For this week’s assignment, please select one of the podcasts listed below, listen to it carefully, and then post a review of the podcast. Your review should be 400-600 words and should include the following. Your post should appear by midnight on Sunday, April 19th:
What is this podcast about?
Who are the people whose views are being expressed? What are their backgrounds and potential biases?
What interests you about this podcast?
Describe something you learned from this podcast.
Did this podcast influence your views on its subject? If so, how?
Would you recommend this podcast to your classmates? Why or why not?
Any reactions to the podcast format? How does it compare for you to reading the newspaper or watching television news?
Please include the link to the podcast in your post!!!
Podcasts and Radio
*An Unfinished Lesson: Nancy Bristow on the 1918 Flu, NPR Hidden Brain
*Anatomy of a Pandemic, This Podcast Will Kill You
*Boogie-Woogie Flu Sufferers Unite, NPR All Things Considered
*Coronacast, Australian Broadcasting Corporation
*Coronavirus, Animal Infections & the Next Pandemic, NPR Fresh Air
*Coronavirus, Climate Change and Living in States of Emergency, KCRW To The Point
*Coronavirus: Fact vs. Fiction, CNN
*Coronavirus: Fears and Facts, Science VS
*Coronavirus Global Update, BBC World Service
*Coronavirus Series, The History of Now
*Containing the Coronavirus, Reveal: From the Center for Investigative Reporting
*COVID-19, This Podcast will Kill You
*COVID-19 is Exposing US Racism in a Stark New Way with Dr. Camara Phyllis Jones, Democracy Now
*Floodlines: The Story of an Unnatural Disaster, The Atlantic
*From Cholera to Coronavirus with Richard Evans, Talking Politics/London Review of Books
*How Music Has Reflected Difficult Times, WABE City Lights
*Imagining and Narrating Plague in the Ottoman World: Orhan Pamuk and Nükhet Varlık, Ottoman History Podcast
*NDR Info Coronavirus Update, Daily interview with Prof. Dr. Christian Drosten (In German)
*Our Plague Year, Night Vale Presents
*Pandemic: The Story of the 1918 Flu, BBC
*Racism in the Time of Coronavirus, Long Distance
*Repurposing the Webs of Infections as Webs of Connection, with Mindy Thompson Fullilove Ear to the Pavement podcast/Progressive City
*’Rona and Racism: A Survival Guide, KQED Truth Be Told
*Social Distance, The Atlantic
*States of Emergency with Lea Ypi, Talking Politics/London Review of Books
* The Black Death, In Our Time
*The Origins of a Disaster, Why is this Happening? With Chris Hayes
*The Urbanization of Covid-19, Urban Political.
*The World Health Organization and Pandemic Preparedness in the US, with Andrew Lakoff, Slow Disaster
*Viral: Coronavirus, ThreeUncannyFour
*When Xenophobia Spreads Like A Virus, NPR Code Switch
*Why We Underestimated COVID-19 (with Daniel Kahneman), New Yorker Radio Hour
