5 New podcasts to get you through the winter
Five podcasts that you just have to hear.
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1. Missing & Murdered: Who Killed Alberta Williams?
"I hate the word 'closure.' I really do. But you just want the family to know that somebody has been found responsible." — Detective Gary Kerr on why he works on cold cases.
A one sentence e-mail sparks an investigation into an unsolved cold case of a young Indigenous woman who was murdered in northern British Columbia 27 years ago.
Plus, Matt Galloway interviews journalist Connie Walker on why this podcast is so important right now.
2. Outside/In
"This idea, intentionally bringing in a species from somewhere else to combat another species...using nature to fight nature? It has a name." — Host Sam Evans-Brown on biocontrol.
When a Harvard professor accidentally let Gypsy Moths loose in the 1860s, he didn't realise he was releasing a scourge that would plague New England forests for more than a century.
3. The Orbiting Human Circus (of the air)
"We zoom in on a small, enclosed space. A dark, womb-like space with walls of metal where a small figure lies curled, appropriately, in a fetal position, waiting to emerge as if he were the main character of a show about to be born!" — Narrator in season one, episode one.
Atop the Eiffel Tower, a lonely janitor stumbles into a series of alternately surreal and comic adventures as he becomes part of a mystery: what is the secret behind the bizarrely impossible live radio variety show being broadcast from the tower's top?
Plus, Lindsay Michael interviews musician Julian Koster (Neutral Milk Hotel, The Music Tapes) about how created this fantastical podcast.
4. How I Built This
"Everyone thought at that time there was something wrong with me. I mean, there are no black people on radio. Particularly no black woman!" — Cathy Hughes on broadcasters in the 1950s.
A media mogul traces her journey from amateur bathroom DJ to becoming the founder of America's largest African-American owned broadcasting company: Radio One.
5. Lady Problems
"People like to say Hollywood is immoral and they're wrong, it's amoral." — Mara Wilson on the film industry.
Former child actress Mara Wilson of Mrs. Doubtfire, Miracle on 34th Street and Matilda fame, talks about growing up in the Hollywood system.
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