Audio that I have liked, or been moved to comment about, or both

Previous years' recommendations are at:

2025

Smokey Robinson : Bullseye with Jesse Thorn - there’s a nice story in this about Tracks of My Tears. The ending was changed after what sounds like a it was a weekly team meeting at Motown. I dont think ive ever been in a meeting thats been quite that productive

BBC Book Club - Art Spiegleman on Maus - Spiegelman was originally planning a book about race in the USA, featuring Ku Klux Kats

A Short History of the Fukushima Disaster - I’m not sure about whether nuclear power is a good thing, but the bravery of the Fukushima workers was incredible

Joel Stein - Story of the Week - The Implosion of a Leading Anti-COVID Vaccine Group - Joel Stein gets interviewed about a story he’s written for the FT about a populist anti-lockdown outfit

EP93: The Arctic Five - The Hated and the Dead The Arctic Five are the five countries with coastlines on the Arctic Ocean. They are: Canada, Russia, Norway; through Alaska, The United States; and through Greenland,

A Short History of…the Irish Potato Famine - there was a lot of this, too much of this, to be honest, that i didn’t know

2007

How to win a duel | The National Archives - listened to an interesting National Archives podcast on duelling

In Conversation with The Rt Hon Sir John Major KG CH - London School of Economics and Political Science - listened to a podcast of “In Conversation with The Rt Hon Sir John Major”. Interesting