration to give context, but the failed politician’s own ideas are allowed to tell the story. Shannon O’Brien seemed like an ideal candidate on paper when she ran for Massachusetts governor in 2002, but the race went down rather differently in real life. The concept of this show is great, and I’m only sorry that it hasn’t published any new episodes since October 2017
In 2002, Massachusetts State Treasurer Shannon O’Brien decided to throw her hat in the ring in the race for governor. Her opponent would be one Willard “Mitt” Romney, known for his failed senate run in 1994 and as president of the 2002 Winter Olympics. She went after him, after Barack Obama would do in 2012, over his time at Bain Capital. Mitt went after Shannon over her husband’s ties to Enron. Sparks flew, and O’Brien became the only person ever to go down to Mitt Romney at the polls.
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Podcast: Curioscity (LS 35 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: 55 - Yeast (w/ Mike Pablo!)
Pub date: 2020-01-30
Notes from The Listener:
Science conversation show talks about yeast. The guest is a PhD researcher in this field and there is plenty of talk about his work — yeast apparently has a more complex haploid-esque reproduction situation than human chromosomes, who knew — but the show’s aim seems to be to open up the subject to the non scientist. There’s a nice balance here between serious science chat and more autobiographical talking points. Such was this guest’s dedication to science at a young age that he commuted for two hours each way to attend a special science high school
Let’s face it: we all spend time trying to think about our favorite unicellular eukaryotes. Today, we’ll discuss the fungus kingdom and what yeast actually is. Let’s learn to be scientifically conversational.
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Podcast: Gamma Radio (LS 35 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: S3 E1 - Scam - Good Vibes with Dave and Fog
Pub date: 2019-09-09
Notes from The Listener:
Drama series told via madcap bulletins from a community radio station in a post-apocalyptic UK. The hosts are called Dave and Fog, and they’re constantly looking for opportunities to make beans (the currency of choice in this dystopian setting). It’s a lawless land with roaming mutants and the constant danger of random torture, but these radio broadcasters are doing their best to make a light entertainment show regardless. This episodes comes at the beginning of the third series, although the recurring jokes will make more sense if you go back to the very start
Dave and Fog are back from the brink of madness! Kicked out of their studio after their long hiatus, forced to broadcast from the Budget Barn Motel and Hospice, Fog cooks up a plan to make some beans...
Yes, it's time for Series 3! After a long time away, we have finally completed the production of our most ambitious and crazy series yet. We'll be releasing an episode weekly for the next 6 weeks, so stay tuned, mutants!
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Podcast: Date Fight! (LS 38 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: 60: 3rd January: J.R.R. Tolkein v Greta Thunberg
Pub date: 2020-01-03
Notes from The Listener:
Two comedians argue over which instance of a particular date in history was the best one. As befits this premise, episodes are released daily. The style of the show is arbitrary and eccentric, but the premise does certainly allow for the inclusion of plenty of random historical facts. Trivia lovers will delight in the strange cocktail of information on offer. This episode ranges from oil prices to the origins of the Tudor dynasty, and from the philanthropy of Franklin D. Roosevelt to polar bears. Both hosts have a pleasingly weird turn of phrase: J.R.R. Tolkien is labelled here “Britain’s premier gnome describer”
What are all the polar bears complaining about? What is it with all the Henries? Where did all the dimes march to? Jake Yapp & Natt Tapley find out in today's Date Fight!
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Podcast: Recode Daily (LS 60 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: The Airbnb Scam
Pub date: 2019-11-14
Notes from The Listener:
Interview with a journalist who uncovered a US-wide scam being run on Airbnb by becoming a victim of it. She describes here how the classic bait and switch move works. Having booked what seemed to be a pleasant and affordable holiday let, the victim is rerouted last minute to an often disgusting replacement property because of a “flood” or similar disaster. The customer has no recourse, since refunds from Airbnb can only be requested before a stay begins, and their trip will likely be ruined. Marketplace apps are rife with this kind of exploitation, an expert on Uber interviewed here explains
An Airbnb scam exposed, and why Silicon Valley’s culture of growth-at-all-costs means safeguards are an afterthought.
Links to resources discussed:
I Accidentally Uncovered a Nationwide Scam on Airbnb
Brian Chesky on the Recode Decode podcast
Super Pumped
Featuring:
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Arielle Duhaime-Ross (@adrs), host and lead reporter of Reset
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Podcast: Words for Granted - An etymology and linguistics podcast (LS 49 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 76: Wife
Pub date: 2019-09-01
Notes from The Listener:
Etymology podcast explores the background of the word “wife”. It acquired its association with marriage relatively late on — in Old English, for instance, wife just meant woman (and the latter word seems to be derived from the former). Other connected woman-related nouns are also examined, such as “queen”, which in some languages started out as a word for a lowborn hussy, rather than a royal ruler. There’s great depth of research on show here, with a lot of detail given for the different linguistic theories proposed. I also learned of the existence of many historical languages I’d never heard of before
In Old English, the word ‘wife’ meant woman. In fact, the word ‘woman’ derives from the word wife! Today's episode is not only an exploration of the word ‘wife,’ but also of a handful of woman-related words whose etymologies and usages share a confusing, intertwined history.
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Podcast: Walking The Dog with Emily Dean (LS 64 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: Supervet - Walking The Dog Episode 24
Pub date: 2018-11-09
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Dogwalking interview podcast. For this episode, the host visits the veterinary surgery where the UK’s most prominent animal doctor works — Noel Fitzpatrick, known as the “Supervet” after the title of his popular Channel 4 TV series of the same name. He’s very self deprecating and sounds even slightly impatient with the format, which requires him and his Border Terrier Keira to walk in the “lashing rain” while being recorded. He talks about his Irish childhood, his choice to become a vet, and why he was attracted to the rare and difficult cases he’s now known for
In a very special edition of Walking the Dog Emily goes to visit The Supervet, Dr Noel Fitzpatrick at his veterinary centre in Surrey. They brave the rain with Keira his border terrier and Noel gives Emily a little tour of the place where he and his team perform miracles. They chat about his childhood in Ireland with his dog Pirate, his life working with animals and his current tour Welcome to My World - (for further details and to book tickets go to noelfitzpatricklive.com)
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Podcast: Goggles Optional Shorts
Episode: Shorts: Why Viruses Love the Cold
Pub date: 2015-02-06
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Rapid fire science conversation from Stanford University academics (with a guest here from Yale). If you live in the northern hemisphere, the topic is relevant to the season — it’s all about colds and viruses. In particular, why cold conditions enable these illnesses to thrive. The study under discussion focused on rhinovirus and so there’s much detail given about nose temperature. Inhaling cold air — because it’s cold outside — cools the lining of the airways, creating an ideal environment for the virus. I found that this episode made sense of a lot of home remedies for colds
Put down the Kleenex and sit down with a hot cup of tea as you join us for this exciting segment. We welcome Ellen Foxman, a Postdoctoral Fellow in Laboratory Medicine at Yale University, and discuss her intriguing research using a strain of the common cold known as a rhinovirus to investigate how our immune […]
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Podcast: Dial-A-Myth
Episode: Episode 1: Cargo Cults
Pub date: 2018-07-10
Notes from The Listener:
Deep dive into the history and context of cargo cults, a type of belief system that began to emerge among remote indigenous communities in the late nineteenth century. All iterations of this are loosely concerned with the arrival of modern goods in return for ritual practices, with the items believed to be sent by potent ancestral gods that have been appeased or appealed to via religious observance. Some of the most famous examples discussed here occurred in Melanesia, where during World War Two Pacific Islanders had their first experiences of both American and Japanese supply planes headed to military bases
The first episode of Dial-A-Myth explores cargo cults, the stories we tell about them, why they fascinate us, and why they matter.
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Podcast: Coyle and Sharpe: The Imposters (LS 33 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Ep. 1: Maniacs in a Living Hell
Pub date: 2007-03-28
Notes from The Listener:
In the early 1960s, San Francisco radio hosts Mal Sharpe and James P. Coyle roamed the streets conducting interviews with strangers. They wore sharp suits and presented themselves as researchers, or even employers, looking to find candidates for prospective schemes. In fact, this was an early example of the now ubiquitous prank show, and this podcast series contains one hundred short excerpts from the conversations they taped. Here, they offer a man a job working in a flame-filled pit designed as an artificial hell. The pay is $46 a week and he has to eat a bat. He is interested in the position
Coyle and Sharpe offer a San Franciscan a job in a recreation of the fires of hell.
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Podcast: DutchNews Podcast (LS 39 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: The Viral Racism Edition - Week 6 - 2020
Pub date: 2020-02-07
Notes from The Listener:
English language podcast about Dutch current affairs. It’s a rapid fire conversational show covering a mixture of international and domestic news from the perspective of the Netherlands. In this edition, they cover Mitt Romney’s vote to impeach Donald Trump as well as the fallout from coronavirus, which saw a government minister condemn the emerging practice of shunning Asian tourists on public transport. Episodes are well structured and edited. It’s a rare chance to hear how the world looks from another place — usually impossible unless you speak a local language well enough
It's been a turbulent week of naming, blaming and shaming. KLM suspended all flights to China because of fears about the coronavirus, the government cracked down on New Year firework sales and the football authorities announced plans to tackle racist behaviour. Health minister Bruno Bruins condemned people who ostracised Asian tourists on public transport, while Thierry Baudet refused to apologise for his discredited tale of harassment by train staff. And we discuss the implications of the recent court ruling that using algorithms to identify fraud 'hot spots' breaches human rights.
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Podcast: Mementos (LS 31 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: 1.2 A T-Shirt Hug from Dad
Pub date: 2019-10-28
Notes from The Listener:
Series about how objects contain memories. This episode is about a blue T-shirt, a gift from a daughter to her eccentric, hard to please father. She customised it by adding an appliqué eagle, a reference to a family in joke about a religious misunderstanding when he was a child. When her father was killed suddenly in a car crash, the shirt became a repository for memories of him. Wearing it feels to her like receiving a hug from her dad and makes her laugh as if he’s just told her a joke. She’s careful to save it for only special circumstances, though, for fear of wearing it out
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Music:
"This Our Home" by Blue Dot Sessions
"Spring Cleaning"by Blue Dot Sessions
"When the Guests Have Left" by Blue Dot Sessions
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"Bebop intro in C" via Looperman.com
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Podcast: We Stan Together (LS 38 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Royally Obsessed with Corin Wells
Pub date: 2020-02-04
Notes from The Listener:
Pop culture discussion show hosted by two academics. Their guest here is an actor and comedian, and the conversation dives deeply into the way we respond to the idea of royalty. It’s all light hearted in tone, but there are some well made points about how the concept of fandom can be extended to real-life people in positions of power. In general, I don’t think podcasters devote enough attention to crafting intriguing text to describe their episodes, but the phrase “if you ever owned, or wanted to own, a Princess Diana Beanie Baby, this episode is for you” had me interested in this immediately
It was December of 2019 & we couldn’t know then what was about to rock the Royal Family of England… but that didn’t stop us from being Royally Obsessed with Corin Wells (Upright Citizens Brigade). We talk all things Royal in this episode from the hottest single Princes on the market today to fictional Royal families who didn’t get enough love. If you ever owned, or wanted to own, a Princess Diana Beanie Baby this episode is for you. If you aren’t sure what that is - you need this episode, too! Clapback or show us some love through social media by following @WeStanSocial on instagram, twitter, and TikTok! If you become royally obsessed with Corin you can follow her @charity_corin on Instagram & Twitter!
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Podcast: Design Matters with Debbie Millman (LS 63 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: Lynda Barry
Pub date: 2019-10-28
Notes from The Listener:
Interview with a cartoonist about how to draw. She speaks both on a practical level about her working habits, but also in a more general sense about the mindset required to put ink on paper and then put the resulting out for publication and public consumption. Self doubt is incredibly damaging to the process, she says, and she examines here the idea that whether a drawing is good or not is really “none of my business”. Barry is also a recent recipient of a MacArthur genius grant, and explains that the foundation had to phone her seven times with the good news because she thought it was a robocall
On this episode cartoonist Lynda Barry talks about learning how to draw, and the damaging effects of one’s own opinion.
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Podcast: The 1099 (LS 40 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 232: How the Women of the British Navy Won WWII With Tabletop Wargaming, With Simon Parkin
Pub date: 2020-02-11
Notes from The Listener:
Exploration of the part a small group of British women played in winning the Second World War. A team of eight Wrens – the nickname for those serving in the Women’s Royal Navy Service — were seconded to the Western Approaches Tactical Unit to work on “Operation Raspberry”. They created an elaborate table top game of battleships where, with a retired naval captain, they wargamed strategies to help vital shipping escape German U-boat attacks. The author interviewed here has written a whole book about this team, and the entertainment products like Warhammer that their crucial yet secretive work inspired
Simon Parkin, writer for The New Yorker and The Guardian, joins the show to discuss his new book "A Game of Birds and Wolves," a fascinating history of the women of the British Navy who developed a massive war game (much like the Warhammer and tactics games of modern day) to help win WWII, creating a strategy to combat German U-Boats, which routinely decimated shipping and combat vessels in the Atlantic. Joe and Simon dive into the band of misfits that were the Wrens, a special all-women division of the British military, how Captain Gilbert Roberts used his wargaming experience to guide the British Navy in developing invaluable counter-manuevers, and the roots of wargaming that have influenced games like Warhammer, Total War, Final Fantasy Tactics, and more.
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Podcast: The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe (LS 82 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)
Episode: 10: Lord of Light
Pub date: 2016-03-29
Notes from The Listener:
Retelling of a bizarre bit of Hollywood trivia. A screenplay was written based on the 1960s sci fi novel Lord of Light because a stuntman-turned-fraudster wanted to convince investors to back his plan to build a theme park three times the size of Disneyland called “science fiction land” in Aurora, Colorado. The film and the park were never made, and the project ended in legal action. But then the CIA bought the rights to the movie and used them as a cover story for the agents involved in the 1979 Iranian hostage crisis, a story that did ultimately end up on screen
The most expensive theme park there never was.
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Podcast: The Audio Long Read (LS 64 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: The weird magic of eiderdown
Pub date: 2020-02-10
Notes from The Listener:
Audio version of a long newspaper essay about the strange backstory of eiderdown in Iceland, the soft feathers from eider ducks prized for quilts and jackets because of their lightness and insulating properties. The harvesting process in Iceland is explored in detail here as a sustainable alternative to plucking direction from live birds — the down is collected from nests when discarded, with the hunter protecting the birds in return for the feathers. The centuries-old relationship between human and bird is symbiotic, but is now being disrupted by economic factors, with farmers rarely paid fairly for their down
In Iceland, the harvesting of these precious feathers has created a peculiar bond between human and duck. What can this unique relationship teach us? By Edward Posnett. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod
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Podcast: The McElroy Brothers Will Be In Trolls World Tour (LS 63 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: Chapter 1
Pub date: 2017-05-23
Notes from The Listener:
First instalment from an eight part series in which three podcasters attempt to get cast in the sequel to the animated musical film Trolls. The McElroy brothers Justin, Travis and Griffin are famous in the audio world for their highly successful question based comedy show and their roleplaying game series, but not very well known to the general public, or casting directors. The underlying joke of this series is their absolute certainty that they will succeed in this endeavour — they aren’t trying to be in the film, they will be in the film. It’s somehow life affirming to hear the energy they put into this
The McElroy Brothers decide that they'll be in Trolls 2.
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Podcast: Second Decade (LS 48 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: 14: Down & Out at Harvard
Pub date: 2017-02-20
Notes from The Listener:
History series about the second decade of the nineteenth century, ie the 1810s. This episode is about Harvard University, the America’s oldest higher education institution, which had already been going for at least a century at the point when this piece begins. There are really two Harvards, the host argues: the “privilege factory” that has such symbolic heft in perceptions of the establishment, and the actual college where students pass their day to day lives. This focuses on the latter, using the diaries of two early nineteenth century scholars to reconstruct a sense of the past
Harvard, America’s first college, is thought of as a bastion of privileged patricians, a place filled with old brick buildings, ivy-covered walls and inscrutable ancient traditions. But it’s also a real college where real young people live, learn, struggle and try to find themselves. In 1813 two boys, Stephen Salisbury and Aaron White, fifteen and sixteen, respectively, left their homes in Massachusetts to become freshmen in the Harvard College class of 1817. The remarkable personal day-to-day accounts both of them left behind illustrate in vivid and sometimes amusing detail what it was really like to go to college in the 1810s. Stephen engages in endless battles with his parents over pocket money and dirty laundry; Aaron in the meantime struggles against depression, feelings of guilt and unworthiness, and his own temptations. Both somehow manage to graduate, but one senses it wasn't easy!
Historian Sean Munger takes a personal and often humorous look at college in the 1810s, and tries to break down the ivory walls that separated 19th century Harvard from the real world. In this episode you’ll figure out why curtains are so essential in an 1810s dorm room, cross swords with Stephen’s insufferable nagging mother, endure Aaron’s seasonal affective disorder, and you’ll learn what a ‘Sulkey Bagg’ is. This could be the most fun episode of Second Decade yet.
Special permission was granted by, and thanks is given to, the Massachusetts Historical Society to quote from the unpublished Aaron White Diaries, 1815-1880.
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Podcast: The Spark File with Susan Blackwell and Laura Camien (LS 42 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: Makers: Lin-Manuel Miranda Part 1: Friday Night Meet Ups, The Laundry Room, and Making Space
Pub date: 2019-11-14
Notes from The Listener:
First of a two part conversation with composer and writer Lin-Manuel Miranda, creator of the musicals Hamilton and In The Heights. Slightly sweary and extremely lively discussion about creative work. His experiences on improvised rap show Freestyle Love Supreme are instructive for everything else, he says — getting up on stage without a plan is “literally enacting an anxiety dream every time” but enables him to access an untapped well of creativity. Best advice here is to avoid being neurotic about your projects. Don’t have a special notebook, pen, or place you have to write: learn to do it whenever, wherever
This episode is Part 1 of Susan and Laura's chit chat with writer-performer-director Lin-Manuel Miranda. Whether taking 7 years to write Hamilton, or 7 seconds to spit out a rhyme in the 100% improvised Freestyle Love Supreme, this guy is firing on all pistons. Find out how he uses "time and a deadline" to make it all happen.
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Podcast: Love and Luck (LS 45 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 13 - White Lilies
Pub date: 2017-11-28
Notes from The Listener:
Early episode from a long running fiction podcast, set in present day Melbourne, Australia. It’s told via short voicemails that the two protagonists, Jason and Kane, leave for each other. The show as a whole tracks their romance and the progress of their lives together. This episode is about their idea for opening a cafe/bar together, as well as some thoughts on grief for a loved one. There is a magical element to the plot, but it’s very understated. The pleasure of this show — as well its brevity — is in how kind it is. There’s drama but little trauma
Kane dreams about the good they could do with the bar, and pulls off some magic that gets him thinking about his deceased mother.
Written by Erin Kyan
Produced by Passer Vulpes Productions
Recorded by Kermie Breydon
Kane voiced by Lee Davis-Thalbourne
Jason voiced by Erin Kyan
Credits voiced by Roslyn Quin
Cover art by Beau Parsons: https://hellobeau.xyz/
Transcript of this episode: https://www.loveandluckpodcast.com/transcripts-blog/2018/11/9/episode-13-white-lillies
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Podcast: How To Fail With Elizabeth Day (LS 74 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: S7, Ep6 How to Fail: Marian Keyes
Pub date: 2020-02-05
Notes from The Listener:
Interview with the Irish author Marian Keyes, who writes the kind of heartwarming, tearjerking novel often unfairly labelled as “chick lit” (mostly because they are popular with women readers). The framing device for this conversation is about failure, and she picks several points in her life that she considers in that light. They include her rejection from journalist college, her alcoholism, and her inability to have children. She’s especially eloquent on the subject of addiction — it’s rare to hear someone talk about it without cliche. She speaks about drink as though it were a lover she found it hard to leave
Marian Keyes is one of those people who you think can't POSSIBLY be as lovely and talented and nice as everyone says she is. She must have a hidden dark side, I thought. Maybe she's a terrible diva who will demand bowls of blue M&Ms and want my toilet freshly re-painted and scented with vanilla before she deigns to use it?
But then you meet her and - lo and behold - she is not only as lovely as everyone says she is, but in fact EVEN NICER than that. This is a woman who has sold millions of book, who is one of the most successful and lauded Irish authors of all time, and who could quite forgivably be an egomaniac, but she's utterly fabulous. Or 'fabliss' as Keyes herself would put it.
She joins me this week to talk about writing, feminism, low self-esteem, depression, alcoholism, humour as a survival mechanism, her failure to get into journalism college, weight loss (why she knows it shouldn't be important but still can't help worrying about) and her self-perceived 'failure' to have children. We also talk about her great new novel, Grown Ups, where the characters all seem like members of your own family and you're bereft to turn the final page.
Thank you Marian. You really are fabliss.
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Podcast: The Traveling Introvert (LS 25 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Where Can Introverts Eat In Peace?
Pub date: 2019-12-31
Notes from The Listener:
Short monologue about how to find places to eat comfortably when travelling if you are an introvert. The advice is to seek out venues where there are likely to be other solo travellers and diners, such as hotel bars and restaurants, rather than going to fine dining places and suffering the judgement of staff unused to the request for a table for one. If you experience anxiety around topics like this, this is a good show to go to for reassurance. While the answers might not be groundbreaking, the host covers basic topics like this with a friendly ease that is very listenable
Hello, and welcome to the traveling introvert. Today I'd love to talk about safe havens for eating and drinking as an introvert. A lot of the time, you might want to go out and enjoy a good meal or have a nice cocktail. And it has to be said not all restaurants and bars are created equal in that kind of realm. I know a lot of people have complained that they want to go to a restaurant, enjoy a meal by themselves and get treated like second class citizens because of it. Either they get put in a corner somewhere or they don't get the table that they requested. Or they basically get ignored by staff or on the opposite end of the scale. They get hustled and moved on quickly by staff because they want to turn over the table. And because there's any one of you instead of two of us at the table they They want you to hurry up your meal, whereas you might just want to sit and enjoy and savor the food that you are paying for. So, as an introvert, and trying to find spaces where you where it's okay for you to go and eat by yourself, because that's the other problem, the social norm makes it awkward for you to go and eat by yourself. There was a time when I booked a train in California to go on a wine run. And I was going by myself. And they were very much like, Oh, well, we might see you at somebody else on the train right now. I want to enjoy this beautiful view, by myself at a table by myself. I do not want to have to interact in awkward conversation with somebody I do not know. I'm paying money to go on this trip. And it became a bit of a to do and luckily it was low season so it wasn't that bad. But still, I was made to feel that I was in the wrong for wanting to enjoy my ride. So areas or places That are comfortable for people to sit and go and eat alone or have a drink alone. Many people have said coffee shops most of the time coffee shops you can go in, order your food or drink sit in the corner read a normal bother you and it will be fine and it doesn't feel awkward. But to go to a restaurant and sit down necessarily fine dining, but sit down restaurant, the menu and and you may feel awkward if you're by yourself. One place however, that seems to inadvertently cater to introverts or somebody who wants to just go and dine by themselves and not be bothered. His hotel bars, hotel bars and restaurants. And this is fascinating. And it seems to be because people are transit within a hotel and it was looking to make friends that kind of tired. They've been traveling or their business and they're at a meeting and they're coming in to have a drink and chill and wine down. Eat and leave Eat and go over paperwork or read a book or what have you. But very rarely Will someone came up to you and try and hassle you along or want to talk to you. So airport, no airports also. bars, hotel bars and restaurants seemed to be a really good place for you to go. If you're an introvert and you just want to enjoy a nice meal without getting harassed or feeling uncomfortable because you are by yourself in a hotel you almost expected to be by yourself or you know with somebody else but that's fine. There's no it is normal or abnormal. And so that is a great thing. Dear listeners, I would love to know if there any other spaces that you have found that have been welcoming to you coming in sitting and reading a book, or doing a crossword or just coming in and enjoying a meal by yourself without you feeling that they didn't want you there or they wanted to move you along. I would love to hear from you. I'm trying to think also airports, know when, but it was a funny place like airport lounges. If you sit at the bar people will talk to you, if you just sit away from the bar people will not talk to you. So there's that that halfway point of like, okay, I might want some conversation, or I'm gonna go sit in the corner and do my thing. So that's very, very interesting. And the Uber, the Uber, right, but that's a whole other conversation probably. But I know that Uber we're trying to roll out something and I think there's in certain cities where if you don't want your driver to talk to you, you can you have that option. You have that control, because Uber drivers are not taught customer service the way sort of restaurant is might be. So that's another interesting topic of like, how do you shut down your Uber driver in a nice way that hey, I don't want to talk. It's not you. It's I just you know what to sit here and recharge. Thank you for listening. This is Janice from the careerintrovert.com helping you build your brand and shine as an introvert. If you have any questions, please email me at Janice at the career introvert dot com and have a great rest of your week.
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Podcast: Bite (LS 49 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: The Bizarre Fad Diet Taking the Far Right by Storm
Pub date: 2019-12-27
Notes from The Listener:
Journey in the border zone between hypermasculinity, diet culture, and the modern far right. Jordan Peterson, the Canadian psychologist beloved of a certain kind of keyboard warrior, is the high priest of this dominion. His daughter Mikhaila now lives only on beef, water and salt, a diet which she claims has improved her health. Peterson’s followers and their fellow travellers have latched onto the all-meat diet as a political statement against the rising popularity of plant based diets among “liberals” concerned about climate change. Also discussed here: white nationalism’s surprising history with veganism
Lately, Jordan Peterson, the Canadian psychologist known for his arch-conservative politics and views on masculinity, has been talking up the virtues of carnivorism. He’s not the only extreme right winger who has an unusual relationship with meat. In today’s episode, we talk to Kelly Weill, a Daily Beast reporter who wrote about the rise of the all-meat diet in the conservative fringe. Then, University of Colorado PhD student Alexis de Coning talks about her investigation into the disturbing history of veganism among white nationalists.
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Podcast: My Year in Mensa (LS 62 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 1: IQ and the Average Girl
Pub date: 2020-01-01
Notes from The Listener:
Stand up comedian documents her year as a member of Mensa. She signed up for the test while drunk, thinking it would be a funny anecdote for a set when she failed. She was astonished when she passed — which means she scored in the 98th percentile or higher in an approved IQ test — and was admitted to the organisation. This is the first of four parts to the story, which is well worth listening to in full, as she progresses through a year of harassment and absurdity in this antiquated, elitist society. The discussion about the bogus nature of IQ as an intelligence metric is also good
Welcome to My Year in Mensa, episode one!
NOTE: ALL NAMES IN THIS PIECE HAVE BEEN CHANGED. This is a first-person account based on my own writing and experience within the group, and the rest is sourced below. If you have further questions, feel free to reach out at myyearinmensa@gmail.com.
Theme song by Sadie Dupuis (@sad13)
Featuring the voices of Miles Gray, Caitlin Durante, Jacquis Neal, Anna Hossnieh, Danl Goodman, Ify Nwadiwe, Dani Fernandez, Maggie Mae Fish, Shereen Lani-Younes, Isaac Taylor, and Jack O'Brien.
Music used in this episode:
"Through the Crystal" by Jeremy Blake: from the free YouTube Audio Library
"Absolutely Nothing" by Jeremy Blake: from the free YouTube Audio Library
"Lost and Found" by Jeremy Blake: from the free YouTube Audio Library
Eric Andre goes to Mensa: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-pAWbqdyuY
"Welcome to HorrorLand Kevin MacLeod" (incompetech.com)
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Podcast: Constellations (LS 36 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: Phoebe Wang ~ Isn't it lovely?
Pub date: 2019-11-29
Notes from The Listener:
Absorbing, relatively short audio art installation. Artist Phoebe Wang has created a textured soundscape of speech and music that hits the listener’s ears in waves. The accompanying text calls these “fragments of recorded memories”, and they may well be personal to Wang, although obviously for the audience they are just prompts for our own rememberings. Crucially, this piece doesn’t take itself too seriously — quite a few of the voices are expressing joy or saying something amusing. My personal highlight is the person who snaps: “Say something profound! I don’t know, I don’t have any advice for you”
Stepping inside Isn’t it lovely?, Phoebe Wang asks the audience to leave the known territory and comfort of the white-walled gallery space to become immersed in an isolated environment. Here, sights and sounds of walls, carpets, speech and din create a faux-warmth that is at once invasive and curious. The listener then must subject themselves to the sounds that enter their ears.
The fragments of recorded memories that make up Isn’t it lovely? hover over meaning, never landing solidly. As the audio progresses, Wang prompts and engages in a series of conversations that attempt to ask, “why choose to keep going in a world that is not built for you?”
In Isn’t it lovely?, Wang constructs a refuge of sorts – yet the systems and histories she seeks to evade or emancipate herself from continue to be felt here, too.
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Podcast: Moby Dick Energy: A Moby Dick Podcast (LS 44 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: Chapter 1: "Loomings"
Pub date: 2020-01-18
Notes from The Listener:
Worth it for the theme song alone. The rest of the show is good too, though — a lifelong Herman Melville fan and her guests talk their way through the lengthy 1851 novel Moby-Dick, chapter by chapter. This is the first instalment in this (occasionally sweary) series, so there’s plenty of scene setting and context provided for newcomers to the work. I haven’t read this book since literary pretension hit me hard in my early teens, and I was very pleased to discover an entirely new dimension to the work through this show: this book is actually quite funny
Talia Lavin and David Roth discuss Chapter 1 of Moby-Dick, "Loomings." We also discuss the weird life of Herman Melville, how we fell in love with this book, and introduce the podcast.
Theme song by Noam Hassenfeld.
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Podcast: The Compass (LS 50 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: The History of Wastefulness: Today’s Trash Challenge
Pub date: 2019-01-09
Notes from The Listener:
No nonsense documentary about human wastefulness and its impact on the environment. This is the first of three parts, and later episodes go into more detail about the history of rubbish and what we can do about our destructive habits, but the series starts with an assessment of how bad things are now. To evoke the scale of the harm we have already done, the host takes a boat trip across a “plastic soup” in the Pacific Ocean off California that is “twice the size of Texas” and contains trillions of micro plastic particles as well as consulting a range of eloquent experts. Truly horrifying stuff
Alexandra Spring explores how our relationship with rubbish has evolved over time, beginning on a boat, sailing across the Pacific, with Ocean Conservancy’s Chief Scientist George Leonard. Together, they discuss how trillions of micro plastic particles have created a sea-sized portion of plastic soup, and how poor waste management across the world has led to a garbage emergency.
The conversation continues with author Gay Hawkins, who believes an ‘out of sight, out of mind’ attitude is shaping our psychological relationship with trash.
Then, Alexandra speaks to the photojournalist Kadir van Lohuizen, who has witnessed our human wasteful ways at six major dumps around the world. He shares how litter is not only destroying, but saving some local communities.
Producers: Chelsea Dickenson and Ben Cartwright
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Podcast: Talks at Google (LS 45 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Ep67 - Julie Andrews & Emma Walton Hamilton: "Home Work"
Pub date: 2019-11-19
Notes from The Listener:
Live recording of an event with Julie Andrews and her daughter, moderated by former Google CEO Eric Schmidt. Andrews’ film work is incredibly well known across generations, from her portrayal of Maria in 1965’s The Sound of Music to her scene-stealing Queen Clarisse in 2001’s The Princess Diaries. Other aspects of her life are less well known, such as her second marriage and commitment to adoption. Before any of this, she was a child theatre star in London immediately after WWII with a strict yet pushy stage mother. A warm and surprising conversation
In this follow-up to her critically acclaimed memoir, Home, Julie Andrews shares reflections on her astonishing career, including such classics as Mary Poppins, The Sound of Music, and Victor/Victoria.
This event is moderated by Eric Schmidt.
Get the book here: https://goo.gle/31CbuNU
In Home, the number one New York Times international bestseller, Julie Andrews recounted her difficult childhood and her emergence as an acclaimed singer and performer on the stage.
With this second memoir, Home Work: A Memoir of My Hollywood Years, Andrews picks up the story with her arrival in Hollywood and her phenomenal rise to fame in her earliest films--Mary Poppins and The Sound of Music. Andrews describes her years in the film industry -- from the incredible highs to the challenging lows. Not only does she discuss her work in now-classic films and her collaborations with giants of cinema and television, she also unveils her personal story of adjusting to a new and often daunting world, dealing with the demands of unimaginable success, being a new mother, the end of her first marriage, embracing two stepchildren, adopting two more children, and falling in love with the brilliant and mercurial Blake Edwards. The pair worked together in numerous films, including Victor/Victoria, the gender-bending comedy that garnered multiple Oscar nominations.
Cowritten with her daughter, Emma Walton Hamilton, and told with Andrews's trademark charm and candor, Home Work takes us on a rare and intimate journey into an extraordinary life that is funny, heartrending, and inspiring.
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Podcast: Travels in a Mathematical World
Episode: 63 - Rhys Phillips, Electrostatic hazards in aircraft
Pub date: 2010-07-25
Notes from The Listener:
Brief but informative look at how engineers go about preventing dangerous lightning strikes on aircraft. The language is slightly technical but the meaning is always made clear. Nervous flyers, proceed with caution: the expert interviewed here explains that electrostatic hazards can come from within a plane — say from the fuel lines — as well as from weather events outside. The beauty of this show is its brevity. It crams a detailed interview and plenty of narration into a seven-minute package. Makes me wonder how many other shows would be better condensed like this
Episode 63. Rhys Phillips of the Lightning Direct Effects Group at EADS talks about his work as a research engineer around electrostatic hazards in aircraft. For more info and show notes visit www.travelsinamathematicalworld.co.uk
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Podcast: Immigrantly: Conversations on Race, Culture & the Immigrant Experience (LS 44 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: Can We All Just Get Along?
Pub date: 2020-01-14
Notes from The Listener:
Interview show about immigrant stories. The guest in this episode is an Israeli-American journalist who grew up in the US with one parent from Mexico and the other from Israel, although as they were both from the Ashkenazi Jewish diaspora “the cultural differences were not that great between them,” she explains. She moved to Israel by herself aged 18, which in 1999 felt like “a very free and open place” to her. She’s since become a journalist and used her mixed heritage and experience as a tool in covering the Israel-Palestine conflict, mostly for a US audience
Mairav Zonszein is a second-generation Israeli American journalist and editor who writes about Israel-Palestine conflict and its role in U.S. politics. She was born and raised in NY., but she has spent most of her adult life in Israel. Saadia talks to Mairav about her experiences as an American Immigrant in Israel. Her publications include The Guardian, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The New York Review of Books, The Intercept, VICE News, Foreign Policy, and many more. She is a changemaker who is fighting for equal rights for everyone.
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Podcast: Edge Effects (LS 38 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: The Marketplace of Environmental Sounds
Pub date: 2018-09-18
Notes from The Listener:
Intense and detailed discussion about musical imitations of natural sounds. Composers from Beethoven to Prokofiev to Messiaen and beyond have long borrowed extensively from birdsong and other melodies from nature. The conversation here starts by focusing on what we can glean about how nature was viewed at different times in history from how these tunes are incorporated into music, but quickly broadens out to take in the political dimension of this practice too. The guest makes the case that weaving birdsong into a human composition is a kind of appropriation, and should be approached with great care
How is the musical history of animal imitation caught up in racism, sexism, and imperialist nostalgia? From classical music to whistling, this conversation explores the art and ethics of imitating, recording, and selling the sounds of the nonhuman world.
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Podcast: How To Do Everything (LS 61 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: The Sound of Silence
Pub date: 2016-09-30
Notes from The Listener:
Public radio “lifehack” show with an absurdist sensibility. The hosts help listeners solve their problems, such as how to open a Velcro flap on a book bag quietly when late to class. A military expert lends expertise, since this is a problem soldiers have long faced. There’s a lot of peripheral weirdness in this show that is extremely enjoyable, such as the choice to disguise edit points in interviews with Velcro noise “rather than pretending there are no edits like we normally do”. I deeply regret that I did not know about this podcast while it was still publishing episodes
A listener needs help opening his Velcro bag quietly, so we call in the military.
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Podcast: Ask The Nincompoops (LS 43 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: Term 2, Lesson 7: Were Cavemen Actually Real?
Pub date: 2019-12-13
Notes from The Listener:
Delightful question and answer show where children get to ask adults anything they want to know. The six and eight year old guests here, Michael and Katherine, have queries including “how do the conveyor belts at supermarkets work?” and “were cavemen real?”. The twist here is that the adult hosts try to answer everything in a plausible yet completely fact free manner to see how much nonsense the children will swallow. They maintain an omniscient attitude while dispensing gibberish. It’s essentially an improv game with a live audience of two kids who are still just young enough to believe in goblins
Are you a very unintelligent child? Of COURSE you are. It's well known by clever adults that you kids know NOTHING.
But don't cry because you won't be unedumacated for much longer. Carrie Quinlan (a VERY clever grown-up) and Andy Stanton (who is also a VERY clever grown-up, thank you, actually) are here to educate the world's children and answer their soft, squashy brain questions using GROWN-UP KNOWLEDGE. It's time to....Ask The Nincompoops!
Today it's a return visit for straw-headed tots MICHAEL and KATHERINE to be informed and educated by two very clever adults.
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Podcast: Invisibilia (LS 82 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)
Episode: Back When I Was Older
Pub date: 2019-10-25
Notes from The Listener:
Mystifying documentary about "cases of the reincarnation type", in which children believe that they have memories from a past life. It’s quite creepy, listening to a young boy talking quite matter of factly about the things he used to do “when I was older”, and very distressing for parents who worry their child is experiencing a kind of psychosis. The central figure in this episode is a scientist who studies this phenomenon at a university department called the "Division of Perceptual Studies”. He tries to pin down exactly who these kids were in a previous life, as a way of helping them to live in the present
As a parent, what do you do when your four-year-old starts telling you about memories that can't possibly be his? Memories that he says are from a past life?
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Podcast: Knowing: Robin Williams (LS 47 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: The Cost of Fame
Pub date: 2019-11-18
Notes from The Listener:
Biographical series about Robin Williams covers his struggles with addiction. There are plenty of interviews with friends and colleagues who were around Williams at this time, as well as extensive discussion with biographer Dave Itzkoff (this show is made by his publisher as a promo for the book). What emerges is a moving portrait of a very talented man who tried always to smile in public even if things were grim for him in private. Williams also used his work to process his emotions; after hearing this, you’ll see Mork and Mindy in a whole new light
Robin is confronted with the brutalities of drugs, addiction and fame. To learn more about Robin, check out Dave Itzkoff's book, Robin, here. Stay up to date on the latest at Macmillan by checking out this newsletter here.
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Podcast: Filter Stories - Coffee Documentaries (LS 44 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: Firefly
Pub date: 2018-09-04
Notes from The Listener:
Deep dive into the murky world of modern “ethical” coffee production. The case study presented here is Murray Cooper, a South African who farms coffee in Ecuador and who has a following online for his wildlife photography. Cooper’s coffee is popular with trendy cafés all over the world, with outlets promising honesty about their supply chain and fair pay for farmers. But, as this documentary lays out, there’s very little regulation of these supposedly transparent claims — Cooper’s nationality was reported wrongly for ages, and he couldn’t get it corrected, for instance — and farmers still get ripped off
Murray is one of Ecuador's most famous coffee farmers. But there's a problem: he's only earning $2 profit from 250 espressos. How does he survive?
While he struggles, his farm is splashed across Instagram and roasters say they have his interests at heart.
This is the real story behind the glossy Instagram posts. The reality might change how you look at your next cup of coffee.
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Podcast: The Daily Show Podcast Universe (LS 59 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: These American Lies
Pub date: 2020-01-13
Notes from The Listener:
Parody series of particular interest, I suspect, to the veteran podcast listener. This episode takes off This American Life, complete with its own fruity toned narration and self conscious act structure. The subject is Donald Trump’s mendacity, specifically around voter fraud, but it treats the President as a complete unknown, maintaining that somewhat didactic tone that even ardent Ira Glass fans will recognise. At just under a quarter of an hour in length, it’s good for a quick chuckle. I would also recommend the episode titled “#Crushing: A Success Podcast for Winners” from the same series
Hosted by Desi Lydic and Michael Kosta, "These American Lies" explores President Trump's claim that 3-5 million people voted illegally in the 2016 presidential election. It's sure to be the talk of your next Upper West Side dinner party.
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Podcast: Terms and Conditions Apply
Episode: The New Social Contract
Pub date: 2019-11-20
Notes from The Listener:
We’ve all checked the box in a hurry when signing up for something online and pretended that we read the terms and conditions in full. It’s a boring, everyday piece of deception that doesn’t tend to trouble my conscience. Until I listened to this competent and concise five part podcast series, that is, and learned more about what I have been unknowingly agreeing to. As the experts interviewed in these episodes explain, we’ve all consented to breaches of privacy this way that we would consider very unfavourably if they were presented openly. The host argues that this amounts to a “new social contract”
Everyone knows that “I have read the Terms and Conditions” is the biggest lie on the Internet. But in an age where these contracts are present on almost every website online, just what is it we’re agreeing to when we accept the terms provided to us by web companies?
Follow the show on Twitter for updates @TermsCondPod
Links and further reading:
“When Not Reading the Fine Print Can Cost You Your Soul” – NPR, March 8, 2019 https://www.npr.org/2019/03/08/701417140/when-not-reading-the-fine-print-can-cost-your-soul
“The Biggest Lie on the Internet: Ignoring the Privacy Policies and Terms of Service Policies of Social Networking Services” – Obar and Oeldorf-Hirsch, April 2016, revised August 2018 https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2757465
The Alex Kogan Experience – Against the Rules with Michael Lewis, April 16, 2019. https://atrpodcast.com/episodes/the-alex-kogan-experience-s1!d20f3
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg Hearing on Data Privacy and Protection, April 10, 2018. https://www.c-span.org/video/?443543-1/facebook-ceo-mark-zuckerberg-testifies-data-protection
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Podcast: Lecker: A Food Podcast (LS 40 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: S2 Ep2: The Inimitable Saima Thompson
Pub date: 2019-03-11
Notes from The Listener:
Food-based conversation show talks to a 29 year old chef with incurable lung cancer. From a critical point of view, setting aside the obviously tragic personal content for a moment, a really good terminal illness interview is hard to find. Many examples have a false-feeling sense of grit and redemption — the “I battled cancer and I won that fight!” narrative. Others are moving but lack thoughtfulness. This is a rare, excellent example. Saima is upbeat (“I’m still the same person, I’ve just now got an expiry date”) while genuinely interested in the deeper issues raised by her illness
Saima Thompson, née Arshad, was one of my guests on the very first episode of Lecker back in late 2016 when I interviewed her and her mother Nabeela in their restaurant Masala Wala Cafe.
Last year, aged just 29, Saima was diagnosed with incurable Stage 4 lung cancer. I met her again, this time to talk about living with cancer and how running a restaurant fits in with her diagnosis.
Please note that as well as discussion around cancer this episode also mentions miscarriage.
Produced and hosted by Lucy Dearlove
Saima Thompson blogs at curryandcancer.com and you can find her on Twitter and Instagram @curryandcancer.
You can listen to Lecker episode 1: Masala Wala with Saima and Nabeela here.
Masala Wala Cafe serves delicious home-cooked Pakistani food in Brockley, South East London.
Saima's Facebook support group for black, Asian and minority ethnic cancer patients can be found here.
Saima recently appeared on the BBC Sounds podcast You, Me and the Big C on the episode About Cultures.
Music: Blue Dot Sessions - OneEightFour
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Podcast: Speaking Tangentially
Episode: Numbers: The Irrationality of √2
Pub date: 2019-10-28
Notes from The Listener:
Admittedly the recording quality could be better on this mathematics discussion show, although it still perfectly listenable. I found it worth turning up the volume to hear the irrepressible enthusiasm the host has for concepts most young people can’t wait to never think about again. In this instalment, she’s explaining the proof for the irrationality of √2 to two friends. It’s a bit tricky to tell how much they understand of what she’s laying out — and the geometry is a little hard for the listener to follow only through audio perhaps — but the keenness really comes through
For the first episode of Speaking Tangentially, Cecelia teaches her friends about the proof of the irrationality of √2. Listen in to hear about how this proof works and how it con be represented through geometry!
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Podcast: The Skewer (LS 48 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 3, Podcast Part 1
Pub date: 2020-01-28
Notes from The Listener:
Satirical, topical comedy show created from cunningly edited news and film footage. There’s no narration or explanation, just a seamlessly edited soundscape of strangeness. A few obvious jokes recur, as the statements of well known public figures are manipulated to make them seem to say absurd things, but the best parts are the odd intrusions from pop culture and even country music as a way of undercutting pomposity. Some knowledge of the British media might enhance the listening experience (so you can identify the TV theme tunes woven through) but it’s enjoyable regardless
Part 1 of Episode 3
A satirical river of sound and a platform for diverse new talent, this is topical satire like you’ve never heard it before. A new open-door comedy for a fresh generation of satirists who don’t write sketches, jokes and one liners, but instead channel their talents into playing around with sound.
Following an award-winning pilot and an award nominated Halloween Brexit special, the "disorentating, dizzying, dazzling" Skewer returns for a full series.
"A freeform assault on the senses.. deeply haunting..an eerily beautiful discombobulating mosaic of spin" - comedy.co.uk
Creator and producer Jon Holmes curates contributions from brand new and diverse talent in a show where the experience is enhanced through headphones, attaching the listener to a late night drip of current events as they melt into the brain, evoking a feeling of drifting off, but with the occasional uncomfortable sleep-twitch.
Sketch-writing has long been the way into radio comedy but, for the new generation of satirists who don’t put pen to paper and instead beaver away on laptops using self-taught skills to toy with the news-scape, The Skewer's guerrilla approach to satire is their new playground.
“If ever there was an audio version of Coldwar Steve, it might well be this! Incredible.”
“Cassette Boy meets Blue Jam. Superb.”
“A whole new genre of radio comedy programme invented right there. Clever, funny and scary all at the same time.”
“Weirdly, hypnotically funny. More please.”
“Pushes the boundaries of satirical radio into the murky depths. The world needs exactly this kind of creative commentary right now. Looking forward to more.”
“With this new show, Jon Holmes asserts his place as king of outsider radio art. Its woozy, punch drunk style operates as a perfect satire of our times. Headphones on and fall down it’s K-hole, friends. Exceptional stuff.” Rufus Hound
Producer: Jon Holmes An Unusual production for BBC Radio 4
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Podcast: What's Crap on WhatsApp? (LS 24 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: 2019 Recap
Pub date: 2020-01-13
Notes from The Listener:
Factchecking show inspired by and largely distributed on the social messaging app Whatsapp. It’s made in South Africa, where Whatsapp is ubiquitous for sending text messages and voice notes as well as accessing and sharing other content. This podcast seeks to debunk misleading stories that are spreading on the platform. As well as being distributed via RSS to podcast apps it is available as a Whatsapp voice note so journalists can reach readers in the place where they are seeing the false information. This recap covers health (apricot seeds don’t kill cancer cells), politics and education
In the first episode of 2020 we take time to reflect on the best of the past. Kate and Paul share their favourite debunks of the year.
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Podcast: Criminal (LS 86 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 132: Herrin Massacre
Pub date: 2020-01-24
Notes from The Listener:
Disturbing yet compelling tale of a massacre in southern Illinois in 1922. The town of Herrin was dominated by coal mining and the mineworkers’ union held sway. When a new industrialist imported workers to keep mining during a major strike, local people turned violent and a mass killing took place. This is an extraordinary story about labour relations and human savagery, made all the more gripping here by the inclusion of archive interviews with residents who not only remember what took place during those dark days, but still think the killing was justified
In the spring of 1922, the United Mine Workers of America announced a national strike. And then, that summer in Herrin, Illinois, 23 people were murdered over two days. Men, women, and children came out of their houses to watch, and in some cases, to take part in the violence.
Scott Doody’s book is Herrin Massacre. Special thanks to the Special Collections Research Center at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, and Matt Gorzalski, and to John Griswold, who wrote Herrin: The Brief History of an Infamous American City.
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Podcast: Noise in the Groove: The Origin of Sound Recording (LS 28 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 16 – Alessandro Moreschi and the Blessed Knife
Pub date: 2016-06-03
Notes from The Listener:
Exploration of the history and legacy of castrati singers. For 350 years, this practice of castrating young male singers before puberty produced a highly prized strand of music and musicianship. Only two recordings of such a singer exist, though, made by the last Sistine castrato Alessandro Moreschi in 1902 and 1904. His records allow us a brief and partial glimpse of what the host here calls a “horrible and beautiful lost world of sound, made possible through horrific acts of mutilation on innocent children”. Moreschi’s version of the Bach/Gounod Ave Maria, played here, is spine chilling
This episode begins (just about) and ends (indeed) with recordings of Alessandro Moreschi – AKA the Angel of Rome – AKA the Last Castrato. His recordings are the only surviving sounds of a tradition of castrated male singers that lasted over 350 years, and mutilated countless thousands of innocent children in the process. We chart the rise and fall of the castrato voice, and along the way we encounter: Casanova, Teresa Lanti, Farinelli, Luigi Marchesi and more.
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Podcast: OnFARM rural podcast (LS 39 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Norvite - a Scottish alternative to imported soybean feed
Pub date: 2020-01-17
Notes from The Listener:
Engaging documentary show about agriculture in Scotland. This episode is about the dual challenges for dairy farmers of improving sustainability while also keeping costs low enough to stay in business. Cattle feed is a major area where compromise is possible: a new process for cold pressing rapeseed oil promises a locally sourced, ethical alternative to imported soybean and palm oil products. This show uses a lot of field recording and interviews to enliven a potentially dry subject; I’m a firm believer all podcasts should have cows in the background now
Aberdeenshire animal-feed producer Norvite have an innovative new product called NEOLac - a protein-rich livestock feed made primarily from locally-sourced and cold-pressed oilseed rape. It's an exciting development for anyone who recognises that importing soybean and palm oil is unsustainable and even potentially unethical. For this edition of OnFARM, Norvite's Ed Smith talks Anna through the process of manufacturing NEOLac at his processing plant. Ed and Anna also visit Bruce Mackie at Middleton of Rora, a dairy farm where successful trials of NEOLac have taken place.
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Podcast: White Silence (LS 46 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Episode One - The break-in
Pub date: 2019-11-07
Notes from The Listener:
Beginning of an absorbing series about New Zealand’s worst peacetime disaster, in which all 257 people aboard Air New Zealand Flight 901 died when it crashed into Mount Erebus in Antarctica on 28 November 1979. Both the sudden horror of the accident — it was a scheduled sightseeing flight that had run at least a dozen times before — and the official reaction to it produced a legacy of bitterness and conspiracy theories. The disaster materially affected New Zealanders’ self image, as well as bringing a bizarre popularity to the phrase “an orchestrated litany of lies”
On November 28, 1979, an Air New Zealand DC10 took off from Auckland Airport on a sightseeing trip to Antarctica. It never returned. What do the families remember of that fateful day?
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Podcast: Early Work with Rhys James (LS 47 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: EP1: Rose Matafeo
Pub date: 2020-01-13
Notes from The Listener:
Comedians read and make fun of their early work. The guest here talks a lot about how her upbringing influenced her early leanings towards creativity — her parents were Rastafarians and had an extremely laid back approach to parenting. As a result, she became a comedy fan from an early age, accessing material like Monty Python too young that got her hooked on the idea of writing jokes. The banter here is funny, but what really struck me was how much pleasure they got from handling childhood exercise books. Maybe we shouldn’t be decluttering too thoroughly
Edinburgh Comedy Award Winner and Taskmaster not-winner Rose Matafeo is the first to step up to the podium and deliver her incredibly versatile early work, before being quite forgiving of Rhys's tragic offering. Things start edgy and end up spooky, so consider this a trigger warning.
Follow Rose on Twitter @rose_matafeo Follow Early Work on Twitter @EarlyWorkPod Rhys is on tour - all dates on his website. Or you can follow him @rhysjamesy
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Podcast: Wholehearted (LS 39 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: We Live for Drama
Pub date: 2020-01-22
Notes from The Listener:
Honest, occasionally sweary essay about why gossip is so enjoyable. The host confesses freely to her own habits, which include both stalking ex boyfriends on social media and regaling others with secondhand stories. She also examines the part that this pastime plays in her friendships, playing conversations friends who share her fixation. There’s a completely open quality about the interviews here that is very endearing, and the episode has a surprisingly serious conclusion that looks at why young adults particularly crave this drama as a way of coping with a more static pace of adult life
In the often-boring world of adulthood, there are few things that bring such primal joy as a good old-fashioned dose of drama. Whether it be reality TV, a confrontational text conversation, or eavesdropping on fighting strangers in public, why is it that gossip, rumors, and bad decisions give us so much life?
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Podcast: The Grenfell Tower Inquiry Podcast (LS 54 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: 112 Phase 1 Report: Flat 142
Pub date: 2019-11-01
Notes from The Listener:
Podcast following the major inquiry into the Grenfell Tower fire in 2017, a disaster in which 72 people were killed when flames engulfed the 24 storey west London tower block. This show publishes every day that the inquiry sits, as well as providing intermittent analysis of its reports as they are produced. Here, the reporters use the tragic story of the family in Flat 142 to explain how both central command and the firefighters on the ground failed residents. Tough listening, but I think this is a vital and worthwhile project that makes a huge public inquiry digestible
The report says there was a fundamental failure of command and control when it came to the firefighters at Grenfell.
In this episode we look at how the story of flat 142 illustrates this.
Producer Kate Lamble Researcher Tom Wright Contact us via email: grenfellpodcast@bbc.co.uk
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Podcast: 1865 (LS 65 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: The Senator’s Daughter | 4
Pub date: 2019-07-02
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Drama set in 1865 around the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. The series follows Secretary of War Edwin Stanton as he organises the manhunt for Lincoln’s killer while also trying to preserve his former boss’s political legacy in the face of great opposition from new president Andrew Jackson. It’s all well worth a listen, being well acted and appropriately scored with epic orchestral music. I like this episode in particular, in which Stanton unravels John Wilkes Booth’s political connections, including with DC society belle Lucy Hale, who was also involved with Lincoln’s son Robert
Stanton sets out to learn the truth about Lucy Hale, and finds opportunity in adversity.
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Starring Jeremy Schwartz as Edwin Stanton.
Also featuring (in order of appearance):
Steven Walters (Robert Lincoln)
Jessica Renee Russell (Lucy Hale)
Ian Ferguson (Major Thomas Eckert)
Reed Birney (Senator John P. Hale)
William Jackson Harper (John Mercer Langston)
R. Bruce Elliott (President Andrew Johnson)
Pam Dougherty (Mary Todd Lincoln)
Didi Archilla (Seance participant)
Erik Archilla (Seance participant)
Joel Ferrell (Seance participant)
Emily Gray (Seance participant)
Matthew Gray (Seance participant)
Tia Lalusa (Seance participant)
Robert McCollum (Seance participant)
Lindsay Ryan (Seance participant)
Aaron Roberts (Marshal James McPhail)
Created by Steven Walters and Erik Archilla
Directed by Robert McCollum
Written by Steven Walters and Erik Archilla
Executive Producer: Lindsay Graham
Co-executive Producers: Erik Archilla, Robert McCollum and Steven Walters
Music and Sound Design by Lindsay Graham
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Podcast: The Hardest Word (LS 33 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: The Hardest Word: Wiccan Daughter
Pub date: 2020-01-16
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Podcast that hosts recordings of real people making apologies to those they feel they have wronged. In this instance, a Wiccan in her early twenties says sorry to her mother for not following the expected path through life. “I always knew I wasn’t what you wanted,” she says. “But I tried for a while.” The twist here, I think, is that this isn’t really an apology at all — instead it sounds rather like a solipsistic justification for individual choices, I think. There’s no sense of an offer to make amends or mend the hurt caused, suggesting a lack of sincerity
A wiccan daughter apologizes - kind of.
This 100% independent and advertising-free podcast is created by host Brett de Hoedt with audio director Brian Wallace. It’s one of the most global and intimate podcasts produced today. It's heard on Podcast Radio London and Fire radio in Switzerland. Coming soon: apologies from Iran and the US prison system.
There are 700,000 podcasts but none like this.
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This apology was originally featured in series one.
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Podcast: Supercharged (LS 41 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: Production Hell
Pub date: 2019-12-17
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Instalment from a six part series about Tesla, Elon Musk’s headline-grabbing venture best known for its electric cars. This episode focuses on the production problems that have plagued the company since the launch of its more family friendly, affordable car — the Model 3 — in 2016. It was incredibly popular right from the start, but Tesla has struggled to make enough cars to keep pace with demand. This problem has caused knock on financial problems for the company and dented its cool reputation. This well-made series is a little too deferential to Musk, I think, but still very informative
Since the original Roadster, Tesla has struggled to produce enough cars to meet the demand from customers. Building a car manufacturer from scratch is hard, and if there was any car to highlight that difficulty it was the popular Model 3. As Elon would say, 'Welcome to Production Hell'.
Lora Kolodny's CNBC Investigation into GA4: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/07/15/tesla-workers-in-ga4-tent-describe-pressure-to-make-model-3-goals.html
Reveal's 'Tesla and Beyond': https://www.revealnews.org/episodes/tesla-and-beyond-hidden-problems-of-silicon-valley/
The City Podcast 'West World': https://www.thecitypodcast.com/podcast_episode/the-city-podcast-season-2-episode-4/
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Podcast: Novel Gazing Podcast (LS 39 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Is Harry Potter Literary Fiction?
Pub date: 2020-01-14
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Literary conversation show that examines hot topics from the bookish segment of social media. Covered here, among other things, are ideas about novel reading and gender (why do women read so much more fiction?); the literary afterlives of Emily Bronte; and the resurgent reputation of author Zora Neale Hurston. Then the hosts delve in more detail into the question of whether the Harry Potter books can be taken seriously as literature, especially because their author keeps tinkering with them after the fact. A laid back show that strikes a good balance between being opinionated and informative
Mary Kay and Louise talk about important literary things like, is Harry Potter literary fiction? What’s going on in the literary world right now? And, what are you reading?
This episode is sponsored by Book Riot Insiders and Libro.fm.
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BOOKS AND TEXTS DISCUSSED:
“Without Women The Novel Would Die” by Johanna Thomas-Corr.
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
“It’s Time to Fall Back in Love With Zora Neale Hurston” by Jennifer Baker
Tell My Horse by Zora Neale Hurston
Of Mules and Men by Zora Neale Hurston
Barracoon by Zora Neale Hurston
Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick by Zora Neale Hurston (featuring the short story/forward “Searching for Zora” by Alice Walker)
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
The Merry Spinster: Tales of Everyday Horror by Daniel Mallory Ortberg
JK Rowling Makes Transphobic Statement on Twitter
Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling
“You Can’t Be Serious about Harry Potter!”
Peter Darling by Austin Chant
An American Marriage by Tayari Jones
Little: A Novel by Edward Carey
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Podcast: Asia's Developing Future
Episode: “Everyone is born an entrepreneur.” M. Yunus, Grameen Bank, Nobel laureate
Pub date: 2017-09-04
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Brief profile of Muhammad Yunus, a Bangladeshi banker and Nobel laureate. Yunus founded Grameen Bank while studying at university, and quickly realised that microfinance could help to lift people out of poverty who are usually cut off from the banking system. He lends to millions of people who have no collateral whatsoever, the vast majority of them women, and his loans have a 99 per cent repayment rate. It’s a fascinating insight into what can happen when someone reverses conventional wisdom. As Yunus asks here: why don’t we create banks for the poor?
Muhammad Yunus believes the world must look again at what banks should be—and what they should do. The Bangladeshi Nobel laureate and founder of Grameen Bank also wants to upend our thinking about jobs and entrepreneurship. He sent a video message to the Global Think Tank Summit held in Yokohama in May, and organized by the Asian Development Bank Institute and the Think Tanks and Civil Societies Program, University of Pennsylvania. He spoke about the microcredit institution he founded some 40 years ago. He started Grameen after seeing the life-changing effects of lending his own money to poor villagers near his university at Chittagong.
Read the transcript: http://bit.ly/2vCOtzz
Watch the full presentation: http://bit.ly/2wWTH9l
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Podcast: Know You Better (LS 25 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: S1 E1 - Sally, Sign Language Interpreter
Pub date: 2020-01-05
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Interview with a sign language interpreter about her job and why she wanted to follow this career. She had a passion for languages as a teenager but struggled with learning the ones available to her at school, before she signed up for a British Sign Language course on a whim and discovered an aptitude for it. As well as explaining the practicalities of her interpretation work, she talks about the still-uncertain legal status of sign languages, and why legislation to protect them matters to everything from access to healthcare to ensuring people can get work
Hello friends! Welcome to the first episode of Know You Better where I interview an interesting person and dive deep into what they do.
This episode I'm talking to my friend Sally, who works as a sign language interpreter. I ask her how she first was drawn to the profession, get into exactly what the term sign language encompasses, and learn a few things myself along the way.
further reading: British Sign Langauge website: https://www.british-sign.co.uk/
Action on Hearing Loss: https://www.actiononhearingloss.org.uk/about-us/our-work-across-the-uk/northern-ireland/
British Deaf Association: https://bda.org.uk/belfast-office/
Thanks for listening.
If you have something interesting that you do, please get in touch. You can contact the show directly on Twitter @KYBpod or contact me directly, I'm @jonocard.
Until next time, bye.
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Podcast: Sam Walker's Desert Diaries (LS 51 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Week fourteen: Unless you really need to, don't get out of the car!
Pub date: 2020-01-16
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Audio diary from a British radio presenter who recently moved from Manchester, UK to Arizona, US. Each entry is short but crammed with details about how she is navigating the cultural changes that come with moving a family halfway across the world. This episode is about her children back to school in their new environment. Not only do they have to adjust to a new education system, but there’s also a new car-centric style of parenting to get used to — how do you meet other parents, she asks, when nobody gets out of their car at the school gates?
Week fourteen: It's already back to school. despite being early August and I learn that unless you really need to, just don't get out of the car.
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Podcast: MEDIA INDIGENA : Indigenous current affairs (LS 51 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Ep. 189: Putting an Indigenous Frame on Stock Photography
Pub date: 2019-12-24
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Canadian indigenous affairs podcast discusses stock photos, the generic images used by advertisers and publishers to illustrate articles and campaigns. They relate how a woman from the Six Nations of the Grand River First Nation, which is the largest reserve in Canada with a population of over 12,000, created her own stock photo database because of the lack of available shots featuring indigenous people. The experts here contextualise this effort to diversify stock photography, explaining how the existence of such apparently inconsequential images can send a powerful message
On this week’s Indigenous roundtable: Taking control, taking stock. How a First Nation in Ontario decided the only way they’re going to find images of Indigenous people that don’t rely on stereotypes is to make their own catalogue of stock photography.
Joining host/producer Rick Harp to discuss how literally owning your own depictions is key to cultural self-determination are Kim TallBear (University of Alberta associate professor of Native Studies) and Candis Callison (Associate Professor at UBC's Graduate School of Journalism).
CREDITS: This episode of the podcast was edited by Anya Zoledziowski; hosted and produced by Rick Harp. Our theme is nesting by birocratic.
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Podcast: The Red Line (LS 48 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: 6 - Transnistria (Europes Last Soviet Republic)
Pub date: 2019-12-15
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Roundtable discussion about Transnistria, a tiny strip of land on the border between Ukraine and Moldova. Described here as “the last remnant of the Soviet Union in Europe”, Transnistria is not recognised as a country by most of the world’s nations, yet mostly operates as one in practical terms, with a GDP, a system of government and trading partners. This strange geopolitical anomaly has ended up as a crucial counterweight and buffer zone in regional disputes, although one pessimistic speaker here says that generally “everybody loses except Moscow”
Between Moldova and Ukraine lies the breakaway republic of Transnistria the last nation to hold the hammer and sickle upon its flag, this unrecognized nation doesn't exist on any map but does hold the entire balance of power in Eastern Europe. This is the last barrier between the encroachment of the EU and the heartlands of Russia, so to better understand this breakaway republic we turn to 3 expert witnesses. The week we speak to Tyrone Shaw (University of Northern Vermont) Dmitri Tokarev (University of Tiraspol) Kristaps Andrejsons (Host of the Eastern Border) For more information please visit >> www.theredlinepodcast.com
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Podcast: Becoming Wise (LS 58 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: The Everyday Gift of Writing | Naomi Shihab Nye
Pub date: 2019-04-22
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Short, illuminating moments from longer conversations between veteran radio host Krista Tippett and guests, delivered to this feed daily. This one isolates an exchange with the poet Naomi Shihab Nye, who explains how her poem “Kindness” was written. It includes the lines: “Before you know kindness as the deepest thing inside, / you must know sorrow as the other deepest thing”. She says she didn’t create it so much as just write it down when she heard a voice speaking it to her inside her head. “I was simply the secretary for the poem,” Nye explains
Naomi Shihab Nye says writing is “an act that helps you, preserves you, energizes you in the very doing of it.” She calls herself a “wandering poet,” and her words point to shining corners of beauty in the world we see every day.
A visiting poet all over the world, Naomi Shihab Nye is a professor of creative writing at Texas State University. Her books include 19 Varieties of Gazelle, A Maze Me: Poems for Girls, and Transfer. Her most recent book is The Tiny Journalist.
Find the transcript at onbeing.org.
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Podcast: My Mate Bought A Toaster (LS 43 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: Geoff Lloyd
Pub date: 2019-06-24
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Interview podcast that uses guests’ Amazon order histories to access who they are. This episode features Geoff Lloyd, a UK radio DJ and self-confessed socially awkward person. Lloyd first bought something from Amazon in 2003, and is mostly endearingly baffled by the items that show up in his list. He also confesses to the bad habit of “trying to impose my taste on other people” by buying them films or books he recommends and shipping them straight to their address. Plus, this is the first time on the show that someone has, in fact, bought the eponymous toaster
Geoff Lloyd off of the 5 live, the Reasons to be Cheerful Podcast and so much more, steps into the Toaster studio and unleashes a torrent of Amazon purchases on our behinds. Featuring the weirdest ever use of cornflakes, the ins and outs of karaoke etiquette and an ACTUAL TOASTER! The very first ACTUAL toaster on this show!
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Podcast: Uncover (LS 77 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)
Episode: The ethical true crime podcast: How to make one, what not to do
Pub date: 2019-09-04
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Panel discussion about the ethics of true crime podcasting, which has become a boom industry with plenty of interested investors. All of the speakers are reporters, who make shows that seek to uncover new information about cold cases and even overturn wrongful convictions. The amateur strand of this genre is underrepresented, but the perspectives given are thought provoking nonetheless. A key question concerns the dividing line between journalism and entertainment: is it acceptable to pursue a crime story just because people will want to listen to it, or does there have to be a larger mission?
Rebecca Lavoie, host of Crime Writers On..., speaks with four distinguished podcasters who work with true crime: Justin Ling, host of Uncover: The Village, Connie Walker, host of Missing & Murdered, Natalie Jablonski, producer on In The Dark, and Amber Hunt, host of Accused.
They break down the ethics behind true crime podcasts, what good podcasts should work to achieve, and what to take into consideration when dealing with stories that affect real lives.
This bonus episode was recorded in front of a live audience at Podcast Movement.
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Podcast: WEDway Radio - Walt Disney World and Disneyland Examined with some Disney History (LS 55 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: WWR S10:E3 - A Mouse Divided
Pub date: 2019-04-01
Notes from The Listener:
Conversational show about the past, present and future of the Disney empire. This episode features a discussion with a historian and is focused on Walt Disney himself. They also go deeply into the background of Ub Iwerks, an old friend of Disney’s and his long time business partner. Iwerks was, among other things, an animator, and the style of the early Disney cartoons came from him. He’s also responsible for the image of Mickey Mouse that is now the iconic brand identity of the corporation. Yet Iwerks remains relatively unknown — his lack of profile is explored here in detail
This week, Matt and author Jeff Ryan look at the relationship between Walt Disney, Ub Iwerks, and Mickey Mouse, and they discuss some of the unknown contributions of Ub to Disney animation, film SFX, and Disney theme parks.
You can find Jeff's book, A Mouse Divided, on Amazon!
Enjoy.
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Podcast: How To! (LS 62 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: How To Put Down Your Phone
Pub date: 2019-10-15
Notes from The Listener:
Off beat approach to the now popular topic of breaking phone addiction. The host of this show approaches a wide variety of topics from the perspective of a reporter, rather than a wellness guru or self-help guide. (Other standout subjects from the series include bank robbery and anxiety.) In this episode he asks an addict and expert about the culture and science of smartphone dependency with the aim of arriving at a practical solution for the problem. The question that stuck with me, though, was asked early on: why do we automatically assume phone use is bad?
How many times have you looked at your phone so far today? Do you feel like you’re choosing to look, or automatically craving it when you ought to be enjoying life? In this episode of How To! we get advice from Jia Tolentino, New Yorker writer and author of Trick Mirror, who spends hours on the phone every day for her job. And Cal Newport, author of Digital Minimalism, whose 30-day ‘digital declutter’ helps us think more deeply, be more present, and control our devices so they don’t control us.
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Podcast: What I Wore When (LS 46 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Justine Harman: What I Wore When I Went to My Best Friend’s Funeral
Pub date: 2019-12-30
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Fashion podcast that uses outfit choices to discuss momentous moments. Here, the guest talks about the process of finding something to wear when, three weeks after she gave birth to her daughter, she suddenly had to go to the funeral of her childhood best friend. The service took place at the synagogue they had attended together as children. The usual challenges of formal dressing were compounded by the fact that it was winter, she was breastfeeding and still larger than most of her clothing after pregnancy. She explains how the final outfit made her feel very movingly
If you’re a podcast fan, you probably devoured Broken Harts, a serialized true crime story about The Hart Family that’s been downloaded more than 11 million times. The podcast stemmed from an investigative report former Glamour editor Justine Harman was working on. Now a freelance writer and podcaster—be on the lookout for her new audio series in January—Justine sits down with Perrie to talk about how fashion can play a role in a woman’s life during the worst circumstance a person can imagine, and why it isn’t always as simple as throwing on a black dress.
For more on this episode, visit glamour.com/whatiworewhen.
Justine Harman is a writer, podcaster, and Glamour contributor. Her new nonfiction podcast, The Baron of Botox, drops January 14, 2019. Follow her on Twitter @justineharman and on Instagram @justinedc.
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Podcast: Rick Steves Italy Audio Tours (LS 47 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Rome: Heart of Rome Walk
Pub date: 2016-08-01
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Audio tour through what the guide calls “the heart of Rome”. Beginning in the Campo de' Fiori, close to many of the city’s ancient sites and monuments, it winds roughly east past sites old and new to end up at the Spanish Steps. It only covers about a mile, but the host recommends leaving two hours to do it so you can stop and investigate anything you pass that piques your interest. Beyond this use case, though, this is a very enjoyable listen wherever you are in the world, as a way of experiencing another place virtually. There’s also a downloadable map to help with the geography
This walk winds through an urban village of narrow lanes, panoramic piazzas, fanciful fountains, and some of Europe’s best people-watching. Don't forget to download the handy PDF companion map.
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Podcast: Inside the Big Day Out
Episode: EPISODE 4 - Art Vs. Commerce
Pub date: 2019-10-21
While ticket sales soar to hundreds of thousands in the 2000s, artistic differences see the founder’s relationship reach breaking point. The manager holding everything together ends up in rehab and the festival starts to unravel.
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Podcast: Blank on Blank (LS 34 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Dame Stephanie Shirley on Survival Code
Pub date*: 2016-03-15
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Narrated excerpts from a recently rediscovered interview with a major British tech pioneer. Stephanie Shirley left school at 18 in the early 1950s with an aptitude for mathematics, and soon found her niche in the growing field of computing. As she says here, in the early days the hybrid mechanical-intellectual work of maintaining a computer was often considered “women’s work”, since it was repetitive and considered akin to secretarial work like filing. She went on to found her own billion dollar company and pioneer the practice of working from home
“I have to make my life worth saving, and each day you spend as if it would be your last” – Dame Steve Shirley in 2010
Dame Stephanie Shirley might be the most successful tech entrepreneur you have never heard of. In the early 1960s, Shirley started a barrier-breaking, all-woman software company that would eventually be valued at $3 billion. From a rarely heard oral history at The British Library, Shirley takes us on the journey from fleeing Nazi Germany as a little girl to breaking through in the new world of computers despite not being taken seriously as a woman working from home.
Watch the animated version of this episode from our series with PBS Digital Studios: http://blankonblank.org/dame-stephanie-shirley
Blank on Blank
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Podcast: Weird Work (LS 47 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: “I teach kids to be YouTube stars.”
Pub date: 2019-11-06
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Interview with the founder of a summer camp where children can learn to be social media megastars. Although the details of this business — and it is a business, parents pay thousands to get their kids into it — are intriguing, it’s the moral questions this episode asks that make it worth listening to. There’s a lot to unpack here, from the idea that this is just the newest iteration of the age-old practice of child labour to the notion that an eight year old can support his entire family “just” by opening boxes of toys in front of a camera. Is it child exploitation, or a legitimate career path?
Summer camp usually brings to mind outdoor sports and campfire songs. But the idea of camp that so many people have come to know has evolved into something they might never have imagined.
Alexander Rossi is the creator of YouTube STAR Camp, a summer program that helps kids learn the skills they need to become the next great YouTube stars. And while it might not sound like it at first, this camp has something every kid will want… and need.
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Podcast: The Impact (LS 64 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: How to stop an epidemic
Pub date: 2020-01-08
Notes from The Listener:
Clever parallel look at Elizabeth Warren’s manifesto plan to fight the opioid epidemic alongside the way America handled the HIV/AIDS crisis. Although the topic of how large scale public health legislation can mitigate and even end the effects of a major epidemic is somewhat dry, the focus on human stories amid the statistics here helps to bring it alive. Warren has explicitly cited a 1990 law that released funding for AIDS patients as her blueprint for tackling opioid abuse; similarly, she faces opposition from those who think the victims are not worth spending money on
Sen. Elizabeth Warren is running for president with a plan to fight the opioid epidemic. Her legislation would dramatically expand access to addiction treatment and overdose prevention, and it would cost $100 billion over 10 years. Addiction experts agree that this is the kind of money the United States needs to fight the opioid crisis. But it’s a really expensive idea, to help a deeply stigmatized population. How would a President Warren get this through Congress?
It’s been done before, with the legislation Warren is using as a blueprint for her proposal. In 1990, Congress passed the Ryan White Care Act, the first national coordinated response to the AIDS crisis. In the decades since, the federal government has dedicated billions of dollars to the fight against AIDS, and it’s revolutionized care for people with this once-deadly disease.
But by the time President George H.W. Bush signed the bill into law, hundreds of thousands of people in the US already had HIV/AIDS, and tens of thousands had died.
In this episode: how an epidemic begins, and how it ends. We look at what it took to get the federal government to finally act on AIDS, and what that means for Warren’s plan to fight the opioid crisis, today.
We always want to hear from you! Please send comments and questions to impact@vox.com.
Further listening and reading:
- When We Rise: My Life in the Movement, Cleve Jones’s book about his work for LGBTQ rights and against AIDS
- And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic, by Randy Shilts
- Vox’s German Lopez on Elizabeth Warren’s plan to fight the opioid epidemic
- Vox’s guide to where 2020 candidates stand on policy
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Host:
Jillian Weinberger, @jbweinz
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Podcast: 30 Animals That Made Us Smarter (LS 59 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Peacock and computer screen
Pub date: 2019-09-30
Notes from The Listener:
What can a peacock’s tail teach us about making better screens? Quite a bit, it seems. This BBC World Service series profiles a different animal in each of its 30 episodes with reference to what its biology can do to improve human technology. The colour-changing abilities of peacock feathers could help us make displays that require far less energy. I would also recommend the episodes about mussels, which can improve both foetal surgery and plywood, apparently. Also, host Patrick Aryee has a lovely smooth voice that rivals David Attenborough’s dulcet tones, in my opinion
Unlocking the secrets of the dazzling colours in the tail of the peacock. It is designed to attract females but has caught the eye of scientists, as they mimic it to develop high-resolution reflective colour-screen displays. With Patrick Aryee.
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Podcast: Citations Needed (LS 68 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 94: The Goofy Pseudoscience Copaganda of TV Forensics
Pub date: 2019-11-27
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Deep dive into how the depiction of forensics in pop culture has had an impact on how society approaches crime. TV shows like CSI are full of supposedly infallible techniques like spatter analysis and body language scrutiny that in reality have very little scientific basis. Yet studies show that jurors are very swayed by this stuff, especially in cases where they are already disposed to be prejudiced against a defendant, and miscarriages of justice occur as a result. The conversation here is quite earnest, but it’s nicely broken up by film clips and occasional jokes
Since the early 2000s, a spate of forensics-focused TV shows and films have emerged on the pop culture scene. Years after Law & Order premiered in the '90s, shows like CSI, NCIS, and The Mentalist followed, trumpeting the scientific merit of analyzing blood-spatter patterns, reading facial and bodily cues, and using the latest fingerprint-matching technology to catch the bad guy.
Yet what these procedurals neglect to acknowledge is that many of these popular forensic techniques are deeply unscientific and entirely political. Spatter pattern-matching, firearms analysis, hair analysis, fingerprint and bite mark analysis — they’re all mostly bullshit with little scientific merit. Despite this, forensics have helped contribute to the wrongful convictions of thousands of people: a storytelling aid, prosecutorial smoke and mirrors, a courtroom PR tool to lend scientific verisimilitude to what is very often just circumstantial, hunch-based police work.
On this episode, we break down how popular culture depictions of forensics helps mislead viewers — and by extension jurors — into thinking forensics are science that proves guilt rather than what they really are: slick marketing collateral to help prosecutors convict someone they already think is guilty for other, nonscientific reasons.
We are joined by Aviva Shen, Senior Editor at Slate.
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Podcast: Southern Slurp (LS 37 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: 6: South Indian Filter Coffee: The Best Ever Version of Coffee?
Pub date: 2019-10-27
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Gastronomy podcast about southern Indian food culture celebrates the region’s filter coffee. It’s brewed in a special metal cylinder and sometimes combined with frothed milk for the distinctive flavour. This episode contains both history of how coffee came to be made this way here (especially since tea in the form of chai is the preferred beverage elsewhere in India) as well as some personal reminiscences from fans of this brew. They make drinking it sound like a transformative experience, part of a sense of “home” in addition to being just a delicious thing to sip on
There are some things in life that need no introduction. They ARE the introduction. Filter coffee is one such thing.
South Indian filter coffee, to be precise.
Is this the best version of coffee there is? I think so. Allow me to convince you of it. And while we're at it, here's the history behind it, and why you shouldn't drink it on the go or from a paper cup.
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Podcast: Undercurrent: Bear 148 (LS 48 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 1: A perfect neighbour
Pub date: 2019-06-17
Notes from The Listener:
Profile, in six brief episodes, of a grizzly bear that was shot and killed in British Columbia in 2017. Bear 148 was something of a celebrity in Banff’s national park, but her regular interactions with humans and dogs caused wildlife managers a lot of concern, eventually leading to her relocation away from her home range. Then, she strayed into the neighbouring province where trophy hunting was not yet illegal, and was struck down. I found this series to be a really smart way of accessing complex ideas about wildlife, tourism and the human impact on the natural world
Bear 148 lived most of her life in and near Banff, which is Canada’s busiest national park. She wasn’t afraid of people and she became a local celebrity. By the summer of 2017, wildlife managers responsible for grizzly bears around the Bow Valley were just about fed up with Bear 148. The mild-mannered grizzly had had too many encounters with people in and around Canmore and the parks.
Shot with a tranquilizer and relocated via helicopter 500 kilometres northwest, Bear 148 found herself in a new world, far from her own. That’s when she made the fatal mistake of crossing the border into British Columbia, where trophy hunting was still legal.
Bear 148 was shot and killed. The trophy hunt, the subject of fierce opposition in B.C., was suspended just two months later.
The story of Bear 148, including her relocation and death, have ignited an important debate in Alberta about how human communities interact with and live among wildlife.
Many are asking: how did it come to this? Why did Bear 148 end up in a different province, hundreds of kilometres from her home range?
Others say the grizzly got more than a fair shot to stay alive.
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Featured in this episode:
Marc Breau, Banff resident and photographer
Kevin Van Tighem, former superintendent of Banff National Park and author of “Bears Without Fear”
Undercurrent soundtrack sponsored in part by Approach Media.
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Podcast: Borrowed Future (LS 69 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: Ep 7: How to Pay For College Without Student Loans
Pub date: 2019-11-11
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Series on student debt in the US offers practical advice on going to college without taking out any loans. This comes from a media outlet built around financial guru and devout Christian Dave Ramsey, so bear that context in mind, but it is still a useful angle on a source of financial trauma for thousands. There are six steps outlined, with preparation and research underlying it all (not accessible to all, of course). Millions of dollars in scholarships go unclaimed, for instance, and if you’re serious about remaining debt free, you can choose your degree with that in mind
No matter how much or how little money you have, it is possible to pay for college without student loans. And it all starts with changing your mindset. In this episode of Borrowed Future, you’ll hear from college guidance counselors as they explain how to find good, affordable schools and apply for the billions of dollars in unclaimed scholarships. You’ll also hear from Dave Ramsey, Mark Cuban, and Rachel Cruze explain how student loan debt can delay major life events like buying a home, having kids and retiring, and how this could eventually cause our current economic bubble to burst.
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Podcast: Drinking And Screaming - A Horror Movie Review Podcast (LS 37 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: S1E21 - S1E21: The Blair Witch Project (1999)
Pub date: 2019-11-22
Notes from The Listener:
Conversational podcast that pairs a custom cocktail with a classic horror film. In this episode, a “woodsy and hostile” drink accompanies 1999’s The Blair Witch Project. While sipping on their birch-infused beverage, the hosts chat through their experiences of the film, analysing character dynamics and jump scares in a pleasing amount of detail. There’s plenty lacking in the protagonists’ motivations, they find, but the film still stands up as an example of what can be achieved with improvisation and the “found footage” technique for making a spooky horror story
We discuss The Blair Witch Project on this episode of Drinking And Screaming, with Char making a forest-y cocktail to help us get lost in the woods. Discussions revolve around actor and character dynamics, the rebirth of the found footage style, and the making of this psychological horror film.
Hosts: Charlene Bayer & Kelly Wright
Producer: Charlene Bayer
Editor: Kelly Wright
Logo Design: Kelly Wright
Featured Film: The Blair Witch Project (1999)
Featured Cocktail: Coffin Rock
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Podcast: The Journal. (LS 67 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: The Great Beer Battle of 2019
Pub date: 2019-11-18
Notes from The Listener:
Two of the world’s biggest brewers of beer have spent months trading accusations and lawsuits in a fight kicked off by a TV advert. This hybrid conversational-narrative business podcast investigates the dispute, looking at how things got so sour between the makers of Bud Light and of Coors Light. Although the ad in question — a medieval parody about corn syrup that ran during the 2019 Superbowl — did cause problems, the battle is really about a fundamental change in American tastes. People in the US now drink far less light American lager, and less alcohol in general
A 2019 Super Bowl ad kicked off a showdown between the maker of Bud Light and the maker of Coors Light. WSJ's Jennifer Maloney explains how that standoff has led to accusations of corporate espionage, two lawsuits and questions about the future of the beer industry.
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Podcast: Twenty Thousand Hertz (LS 70 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: Plants that Sing
Pub date: 2019-06-17
Notes from The Listener:
Podcast about sounds explores the synthesiser-filled world of bioacoustics. We know how plants grow, but this piece seeks to understand what they sound like. The biodata generated as plants interact with their surroundings can be channeled into programmes that then produce sounds, and this episode looks at the different ways that artists and scientists have used this technique. It all builds on a sense of closeness and connection between humans and plants — that electric feeling you get in a silent forest or rustling field. As a nice touch, this episode soundtracked in places by music generated by plants
Have you ever wondered what your dog or cat would say to you if they could talk? How about your plant? In this episode we explore the world of bioacoustics and cognitive ecology. Featuring MIDI Sprout creator, Joe Patitucci, and ecologist, Monica Gagliano, who is the author of Thus Spoke the Plant.
Twenty Thousand Hertz is produced out of the studios of Defacto Sound, and hosted by Dallas Taylor.
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Podcast: Hills I'd Die On with Taylor Cox (LS 47 · TOP 1% what is this?)
Episode: Couples Shouldn't Live Together: Jennifer Levinson
Pub date: 2019-11-05
Notes from The Listener:
Amusing show where each guest introduces an unpopular opinion that they’d be willing to die on a hill to defend. This one is about cohabitation: the guest feels very strongly that relationships flourish best when each partner has their own residence. She has reasons for this view, only some of them to do with her own romantic experiences. The most pleasing thing about this podcast to me, though, is how faithfully it sticks to its premise — the hot takes aren’t just an excuse for a general interview, each episode really is a properly heated debate about the subject
Today we say goodbye to writer/actor Jennifer Levinson (TRIASSIC WORLD, SOLVE, BUZZFEED) who died trying to convince everyone not to live with their partners. Taylor and Jennifer get INTO IT about living with the people you love, and whether or not moving in with your S.O. means your relationship is doomed. RIP Jenn!
Art: Mackenzie Moore
Music: Hayden Coplen
Editor: Will Witwer
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Podcast: The Q Word Podcast (LS 42 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: Gallows Humor
Pub date: 2018-07-31
Notes from The Listener:
Podcast about the working lives of emergency nurses tackles the taboo around laughing at inappropriate moments. Sometimes, even the most dire situations can be humorous in a darkly comic way, especially for those who encounter death and difficulty on a regular basis. But, of course, there are widely accepted ideas about what can and can’t be laughed at, which these nurses are trying gently to challenge. It’s an engaging, funny conversation, which manages to be light hearted about hard things without being facetious or dismissive of others’ pain
Lisa and Nyssa tackle one of the biggest taboos in emergency medicine: laughter in the ER. Why it happens, is it appropriate, and if it is, when is it appropriate?
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Podcast: 50 Things That Made the Modern Economy (LS 67 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: Glasses
Pub date: 2019-10-28
Notes from The Listener:
Concise history of spectacles, from the first pair of reading glasses made in northern Italy in the 1200s to the augmented reality goggles beginning to appear today from Silicon Valley. For most of us, glasses are an everyday object, barely considered, but they required an advanced understanding of light and optics to be created. There’s also discussion here of a phenomenon everyone with deteriorating eyesight is aware of: it’s hard to tell how bad your sight has become until it is corrected. As such, apparently there are two billion people in the world who aren't aware that they need glasses
Spectacles have been around for centuries, and have a huge impact on many people's quality of life. So why is it estimated that more than two billion people aren't aware that they need them? Tim Harford considers the difference that seeing clearly makes to the world.
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Podcast: The Readings Podcast (LS 37 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: Bonus episode: Anita Heiss on Growing Up Aboriginal In Australia
Pub date: 2018-07-12
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Interview with the editor of an anthology of essays called Growing Up Aboriginal in Australia. She is a member of the Wiradjuri from New South Wales and a well-known advocate for Indigenous culture. This episode focuses on two different topics: the process of assembling a book about such a sensitive topic and a more general appreciation for the position of First Nations people in Australia today. The overwhelming takeaway from the different contributions in the book is how prevalent unexamined racism still is; many feel like “second class citizens” in their own country
Carlton bookseller Marie Matteson chats with Dr Anita Heiss about editing the anthology, Growing Up Aboriginal in Australia.
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Podcast: Roommate From Hell (LS 38 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)
Episode: 1.19: Villkommen, Bienvenue, Velcome
Pub date: 2019-01-31
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Slapstick, fictional horror podcast about an ancient demon and a businesswoman who live together in a fourth-floor walkup in Slope Hill, Brooklyn. This is a small vampire-based instalment in their adventures, which can absolutely be listened to alone (with due warning for occasional explicit language) but the whole series is highly enjoyable too. Here, you hear seven minutes of an autoplay recording that a vampire made for fresh victims waking up undead for the first time, so they shouldn’t be alarmed by their experiences. Surreal, weird, and satirical
The last thing you knew, you were doing some heavy necking with a pale Continental man.
Written and performed by Nick Douglas
Editing, sound design, and mixing by Levi Sharpe
Theme by Jason Oberholtzer
Outro music by SYBS
Cover art by Andrea Sparacio
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Twitter: @evilsitcom
Instagram: @evilsitcom
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Podcast: C19: America in the 19th Century (LS 27 · TOP 10% what is this?)
Episode: S03E02 | Wives and Their Authors: Elizabeth and Herman Melville, Literary Labor, and Women’s Work
Pub date: 2019-10-23
Notes from The Listener:
Academics discuss the unsung labour that creates the legacy of a great author, using the life of Herman Melville as a case study. Much of the documentary basis for subsequent studies of Melville’s craft was preserved by his wife Elizabeth and her female relatives, since he did not keep a regular journal and destroyed most of his papers before his death. In addition to all the domestic labour she undertook — Melville didn’t cook or clean or do laundry — Elizabeth nurtured his literary reputation tirelessly after his death, yet is an afterthought to most biographers
This episode explores the extraordinary efforts that Elizabeth Melville undertook, after her husband Herman's death, to republish his books and to preserve his records. Examining the way that Elizabeth's efforts were written out of the "Melville Studies" that her labors helped to found, we consider larger philosophical questions about how many lives stand behind the career that One Great Man gets to have. This episode was produced by Adam Fales (UChicago) and Jordan Alexander Stein (Fordham), and it features Rachel Sagner Buurma (Swarthmore), Meredith Farmer (Wake Forest), Laura Heffernan (North Florida), Natasha Hurley (UAlberta), Wyn Kelley (MIT), Laurie Robertson-Lorant (UMass Dartmouth), and Elizabeth Renker (Ohio State). Additional production support by Rachel Boccio (CUNY LaGuardia). Full episode transcript available here: bit.ly/C19PodS03E02.
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Podcast: City of Refuge (LS 39 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: Part 1: We will do our best to hide them
Pub date: 2019-10-15
Notes from The Listener:
Beginning of a ten-part series about the inhabitants of a village in France who, during WW2, helped hundreds of Jewish people escape Nazi persecution. This episode introduces this relatively unknown story via an interview with Philip Hallie, an ethicist who in 1979 published a substantial history of what happened in Le Chambon-sur-Lignon under the Vichy regime. His work inspired Steven Spielberg to make the film Schindler’s List and it also informs the narrative of this series. It asks: why, in the face of violence, do people take extraordinary risks to help others?
Refugees are fleeing, hate groups are rising, the far-right is winning elections around the world. Those who want to do something about it are going to need a model for resistance. And there may be none better than the story of a small French community that rescued around 5,000 refugees from the Nazis.
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Podcast: Lost at the Smithsonian with Aasif Mandvi (LS 56 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Muhammad Ali's Robe
Pub date: 2019-10-24
Notes from The Listener:
Examination of the robe Muhammad Ali wore while training for the “rumble in the jungle” fight against George Foreman in 1974. This sporting artefact is now kept in refrigerated storage at the Smithsonian in Washington DC. The episode positions this boxing match as pivotal in the history of twentieth century sport, and explains its significance using plenty of archive interviews with both Ali and Foreman. This is a much-covered event — I’ve recommended other episodes about it before — but this an excellent and surprising retelling of it
Muhammad Ali was a legendary boxer and much, much more. Finding the robe Ali wore during training gives Aasif a chance to get into the history of one of the biggest sporting events of all time: The Rumble in the Jungle. (Celeb interview: Reporter, Jerry Izenberg)
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Podcast: Call Your Girlfriend (LS 71 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: Time and Memory
Pub date: 2020-01-03
Notes from The Listener:
Does time seem linear or cyclical to you? This isn’t a question I had given much thought before, but this conversation between two best friends where they reflect on ten years of closeness and explore how they experience the passage of time prompted me to give greater consideration to my own internal timetable. The “new year” might be an arbitrary concept, but the months rush by and we do all keep getting older. I’m not sure that the hosts originated this phrase, but it’s an apt one nonetheless: “The days are long but the years are short”
How do we remember a decade of life and friendship? How do we visualize time? And how do we have compassion for our past selves? Aminatou and Ann reflect on who they were in the 20s, the pleasure of having older friends to look up to, and realizing that our younger friends may have different reference points.
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Podcast: Blue Babies Pink (LS 57 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Prologue • The Mud on our Shoes
Pub date: 2017-02-01
Notes from The Listener:
Audio version of a blog about coming out written by a gay Christian in the American South. This is the very start, where the author explains his background. There are 44 parts altogether, which can be run together to create an audiobook-esque listening experience or heard separately to keep it as an episodic podcast. There’s lots of moving material here, including the author’s anecdotes about his preacher father, as well as discussion of southern religious politics. Slightly out of date (pre Trump), since this is from 2017, but fascinating nonetheless
"In the American South, homosexuality is often viewed as a spiritual issue. But for me, it's always just been a physiological one—like sneezing or sweating or laughing."
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Podcast: Stuff You Should Know (LS 90 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)
Episode: The Disappearance of the Yuba County Five
Pub date: 2018-07-10
Notes from The Listener:
Retelling of a real-life mystery from 1978. Five friends drove about 50 miles from their hometown in California to attend a basketball game and never returned. The car they had travelled in was found soon after on a track leading up into the Sierra Nevada mountains and four bodies were eventually discovered once the spring thaw made an extensive search possible. The fifth man was never accounted for. Since this show is all about things you can know, this episode stayed with me because there is so much that is unknown, and it’s intriguing to hear the hosts handle that
In 1978, five friends set out for home from a basketball game. The next day, their car was discovered in a lonely mountain road. The next spring, their bodies began to turn up. What happened that night remains a mystery to this day.
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Podcast: Heavyweight (LS 79 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)
Episode: #2 Gregor
Pub date: 2016-09-24
Notes from The Listener:
Narrative piece that attempts to isolate and then find some resolution for the moment when a friendship went sour. Years ago, the Gregor of the title lent some precious CDs to a broke musician friend, who then sampled some of what was on them in his music, which then became extremely popular and profitable. (The friend is Moby, by the way.) Gregor says he isn’t seeking credit or payment, he just wants his friend to return his calls and ideally, his CDs. The episode tracks his attempts to make this happen. It’s a bizarre, somewhat heartbreaking, story
20 years ago, Gregor lent some CDs to a musician friend. The CDs helped make him a famous rockstar. Now, Gregor would like some recognition. But mostly, he wants his CDs back.
Credits
Heavyweight is hosted and produced by Jonathan Goldstein, along with Wendy Dorr, Chris Neary, and Kalila Holt.
Editing by Alex Blumberg & Peter Clowney.
Special thanks to Emily Condon, Jackie Cohen, Paul Tough, Stevie Lane, Michelle Harris, Dimitri Erlich, Sean Cole and Jorge Just.
The show was mixed by Haley Shaw.
Music for this episode by Christine Fellows, with additional music by Talk-star, The Eastern Watershed Klezmer Quartet, Hew Time, Michael Smith, Farnell Newton, and Haley Shaw, who also did our ad music. Our theme song is by The Weakerthans courtesy of Epitaph Records.
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Podcast: 99% Invisible (LS 85 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)
Episode: 128- Hacking IKEA
Pub date: 2014-08-19
Notes from The Listener:
Exploration of the world of “IKEA hacking”, in which people take freely available flat pack furniture from the Swedish retail giant and transform it into custom designs, often combining two or more pieces to create something new. Because IKEA is available globally, there is a thriving online community of hackers from all over the world sharing tips and supporting each other. In many cases, they are improving upon the design and functionality of the original IKEA furniture, so it’s perhaps not that surprising that the originator of the online forum has been threatened with legal action
IKEA hacking is the practice of buying things from IKEA and reengineering—or “hacking”—them to become customized, more functional, and often just better designed stuff. The locus of the IKEA hacking movement is a website called IKEAhackers.net. It’s a showcase for … Continue reading →
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Podcast: No Such Thing As A Fish (LS 81 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)
Episode: 214: No Such Thing As A Criminal In A Fabulous Hat
Pub date: 2018-04-27
Notes from The Listener:
Conversational podcast featuring the researchers behind the TV comedy panel show QI. I personally find the television version overly smug — it’s mostly celebrities trying to pretend they knew things all along that were actually written on cards in front of them — but the podcast is more direct and casual. Each of the four hosts brings a “quite interesting” fact to the recording, which they introduce to the group for discussion. This is a classic episode, with talk of whale birth and how police line-ups are cast, but you can really start anywhere with this show, it’s reassuringly consistent
Dan, James, Andy and special guest Original Elf Molly Oldfield discuss blue whale birthing, ceramic pillows and how to cast for a police line-up.
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Podcast: Fresh Air (LS 82 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)
Episode: Rosemary Clooney In Concert
Pub date: 2019-12-25
Notes from The Listener:
Live interview and performance by the singer Rosemary Clooney, recorded in 1997 (five years before her death) and replayed on the Fresh Air podcast feed for the festive season. The whole thing is intimate, slightly melancholy, and musically brilliant. As enumerated here, Clooney had an extraordinary and varied career: from number one hits with songs like “Mambo Italiano” as a young singer in the 1950s, to her famous performance with Bing Crosby in the Christmas film White Christmas, to her 1970s jazz albums. She was, as an expert once put it, “one of the best friends a song can have”
To celebrate Christmas, we listen back to a concert given by the late singer and actress in 1997. Clooney spoke with Terry Gross about her childhood, being on the road as a young performer with her sister, and working with Bing Crosby.
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Podcast: the memory palace (LS 75 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 107 (Roots and Branches and Wind-Borne Seeds)
Pub date: 2017-04-01
Notes from The Listener:
Miniature profile of the botanist Ynés Mexia, who lived from 1870 to 1938. She travelled extensively in South America and collected hundreds of thousands of plant specimens, including hundreds of species previously unknown to western science. But there are two aspects of this episode beyond these basic facts that make it sing. The first is the subtle evocation of Mexia’s mental health problems, which are imagined here with great sensitivity and empathy. The second is the understated metanarrative threaded through the script, making it feel intricate and well-designed even though it is relatively short
The Memory Palace is a proud member of Radiotopia, from PRX, a curated network of extraordinary, story-driven shows.
Music
- We open with Mary Lattimore's Jimmy V. I love Mary Lattimore.
- We hit Hatian guitarist Frantz Casseus' Lullaby from 1954 a few times.
- We hear Drifting, by Matthew Robert Cooper.
- And A Fool Persists by Infinite Body.
- The two piano things are Open Window - For Piano by Yuichiro Fujimoto, and Pale by Akira Kosemura.
- We also hear Gareth Dickson's Friday Night Fever for a bit.
Notes
- I learned about Ynes while flipping idly through the 1974 edition of Notable American Women: A Biographical Dictionary (volume II, G-O, incidentally), "prepared under the Auspices of Radcliffe College," as it says on the frontispiece.
- By far the most comprehensive thing I read was biography for young readers called Ynes Mexia: Botanist and Adventurer by Durlynn Anema.
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Podcast: Death, Sex & Money (LS 74 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: Jane Fonda After Death and Divorce
Pub date: 2014-06-18
Notes from The Listener:
This is a conversation I’ve listened to over and over again since it first aired five years ago. Jane Fonda talks so matter of factly and earnestly about the worst times of her life — it’s both moving and inspiring. Her career is recapped as well, in all its variety, from actress to activist to fitness guru. She was born to famous parents, has been married three times, and has weathered many storms. The interview is perhaps most revealing on the subject of trauma, which Fonda addresses with a frank practicality rarely heard from a celebrity, even now it’s become more common to share on this subject
Her mother committed suicide when she was 12 years old, and Jane Fonda says it took fifty years and three marriages and divorces before she finally felt whole.
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Podcast: Love and Radio (LS 66 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: The Exciting World of the Totally Free
Pub date: 2018-07-25
Notes from The Listener:
Interview with Paulette Cooper, one of the first journalists to investigate scientology. She’s no-nonsense and intrepid. She begins: “I decided I wanted to stowaway on a major ocean liner”, which she then did, managing to get to New York without being discovered. Cooper spent time undercover at scientology courses and interviewed former church members before beginning to publish what she uncovered. Death threats and legal harassment followed. The interview is scored throughout with related sound pieces — a wonderful way of illuminating the story
In 1968, Paulette Cooper was one of the first journalists to investigate a then-little-known religious group.
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Podcast: the memory palace (LS 75 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: Episode 90 (A White Horse)
Pub date: 2016-06-16
Notes from The Listener:
Beautiful, heartbreaking evocation of the White Horse in Oakland, California, thought to be the oldest continuously operating gay bar in the United States, open from at least 1933. This a short monologue simply scored with slow, waltzing music, which cleverly weaves together known facts about the place with flourishes of imagined history of the people who might have steeled themselves to go in alone for the first time, or slow danced in the windowless gloom knowing they could not leave together without risking attack. A superlative record of a history too often sanitised or ignored
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Notes and Reading: * Most of the specific history of the White Horse was learned from "Sanctuary: the Inside Story of the Nation's Second Oldest Gay Bar" by David Olson, reprinted in its entirety on the White Horse's website. * "Gayola: Police Professionalization and the Politics of San Francisco's Gay Bars, 1950-1968," by Christopher Agee. * June Thomas' series on the past, present, and future of the gay bar from Slate a few years back. * Various articles written on the occasion of the White Horse's 80th anniversary, including this one from SFGATE.Com * Michael Bronski's A Queer History of the United States. * Radically Gay, a collection of Harry Hay's writing. * Incidentally, I watched this interview with Harry Hay from 1996 about gay life in SF in the 30's multiple times because it's amazing.
Music * We start with Water in Your Hands by Tommy Guerrero. * Hit Anne Muller's Walzer fur Robert a couple of times. * Gaussian Curve does Talk to the Church. * We get a loop of Updraught from Zoe Keating. * We finish on Transient Life in Twilight by James Blackshaw
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Podcast: Reply All (LS 84 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)
Episode: #79 Boy in Photo
Pub date: 2016-10-13
Notes from The Listener:
Intense investigation into a seemingly unimportant photograph of a teenage boy looking lonely at a party while some pretty girls ignore him. Yet this picture has come to mean a lot to a small and dedicated group of online friends — from when it first appeared on a music nerds’ forum in 2006, it’s bound them together in a spirit of overzealous curiosity about this total stranger (they christen him Wayne). The podcast’s host set out to find out his true identity and character, with surprisingly nailbiting results. This whole episode is a fascinating study in the relationship between our on and offline lives
To reach a port, we must set sail.
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Podcast: You Must Remember This (LS 79 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)
Episode: 2: Frank Sinatra in Outer Space
Pub date: 2014-04-16
Notes from The Listener:
In 1979, Frank Sinatra made an extraordinary three part album called Trilogy. The first section was called “Past” and featured many of his old hits; the second was “Present” and contained covers from the rock and roll music that had by this time largely supplanted his crooning; and the third was “Future”, a 40 minute original composition about death, regret and visiting outer space. This episode is a magnificent introduction to that final section, which is now mostly forgotten by music history, but at the time was a labour of love for Sinatra
Welcome to the second episode of You Must Remember This, the podcast devoted to exploring the secret and or/forgotten histories of Hollywood’s first century. Today, we look back to 1979, when — while the music world was full of punk and post-disco coke rock, and the movie world was making the transition from the “New Hollywood” of the ’70s into the blockbuster age — Frank Sinatra recorded Trilogy: Past, Present and Future, a triple album with one disc each devoted to big band standards (“The Past”); covers from “the rock era” including Billy Joel and Beatles songs and also “Theme from New York, New York” (“The Present”); and, most amazingly, a 40 minute song cycle about life, love, death and visiting outer space (“The Future”). We’ll take a look at how and why “The Future” was made, and theorize as to why it’s fallen into the dustbin of pop cultural history.
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Podcast: THE ADAM BUXTON PODCAST (LS 81 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)
Episode: EP.62 - ADAM & JOE
Pub date: 2017-12-25
Notes from The Listener:
All of this podcast is a delight. Adam Buxton, a cultishly popular British radio host, has been rambling and recording with his dog Rosie since 2015. The musical jingles play a special role, with Buxton singing original themes and listeners regularly sending in their own remixes. This episode is worth revisiting if you’re already a fan, or starting with if you’re a newcomer, since it sees Adam reunite with Joe Cornish, who was his co-host on the popular Adam and Joe show which ran on BBC radio 2007-2011. They are tender, mocking and loving with each other, and it’s glorious
Adam enjoys a (fairly) family friendly festive talk pudding with Joe Cornish. Gifts are exchanged, the Queen speaks, Eggcorns are munched, messages are read out, slivers of information about Joe’s new film are extracted and the Tom Cruise Doodle Story makes an unexpected (partial) comeback!
Adam Buxton’s Old Bits DVD is out now from gofasterstripe.com
Thanks to Séamus Murphy-Mitchell for production support. Music & jingles by Adam Buxton
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Pub date: 2019-12-23
Notes from The Listener:
From 2013, a real-life drama with more twists and turns than most prestive TV. A team of producers from This American Life spent a month shadowing the sales staff at a Jeep dealership on Long Island, New York. If they make their target for the month (the 129 cars of the title), then they receive a big bonus from the manufacturer that will keep them in business. If not, the consequences will be painful. It’s a fascinating insight into raw capitalism, with each transaction and negotiation shifting and changing as the deadline looms. Oddly heartwarming