Hit Parade – What a Fool Believes
Yacht Rock. Love it or hate it, it has some catchy tunes. Chris Molanphy defines what it is and what it isn’t and how a genre was retroactively created for the music decades after the fact.
Lost Massachusetts – Ursuline Convent Fire
An account of a nativist riot that destroyed a Roman Catholic convent school in Charlestown (now, Somerville) in 1834 and its lingering symbolism.
One Year – Jesus on a Tortilla
I always thought of the face of Jesus on tortilla as kind of a memeish thing, but it’s actually based on something that happened to a family in New Mexico in 1977. This podcast is a compassionate story of how the phenomenon affected the family, who, despite accusations against them, never profited from the Jesus tortilla.
The Thirty20Eight – Space Mountain: A Journey Through Time & Space
A global history of one the most popular rides at Disney theme parks and the first real thrill ride at Disney.
This American Life – Essential
The hidden stories of the workers deemed essential during the pandemic and how it changed the workers.
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 – 3
- Fresh Air – 2
- Futility Closet – 1
- Have You Heard? – 2
- Hit Parade – 2
- Hub History – 2
- Judas and the Black Messiah – Entire series
- The Last Archive – 3
- LeVar Burton Reads – 1
- Lost Massachusetts – 3
- The Moth – 1
- The Memory Palace – 1
- 99% Invisible – 4
- One Year – 2
- Politically Re-Active – 2
- Planet Money – 2
- Radio Boston – 6
- Radiolab – 8
- Reparations: The Big Payback – 1
- Scientific American – 2
- Seizing Freedom – 2
- Sidedoor – 1
- Slow Burn – 1
- The Story Collider – 1
- Strong Songs – 1
- Stuff the British Stole – entire series
- The Thirty20Eight – 1
- This American Life – 2
- This Day in Esoteric Political History – 8
- Throughline – 7
- The Tomorrow Society – 1
- The Truth – 1
- Twenty Thousand Hertz – 5
- Unf*cking the Republic – 2
- Unspooled – 1
- Up First – 1
- The War on Cars – 1
- What Next – 3
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