99% Invisible – I Can’t Believe It’s Pink Margarine!
This controversial history of margarine you never knew you needed to know!
Radiolab – Of Bombs and Butterflies
How an artillery range may help an endangered species prosper.
This Day in Esoteric Political History – The Textbook Wars Spiral Out of Control (1974)
Shockingly violent opposition to school textbook and curriculum changes in the West Virginia in the past seem to a harbinger of things to come in our present day.
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
- Disney History Institute – 1
- Fresh Air – 2
- Futility Closet – 1
- Have You Heard? – 2
- Hit Parade – 2
- Hub History – 3
- Judas and the Black Messiah – Entire series
- The Last Archive – 3
- LeVar Burton Reads – 1
- Lost Massachusetts – 3
- The Moth – 1
- The Memory Palace – 2
- 99% Invisible – 6
- One Year – 2
- Politically Re-Active – 2
- Planet Money – 2
- Radio Boston – 6
- Radiolab – 9
- Reparations: The Big Payback – 1
- Scientific American – 4
- 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 – 3
- This Day in Esoteric Political History – 14
- Throughline – 8
- The Tomorrow Society – 1
- The Truth – 1
- Twenty Thousand Hertz – 6
- Unf*cking the Republic – 2
- Unspooled – 1
- Up First – 1
- The War on Cars – 1
- What Next – 6