BackStory :: Songs of Ourselves?
Walt Whitman and the American Imagination on the 200th anniversary of his birth.
The Moth :: Mets, McDonalds, and a White House Secret
The story of the author of “Go the F**k to Sleep” ends up at a fundraiser with Dr. Ferber and a family finds a way to get to see the Mets first World Series championship.
Code Switch :: The Original ‘Welfare Queen’
The story of a con artist, child abductor, and possible murderer whose crimes were used to justify to slash welfare safety nets by the Reagan and Clinton administrations.
When I was a kid, I loved going to the last surviving Automat in New York City, a surviving relic of Old New York. This podcasts details the 100 year history of the innovative Horn & Hardart restaurants in Philadelphia and New York that became a cultural touchstone.
Running tally of 2019 Podcast of the Week appearances:
- Afropop Worldwide – 1
- The Anthropocene Reviewed – 1
- BackStory – 3
- Best of the Left– 2
- Code Switch – 3
- Decoder Ring – 1
- Fresh Air – 5
- Futility Closet – 1
- Hidden Brain – 2
- Hit Parade – 2
- Household Name – 1
- Hub History – 2
- Lost Notes – 1
- Memory Palace – 3
- More or Less – 2
- More Perfect – 2
- The Moth – 1
- 99% Invisible – 9
- The New Yorker Radio Hour – 1
- On the Media – 2
- Planet Money – 1
- Planet Money: The Indicator – 1
- Re:Sound – 1
- Radiolab – 2
- Radio Boston – 2
- Science Talk – 1
- 60 Second Science – 1
- Smithsonian Sidedoor – 2
- Sound Opinions – 1
- 30 for 30 Podcasts – 2
- This American Life – 1
- Throughline – 4
- To the Best of Our Knowledge – 1
- Tomorrow Society – 1
- The Truth – 2
- Twenty Thousand Hertz – 2
- The War on Cars – 1
- WBUR News – 4
- We Need Some Milk – 1
- What Next – 1
