[All Episodes]
#7: Footsteps
#6: Series in Decline
#5: Sex, Death and Morals in Horror
#4: The Loudness War
#3: The Rule of Threes
#2: Bad Translations
#1: The Drums From "Be My Baby"
BeyondtheBlackLetter is a new podcast (featured on publicradioremix.org).
“BeyondtheBlackLetter is latest in a new crop of “short shows” that focus a single subject over the life of the series, like The Longest Shortest Time (early motherhood), the memory palace (surprising history), Blank on Blank (lost print interviews), and 99% Invisible (design and architecture). It’s a fantastic development in public radio and podcasting.”
This new podcast is really great, and I’m glad that Sounds Familiar is in a category with all these cool new podcasts.
On this episode we explore the outer bounds of the right to free speech. How does the law tolerate speech that calls for lawlessness?
It’s a journey that begins during the fervor of World War One and ends, for now, with a televised Ku Klux Klan rally in the 1960s. We meet a courageous…
Enormous shout-out to the public radio exchange (PRX.org) for featuring my story “The Loudness War” on their homepage today.
Leading up to the May 4th premiere of the Sounds Familiar Podcast, I’m going to highlight a few of the podcasts and radio shows I listen to. Being a podcast acknowledging the hypertextual nature of media, I feel it’s only appropriate to acknowledge my influences, admit that I life more than a few stylistic cues from them, and give them due credit.
In no particular order (oh, wait… except alphabetical):
99% Invisible
BBC Global News
Bullseye with Jesse Thorn
HowSound
Public Radio Remix
Radiolab
This American Life
The Truth
Vinyl Cafe
Wiretap
Word of Mouth
WTF with Marc Maron
