Hell yes, public radio

17 episodes

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Paying some respect to the OGs of audio. My favourite gems from podcasts rooted in public radio.


  • 1

    Trevor asks people in downtown Winnipeg whose voice they miss, and would like to hear again. And that prompts one woman to make a long overdue phone call.A year and a half ago, Trevor’s dad, Dave Dine...Show More

    fiercefab recommended:

    There are so many gems in this episode. A son‘s moving conversation with a father who’s all but lost his voice. A vibrant community choir connecting people from around the world. But perhaps most inte...Show More

  • 2

    Dr. Christopher Kerr has spent years interviewing dying patients about the dreams they have as the end of life gets closer. He tells Matt Galloway those dreams and visions can be profound for both the...Show More

    fiercefab recommended:

    “A lot of our patients who are kind of in two worlds between their dream world and the reality are often pulled more preferentially to what they're experiencing when their eyes are closed. And it's li...Show More

  • 3

    Can Earth Day be badass again?

    What On Earth

    28:08 | Apr 20th, 2024

    1 recommendation

    In 1970, 20 million people showed up to fight for the environment on the first Earth Day. But more than five decades later – is it time for this much tamer global event to return to its radical roots?...Show More

    fiercefab recommended:

    Honestly, I never processed the true scale of the first Earth Day. An estimated 20 million people, or one in 10 Americans at the time, came out to protest for the planet. It was really great to hear...Show More

  • 4

    What Alex didn't expect when she was expecting

    Days Like These - True Stories

    20:04 | Mar 5th, 2024

    1 recommendation

    Alex doesn't want kids. She's learnt first-hand from the women in her family how hard it can be when relationships don't work out.But then she meets Tom.Tom desperately wants to be a dad and Alex want...Show More

    fiercefab recommended:

    This is one of those reviews where you can’t say too much because the power of the story is in its unfolding. Just trust and let yourself go step by step on this journey with Alex.

  • 5

    Introducing Child

    Child

    03:11 | Jan 5th, 2024

    1 recommendation

    In this new look at the beginnings of life we tell the story of a child from fertilisation to first birthday through the lens of society, history, and science.

    fiercefab recommended:

    I'm beyond excited to begin the latest series from the brilliant host/storyteller India Rakusen. I devoured her last two podcasts — "Witch" and "28ish Days Later" - and I deeply appreciate her dedicat...Show More

  • 6

    Introducing Lost Patients

    Lost Patients

    02:16 | Feb 29th, 2024

    1 recommendation

    Imagine a sprawling house in which every room, doorway, and hall passage was designed by a different architect. Doorways don't connect. Staircases lead to nowhere. Rooms are cut off from each other. T...Show More

    fiercefab recommended:

    This is a remarkable series — from its deeply humanizing framework to its rock-solid research to its generously vulnerable guests. I live in Toronto, not Seattle, but this “local” look at psychosis an...Show More

  • 7

    Episode 25 - Who Hurt R&B?

    Have You Heard George's Podcast?

    30:58 | Aug 25th, 2021

    1 recommendation

    R&B music has changed. It was once the soundtrack of love, but is now more like a journal of pain. Through this music, George tracks the breakdown of the African American family since the 1970s. He di...Show More

    fiercefab recommended:

    George is a master of the sonic essay. Noting a dearth of unapologetically romantic R&B in the last couple decades, he sets out to explore what happened. Why is it all drugs and sex and don’t catch ...Show More

  • 8

    The Unsilencing

    Radiolab

    28:56 | Aug 26th, 2021

    3 recommendations

    Multiple sclerosis, lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, even psoriasis — these are diseases in which the body begins to attack itself, and they all have one thing in common: they affect women more than men. ...Show More

    fiercefab recommended:

    Radiolab was one of my first podcast loves, but it’s one I rarely listen to now. This episode makes me feel like I have been missing out BIG TIME. The sheer intrigue of a good yarn, woven through sci...Show More

  • 9

    From drownings to suicides in broad daylight, a new CBC investigation reveals a horrific picture of what life was like at the Kamloops Indian Residential school. Today on Front Burner, the stories of ...Show More

    fiercefab recommended:

    Don’t stop listening. There are so many layers to this story. Jorge Barrera sums up his new “Lost Children” investigation, which makes the case that the residential school system was intended to neu...Show More

  • 10

    Our Own People

    Throughline

    53:52 | Apr 1st, 2021

    4 recommendations

    "Build bridges, not walls." Solidarity was at the heart of Yuri Kochiyama's work. A Japanese-American activist whose early political awakenings came while incarcerated in the concentration camps of Wo...Show More

    fiercefab recommended:

    I had no idea that a Japanese-American woman rushed to comfort a dying Malcolm X on the day he was shot. Her name was Yuri Kochiyama, and her story feels incredibly timely right now, as we connect t...Show More

  • 11

    Everything at Once

    Ideas

    54:08 | Jan 20th, 2021

    2 recommendations

    Out of synch? No wonder: the pandemic clock is messing with us. Taking measure of a strange moment, with writers, sociologists, a therapist, and a mathematician.

    fiercefab recommended:

    Sleeplessness is a strange state, but this is one of the most beautiful places I’ve discovered here — a meditative documentary on time that makes so much sense in the silent hours. I can’t recommend ...Show More

  • 12

    Selena y yo

    Anything For Selena

    38:12 | Mar 5th, 2021

    2 recommendations

    Durante su niñez, mientras crecía en una ciudad en la frontera entre Estados Unidos y México, María García se sintió dividida entre dos identidades: la mexicana y la estadounidense. Pero algo cambió s...Show More

    fiercefab recommended:

    Selena hablaba un español imperfecto sin vergüenza. Es lógico que la presentadora de este podcast (ella misma una hija de la diáspora) también se atreviera en su lengua materna. Debo admitir que f...Show More

  • 13

    Selena and Me

    Anything For Selena

    29:58 | Jan 12th, 2021

    1 recommendation

    Growing up along the US-Mexico border, Maria Garcia felt torn between her two identities as Mexican and American. But then, something changed her life. She discovered Selena Quintanilla— the Mexican-A...Show More

    fiercefab recommended:

    I love this series so much that I’m listening to it in both English and Spanish. It resonates with me on so many levels — right down to the host’s age, her earliest memories of Selena and her clumsy b...Show More

  • 14

    Tai’s 14 now. As he goes through adolescence, there are all sorts of weird things happening in his brain that are literally reshaping it, getting him ready for adulthood! But what’s happening in there...Show More

    fiercefab recommended:

    I was so excited to send this to the (pre)teens in my life — but honestly this also this made me so nostalgic for my teenage brain. It’s a magical time! It also gave me so much retroactive empathy fo...Show More

  • 15

    Between Two Worlds

    Hidden Brain

    46:42 | Nov 9th, 2020

    5 recommendations

    Determination, hard work and sacrifice are core ingredients in the story of the American dream. But philosopher Jennifer Morton argues there is another, more painful requirement to getting ahead: a wi...Show More

    fiercefab recommended:

    Okay. So, I’m a textbook “striver.” I’m really going to have to sit with this one. And I really have to send it to every high-achieving, low income, first gen kid who’s quietly wondered: if I’m doin...Show More

  • 16

    How To Be An Anti-Casteist

    Rough Translation

    34:07 | Sep 30th, 2020

    16 recommendations

    How does India's caste system play out in the hiring practices of Silicon Valley? And what happens when dominant caste people in the U.S. grapple with their own inherited privilege for the first time?

    fiercefab recommended:

    Plenty of great reccos on the substance of this episode so I’ll pivot slightly to recommend a good companion read. “Caste” by Isabel Wilkerson makes the case for viewing the hierarchy of humanity in...Show More

  • 17

    Christa Couture has distilled the layers of loss she's experienced into what she calls her grief bio: "Cancer, death, death, divorce, more cancer." Her new memoir, How to Lose Everything, details how ...Show More

    fiercefab recommended:

    A rich conversation between two beautiful souls. I happen to know both Falen and Christa, and I’m so grateful to hear them together in a warm exploration of grieving and loss. This is a good one for a...Show More

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