Wednesday 20 May 2020

Podcast recommendations this week

Having homed in on Covid-19 related content last week, I'm now in the mood for something more sumptuous and escapist. Something very luxurious sounding, sonically, that creates a little world for itself.

If you've seen and enjoyed the film Kamikaze Girls (or the novel that inspired it) or are just interested in fashion, you might enjoy Articles of Interest (a fashion sub podcast housed within the excellent design podcast series 99% Invisible) and their take on knockoff's and copyright infringement within the fashion world.

Similarly, this episode of the British Library podcast, Anything But Silent, features a crime solving librarian, more general sleuthing, and suffragettes.

Reply All are also in sleuth mode, as ever, and are - in their most recent episode - trying to untangle a festive related music puzzle.

This episode is particularly worth listening to if you want in depth discussion of appropriate and inappropriate shop music, particularly today, or at Christmas. It also ties in with the theme of copyright violation, which dovetails nicely with Articles of Interest's take on knockoffs.

Intrigue is a series of narrative, interrogative historical podcasts made by the BBC. Their two most recent triumphs, Girl Taken (following the story of a British man's search for a young refugee girl and her father who he tried to assist when they were in the Calais refugee camp, the jungle) and Tunnel 29 (a cold war thriller about an escape plot from East Germany) are both well worth a listen.

Photo by Mpumelelo Macu on Unsplash


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