Women's history with The History Chicks
The Mastercast
11/07/22
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This is podcast is made up of the history lessons you’ve always wanted but never got. Every two weeks Beckett Graham and Susan Vollenweider pick a woman from the thousands of year of human history and tell her story. From a variety of eras and backgrounds, everything about each woman is mentioned including interpretations, connections, and bias. The episodes start with a 30 second summary of what you can expect, goes into the birth, life, and later death of the individual, and then wraps with the sources used. One thing I really love about the hosts is that even though the stories are told mainly from the perspectives of a particular woman, Graham and Vollenweider recognize the bias in that. A character maybe perceived and presented as a villain in one woman’s episode but be a hero in their own. This self-awareness plus in depth research is what makes this podcast so beloved among history fans. And I mean beloved. Starting in January of 2011, the show has 4.7 out of 5 stars and 6.9K Ratings. To keep such a high average over a long time is difficult for even the best pods. It’s also been recognized with a handful of awards such as a finalist in The People’s Choice Podcast Award, a finalist in The Academy of Podcasters Awards, and Mixcloud Online Radio Awards, Best Talk Show in the Education Category. They were finalist in The People’s Choice Podcast Award for seven years straight. I highly recommend checking out their detailed websites and packed show notes for things like photos, videos, and news for every episode. Their Facebook group, History Chicks Podcast Lounge, is also such a friendly and inviting community. So far there are 263 episodes! On average they are about an hour long and while they are typically put out every two weeks, the day does vary. My favorite episodes have been “Laura Ingalls Wilder” and “The Romanovs (Part 1).” Audio is rough in the first couple of episodes but like with every podcast gets better with time. I really love this podcast and I’m so happy there are so many episodes. You could relisten a couple of times before I think you could begin to remember it all. It’s comforting, relaxing, distracting, and interesting. What more could you ask for?
Similar Pods: The Gilded Gentleman, What'sHerName, and Stuff You Missed in History Class.
Sources:
https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/the-history-chicks-31814
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-history-chicks/id415983183
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This week we look at Tenfold More Wicked: Wicked Words.
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Hey Pod lovers. I’m your host Marie and If you’re joining us for the first time: Welcome! The Mastercast is a podcast recommendation show that brings you a brand new non-spoiler binge-worthy review every week of the best podcasts in a short and sweet 2-3 minute summary on everything you could want to know, from the number of hosts to on average how long you can expect each episode to be. New episodes come out every Monday. You can find the week’s other reviews on the show’s social on Instagram @themastercast and Twitter @mastercastpods. If you like what you hear and want to help out this independent show you can find me on Buy me a coffee by searching The Mastercast. I’d really appreciate it. This week’s review is on
Historical crime is a hard thing to cover. With monotone hosts or lack of research it can too easily be made to seem like a story so far away in time and place that it never existed. That’s why what host Kate Winkler Dawson has done with the Exactly Right network is all the more impressive. Dawson is professor, crime historian, author and has reported for the likes of The New York Times, WCBS News and many more. On the level of Crimes of the Centuries this podcast has everything expected of a grade A show (gripping narrative, well researched, voices from those close to the cases) and so much more. For those who find older cases to be boring or unrelatable this podcast will change that. In all honesty I do love a period piece but Dawson transports listeners through history without sounding like she’s reading from a script. Instead every episode has the tone of a chilling true campfire story. Originally the show released case specific seasons that were 6 episodes long each but after the third season the podcast started a new series in the same feed made up of episodes that covered individual cases. These individual case episodes are now produced in between the main seasons and involve Dawson interviewing an expert in the case (usually an author). I’ve mentioned before how I generally am not a fan of interview podcasts but this is one of the good ones. Host and guest work together to tell very interesting stories. So far there are six main seasons and 58 standalone. On average, episodes are about 40 minutes long. It’s difficult to tell the most popular episodes/season because of this uniquerelease schedule and Owltail’s faulty algorithm. Moving forward I’m not sure Owltail can be trusted to reliable report the most popular episodes. My favorites are hard to choose because they are all so good. If you haven’t heard the pod before I would start with the first season’s first episode “All That is Wicked: The Schutts” or if you’re looking for an individual case episode, try “Bryan Burrough: The Demon Next Door.” Music is perfect.
Similar pods: Accused, Buried Bones, and Ye Olde Crime.
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Short Cuts - No Spoilers!
This podcast is a one of a kind show, in a category of its own, on the same caliber as The Moth and This American Life. Made under BBC Radio 4 and hosted by lovely Josie Long, a writer and comedian, it’s a collection of audio art that includes all sorts of things from short documentaries, to weird and surreal soundscapes, to true stories, to poems, and absolutely everything in between. Each episode is based on a theme and is made up of usually three 9 minute clips that inspire an extraordinary range of emotions and appreciation for every aspect of life. The show seems perfectly adapted to the internet age attention span. Audio can have all the dimensions that regular art has. It can be abstract, a snapshot of life, or surreal. It can be more than just educational, entertaining, or interviewing famous people. This podcast showcases that. It’s proof that there is no limit to what podcasts can be. Hidden gems of perspective and time that chronicle unheard sounds. Okay, enough gushing. The podcast has 4.7 out of 5 stars on Apple Podcasts with 138 Ratings. There are currently 191 episodes that are on average about 30 minutes long. My favorite episodes are hard to choose but “Body Language,” “Rabbit Holes,” and “Lines of Communication” are all high on the list. Some episodes come with difficult subjects but all are covered with attentiveness. The only problem with the show is that there will never be enough. It’s truly something you have to hear to understand.
Similar pods: Anthems, The Kitchen Sisters Present, and Selected Shorts
Sources:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/short-cuts/id655015882
https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/short-cuts-56083
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