Afropop Worldwide :: Remembering Johnny Clegg
A tribute to Johnny Clegg, who died last year, reviewing his genre-defying career of blending Zulu music and dance with pop in apartheid South Africa.
The true story of an effort to sell Canadian war bonds by staging a Nazi invasion of Winnipeg. (This was dramatized in the weird and wonderful Guy Maddin film My Winnipeg).
Hub History :: Remembering the Boston Massacre
250th years ago this week, British soldiers fired into a rowdy crowd in Boston, killing 5. Nat Sheidly reflects on the deeply personal tragedy for the people involved and how the incident has been reinterpreted in popular memory.
This American Life :: Everyone’s a Critic
Stories about white tourists observing Black church services, a Chinese journalist investigating coronavirus, and a woman who love the movie musical Cats.
Throughline :: Public Universal Friend
A glimpse into transgender identity in American history through the story of a Revolutionary War Era leader of a Quaker sect known as the Public Universal Friend.
Twenty Thousand Hertz :: Satanic Panic
The history of backmasking in popular music and the moral panic that ensued.
Running Tally of Podcast of the Week Appearances in 2020
- Anthropocene Reviewed – 2
- Afropop Worldwide – 1
- BackStory – 2
- Best of the Left – 2
- Decoder Ring – 1
- Fresh Air – 2
- Futility Closet – 2
- Have You Heard – 1
- Hidden Brain – 2
- Hit Parade – 1
- Hub History – 1
- LeVar Burton Reads – 1
- Memory Palace – 1
- More Than Enough – 4
- 99% Invisible – 1
- 60-Second Science – 1
- Radio Boston – 1
- Risk! – 1
- Science Talk – 1
- This American Life – 1
- Throughline – 4
- The Tomorrow Society – 1
- Twenty Thousand Hertz – 2
- Wedway Radio – 1
- What Next – 2
