Consider This – Young Activists At U.N. Climate Summit: ‘We Are Not Drowning. We Are Fighting‘
Some of the most powerful voices for action on the climate crisis are the youngest.
Radiolab – Mixtape
Radiolab ran a five-part series on the history and influence of the cassette tape (one of my all-time favorite pieces of technology) and they are uniformly excellent, so I’m listing them all here:
Throughline – Nikole Hannah-Jones and the Country We Have
In interview with investigative journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones about The 1619 Project, soon to be released as a book, and the backlash against it.
What Next – How Schools Surveil Your Kids
Remote learning allowed the introduction of surveillance tools on children’s computers that are now becoming standard.
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
- 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 – 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 – 6
- Unf*cking the Republic – 2
- Unspooled – 1
- Up First – 1
- The War on Cars – 1
- What Next – 7