[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…
Is three really the magic number? Sometimes it seems like it. From three blind mice to sex, drugs, and rock n’ roll, things that come in threes just seem… right.
This time I’ll speak with Michael Eck, who has tracked down and documented things in threes for decades, about why threes are so common, so relatable, and so powerful.
Next week: “Sex, Death and Morality in the Horror Genre”
This week on Sounds Familiar it’s bad translations.
What is a bad translation and how do they happen? Why is ‘all your base are belong to us’ so funny? How do we spot bad translations… and, more importantly, what happens when we don’t spot them?
Sounds Familiar is a hypertextual adventure for your ears, every Friday on iTunes and a reader near you.
