99% Invisible – Cute Little Monstrosities of Nature
How dog breeds came to be and how breeding is harming our best friends.
Twenty Thousand Hertz – It’s Not TV. It’s HBO
I apparently am not alone in remembering the awe I felt at the introductory theme song that preceded feature presentations on HBO in the 1990s. Here is how it was made.
A History of Rock in 500 Songs
I just discovered this podcast although it started back in 2018. Like the title says, each episode breaks down an important song in the history of rock music going back to the genre’s roots in the 1930s.
Running Tally of Podcast of the Week Awards for 2021
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- Afropop Worldwide – 2
- AirSpace – 1
- Best of the Left – 2
- The Brattle Film Podcast – 1
- Code Switch – 2
- Consider This – 4
- Decoder Ring – 3
- Disney History Institute – 1
- Fresh Air – 2
- Futility Closet – 1
- Have You Heard? – 2
- A History of Rock in 500 Songs – Entire series
- 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 – 7
- One Year – 2
- Politically Re-Active – 2
- Planet Money – 2
- Radio Boston – 6
- Radiolab – 14
- Reparations: The Big Payback – 1
- Scientific American – 4
- Seizing Freedom – 2
- Sidedoor – 2
- Slow Burn – 1
- The Story Collider – 1
- Strong Songs – 1
- Stuff the British Stole – entire series
- The Thirty20Eight – 1
- This American Life – 4
- This Day in Esoteric Political History – 15
- Throughline – 10
- The Tomorrow Society – 1
- The Truth – 1
- Twenty Thousand Hertz – 7
- Unf*cking the Republic – 2
- Unspooled – 1
- Up First – 1
- The War on Cars – 1
- What Next – 7