Podcast recs
Nov. 1st, 2021 11:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
luzulaWoohoo, I'm over the minimum wordcount on my Yuletide story! \o/ Though I do have some doubts about parts of what I've written--it feels a bit on-the-nose.
Anyway, I thought I'd rec some podcasts I listen to.
I think I found Lingthusiasm viajesse_the_k; it is restful for me to listen to, since linguistics is something I find very interesting while still being unconnected to anything that worries me or requires action from me (unlike, say, if I listen to a podcast about environmental issues). The hosts are charmingly enthusiastic.
Possibly I got Skeptics with a K viamelannen? It's like listening to a chatty group of friends talk about various issues touching on science and skeptical thinking, and I find it charming and interesting.
I can't remember how I stumbled on The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast, by the author of the Alpennia books, but it's very useful and interesting if one is writing fic with f/f elements in historical settings, which I spent the past year doing. There's also a connected blog with lots of resources, and also lots of recs of f/f historical fiction.
The Working Class History podcast has lots of interesting stuff; I haven't listened all the way through it, but you can, for example, listen to an interview with two pacifists who successfully mutinied on a US Navy ship during the Vietnam War, or interviews with the people who were involved in the Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners group (the subject of the lovely 2015 Pride film), or with members of an Australian building union who blocked building projects that were bad for the environment or local communities.
The Voice Coach podcast has lots of great stuff on how to best use your voice, with both theory and exercises. The same host also has The Voiceover Social, which is only tangentially interesting to me as a podficcer since it's for professional voice people, but occasionally they'll have really interesting episodes on different accents, or recording sex scenes, or whatever.
And I've enjoyed the sex and relationship advice podcast Savage Love for years. I also listen to some Swedish podcasts which you are probably not interested in. Do you have recs for more podcasts you think I might enjoy?
Anyway, I thought I'd rec some podcasts I listen to.
I think I found Lingthusiasm via
jesse_the_k; it is restful for me to listen to, since linguistics is something I find very interesting while still being unconnected to anything that worries me or requires action from me (unlike, say, if I listen to a podcast about environmental issues). The hosts are charmingly enthusiastic. Possibly I got Skeptics with a K via
melannen? It's like listening to a chatty group of friends talk about various issues touching on science and skeptical thinking, and I find it charming and interesting. I can't remember how I stumbled on The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast, by the author of the Alpennia books, but it's very useful and interesting if one is writing fic with f/f elements in historical settings, which I spent the past year doing. There's also a connected blog with lots of resources, and also lots of recs of f/f historical fiction.
The Working Class History podcast has lots of interesting stuff; I haven't listened all the way through it, but you can, for example, listen to an interview with two pacifists who successfully mutinied on a US Navy ship during the Vietnam War, or interviews with the people who were involved in the Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners group (the subject of the lovely 2015 Pride film), or with members of an Australian building union who blocked building projects that were bad for the environment or local communities.
The Voice Coach podcast has lots of great stuff on how to best use your voice, with both theory and exercises. The same host also has The Voiceover Social, which is only tangentially interesting to me as a podficcer since it's for professional voice people, but occasionally they'll have really interesting episodes on different accents, or recording sex scenes, or whatever.
And I've enjoyed the sex and relationship advice podcast Savage Love for years. I also listen to some Swedish podcasts which you are probably not interested in. Do you have recs for more podcasts you think I might enjoy?
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Date: 2021-11-02 01:24 am (UTC)You might enjoy the podcast Art+Ideas from the Getty Foundation, where, as the tagline goes: "Jim Cuno [pres of Getty Trust] talks with artists, writers, curators, and scholars about their work. Listen in as he engages these important thinkers in reflective and critical conversations about architecture, archaeology, art history, and museum exhibitions."
The most recent ones I listened to were about photography of Latin American metropolises, the fragmentary nature of Japanese calligraphy albums, Edmund de Waal's latest book on the Jewish-French Belle Epoque, and Rubens in the Viceroyalty of Peru, to give you a sampling.
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Date: 2021-11-02 06:55 pm (UTC)It's where I found that crossdressing novel from the 18th century. : )
And thanks, I'll check out your rec! Oh, that makes me realize that I forgot a podcast: Peopling the Past, which has interviews with historians and archaologists working on the ancient world. I like the material culture episodes, there's just something charming about a scientist being very enthusiastic about the pottery workshop she is excavating. This also hits my sweet spot of being interesting but not about a subject I myself am personally engaged in.
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Date: 2021-11-02 07:09 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2021-11-02 05:58 am (UTC)The Sydney building union also came out in support of a gay university student who the university was trying to expel for being openly gay!
I looked up wiki to try to find the details, and couldn't find it, but wiki says
"The Builders Labourers Federation [BLF] fought successful campaigns which became known as the green bans against development projects which it viewed as harmful to the built and natural environment of Sydney and Melbourne. These campaigns included blocking plans to redevelop The Rocks area, Kelly's Bush in Hunters Hill, Centennial Park, the City Baths, Flinders Street Station and the Hotel Windsor. The green bans are now commonly recognised as directly responsible for saving areas of Sydney and Melbourne with substantial heritage value. Victoria Hall in Fremantle, Western Australia was also saved from demolition by a green ban, in 1974.
They also took up other causes, such as Aboriginal rights, anti-war campaigns and support for pensioners."
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Date: 2021-11-02 05:59 am (UTC)"The ‘new concept of unionism’ famously embraced ‘the social responsibility of labour’: workers had a right to insist their labour not be used in harmful ways. Mundey wrote in the union journal in mid-1972: ‘The Builders’ Labourers’ Union feels strongly about unions and the whole workers’ movement involving themselves more deeply in all political, moral and social questions affecting ordinary people.’ Several of its bans were not ‘green’, notably those on construction at Sydney University to safeguard a women’s studies course and at Macquarie University to ensure reinstatement of a gay activist, and on a land developer in Redfern, which resulted in the Redfern Aboriginal Community Housing Scheme."
https://labourhistorymelbourne.org/2020/05/17/jack-mundey/
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Date: 2021-11-02 06:58 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2021-11-02 06:09 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2021-11-02 06:59 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2021-11-02 06:34 pm (UTC)Will definitely be checking these out, thanks! I listen to a lot of podcasts, but don't know any of these except the Lesbian History one (which I also learnt about from you as far as I remember :D )
Oddly enough I'm just putting the finishing touches to a post of podcast recs this evening, but I have no idea whether you would enjoy them (they're all Actual Play RPG podcasts).
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Date: 2021-11-02 08:18 pm (UTC)Ha, I have no idea what Actual Play RPG even is! But I suppose your post will tell me. : )
Hooray for podcasts recs!
Date: 2021-11-11 06:30 pm (UTC)The Bello Collective aims to "bring together writers, journalists, and other voices who share a passion for the world of audio storytelling." I've listened to many groovy new shows thanks to their weekly round-up of recommendations -- read the archive and subscribe via their Mailchimp site.
Locally there's![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
podcastjoy, where I went on at length about PRX, which hosts thousands of audio productions.
Re: Hooray for podcasts recs!
Date: 2021-11-15 06:26 pm (UTC)