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This week’s picks

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Episodes will be released weekly starting June 5th and will be widely available
“If fascism took over your country, would you stay or try to escape?” David Modigliani begins this beautiful podcast about his family history with the question his Italian grandfather Franco faced. Modigliani reads love letters between his grandmother Selena and Franco and learns about Franco’s escape to the United States, where he won the Nobel Prize. Then executive producer Stanley Tucci introduces his great-grandfather Giulio into the story. Hannah Verdier

You’ll never beat Kyle Walker

BBC Sounds, weekly episodes
What does it take to win again and again? “A lot,” says Manchester City and England’s Kyle Walker, who joins Chris Hughes for a weekly team-bus podcast in which the affable Walker shares a variety of anecdotes, touching on a range of topics including self-doubt, male friendships, and his childhood. HV

gang

BBC Sounds, weekly episodes
Investigative journalist Livi Haydock goes beyond gangster clichés through thoughtful interviews in this new series focusing on Viv Graham. With his intimidating demeanor and total control over Newcastle’s bouncers, there’s no doubt Graham was feared, but Haydock conveys the heartbreak felt by his family after his 1993 murder, which remains unsolved. HV

I look forward to it!

Widely available, with weekly episodes
Grammy-nominated producer, environmental toxicologist, and house DJ Jayda G is one hell of a force, and now she’s adding the podcaster’s face to her stellar mash-ups in a new series about hope, talking about life on the frontline of the climate crisis with voices from fashion, grime, and marine conservation. HV

Slow Burn: Gay opposition to Briggs

Widely available, with weekly episodes
Slate’s modern history podcast is one of the best, and this season, host Christina Cauterucci covers the Briggs Initiative, a bill that would have banned gays from working as teachers in California. Hearing about so much prejudice goes from ridiculous to cringeworthy as it continues relentlessly, but it’s a story worth hearing. HV

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this week, Charlie Lindler select The 5 best tech podcasts From validating your femininity online to the tell-all history of Elon Musk

Reply to all
This digital culture podcast had it all: a clear niche, equal parts humor and life lessons, and a host you’re genuinely excited to hang out with. Hosted by PJ Vogt and Alex Goldman for the better part of eight years, Reply All specialized in stories about online relationships and how technology is shaping how we coexist. With nearly 200 episodes in its back catalogue, if you’re wondering where to start, check out this newsletter’s list of the five must-listen episodes, including “The Case of the Missing Hit,” a music mystery that The Guardian called “possibly the best podcast episode of all time.”

There are no girls on the Internet
Over 50% of the population might have no trouble imagining the struggles women face online. But this iHeart Radio series hosted by Bridget Todd not only examines how online spaces can be anything from awkward to outright hostile for women, but also retells the history of the internet from the perspective of the female innovators and culture creators who are building it. Each week, Todd and her knowledgeable guests will analyze topics ranging from Nicki Minaj’s toxic online fandom to the impact of TikTok on digital journalism to alternatives to increasingly radical social media sites like X.

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Every Thursday, former NPR investigative journalist Dina Temple-Ruston explores the world of cyber intelligence and security, uncovering the hidden ways malware, disinformation, and state-sponsored hacker masterminds are now inseparable from the online world. It may sound niche, but in recent months the podcast has expanded its scope to include the internet’s influence on the Ukraine war and the spread of disinformation during the Gaza war. In tandem with these ongoing storylines, Temple-Ruston expertly hosts analysis of Kremlin cybercrime, the story of NSA whistleblower Reality Winner and the Mexican military’s “love affair” with spyware.

Elon Musk: Evening Rocket
a Many The tech world has changed a lot since this quest to understand Elon Musk and his vision for the future in 2021. But three years (and $44 billion squandered on social media sites) later, much of journalist Jill Lepore’s imaginative BBC series still rings true. Built around the science fiction novels that have inspired billionaires, thinkers, and scientists alike, “Evening Rocket” “explores Musk’s strange new kind of extravagant, extreme capitalism, where share prices are driven as much by fantasy as by profits.” Does “Muskism” exist? How much damage can one of Musk’s tweets do? And does he really think we can colonize Mars? All this and more will be answered in six 30-minute episodes.

Black box
The six-part Guardian series, which began in February this year, delves into seven separate stories, from a Detroit man accused of robbery due to faulty facial recognition technology to a shocking deepfake scandal that preyed on young women. One thread that ties each story together is the triumphs and failures of artificial intelligence, and the damage it can cause when misused. In an age where AI is already transforming our lives, host Michael Safi describes Black Box as “a snapshot of the first moment when everything started to change.” Check out the whole series here.

Please try…

• From Anne Hathaway to Netflix CEO Ted Sarandos, the NYT takes a closer look at A-list guests. interview.

• As another corrective to the male-dominated art elegy, Death of an artist We are relaunching our series on Lee Krasner, “the woman who made Jackson Pollack famous.”

• A murderous 13th-century monarch Iron Kinga spin-off series from the This is History team.

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