The Jane Collective with Moira Donegan
This week, Moira Donegan takes us back to Chicago in 1969, when an underground feminist collective got fed up with doctors, and started providing abortions themselves. {listen}
Narrating Audiobooks From Other Worlds
The field of audiobooks has exploded since the introduction of mp3 players, and it continues to expand. But it takes a unique set of skills to voice audiobooks in sci-fi…
Michelle de Swarte talks comedy and Katherine Ryan
From the glamorous world of the New York modelling scene to London's comedy circuits, this week’s guest, Michelle de Swarte, has done it all. Rob finds out how Michelle was…
How Nintendo Leveled Up
Over the past 40 years, Shigeru Miyamoto has been inventing the modern video game one pixel at a time. From Donkey Kong to Super Mario Bros to The Legend of…
In the Clear
The Problem with Birds and Glass Three Ways to Make Your Home Safer for Birds: 1. Reduce lighting at night. Light pollution can disorient birds and draw them in to…
Spark Bird: John Kessler and the Music of Birds
BirdNote’s longtime senior producer on becoming more aware of bird sounds
African Sci-Fi Looks to a Future Climate
When the writer Nnedi Okorafor coined the term Africanfuturism, she wanted to distinguish sci-fi written about Africa from Afrofuturism, which is focuses on the experiences of Black people in the…
Towers of Silence
this story is about a specific thing but also about how a system collapses when the keystone is removed
Secrets of the Planet of the Apes, with Josh Friedman
The Planet of the Apes franchise spans decades and formats: it started as a French novel in 1963, and then jumped the Atlantic to become a long-running series of movies,…
Untold Killing
Over the course of a mid-Summer week in July 1995, more than 8,000 men and boys were systematically killed in a small Bosnian town called Srebrenica. 'Untold Killing' tells the…