Podcast by Wynter Mitchell-Rohrbaugh and Karen Tongson Waiting for the X-hall is a queer / WOC analysis of Generation X. But as a late Xer, I love her for more than just nostalgic reasons: Mitchell-Rohrbaugh is a veteran of famous magazines, and Tongson is an academic who chairs the USC’s Department of Gender and Sexual Studies and the atmosphere of their show perfectly shares the difference between entertainment for pleasure and rigorous intellectual discussion. Whether to interview parents about the viewing experience new Bee Gees documentary, or reminiscing about an era when the “dark web was the front network,” they’re doing a really valuable cultural history in an addictive, chatty, meaningful way, which I don’t think makes any other podcast.
Messenger a miniseries about Bobby wine he watches the Ugandan presidential candidate and musician, concentrating on his campaign, which culminated in the elections, the uprising and their aftermath. Despite the pulse, and in a very artistic way, using Wine’s music to tell the story. It is really important that people like me who are part of this diaspora find a creative way to sink our teeth into problems at home. The sound design is really well thought out and emotional: it contains authentic sound from the ground and through political parties and sympathies. Information can be locked into certain circles, but such podcasts make it more digestible.
Neil Gibbons
Co-authored by Alan Partridge From Oasthouse
Until recently, the closest thing to listening to a podcast was that I fell asleep with a U.S. police radio scanner app, listening from my bed to “reports of a man with a billiard cue in a mall” or “if you’re going back to the hospital, can you get me a sandwich? ”. But lately, I’m becoming obsessed with the world of sales podcasts, motivational tips for U.S. sales representatives hosted by Charlie Sheen-alikes whose optimistic worldview is deeply inspiring and really fucking hectic. Try it Sales Gravy with Fucking Blount,, Let this happen on Monday with John Barrow,, Sell or Die, Jennifer Gluckow or essentially Ziglar Show, hosted by Tom Ziglar (son of legendary sales motivator Zig Ziglar, and, my God, he continues that).
I stumbled Keep it! recently and spent the next 10 days listening to all the episodes (there are more than 160) while I did the laundry. Set by journalist and writer Ira Madison III and his comedians co-hosts Louis Virtel and Aida Osman, it’s mostly about pop culture and politics with hilarious and nuanced views on how these things intersect with race, sexuality and class. “Shouldn’t you give David Foster a sponge bath?” is a sentence I didn’t know I needed until I heard it on this podcast. With the current situation in the world, this show is the perfect companion for me. For a short clip of what this is all about, listen to the one about Joe Biden’s inauguration.
Kaitlin Perst
Co-host Heart
Constellations it engraves a space that I think the audioverse desperately needs: a non-narrative experimental sound. “Sound art” is a world dominated by educated musicians, electroacoustics and artists who follow the lineage of John Cage and Pierre Schaeffer. We narrative sound creators actually have no place in that world (except for one runaway hit, sound artist Janet Cardiff). The film has a rich culture of experimental work, as well as music, theater and literature. In radio / podcasting, this area is largely underfunded and under-researched. This show creates space for this type of work. A job that doesn’t have to convey meaning to you on a silver platter; work that is not narrative: work that is guided by sound and subtext, but is still rooted in the desire to present some truth about the human condition.
History of the English podcast he is my constant companion. Kevin Stroud has created one of the great projects of the modern age, a comprehensive guide to the origin and development of the English language. To illustrate how exhaustive it is, after 150 episodes he is only up to Chaucer, through Indo-Europeans, Utahs, Fresians and more Romans than you can shake off. If that sounds too academic, fear not, it’s full of QI-esque lumps, like how a “gym” should contain only nudists, and why Pendle Hill translates as “hill hill hill”. Focusing on details, Stroud actually tells much bigger stories: the history of people and culture, religion and war, trade and commerce. It’s similar to a 200-hour episode In Our Time. Bliss.
In the next 12 months you – yes you! – You will be offered an exciting opportunity to change your life. It will probably come from an old school friend who found you on Facebook. Before you agree to anything, listen San. It’s a strange world of multilevel marketing, where ordinary people sell products (often health supplements) to friends and family and try to create their own team of promoters. The host, a former American, Lifer Jane Marie, is trying to figure out why so many of them are getting into “MLM”. It’s usually the same story: people stuck in a world of rare opportunities are blinded by unrealistic promises of easy money and desperately push products. Those at the top earn a fortune, while almost all new recruits run out of pocket, but the dream of financial freedom overpowers all rational thoughts. As the economy declines, I’m sure more and more people will say yes to their old school friend on Facebook.
Anushka asthana
Host of the Guardian In focus today
The way In the dark combines investigative journalism with narrative storytelling, discards jaws. Season Two – which examines why Curtis Flowers, a black man from Winona, Mississippi, was tried six times for the same crime – isn’t new, but it’s the best series I’ve ever listened to. Its host, Madeleine Baran, along with producers like Samara Freemark, not only immerse themselves in the story they decided to follow, but also bring it to life. In this case, they head towards Winona for a whole year and then systematically disassemble a case that is made to look like it is the case. What is particularly satisfying is hearing the consequences of their hard work, which not only affects the individuals involved, but permeates the entire American justice system. It is a master class in investigative journalism.
Nice white parents is an intricately researched five-part series on the segregation of urban public schools in New York City, made by the same production company that brought us the Serial. It’s so immersive: we’re in PTA meetings, listening to conversations about how they happen, and listening to how the rift can start and spread in school by the power of white parents ’power. It is also a great education about the history of segregation in schools in the states. I loved the questions this series raises and recognized so many patterns of behavior in the public school my children attend in northwest London.
Alex Goldman
Co-host Answer everyone
Last year, Jamie Loftus produced a brilliant four-part podcast about joining Mense in jest, and in the end he dived brilliantly into both the organization’s history and the misogyny that rotted at its core. She returned with this year Lolita Podcast, a show that asks one fundamental question: why has our culture interpreted this story as a story about lovers crossed by stars, instead of what it’s really about: a man who nurtures, kidnaps and sexually assaults a minor? Loftus looks back at the history of publishing, film adaptations, failed stage performance attempts, the internet culture of the “nymphs” and more. It may be hard to listen, but it’s so smart and thoughtful.
Have you ever wondered why there is no reliable data on the height of leading man Donnie Darko? No, neither do I. But Starlee China is available to explore “minor mysteries that the internet can’t solve.” And so, I found myself in the case of “how tall is Jake Gyllenhaal?”. From lost belt buckles to flammable car plates, Mystery Show is a great example of the usual extraordinary. It is a logistical feat, the yarns are sometimes unwound for weeks or months, and yet production achieves the perfect balance between smooth and independent work. The fact that it lasted only one season is a tragedy.
Christopher Sweeney
Co-host homo sapiens
Our Podcast is a queer version of Women’s Clock Radio 4. So it’s only natural that it’s my love Good luck with Fi and Jane,, podcast by Women’s Watch alumnus Jane Garvey and broadcaster Fi Glover. They just laugh, it’s a wonderful friendship, completely untrained, but it goes even deeper; he is two people who are deeply honest about their lives, their flaws and the things they are afraid to share. I think that’s what podcasting is: finding a connection between two friends who are really honest and having fun at the same time.
If you have become allergic to new belts of narrative podcasts – Ira Glass’s voice, marimba, serial style journalism, etc. – Try it How to get to the airport, a shocking five-part series by Radio Spaetkauf about the doomed development of Berlin airport. Hard to imagine a story of infrastructure that is lively and easy on its feet, this podcast somehow manages to be playful and journalistic solid, while in an unexpected way deviating from the aesthetic norms that everyone else in the blue chip world feels compelled to follow. It’s also just a shame here because of the little stories and bizarre facts you’ll want to tell your friends – don’t miss the alarms of human fires or the train of ghosts destroying mold.
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