This is a particularly fruitful week for podcasts with a bumper crop of excellent episodes!
Afropop Worldwide :: Skippy White: A Vinyl Life
Checking in with a legendary soul & R&B record shop owner and entrepreneur, Skippy White. His shop is located in Boston’s Egleston Square, not far from where I live, but this is the first I’ve heard of him!
Code Switch :: Behind the Lies My Teacher Told Me
An interview with James Loewen, author of the seminal critique of American history education, Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong.
Hub History :: Folk Magic and Mysteries at the Fairbanks House
Daniel Neff, curator of the Fairbanks House museum in Dedham, talks about the house build by Puritan colonists that contains hidden charms and hex marks meant to ward off evil.
99% Invisible :: It’s Chinatown
The stories behind the origins of the distinctive architectural styles of American Chinatowns and the fortune cookie, neither of which actually originated in China.
Snap Judgment :: Talk of the Town
A local salesman, a fixture of his Oakland neighborhood, goes missing and is believed dead leading to an outpouring of remembrance in the community. But one journalist digs deeper to find out what actually happened to the mystery man.
Tiny Desk Concerts :: Yo-Yo Ma
The famed cellist performs pieces of Six Suites for Unaccompanied Cello by Johann Sebastian Bach, and talks about learning to play the instrument.
Twenty Thousand Hertz :: Loop Groups
The work of the hidden actors who perform the background sounds of crowd scenes in movies.
Panorama of the Mountains 