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Podcasts Highlighting Ukrainian Culture & History
Podcasts that go "beyond war," touching on history, culture, and society, curated by Jude Brewer.
Arielle Nissenblatt at EarBuds
September 29, 2024
Podcast artwork for Kyiv’s 20ft Radio, The Process with Jude Brewer, Voices of Ukraine, Ukraine Without Hype, and Empire
Curator:
👉🏽Jude Brewer (he/him)
Why this theme?
👉🏽When people hear "Ukraine" these days, they likely don't know of what their underground music scene is like, or how a 14-year-old feels when she's forced to leave her home, or how propaganda works, or the country came to be.
This is a list for the everyday person, bringing culture, history, and personal takes to the forefront, painting a more complete picture “beyond war.” Slava Ukraini!
Podcast Picks
 Kyiv’s 20ft Radio podcast cover art | In the first episode from Kyiv's 20ft Radio, we're taken deep into the otherworldly folk sounds of the Ukrainian underground of the late ‘80s and early ‘90s. |
 The Process podcast cover art | A young man finds a second home and discovers a higher calling. We learn how propaganda spreads globally and how to defend against it. |
 Voices of Ukraine podcast cover art | 14-year-old Tanya Kotelnykova tells the story of when she was forced to leave her hometown in eastern Ukraine. |
 Ukraine Without Hype podcast cover art | Questions are taken from the show's audience to see what they want to know about Ukraine, the war, or… anything. |
 Empire podcast cover art | Two leaders who annexed Crimea (the empress and the general) took vast swathes of modern Ukraine, and built Kherson and Sevastopol. |
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Community
🎤Music industry leader and innovator Jonathan Shank recently launched season two of The Jam with Jonathan Shank. The first episode of the new season features Goose’s Rick Mitarotonda and manager Ben Baruch. Each episode will also be accompanied by an exclusively curated playlist.
🏆Away Days with Woody and Piers is a new podcast exploring the joys and pains that come with watching your football team on the road. The launch episode features Helen 'Hells Bells' Chamberlain, the Torquay United fan best known as presenting Soccer AM on Sky Sports for 22 years – who has reunited with her old colleagues for the new Soccer A-Z podcast.
🔋CRAFTED. is a show about great products and the people who make them. Top technologists reveal how they build game-changing products — and how you can, too. Honored twice by The Webby Awards as a top tech podcast, CRAFTED. is hosted by Dan Blumberg, an entrepreneur, product leader, and former public radio host.
🎙️Issue Space is a podcast and community "for everyone who's working to save the world." The show offers professional change-makers — people working in mission-driven brands, nonprofits, foundations, agencies, and beyond — a space to process what it's like to have a 9-to-5 that's meant to change the world as we know it.
In Podcast The Newsletter, Lauren Passell recommends We Live Here Now. It’s the story of Hanna Rosin and Lauren Ober getting to know their new neighbors, who were supporting January 6 insurrectionists.
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Spotlight
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