The title suggests a series that can go on forever, but in just five episodes this Australian podcast offers an excellent response to things like A History of the World in 100 Objects by exploring how items on display in British museum tell as story of colonialism and imperialism.
Disney History Institute – Strange Stories of Disneyland
I enjoyed hearing this description of the plot of a never made Alfred Hitchcock film that would’ve been partly set in Disneyland.
Running Tally of Podcast of the Week Awards for 2021
- Afropop Worldwide – 2
- AirSpace – 1
- Best of the Left – 2
- The Brattle Film Podcast – 1
- Code Switch – 2
- Consider This – 2
- Decoder Ring – 2
- Fresh Air – 2
- Futility Closet – 1
- Have You Heard? – 2
- Hit Parade – 1
- Hub History – 2
- Judas and the Black Messiah – Entire series
- The Last Archive – 3
- LeVar Burton Reads – 1
- Lost Massachusetts – 2
- The Moth – 1
- The Memory Palace – 1
- 99% Invisible – 3
- Politically Re-Active – 2
- Planet Money – 2
- Radio Boston – 5
- Radiolab – 8
- Reparations: The Big Payback – 1
- Scientific American – 1
- Seizing Freedom – 2
- Sidedoor – 1
- Slow Burn – 1
- The Story Collider – 1
- Strong Songs – 1
- Stuff the British Stole – entire series
- This American Life – 2
- This Day in Esoteric Political History – 5
- Throughline – 6
- The Tomorrow Society – 1
- Twenty Thousand Hertz – 5
- Unf*cking the Republic – 2
- Unspooled – 1
- Up First – 1
- The War on Cars – 1
- What Next – 3