New and Notable Podcasts: Spring 2021 Edition

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You know what they say: April showers bring new podcasts. And it's our job to pick you a bouquet of the freshest ones! Our latest New and Notable list features brand new shows and returning favourites alike. Hear a bilingual new audio adaptation of Romeo and Juliet starring Academy Award winner Lupita Nyong'o. Plus, ever heard of that time Canada fought a war with Denmark...with whiskey? And if you're not sick of vaccine arguments yet, we've got the story of one that's over a century old. https://www.cbc.ca/1.6007091


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    CR015/PH01 - Starday Records: The Anti-Nashville Sound

    Cocaine & Rhinestones: The History of Country Music

    2:13:15 | Apr 20th, 2021

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    The story of a little independent record label in Texas becoming "a force" in the Nashville country music industry brings an outsider's perspective to the anatomy of a machine. Going from backwoods ho...Show More

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    "Pinball has been a staple at bowling alleys and video arcades for ages. But before that, for many years it was considered a degenerate form of gambling. Cocaine and Rhinestones tells us about how pin...Show More

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    Romeo y Julieta is an audio production of William Shakespeare’s tragedy, adapted by Saheem Ali and Ricardo Pérez González from Alfredo Michel Modenessi’s text. The production is bilingual in English a...Show More

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    "Actor Lupita Nyong'o plays Julieta, with Juan Castano as her Romeo, in this bilingual Spanish and English production that will bring history's most famed lovers to your homes and phones in a stunning...Show More

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    The Crime of Refusing Vaccination

    The Experiment

    36:46 | Mar 25th, 2021

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    In 1902, a Swedish American pastor named Henning Jacobson refused to get the smallpox vaccine. This launched a chain of events that landed the Massachusetts pastor in a landmark 1905 Supreme Court cas...Show More

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    "In 1902, a Swedish American pastor named Henning Jacobson refused to get the smallpox vaccine. This launched a chain of events that landed the Massachusetts pastor in a landmark 1905 Supreme Court ca...Show More

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    The N-Word

    Still Processing

    51:23 | Mar 18th, 2021

    It’s the episode we’ve been wanting to make for years. In our season premiere, we’re talking about the N-word. It’s both unspeakable and ubiquitous. A weapon of hate and a badge of belonging. After ce...Show More

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    S3: Crash Course on the Whiskey War

    The Secret Life of Canada

    39:57 | Mar 2nd, 2021

    Did you know that Canada and Denmark “battled” over a small, barren island in the far north for decades? Among their weapons: Canadian whiskey and Danish schnapps. In today’s crash course, the strange...Show More

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