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Bitch Radio From the creators of Bitch quarterly magazine,
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This American Life This long-running public radio program has
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Lapham´s Quarterly We subscribe to this outrageously expensive
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Slate Lexicon Valley Word nerd alert! This always-fun podcast
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every feminist worth her salt should check out this one. The hosts and
guests explore topics from Gamergate to feminist porn to the wage
gap to women in sci-fi, the riot grrrl movement and the Strong Black
Woman trope. If you like this you might like : Slate Double X Gabfest
inspired the most popular podcast in all of history (Serial and spinoff,
Serial Serial). It is the one podcast a newbie is most likely to have
heard of - it´s also one of the best. Each episode is divided into chapters of sometimes true (sometimes not )stories told through different
peoples´ perspectives. Our all-time favorites include Notes on Camp
and Switched at Birth. If you like this you might like : TED Radio Hour
quarterly magazine because it is just. that. good. The magazine focuses on a theme (youth, foreign, comedy, letters) and each article,
both in the magazine and virtually on the net, draws from historical
writings. The podcast generally focuses on interviews or stories related
to the current theme, for example on Nostradamus, Richard Pryor,
Edgar Allan Poe, Reza Aslan or on the Russian absurdist, Daniil Kharms.
Our only issue with it is that it’s a bit of a boys’ club. If you like this you
might like : The New York Public Library Podcast
explores everything language-related, from words of the year to
the etymology of grog to whether there is such a thing as ‘sounding
gay’. If you like this you might like : The World in Words by PRI
A Taste of the Past In a world consumed with concerns of sustain-
ability and whether Soylent Green will become a reality, it’s utterly
captivating to discover the evolution of how and what we eat. With
over 150 episodes and counting, you will learn everything from the
history of brunch to the varieties of Ramen to what hot dogs used to
be made of. If you like this you might like : Chewing The Fat