Lots of new content coming soon after a quiet week this past week so stay tuned in the next couple days. In the mean time, check out AD's new thing...
We are being featured onthe website SpokenWord.org. We're still getting it up and running and trying to figure how to best utilize it but essenially, this will allow AD users to subscribe to a podcast of shows curated by AD. It won't always be the same exact stuff you find here but if you like this site you will surely appreciate it.
SpokenWord.org also allows YOU to curate you own RSS feed of shows you like and to subscribe to other's curated RSS feeds. So poke around on their site too. It really something.
This is a great show from WUNC. This episode features a story (about 3/5 of the way through) from a son who witnessed his father, in order to support the family, getting the heck beat out him, in a carnival boxing match, for $25. Talk about hard times.
Radio Lab's season launch party with band They Might Be Giants.
Came across this BBC doc. Not sure when it is from. A secret meeting of world movers and shakers is held every year in various locations around the world. What's the big secret? Is it okay for big wigs to meet and not say what they talk about? Do these meetings have some secret, undemocratic sway over world events?
Search Engine with Jesse Brown with a unique interview of Ira Glass about the internet and public radio. Search Engine is from TVO "Ontario's public educational media organization and a trusted source of interactive educational content that informs, inspires, and stimulates curiosity and thought."
