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1 Oct

The Diplomat 1.01: The Cinderella Thing (with Debora Cahn)

Our discussion of The Diplomat begins at the beginning with the creator of the series, Debora Cahn, who tells us about the show's origin story. For more info and to discuss the episode, visit thewestwingweekly.com/thediplomat-101. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
4 days ago

Signal Hill — Push Up Contest

Producer Zoe Kurland's father, costume designer Jeffrey Kurland, talks about designing the iconic push up bra for actress Julia Roberts for the film Erin Brockovich. Zoe follows the story interviewing the real Erin Brockovich and examining her own relationship to body image, confidence and identity. This story was written and produced by Zoe Kurland for Signal Hill, and edited by Liza Yeager and Jackson Roach. Sound design and additional production by Liza Yeager. Additional editorial support from Omar Etman, Annie Rosenthal, and the Issue Two cohort. Signal Hill is an independent, listener-funded, nonprofit publication. Zoe is a writer and audio documentarian based in Texas. She has produced three award-winning podcasts, most recently reporting, producing and hosting A Whole Other Country (named one of the 20 best podcasts of 2025 by The Atlantic and featured in the 2026 Tribeca Film Festival). She started her career in audio working for The Kitchen Sisters, and later joined LAist as a producer. Her work has appeared in outlets such as New York Magazine, Signal Hill, Articles of Interest, and on APM’s Marketplace. She holds a national Edward R. Murrow Award for innovation in audio, twelve regional Edward R. Murrow Awards, and three Signal Awards. The Kitchen Sisters Present is produced by The Kitchen Sisters (Nikki Silva & Davia Nelson) with Nathan Dalton and Brandi Howell. We're part of Radiotopia from PRX, a curated network of independent producers. Find out more at kitchensisters.org, radiotopia.fm, signalhill.fm
Season 2, Episode 1

2.1 Class Action

The lawyer, passenger contact, her last movements. Visit passengerlist.org to see a script and full list of credits for “Class Action,” and join the investigation. Passenger List Season 2 was created and directed by John Scott Dryden; sound designed by Steve Bond; music by Mark Henry Phillips. “Class Action” was written by John Scott Dryden. Passenger List is a proud member of Radiotopia, from PRX. KAITLIN - Kelly Marie Tran RORY - Ben Daniels MAI - Elyse Dinh MARIANNE – Carlyss Peer JENNIFER - Marie France Arcilla ELOISE - Clare Corbett ZARA - Gianna Kiehl HASSAN - Raad Rawi PETRA - Laurel Lefkow RELATIVE - Lizeth Ramirez RELATIVE - Eric Meyers RELATIVE - Christopher Ragland OTHER VOICES: Jennifer Armour, Munirih Grace, David Menkin, Danielle Lewis, Karl Queensborough, Eric Sirakian, Kerry Shale, George Q Nguyen, Chris Kelly, Maddy Kelly, Peter Oldring, Merk Nguyen Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Season 2, Episode 2

2.2 Pay Day

Psychiatric assessment, the coffee jar, something going down. Visit passengerlist.org to see a script and full list of credits for “Pay Day” and join the investigation. Passenger List Season 2 was created and directed by John Scott Dryden; sound designed by Steve Bond; with music by Mark Henry Phillips. “Pay Day” was written by Sara Lotz. Passenger List is a proud member of Radiotopia, from PRX. KAITLIN – Kelly Marie Tran RORY - Ben Daniels DR MORLEY – Jennifer Armour JIM – Rob Benedict PSYCHIC WITCH – Patti LuPone PETRA - Laurel Lefkow HASSAN - Raad Rawi MRS DENNISON - Barbara Barnes OTHER VOICES: Christopher Ragland, Eric Meyers, Munirih Grace, David Menkin, Danielle Lewis, Eric Sirakian, Clare Corbett, Chris Kelly, Merk Nguyen. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
9 Sept

Temu Renaissance with Hunter Harris and Peyton Dix

Hunter Harris and Peyton Dix joined us for some gossip about a director, a dramaturg, and disco Les Mis. We are now on YouTube. Be sure to follow us on there at @DefectorMedia where you can watch today’s episode. Subscribe to our newsletter for writing from Rachelle, Se'era, Jae, Alex, and Kelsey, plus blog recommendations and secrets! You can support Normal Gossip directly by buying merch or becoming a Friend or a Friend-of-Friend at supportnormalgossip.com. You can also find all kinds of info about us and how to submit gossip on our Komi page: https://normalgossip.komi.io/ Episode transcript here. Follow the show on Instagram @normalgossip, and if you have gossip, email us at normalgossip@defector.com or leave us a voicemail at 26-79-GOSSIP. Normal Gossip is hosted by Rachelle Hampton (@heyydnae) and produced by Se'era Spragley Ricks (@seera_sharae) and Jae Towle Vieira (@jaetowlevieira). Our audio engineer is Samantha Gattsek. Justin Ellis is Defector's projects editor. Show art by Tara Jacoby. Theme music composed by Hrishikesh Hirway. Normal Gossip is a proud member of Radiotopia. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
23 Sept

A Succulent Crime with Kelsey McKinney

Dowager queen Kelsey McKinney is back to close out season ten with a story about plant parenthood in a pediatrician's office. We are now on YouTube. Be sure to follow us on there at @DefectorMedia where you can watch today’s episode. Subscribe to our newsletter for writing from Rachelle, Se'era, Jae, Alex, and Kelsey, plus blog recommendations and secrets! You can support Normal Gossip directly by buying merch or becoming a Friend or a Friend-of-Friend at supportnormalgossip.com. You can also find all kinds of info about us and how to submit gossip on our Komi page: https://normalgossip.komi.io/ Episode transcript here. Follow the show on Instagram @normalgossip, and if you have gossip, email us at normalgossip@defector.com or leave us a voicemail at 26-79-GOSSIP. Normal Gossip is hosted by Rachelle Hampton (@heyydnae) and produced by Se'era Spragley Ricks (@seera_sharae) and Jae Towle Vieira (@jaetowlevieira). Our audio engineer is Samantha Gattsek. Justin Ellis is Defector's projects editor. Show art by Tara Jacoby. Theme music composed by Hrishikesh Hirway. Normal Gossip is a proud member of Radiotopia. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Season 8, Episode 14

The Resale Revival

How did used clothing lose its proverbial and literal stink? An episode brought to you by The RealReal. To see images of all the many lives of resale, including inside the enormous Real Real warehouse, head to articlesofinterest.substack.com Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Season 8, Episode 12

Lace and Labor

Fear of automation, trad wives, and America First movements. None of this is new: it all happened in the history of knitting and crochet. For images, links and more, go to articlesofinterest.substack.com Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
17 Sept

Light Box, from sound designer Mark Henry Phillips

From Passenger List sound designer Mark Henry Phillips, Light Box — a season-long investigation into what AI is doing to music and the people who love it. What happens when a machine can do the thing you thought made you, you? Composer Mark Henry Phillips logs onto an AI music generator expecting slop. Instead... he has an existential crisis. What it made wasn't slop -- it was good. Really good. This plunges him into a year-and-a-half long rabbit hole. He discovers -- with help from Sonarworks' Helmuts Bēms -- that professional musicians are secretly adopting AI like performance-enhancing drugs. Mark also digs into how these tools actually work with AI researcher Maya Ackerman. And he confronts an uncomfortable question: if a machine can replicate your creative instincts, were they ever really yours to begin with?For more info go to www.LightBoxPodcast.com. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
21 Sept

He left corporate for a socialist pirate ship

Alex Sujong Laughlin interviews Defector's very own Jasper Wang about the choice he made to step off the achievement treadmill in his early 30s — and how that led to the creation of Defector Media. Episode transcript here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vPfZCoO_NFuYmE1zT0gZK7uridKEC8KJVoSxOaap4ws/edit?usp=sharing🏷️: Career success, achievement treadmill, money and happiness, leaving Bain, consulting career, corporate ladder, Defector, worker-owned media, socialist media, entrepreneurship, career change, financial freedom, defining success, how much money is enough, work-life balance, making less money, alternative careers, business for good, sports media, Jasper Wang***Follow Alex Sujong Laughlin on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/alexlaughs/Email Alex: alex[at]defector.comSubscribe to Defector Media: https://defector.com/Check out Try Hard in audio form: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/try-hard/id1824016771***Credits:This show is produced by Haleema Shah and Alex Sujong Laughlin. Mixing by Samantha Gattsek. Justin Ellis is Defector’s projects editor. Our show art is by Lille Allen. Our theme song is “Photo Booth,” by Avery Friedman. Jasper Wang is Defector’s business guy. Thank you to the Defector staff and to Sean Kuhn. Our merch store was created by Dan McQuade. Defector Media is a collectively owned, subscriber based media company. Try Hard is a proud member of Radiotopia.

Since 2014 this longstanding podcast favourite has been creating hard-hitting cinematic stories about love, bodies and all of the things between humans that we don’t know how to name. Creator Kaitlin Prest works with her friends, idols and all kinds of loved ones to bring you into an expansive sonic universe that challenges what we think we know about love.

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Society & Culture
Atlantic Flight 702 has disappeared mid-flight between London and New York with 256 passengers on board. Kaitlin Le (Kelly Marie Tran), a college student whose twin brother vanished with the flight, is determined to uncover the truth. Passenger List is a mystery thriller podcast from PRX’s Radiotopia.

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Drama
Alex Sujong Laughlin has conversations with people about the ways they're redefining themselves, from major life changes to picking up new hobbies. Be a try hard. We double dog dare you. Created by Alex Sujong Laughlin and Defector Media.

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Self-Improvement
Normal Gossip delivers juicy, strange, funny, and utterly banal gossip about people you’ll never know and never meet. Host Rachelle Hampton discusses reader-submitted comedic gossip with guests, diving into the lives and decisions of complete strangers. The second-hand truth really is stranger than fiction. Produced by Se'era Spragley Ricks and Jae Towle Vieira. Created by Kelsey McKinney and Alex Sujong Laughlin. Show art by Tara Jacoby. https://normalgossip.komi.io/

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Comedy
The Kitchen Sisters Present… Stories from the b-side of history. Lost recordings, hidden worlds, people possessed by a sound, a vision, a mission. Deeply layered stories, lush with interviews, field recordings and music. From powerhouse NPR producers The Kitchen Sisters (The Keepers, Hidden Kitchens, The Hidden World of Girls, The Sonic Memorial Project, Lost & Found Sound, and Fugitive Waves). "The Kitchen Sisters have done some of best radio stories ever broadcast" —Ira Glass. The Kitchen Sisters Present is produced in by The Kitchen Sisters (Nikki Silva & Davia Nelson) in collaboration with Nathan Dalton and Brandi Howell and mixed by Jim McKee. A proud member of Radiotopia, from PRX. Learn more at radiotopia.fm.

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Society & Culture
From The West Wing to The Diplomat to All the President's Men, we discuss works of political television and film. Co-hosted by Joshua Malina (The West Wing, Scandal) and Hrishikesh Hirway (Song Exploder).

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TV & Film

Radiotopia features podcasts from extraordinary, independent creators. This channel includes ad-free episodes of each show currently in the award-winning network through the subscription option, Radiotopia Uninterrupted.

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The Diplomat 1.01: The Cinderella Thing (with Debora Cahn)

Signal Hill — Push Up Contest

2.1 Class Action

2.2 Pay Day

Temu Renaissance with Hunter Harris and Peyton Dix

A Succulent Crime with Kelsey McKinney

The Resale Revival

Lace and Labor

Light Box, from sound designer Mark Henry Phillips

He left corporate for a socialist pirate ship

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