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"Heirs of Enslavement is provocative. But it’s also a thoughtful, nuanced look at a highly..."
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"Hosted by Afua Hirsch and Peter Frankopan, this is a history podcast that’s going to need time to..."
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"The impulse to remove a historical figure from their context and treat them as a cultural plaything..."
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"a lively look into the history of all-female musical groups. From archive clips of the Wannabe..."
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"It blasts a bullet hole into the myth of American innocence and hope that pervaded the Eisenhower..."
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"This show is packed with great stories, there is no sagginess...You get a lot of hip hop history..."
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"Marc Fennell masterfully explores this topic with grace and vigor, forcing the listener to consider..."
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"Hosts Brennon and Adam talk through the decade’s formative releases in this irreverent series...the..."
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"Heading further back in time, the neon glitz and glamour of the 80s is the focus of this much-loved..."
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"...host Garry Vander Voort’s personal archive of retro phenomena is an engaging blend of thorough..."
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"Each episode of 60 Songs explores a definitive song from this noteworthy decade in music, putting..."
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"...astonishing rescue stories...It’s hard to produce, but worth it for the listener...I was still..."
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"The effect is vivacious and propulsive storytelling that gets a little hammy in the dramatised..."
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"I’m starting to feel brilliant. It’s giving me real Evita vibes...This podcast is a great story and..."
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"If you are of a certain age then you will no doubt grow all misty eyed...The interviews are funny..."
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"Sometimes the narrative of Moonrise tangles and it’s hard to differentiate between what’s real,..."
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"This fact means that each episode is a weighty undertaking. This isn’t some breezy podcast that you..."
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"hosted by Ian Coss...excavates the whole fascinating story, with an eye toward understanding..."
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"“Think Twice” astonished me twice. “Think Twice” astonished me with the breadth of its..."
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"“Unreformed,” a stunning and exhaustively researched series from the journalist Josie Duffy..."
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"(Liz Truss) ...Truss is not an interesting person. Levine and Forde do their valiant best,..."
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"Patrick Oliver Jones, is an experienced theater actor...I was fascinated to hear the Evita..."
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"(Season: Vigilante) [Leon Neyfakh]He's able to tell a rich, steady story with great interviews with..."
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"(Season: Afghanistan) As always, the series is enormous, propulsive, and rage-inducing. It also..."
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"The Santiago Boys may prove hard going for those who like their narrative series delivered in..."
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"They’re as well researched and unexpected as they are varied, and just the right length to be fully..."
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"Each of the episodes in the series is a lovely mixture of archive and interview...What makes theirs..."
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"This is a take-it-slow podcast, bringing you a dark history with the love of the final product and..."
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"Journalista is here to reveal the fascinating and little-known story of Courtney "Cookie" Hood...."
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"The podcast is a freewheeling page-by-page dissection of its interviews, song lyrics and..."
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"What we end up with is an engaging platform for discussing the sometimes-counterintuitive realities..."
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"This fun, silly show should also appeal to fans of the UK’s top history podcasts, The Rest Is..."
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"Barbie expert and author MG Lord, co-hosts this timely deep dive into the world-dominating “hunk of..."
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"Everything from book bans, abortion and the uprising on January 6th—history really does repeat..."
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"(Season: Pill Plot) Initially I found Raphael’s delivery — and this show’s production —..."
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"It’s so well done. It feels so real. It places me in Chicago, and I feel like I’m on a journey with..."
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"This is such a good mix of history, current happenings, mixed with personal and sometimes emotional..."
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"...es muy dinámico cómo está contado el podcast pero, en ciertos momentos, esa dinámica se vuelve..."
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"Series 2 is a real mindbender. The nature of the story means it gets very hard to follow exactly..."
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"...it feels like a box office thriller...It’s an industry that is driven by actual slave labor...."
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"For another jolting recognition of how foreign the recent past can seem...The gay, Belfast-raised..."
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"Gibson and Spears provide concise summaries of a wide range of sports topics. Listeners will be..."
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"Each episode is short and sweet, typically around 15 minutes, making it perfect for a quick listen..."
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"...Stewart has spent five years painstakingly piecing together his legacy and the result is a warm,..."
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"The podcast is fast-paced and obsessed with the means by which hip hop is created, consumed, and..."
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"...bold in a myriad of ways...striking fashion... Topics in this sophomore season run the gamut..."
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"...check out Beef and you can resume restful nights of sleep. Todd also examines the hard truths..."
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"...collision of grief, frustration, anger, longing, and hope following King's murder, and how it..."
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"Consider this podcast essential listening for anyone interested in where we are at this moment in..."
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"The host, Margaret Killjoy, guides listeners through these stories with a blend of warmth, humor,..."
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"BBC veteran Jeremy Bowen tries to unpick ye olde Beeb approach: essentially, impartiality. It’s..."
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"As broadcasting firepower goes, this takes some beating. Three powerful kinds of charm. Coles is a..."
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"...there’s lots to be learned about the end of Jeopardy, the relaunch, and how it became a cultural..."
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"Runciman’s show continues in the more cerebral tradition of Talking Politics....impeccably..."
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"These Times is the slicker, more commercial proposition. There is surprisingly funky theme music...."
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"Across these eight episodes, we are told a twisting and winding story. The Last Soviet is an..."
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"In the excellently titled Stiffed, the author Jennifer Romolini unfolds the magazine’s involving..."
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"This series is (like Mary Poppins) practically perfect in every way. The episodes are brilliantly..."
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"...the backstories of objects looted during the British Empire, and whose polite presentation in..."
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"...the project delivered an expansive look at one of the most powerful people in the world in the..."
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"BBC’s relentlessly heady In Our Time, which features the presenter Melvyn Bragg in continuous,..."
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"...a lively podcast in which the historian digs into stories from the past with the help of an..."
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" There’s a lot to take away from this small but mighty investigation that doesn’t reduce the issue..."
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" This engaging podcast from one of the US’s largest trade unions looks at rights, politics and how..."
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"Nicholson has a pleasant broadcasting style, making him a warm, affable host. The series is also..."
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"...a remarkable reconstruction of war and its aftermath...Gordon Corera’s fascinating new BBC..."
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"Economist Tim Harford’s tales of human error are compelling and even strangely soothing as a..."
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"...sounds a bit vague, wait until you hear the episode themes. I can tell you about Stonehenge,..."
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"...the thing it does most beautifully is capture the spirit of wild and fearless adolescence and..."
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"Listening to the first episode, which describes in painstaking detail the fire that broke out on..."
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" Jennifer Saunders, who presents a new five-part series on the phenomenon (actress Lily Collins..."
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"That great actor David Harewood is our narrator, apparently because he once played a CIA..."
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"Hosted by DJ Sunta Templeton, the series maybe would have benefited from more dynamic editing –..."
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"...host Jim Salveson gets into the granular details of what he considers to be classic indie rock..."
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"This powerful podcast...At nearly 90, it’s precious to hear him tell his story and in the first..."
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"...it’s messy, obnoxious, and all over the place; which is to say, for the right person, it’s..."
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"(Series: The Hunt for Typhoid Mary) Providing catch me if you can high drama...this series deftly..."
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"These tales really are astonishing, with more twists and turns than you could imagine. History..."
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"(Season: Never Seen Again)...the new season of Deep Cover totally has its grips on me. I have no..."
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"My heart stops every time I listen to Playing Anne Frank. It feels like I’ve wandered into a..."
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"Shaw’s combination of gregarious manner, joy in the music and impeccable research yields results,..."
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"It starts with the repulsive discovery of what was being done with the Africas remains and takes..."
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"...it has a subtextual depth that rivals that of Tolkien’s middle earth and the immersion readers..."
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"The detailed storytelling of the two-part series is undoubtedly one of its strengths, and both..."
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"...fast-paced romp that takes listeners behind the scenes of the ill-fated plane that flew twice as..."
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"...interesting and moving...Each episode is human, relatable, eye-opening. The World Service has..."
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"Reid could have easily portrayed her own reporting of Ellis’ case as always being on the right side..."
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"While I mostly enjoy these podcasts, the presenters too often fall into breathtakingly arrogant..."
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"This is non-fiction, but it’s all wrapped around great interviews/editing/production and a..."
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"The presenter Keith Jopling, a music industry executive who pretentiously bills himself “the song..."
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"...found the first two episodes of this, on the roots of R&B and rockabilly, tricky to follow. I..."
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"Weird Studies started in 2018, but it has the spirit of an older era. Listening to Ford and Martel..."
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"...this continues to be the best pure history programme on radio, in Ireland and maybe anywhere...."
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"The result is a short, slight, heartwarming three-parter, combining the ordinary and exceptional...."
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"Mike Duncan delivers these complicated historical episodes with all the enthusiasm of your neighbor..."
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"The Memory Palace celebrates the people and places that sit at the heart of historical events. Host..."
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"I was late to listen to Rachel Maddow’s Ultra—I don’t think the name or cover art accurately..."
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"...this enormously entertaining scripted nonfiction show, Dana Schwartz delivers deep..."
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"The short series naturally doesn’t have quite the same in-depth, original reporting as some of the..."
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"In a story that is part Fargo, part Stranger Things...This is more than a tale of Soviet intrigue,..."