Review: Lowlines
Some podcasts are meant to be devoured, in a bubble bath, with the world around you turned down a few notches.
Society and Culture
Review: The Nightingale of Iran
Through making this audio-documentary the sisters are learning about themselves, about a heritage that sometimes was too painful, and layers of culture they only can observe through the unraveling of time and the revealing of sound.
Review: Who Killed JFK?
Who Killed JFK? Is told across ten episodes and over five hours of audio, and it can’t seem to string it all together in podcast form. Even when listening to multiple episodes in a marathon, the hosts don’t tie everything together so that someone unfamiliar with the story will easily follow.
Review: On Musk with Walter Isaacson
Hosted by Evan Ratliff, I want to start by saying that I would listen to many more podcasts like this. It's incredibly smooth, consumable, and yet not lacking in depth.
Magpie Journals #7: What in the Podcast?
Podcasts are the weight of the player, and mostly the cost of the time. They can inform, delight, confound, and reassure. They can be what a book can be, or a movie, or a song. They have power, but it’s hard to find the way or the time or even the motivation to try something new.