Radiotopia Announces New Podcast Series for Fall 2024
Radiotopia from PRX — the Pulitzer and Peabody Award-nominated podcast network for independent creators — today announced new releases throughout the fall.
Radiotopia recently announced that acclaimed producer Alex Goldman has joined the network with his new podcast, Hyperfixed. Diving headfirst into people’s personal difficulties to find the solutions, the first episodes are available now. The series will return on an ongoing basis later this fall.
Upcoming podcast releases also include the following:
Thursday, September 5 — a new season of Weight for It from Ronald Young, Jr.
A Tribeca Festival Official Selection, a multi-award winning podcast in The Ambie Awards from The Podcast Academy, and named one of the best podcasts of 2024 by The New York Times, on Weight for It, Ronald Young, Jr. combines personal storytelling and deep dive interviews to unpack the world around him that just doesn’t seem to fit. New episodes include discussions and narrative storytelling pertaining to grief, air travel, Ozempic, diabetes, and fat camp. Guests will include individuals such as Aubrey Gordon — host of Maintenance Phase and the subject of the Your Fat Friend documentary — and Martinus Evans, founder of the Slow AF Run Club.
Wednesday, September 4 — new episodes of Ear Hustle co-created by Earlonne Woods and Nigel Poor
The first podcast produced from inside prison and recent National Magazine Award finalist, Ear Hustle delivers first hand stories reflecting the realities of incarceration, including from San Quentin. The show also recently announced an expansion into the California Institution for Women women’s prison in Chino, California. New episodes span topics such as attitudes from inside towards the 2024 Presidential election, how books shape lives for better and for worse, and from the California Institution for Women about individuals’ final memories of freedom.
Monday, September 9 — new episodes of The Recipe with Kenji and Deb
The food podcast from two beloved cooks on a quest to find the perfect recipes — J. Kenji López-Alt (The Food Lab) and Deb Perelman (Smitten Kitchen) — launched earlier in 2024 was named one of today’s best podcasts by Esquire and The Skimm. They’ve covered meatloaf, pancakes, and tomato soup and will soon delve into the simple complexities of foods such as BLTs and french toast.
Tuesday, October 1 — The West Wing Weekly goes to the movies
As the election season heats up, Song Exploder’s Hrishikesh Hirway and The West Wing’s Joshua Malina return for The West Wing Weekly Political Film Fest. For this entertaining limited series, Hirway and Malina will watch and discuss some of their favorite political films with the same mix of analysis and humor that made The West Wing Weekly a hit. The slate includes Dr. Strangelove, In the Loop, Judas and the Black Messiah, and more, but they begin with the film that led to The West Wing, the Sorkin-penned The American President.
Wednesday, October 9 — A new season of Normal Gossip from Defector Media
Normal Gossip delivers juicy, strange, funny, and utterly banal gossip about people you’ll never know and never meet. Host Kelsey McKinney discusses comedic stories based on reader-submitted gossip with guests, diving into the lives and decisions of complete strangers.
Co-created by McKinney and Alex Sujong Laughlin, Normal Gossip launched in 2022 and has since been downloaded millions of times in the U.S. and around the world while heralded as one of today’s best podcasts by Vulture, TIME, The New Yorker, TimeOut, NPR’s Fresh Air, TODAY, and Cosmopolitan, among others. Guests on the show have included Samantha Irby, Amanda Montell, Samin Nosrat, Sam Sanders, Avery Trufelman, and beyond. A new season will deliver new stories and surprises.
McKinney also recently announced a new book — You Didn’t Know This From Me: (Mostly True Notes on Gossip) — out in February 2025.
Thursday, October 10 — A new season of The Stoop from Hana Baba and Leila Day
Exploring stories from across the Black diaspora, journalists and storytellers Hana Baba and Leila Day will continue to bring listeners rich stories and engaging conversation. Upcoming episodes include topics as varied as bone marrow donation, country music, and conversations with renowned figures.
Lauded by The Root, the LA Review of Books and winning awards from the Alliance for Women in Media and the National Association of Black Journalists, new episodes will be released every other Thursday.
Special episodes of This Day in Esoteric Political History from Roulette Productions
On This Day in Esoteric Political History, podcaster Jody Avirgan, historian Kellie Carter Jackson of Wellesley College, and historian Nicole Hemmer of Vanderbilt University shed light on specific days in U.S. political history to explore how it might inform the present. With episodes ranging from when Henry David Thoreau was jailed for refusing to pay back taxes in 1846 to college campus protests in 1968, upcoming themed episodes will traverse topics such as notable and strange election advertising, presidential campaigns and “October surprises” — including an episode recorded live at WBUR in Boston — and the 2024 election.
Tuesday, November 19 — A special episode from The Kitchen Sisters Present
Independent audio documentary producers Davia Nelson and Nikki Silva — The Kitchen Sisters — chronicle the lives, celebrations and struggles of people from all walks of life, weaving together a rich tapestry of America’s cultural heritage. In November, the podcast will air a story titled “The Grand Dames of American Cooking,” featuring rare interviews with legendary chefs and home cooks: Cecilia Chiang, Marion Cummingham, Ruth Reichl, Alice Waters, Niloufer Ichaporia King, and more. These kitchen visionaries have worked to preserve, develop, and pass on traditional foodways and cultural history through the art of cooking.
Additionally, The Heart from Mermaid Palace and Kaitlin Prest have released Great Love, revisiting Ashtar Theater’s Gaza Monologues written in 2010 by individuals in Palestine. The series presents the words written by teenagers living through war in Gaza more than a decade ago, layered with recordings, creations, and experiences from today. Further, Benjamen Walker’s Theory of Everything will release a mini-series regarding disinformation and the election and Radio Diaries will release a series examining the rise of talk radio in America through four dramatic personalities whose views influenced public opinion on politics, religion, and race in the 20th century.
Listeners of Nate DiMeo’s The Memory Palace can enjoy a new book based on the show published by Penguin Random House this November. “The Memory Palace wants you to linger, to stay awhile, and find a deeper meaning both in the stories of the past and perhaps in your own life as well,” praises filmmaker Ken Burns.
Radiotopia podcasts are available free on-demand across all major podcast platforms, including Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, Spotify, Overcast, and Pocket Casts.
Sponsorships and ad sales of each podcast are being handled exclusively by Soundrise.
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Created in 2014, Radiotopia from PRX is the first network of its kind. As a network of independent podcasts, Radiotopia empowers audio creators with the artistic freedom to thrive on their own terms and to bring audiences inspired, high-quality, and well-crafted soundscapes. Programming from across Radiotopia has received recognition from the Peabody Awards, the duPont-Columbia Awards, the Tribeca Festival, the National Magazine Awards, and the Pulitzer Prizes.
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