Podcast Playlist

Podcasts our new host Leah-Simone Bowen can't live without

No matter the genre, Leah likes her podcasts to be both entertaining and insightful.

No matter the genre, Leah likes her podcasts to be both entertaining and insightful.

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In case you missed it, last week we welcomed a new permanent host! Leah-Simone Bowen also co-hosts The Secret Life of Canada, along with being an accomplished playwright, director and producer. And of course, Leah adores podcasts and listens to a wide variety of genres. There's no better way to get to know her tastes than to sample her all-time favourites. 

If there's a theme this episode, Leah says it's "edu-tainment": all of these podcasts taught her a lot while also being fun to listen to. Under this umbrella we've got failed TV scripts, the Black feminist podcast of her dreams, and more. 

We hope Leah's faves become some of yours too!

Podcasts featured this week:

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The Secret Life of Canada: "Today we try to figure out the true story of Uncle Tom, with the help of Dr. Cheryl Thompson. You may know 'Uncle Tom' as a derogatory term. Or from Harriet Beecher Stowe's 1852 anti-slavery novel 'Uncle Tom's Cabin'. But the name's also linked to Josiah Henson, who escaped to Canada through the Underground Railroad. So which one is right?"

Dead Pilots Society: ​​"In Dead Pilots Society, scripts that were developed by studios and networks but were never produced are given the table reads they deserve. Starring actors you know and love from television and film, a live audience, and a good time in which no one gets notes, no one is fired, and everyone laughs." Featuring: Adam Scott, June Diane Raphael, Casey Wilson, Nicole Byer, Jerry O'Connell and Paul Scheer.

70 Over 70: "A show about how we make the most of the time we have left. Max Linsky talks to 70 remarkable people, all over the age of 70, not just about their past but their lives right now. These are conversations about the big questions we all ask ourselves, no matter how old we are. What does it mean to live well? What are we still searching for? And how do we learn to let go?" In this episode, Max speaks with André De Shields about winning his first Tony Award at age 73 and why that milestone could not have come any sooner than it did.

Hear To Slay: "Hear to Slay is the Black feminist podcast of your dreams — compelling conversations curated in only the way Black women can. Roxane Gay and Tressie McMillan Cottom offer uncommonly incisive reads of the politics that shape the world we live in and the popular culture we consume. If you want to laugh as much as you want to be challenged, if you're seriously smart but refuse to take yourself too seriously at all, come a little closer because we are here and hear, to slay." In this episode, Roxane and Tressie talk to cookbook author Julia Turshen. Turshen discusses making healthy comfort food, and her own struggles with body image


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