Arts Podcasts
Rex Rivetter: Private EyeJoin Now to Follow
Rex Rivetter: Private Eye is a modern audio drama. The year is 1955. Tinsel town. The land of make-believe. It's a time of growth in American prosperity. Especially in Los Angeles. Here, dreams are bought and sold. But there's a seedier side to the City of Angels, the shadows where pimps and narcotics pushers live, where organized crime stands just around every corner with one hand out, and the other wrapped around a roscoe. It's a city full of fancy dames and slick cons, where bookies know the vig, so you better, too. Some folks call it noir or pulp fiction. But for a private eye named Rex Rivetter, it's home.
By Downstairs Entertainment
New Sounds from WNYCJoin Now to Follow
New Sounds is unlike any radio show you've ever heard: a whirlwind tour of new and unusual music from all corners of the globe. New Sounds combs recent recordings for one of the most informative and compelling hours on radio, and aims to make the world smaller. For over 25 years, host John Schaefer has been finding the melody in the rainforest and the rhythm in an orchestra of tin cans. Defying rigid categorization and genre pigeonholing, New Sounds offers new ways to hear the ancient language of song. With guest musicians from David Byrne to Meredith Monk to Ravi Shankar to Philip Glass to Christopher O'Riley to Bang On A Can, Schaefer presents performances (both in-studio and from the New Sounds Live concert series) and premieres new works from the classic and operatic to folk and jazz, and anything else in between. Each show has a theme, ranging from post-rock to klezmer to African blues to minimalism. The variety of cultures and styles explored is boundless. Music you may not have known existed and now can't live without.
By WNYC Studios
Nostalgia Digest PodcastJoin Now to Follow
Now you can take the Golden Age of Radio with you wherever you go! The Nostalgia Digest Podcast is an ongoing series, each one devoted to people, performers and shows that have been featured in the pages of our Nostalgia Digest magazine - and each one is available for instant downloading!
By Nostalgia Digest
The Legend of the Traveling Tardis with Christian BaselJoin Now to Follow
From the creators of the Hangin With Web Show, Each week veteran radio and podcast personality Christian Basel celebrates his love, passion and expertise of the BBC's beloved Dr. Who series as well as his passion and knowledge of Science Fiction and Fantasy in Arts and Entertainment! Christian and the Traveling Tardis have traveled through time and space to convention floors and fan gatherings to celebrate pop culture! The Traveling Tardis has been photographed with celebrities, cosplayers and fans around the globe and now Christian Basel is set to bring the adventures of the Traveling Tardis to web radio audiences everywhere! <br><br>Where has the Traveling Tardis Been? Who has been seen with this iconic traveler? What is the future of the whoniverse? These and more fan questions will be answered each week on The Legend of the Traveling Tardis with Christian Basel!
By ICNWebTV Network & HWWS Media
The Moby-Dick Big ReadJoin Now to Follow
‘I have written a blasphemous book’, said Melville when his novel was first published in 1851, ‘and I feel as spotless as the lamb’. Deeply subversive, in almost every way imaginable, Moby-Dick is a virtual, alternative bible – and as such, ripe for reinterpretation in this new world of new media. Out of Dominion was born its bastard child – or perhaps its immaculate conception – the Moby-Dick Big Read: an online version of Melville’s magisterial tome: each of its 135 chapters read out aloud, by a mixture of the celebrated and the unknown, to be broadcast online, one new chapter each day, in a sequence of 135 downloads, publicly and freely accessible. Starting 16 September 2012! For more info please go to: www.mobydickbigread.com
By Peninsula Arts
SWITCHCast: the week's film reviews, news and interviewsJoin Now to Follow
A weekly podcast featuring film reviews, trailers, news, interviews and comps from the team at SWITCH.
By Charliedavid Page, Jess Fenton, Daniel Lammin, Brent Davidson, Jake Watt and Chris Edwards
Hindi Urdu LivesJoin Now to Follow
The Hindi Urdu Flagship at the University of Texas at Austin has the fortune of regularly hosting well-known Hindi-Urdu scholars and artists. In addition, HUF faculty and contacts often cross paths with notables in the Hindi-Urdu world while travelling nationally or visiting South Asia. The HUF team makes a conscious effort to steal some time during each of these visits in order to record the artist's or scholar's thoughts on their work, various aspects of Hindi-Urdu, and the world of language in general. The hope is to capture a wide variety of native speakers in 'full-flow' and to a catch glimpse of the various intellectual and artistic worlds which use Hindi-Urdu as their medium. Produced by the Hindi Urdu Flagship at The University of Texas at Austin. Visit hindiurduflagship.org/resources for more Hindi-Urdu learning materials.
By Hindi Urdu Flagship
Librivox: Popular History of Ireland, Book 01, A by McGee, Thomas D'ArcyJoin Now to Follow
Thomas D'Arcy McGee was an Irish refugee and a father of the Canadian confederation. His work on Irish history is comprehensive, encompassing twelve books; Book 1 begins with the earliest modern settlement of Ireland and ends with the 8th century. (Summary by Sibella Denton)
By LibriVox
Librivox: White Linen Nurse, The by Abbott, Eleanor HallowellJoin Now to Follow
The White Linen Nurse is a hysterical story of an exhausted nurse who comes to regret her profession and then somehow finds herself caring for the invalid daughter of the Senior Surgeon. The unexpected events which lead her there and also those which take her forward from that point are sure to evoke laughter and tears - a never to be forgotten story that will send a warm glow to your heart. (Summary by Kehinde)
By LibriVox
Librivox: Problems in American Democracy by Williamson, ThamesJoin Now to Follow
Problems in American Democracy is a very detailed, specific explanation of some of the underlying and surface problems of a democracy system of government, particularly of the American form of democracy. Though lengthy, it is a great read for people who want to learn more about different types of government and the foundations of our own government in the United States of America. (Summary by Allyson Hester)
By LibriVox
