This week we liked How To Do Everything, In The Dark, Offshore, Missing & Murdered, About Buildings & Cities, The Guardian Long Read, Homecoming, Short Cuts, Do By Friday, Women of the Hour, Transom, Imaginary Worlds.
Full reviews on Medium.
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7 shows we’ve never written about before
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1. From Panoply: Why Oh Why
Featured on iTunes this week, Why Oh Why is a podcast reboot from producer Andrea Silenzi. It’s a memoir/documentary/fiction about love, sex, and technology. I loved the most recent episode, Just My Swipe, a live dating-experiment set up like the Bachelor or Match Game, but with Tinder.
2. From WBEZ: Do Listen Twice and Making Oprah
Two new shows from WBEZ in Chicago: Do Listen Twice is a This American Life mini-series featuring Ira’s favorite Mike Birbiglia stories on TAL, to promote the Ira-produced movie Don’t Think Twice. Listen if you want to revisit old favorite sections of TAL.
Making Oprah, a new three-part series (⅔ available now) about the rise of the Oprah Winfrey Show. Listen ‘if you like big hair shoulder pads, and 80s TV themes’.
3. From WQXR: Helga
This new show hosted by vocalist and activist Helga Davis won’t just be episodes about music making, but aims to foster a thoughtful look into the power of art and music for social change. The latest episode features frontrunner Shara Worden of a band we haven’t heard of in ages, My Brightest Diamond.
4. From De Facto Sound: Twenty Thousand Hertz
Cool thing we learned: the NBC chimes (you know, da-da-da) were the very first sound to very be awarded an audio trademark. This short-and-sweet new podcast, Twenty Thousand Hertz, tells the story of the most iconic and recognizable sounds in the world.
5. From KQED: Bay Curious
“There are just some days when a burrito isn’t very good”. The most San Francisco-ish opening line from Bay Curious, KQED’s new Q&A podcast about the Bay Area. 5 minutes to learn about the possible origin stories of the word hella.
6. From Slate: Warm Regards
There’s been so much to worry about with the implications of the election that climate issues have taken a backseat. But listening to this episode, Climate Anxiety in the Trump era, might change that. The show is hosted by an environment writer for the New York Times, a paleoecologist, and a meteorologist.
7. From the Podquest Shortlist: Third Culture
Radiotopia & PRX recently announced the winner of Podquest (Ear Hustle!) but there were close to 1500 other entries. Third Culture made the top ten out of a fiercely talented and competitive pool. In the first episode, Naima Sakande tries to answer the question “where am I from?” by returning to Burkina Faso, a place she knew well for so long but mostly through her father’s deep ties.
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What should I listen to?
Podcast recommendations for Katie
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A new section where readers can ask for and receive recommendations
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A reader, Katie, wrote to us with a smart idea: a newsletter section where we can curate podcast playlists based on requests from readers. Similar to a regular themed playlist article, but based on a real-life person!
Here’s what she said:
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I am from St. Louis, MO. While I know of many podcasts that are focused on science in general, I am specifically looking for those that focus on issues of nature, wildlife and the environment. It could be anything from a show about the ecosystem of a suburban backyard or urban park or audio documentaries about rare species or news about environmental topics (for example, a podcast that would report regularly on topics like the Standing Rock protests or the CITES meeting a few months ago). At this very moment, my current five favorite podcasts are This American Life, The United States of Anxiety, Planet Money, Radiolab, and FiveThirtyEight Elections.
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Pretend Katie is your friend, and send your recommendations for her to us. Email: editor@bellocollective.com.
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Industry news & notes
By Brittany
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Radio + travel + wandering around
Favorite things combine: audio-tour-guide app Detour and Airbnb are partnering for a new thing called Airbnb Audio Walks. You can even ‘form a group to sync audio with friends’, which seems like a super valuable feature even outside of this context. If you have a voice for radio and a story about your neighborhood to tell (and your neighborhood is in LA, SF, London, Paris, Tokyo, or Seoul), you can apply to be a local narrator.
Can’t say we’re not critical
We got lots of feedback on our article last week about Gimlet’s StartUp mini-season on Dov Charney & American Apparel, and we really appreciate all of your thoughtful responses. I like Gimlet a lot, so here’s a quick shoutout about the good things they did recently: hey Gimlet, your website redesign looks great, and the Reply All 48-hour call in show was one of the best things I’ve heard in weeks. (The newest episode of StartUp, however, might be the most disappointing yet).
We have a friend-crush on: Alex Laughlin
I came across Alex Laughlin’s name while reading about how to make a side hustle work for your journalism career, and I knew I’d seen her work before, so I did a quick Google search (okay, stalking sesh). From writing that 22 most influential women in podcasting article a few months ago, to her fabulous and thoughtful Ladycast podcast (which I admit I had never listened to, but binge-listened to several of because it’s honest and articulate and feminist and excellent), she is one cool lady.
Other notable happenings and things to read —
- Que bien — Radio Ambulante becomes the first Spanish-speaking show distributed by NPR.
- Making history come alive: an interview with the creator of history podcast Wittenberg to Westphalia: Wars of the Reformation.
- We love this argument from Julie Shapiro in defense of radio art. An old article, but relevant in light of the news that Radio National’s Soundproof will be ending.
- Must-watch: a behind-the-scenes video from the Radiolab team.
- “It’s really great that a story about a woman and her vagina can win an award.” The best acceptance speech from The Heart, which won for Best Documentary at Third Coast!
- Shell-shocked by Trump win: a post-election panel at Third Coast last week, entitled Mudslide: The Election of 2016.
- “Go, engage, become”: notes from a black first-time Third Coaster, from Stacia L. Brown.
- Sean “Diddy” Combs and podcasts, on REVOLT.
- A spotlight on fiction podcasts from the New York Times.
- According to the very end of a Gimlet transcript, Reply All’s head editor, Peter Clowney, is leaving for a ‘secret project’.
- Listening deeply: a mandate for public radio, from the president & CEO of New York Public Radio.
- The hit Someone Knows Something is releasing season 2 today! Go check your feeds (I’m talking especially to you, Halley, SKS-fanatic)
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Exes and oh oh ohs,
Dana and the Belllo Collective
P.S.) We’re grateful for you. Also, I love to hear what people eat for Thanksgiving, whether it’s the traditional turkey/stuffing/cranberry/sweet potato variety or the anything else variety (that’s more my style). Send us a note <3
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