Bob Hope and Atomic Bill
It was 1950, just five years after the US dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The Soviet Union had just built their own bomb. And what did Americans, huddled around their radios, most want...
31 Mar 20156min
Folksong and Potboilers
In the early 1900s, journalist and renaissance man Charles Lummis set out to capture and preserve the Spanish folk songs of California, including the voice of one talent in particular: Manuela García....
19 Mar 20155min
And of course, she was a Scorpio
Describing Sylvia Plath in 1972, Plath's editor Fran McCullough says: "instances of her bitchiness and snobbery [were] quite astonishing. And of course she was a Scorpio." Jumping off from there, hos...
4 Mar 20154min
O my Homunculus: The proto-podcast about Sylvia Plath
With all the talk of a "golden age" of audio, it can be easy to forget that producers have been putting together intimate, conversational audio pieces for decades. In this Popcast, hear about the surp...
14 Feb 20154min
