Podlike: rumblings in here
This is the potential beauty of podcasts everywhere. This sudden light into the heart of someone else’s life.
This is the potential beauty of podcasts everywhere. This sudden light into the heart of someone else’s life.
…it somehow ends up in the middle of the digital era and leaves us surrounded by questions of privacy, individuality and public scrutiny.
There’s something timeless here. It’s not only the tale, but the way the tale has been edited and mixed. It sings and it stays with you. It left a haunting little place in my heart.
It is a deft and warm example of how storytelling can bring us close to the real humanity of an individual.
Listening to podcasts is usually such a solitary, close and personal thing. The people behind the shows put so much of themselves, heart and soul, into what I listen to.
How are you going to capture my attention in this great flood of podcasts?
I’m a fan of both China MiĆ©ville and James Tiptree, Jr. (aka Alice Sheldon). You couldn’t get much further from hope than the stories of dear Alice. But I am also a fan of hope.