Episode Highlight: Human Rights Be Damned, from Immigrantly Even without a profound understanding of what’s happening: It is an easy episode to follow, but the big ideas make it a podcast you have to focus on.
Series Review: Abortion: The Body Politic This is not just a spectacularly produced podcast in tone and quality - but each episode flows with grace and an especially committed passion.
Release Day Review: Missing Pages In some ways a true crime “who done it”, we are taken on a familiar feeling path where a case is built and defense is made. This is an easy story to follow, tying in some current events for a full understanding of the elite world we are talking about.
Episode Highlight: Sound of Our Town Equal parts travel guide and spoken word poem, Sound of Our Town takes listeners on a bird’s eye tour of a city each week. Through the veins of the music each locale has cultivated, we are taken from the hole-in-the-wall bar to the stadiums, and given a tiny bit of history along the way.
Review: Appodlachia This podcast needs to exist for those who live there, as well as for those outside of it. It can cross boundaries we’ve let ourselves build.
The Monthly Magpie: July 2022 To get me back into the writing mode and to highlight the beautiful country I spent a week in I decided to do Seven Reviews in Seven Days.
Episode Highlight: Ireland's Shame: The Death of Sativa Halappanaver We are led through the tragedy with kindness and care, yet there is an obvious underpinning of rage. Not only was this enraging for the immigrant community, but also for Ireland as a nation.