A completely unscientific and totally random playlist to love: Recent Episodes
Radiotopia
As a podcast producer, my tastes are varied. What I look for most in a show is engagement, and I find an abundance of engagement in a host of different nonfiction and fiction-type podcasts. Here’s a few of my all time favorites.
Chris Tarry is a musician, writer, producer, and composer living in New York City. He has produced countless award-winning albums, developed short films, created cool podcasts (including Peabody Award finalist The Unexplainable Disappearance of Mars Patel), and excels in sound design and digital editing.
This is probably the funniest podcast on the planet, there have been times I’ve been listening to HDTGM while driving and have had to pull the car over from laughing so hard. If you liked MST 3000, then this is like that but on steroids. Every episode is great, this is one of their many live shows in LA, which are so popular they sell out months in advance
The podcast I produce is an audio fiction show for kids, and this show, Homecoming, is a podcast we aspire to production and story wise. It’s breaking new ground in terms of what audio fiction can be. Their use of subtle time shifts in the story are brilliant and never confusing. Start here with episode one and let the bingeing begin!
I’ve really been getting into this show lately, it’s basically an interview show that talks to famous business people and asks them to recount their origin story. Because I have like ten pairs of Warby Parker glasses, I found this episode with the company’s founder riveting.
Reply All is one of the most successful podcasts of all time, and it’s easy to see why. It’s a show about the internet, and this early episode delves into one of the first viral internet phenomenons, Jenni Cam. I’m old enough to remember Jenni Cam; a university student who broadcast her every move from her dorm room 24/7, until one day, Jenni Cam went dark. In this episode, Reply All sets out to find the woman behind it over 20 years later.
So this is the podcast I co-write and produce, it’s a serialized audio drama for kids 8-13. I know, I know, I’m asking you to start with the final episode of the season, mainly because I love the production of this one, the music (which I co-compose), the over-all shape of the episode. I think it’s our best work so far. Ok, go back and listen to them in order, but when you get to episode 10, give it an even closer listen, you’ll find a lot of love in between the lines. And don’t take my word for it. The Guardian voted us one of the top 50 podcasts of 2016.