Archive - The Listening Post: Podcasts and More

Listening in the shadow of the eclipse

In one of the first audio production courses I took, way back when we were still cutting and splicing 8-tracks, I chose to do a short feature that I…

Apr 9 •

December 2023

My listening year

Audio picks for 2023

Dec 31, 2023 •

July 2023

Why I’m paying attention to the Women’s [Football] World Cup

I’m no sports fan—anyone who knows me will tell you I have a hard time telling a silly point from a mid-on or a drop shot from a forehand slice, though…

Jul 26, 2023 •

Some fiction, some fact

What I've been listening to this week

Jul 6, 2023 •

June 2023

"These boots are made for walkin'..."

This morning as I started on my morning walk I did something I hadn’t done in a while: passed over my regular podcast feed (news, analysis, commentary…

Jun 20, 2023 •

May 2023

Memories of stolen lives

Sometimes, all you need is a well told story to perceive, with sudden clarity, a whole landscape of interconnected streams that run through the past and…

May 22, 2023 •

March 2023

Worlds of her making

Ursula K Le Guin and the Naming of Things

Mar 29, 2023 •

August 2022

Stitchery and witchery

Books in the ear and mending on my hands

Aug 22, 2022 •

Writing (and listening) prompt: Salman Rushdie

Pre-Independence Day Thoughts

Aug 13, 2022 •

July 2022

Fifty years on, Martha was indeed right

Trading in Watergate memories

Jul 9, 2022 •

April 2022

Daily News Junkets

My mornings have settled into a listening routine; once the first cup of coffee is had, the sleepiness slowly and reluctantly persuaded to leave as the…

Apr 14, 2022 •

January 2022

Only we didn’t call it that here in India. You could go to the neighbourhood cassette store, give them a list of songs and a blank tape, and they would…

Jan 12, 2022 •

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