This is This American Life, Episode 283, Remember Me. TAL is a weekly public radio show broadcast to several million listeners on over 500 stations in the U.S. It’s highly produced and edited and its stories are always intriguing. This week, we’ll listen to “stories about people who are remembered very differently than they’d wished. The ghost …
This is Love + Radio, Episode 3 (from Season 3), Jack and Ellen. It’s hard to explain Love + Radio. It’s an interview-based show, but that hardly does it justice. The show’s website describes it as a show that “features in-depth, otherworldly-produced interviews with an eclectic range of subjects, from the seedy to the sublime. You’ve never heard …
This is 99% Invisible, Episode 127, The Sound of Sport. Although you’ve heard a few brief episodes of 99% Invisible, this episode is actually a re-broadcast of a documentary produced by Peregrine Andrews that was originally broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2011. The episode talks about the various ways sound designers “score” the soundscape of sporting events. Even “live” …
This is the Radiolab Podcast, Season 2 Episode 7, Musical Language. Radiolab is a highly produced radio show and podcast produced by WNYC public radio. It is “a show about curiosity. Where sound illuminates ideas, and the boundaries blur between science, philosophy, and human experience.” This episode is about “the line between language and music” and asks questions …
This is Twenty Thousand Hertz, season 1, episode 6. Did we lose anything when we transitioned from analog to digital? Learn about the Jedi skills old radio DJs had to have to spin vinyl on the radio, and meet a man who’s found himself trapped in a digital world and learn what he does to …
This is the Song Exploder Podcast, episode 1, The Postal Service. Song Exploder is a podcast where musicians take apart their songs, and piece by piece, tell the story of how they were made. This episode features Jimmy Tamborello, aka Dntel, aka one half of The Postal Service talking about The District Sleeps Alone Tonight.
This is How To Be A Girl, episode 6: “The Interview”. The podcast is about a single mother and her life with her transgender daughter as they attempt to sort out together just what it means to be a girl. Episode 6 is an extended interview with the daughter.
This is How To Be A Girl, episode 1: “Mama, I’m a Girl”. The podcast is about a single mother and her life with her transgender daughter as they attempt to sort out together just what it means to be a girl. Episode 1 introduces their story.
This is the Anxious Machine podcast, episode 5 from season 2 entitled These Things Is Miracles. The podcast deals with technology and culture, generally, and this particular episode deals with hearing aid technologies. “When she was growing up, Adrienne didn’t want to believe she was losing her hearing. And she didn’t want to wear the ugly, painful hearing aids her …
Casting Call is a reality competition podcast brought to you by Squarespace and Gimlet Creative. We’re on a mission to find America’s next top podcaster, and we need your help. After listening to the series, vote on your favorite pilot at CastingCallShow.com. The winning host will get their very own Gimlet miniseries. We narrowed down …
Casting Call is a jointly produced podcast from Squarespace and Gimlet Creative. This reality audio series chronicles our search for the next great podcast host. 5,000+ aspiring podcast hosts pitched their ideas to the Casting Call competition. But only three can become finalists. Host Jonathan Goldstein documents the vetting process and seeks counsel from his …
How Sound is a podcast that deconstructs how audio stories and pieces are made. In this episode, host Rob Rosenthal dissects a story called “Dead Animal Man” by Ira Glass. It’s a profile of Clarence Hicks, a Baltimore city employee who picks up dead animals for the Department of Sanitation. He features the story in its entirety, then …
We’ve heard from the folks at StartUp before, but when we did, it was just a fledgling company with a bumbling and awkward pitch to millionaire investors. Fast forward a year and a bit and the company Alex Blumberg started, Gimlet Media, is now producing nearly half a dozen of the highest rated podcasts. We …
This is Bitch Media’s Popaganda podcast, an episode entitled Geek Girls. This twice-monthly feminist pop culture podcast takes a critical look at movies, books, TV, and other media. This episode addresses some of the recent nastiness around #GamerGate and sexism in the video games industry by “focusing on six women who are doing awesome work to make …
This is This Week In Blackness episode 610, No Indictment #Ferguson. Founder Elon James White designed TWIB! to be an independent digital media platform that would act as a hub for a network of multimedia projects, focusing on African American culture. If the title doesn’t give it away, this episode of the podcast discusses the decision to not indict Darren Wilson in …
This is an episode of The Truth called Keep Running. The Truth produces improvised audio drama pieces that present a fascinating collection of narratives told through sound. This episode is about running. Far. “Running from Wisconsin to Indiana: 80 miles, 12 hours, 1 day.” Performed by Peter McNernery, with Elana Fishbein, Louis Kornfeld, Julia Hynes, …
This is Start Up episode 2, Is Podcasting the Future or the Past. Hosted by Alex Blumberg, this is a podcast about how to start a business about podcasts. It describes itself as “A series about what happens when someone who knows nothing about business starts one.” This episode features Alex trying to re-do his pitch …
This is Start Up episode 1, How Not to Pitch a Billionnaire Hosted by Alex Blumberg, this is a podcast about how to start a business about podcasts. It describes itself as “A series about what happens when someone who knows nothing about business starts one.” This episode features Alex trying to pitch a start …
This is Serial episode 1, The Alibi. Serial is a 12-part podcast hosted by Sarah Koenig. Serial reviews the details of a true crime investigation surrounding a Baltimore high school senior, Hae Min Lee, who disappeared after school one day in 1999.
This is 99% Invisible episode 15, Sounds of the Artificial World. Have you ever thought about why you phone or computer makes the sounds it makes? 99% Invisible is a podcast about design and architecture by Roman Mars, though he’s got a heavy interest in sound too. This episode is about “designing organic sounds for inorganic …