Subtitle, about language
A new podcast. Hosted by Patrick Cox and Kavita Pillay, Subtitle is smart, well-edited, and worth any listener’s time.
“Days”
The latest episode of the BBC Radio 4’s Soul Music is devoted to the Kinks’ “Days,” written by Ray Davies. I found it an especially difficult and moving episode. Proceed with caution.
Winehouse and McTell
Two especially affecting episodes of the BBC podcast Soul Music : Amy Winehouse’s “Back to Black” and Ralph McTell’s “Streets of London.”
A podcast recommendation
The Anthropocene Reviewed.
50 Things
An excellent podcast from the BBC: Tim Harford’s 50 Things That Made the Modern Economy. Concrete, cellophane, TV dinners: what will they think of next?
How to speed up podcasts in iTunes on a Mac
You can’t. But you can speed up podcasts by going outside iTunes, and without relying on a dedicated app.
“One of the last places”
“It's one of the last places you can go that you don't have to buy or believe in anything to come in. You can just come, and we'll help you, no matter what your question is”: from a This American Life episode about libraries.
“How to talk like a Samaritan”
It’s a warm evening, isn’t it? What train are you going to get? What’s your name? Do you need any help? Are you okay?
“Lane Greene on Editing”
An especially good episode of the BBC podcast Word of Mouth : “Lane Greene on Editing.”
Little Everywhere and Stitcher, sheesh
From episode four of the podcast The Dream: “Robert and him struck up a friendship.” And twelve seconds later: “Him and Robert also had the idea.”
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A new-ish podcast series from Little Everywhere and Stitcher: The Dream , an examination of multi-level marketing (MLM) schemes.
Last Seen
A podcast series from WBUR and The Boston Globe: Last Seen, an examination of the still-unsolved theft of thirteen works of art from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.
“Plaid”
An episode of Articles of Interest, a podcast series within in the podcast series 99% Invisible.
Bundyville
From Longreads and Oregon Public Broadcasting, a seven-part podcast series.
From the BBC: Word of Mouth
An excellent podcast: Word of Mouth (BBC Radio 4).
The Gateway
A six-part podcast series from Gizmodo about self-described “spiritual catalyst.”
“Trump’s mystery mansion”
One short Reveal story, about a Beverly Hills property changing hands in exceedingly strange ways.
Barnum and Dennison
At Innovation Hub , a conversation about P.T. Barnum, touching on resemblances to the current president.
Soul Music again
The BBC podcast Soul Music is rolling again.
Two fine podcasts
Gastropod and Innovation Hub.
Life with the McCrearys
From This American Life, one of the strangest and saddest accounts of family life I have ever encountered.
“Can’t Take My Eyes Off You”
The subject of a Soul Music episode (BBC Radio 4).
“Waterloo Sunset” at the BBC
The latest episode of BBC Radio 4 show Soul Music.
“Center of the World, Ohio”
An especially good episode of To the Best of Our Knowledge.
Shittown coda
Shittown, I’ve concluded, is a public-radio version of the more grotesque forms of reality TV, registering compassion for those under examination while nonetheless turning them into spectacle — or the aural equivalent of spectacle.
Shittown
No one will ever stop listening in the middle of Shittown.
Sidedoor, a podcast
A new podcast from the Smithsonian.
Criminal : “The Editor”
An excellent episode of the podcast Criminal : “The Editor,” about an unlikely friendship between a prison inmate and a Merriam-Webster editor.
Unsubscribe
If you’re going to begin each episode of a podcast about language with “Hey, Mikey” and “Hey, Bobby, how ya doin’, buddy?” you’ve lost me.
The Specialist
Casey Miner’s The Specialist is a lively, eye-opening podcast that focuses on unusual occupations.