2020, the year we'd all like to forget, is now past tense. If you're keen to kick off 2021 with some new podcasts, look no further.
We asked some of the ABC's presenters and producers what they have cued on their podcast apps.
From unexpected pop song explainers to slow news and a comedy mystery with a twist, this list has it all.
I love documentaries — audio and visual. First person narrative, in their own words, vérité — real people stories.
Birds Eye View is a collaboration between Darwin's Story Projects and the women of Sector four, Darwin Correctional Centre.
This 10-episode podcast was co-created through storytelling and recording workshops over two years. Along the way more than 70 women participated with 12 women featured.
At the heart of the stories are three key questions — Who are we really? How did we get here? And where to next?
Aside from the personal, we learn about life inside — what it's like to be a mum in prison, how to measure time when you're doing time, payback, finding love and beauty hacks.
It is not always easy listening. It is raw, candid and compelling.
Birds Eye View was awarded Podcast of the Year at the Australian Podcast Awards 2020.
Carmel Rooney is the executive producer of Conversations.
Once described by a US Senator as "a series of tubes," the internet is the greatest archive in human history. Sure, it's mostly advertising, porn and a former Harvard student's "Hot or Not" website that has acquired the power to undermine global democracy, but Finding Desperado shows there is still plenty of weirdness to discover within the tubes.
The premise is this: while flicking through his childhood copy of the Guinness World Records, comedian and film nerd Cameron James is intrigued by the entry for youngest ever director.
The 13-year-old wunderkind, Lord Sydney Ling, seems to have had a remarkable life and then vanished. Cam's international film contacts have never heard of him, and only scattered traces and bizarre tales remain on internet forums.
Along with his co-host, Alexei Toliopoulos, Cam sets out to find Lord Sydney and his first feature, Lex the Wonder Dog. Their investigation spans the globe: from early-2000s blogs, to the artist communes of Ibiza, to the 1980s Dutch B-movie scene.
A pop culture investigation, Finding Desperado does what true crime should do — uncover and solve a genuine mystery. Unlike most true crime, the hosts are not pompous. And, most importantly, they are hilarious.
Michael Dulaney is the digital producer for ABC Audio Studios.
2020 has been a dumpster fire of a year. You know who's great at turning crappy experiences into wonderful art? Musicians! Song Exploder takes you deep into the songwriting process, revealing the backstory, the pain, the joy, the multiple rewrites and production flourishes behind your favourite songs.
If you're interested in learning about other people's creative processes (and I am) this show will leave you feeling inspired and in awe of what creative minds can do. Also, host Hrishikesh Hirway's smooth-as-butter voice is deeply soothing to listen to.
With an average run time around 20 minutes, episodes are like a quick hit of musical meditation. Who doesn't need that after this crazy year?
Artists featured include Billie Eilish, Run the Jewels, Fleetwood Mac, Vampire Weekend and many, many more.
Bonus: After several years purely as a podcast, Song Exploder is now a Netflix series too. But listen first, then watch.
Sana Qadar is the new host of All In The Mind, an ABC podcast about the brain and behaviour, and the fascinating connections between them.
Lisa Leong recommends On Being
I am obsessed with work, especially ways I can work better or enjoy my work more. So while my recommendation isn't your chart-topping true crime, it has helped me in my quest to find the humanity at work.
On Being is a podcast exploring what it means to be human.
Host Krista Tippett was awarded the National Humanities Medal in 2014 by US President Barack Obama for "thoughtfully delving into the mysteries of human existence."
In each episode Krista creates the space for deep and reflective conversations around the core questions of: What does it mean to be human? How do we want to live? And who will we be to each other?
Her guests have included poet Mary Oliver, cellist Yo Yo Ma, writer Elizabeth Gilbert, social researcher Brene Brown and philosopher Alain de Botton.
Her supporting website is an incredible resource too. If you are new to On Being, you can start here.
Lisa Leong is the presenter of the ABC's This Working Life, a podcast that helps you navigate through the tough times.
Sometimes, the best way to move forward is to look back. Little Bad Thing is a podcast that's all about looking back at times we weren't our best selves. It's a philosophical and journalistic exploration of choices people wish they hadn't made.
Presented by master philosopher and storyteller Eleanor Gordon-Smith, the stories are frustratingly relatable, richly human and remind us of the complex inner lives of other people. Every regrettable decision has a story and every bad deed leaves a scar.
Both thought-provoking and therapeutic, Little Bad Thing is the dose of empathy you need to forgive the people around you, and the shot in the arm you need to be a little better in 2021 than you were in 2020.
Matt Beard is co-presenter of Short & Curly, the ABC's ethics podcast for kids and their parents.
Hosted by journalists Sarah Marshall and Michael Hobbes, You're Wrong About, looks back at a person, event or phenomenon and brings some much-needed nuance and context. And really if we aren't saying hello to 2021 by providing nuance and context… what's the point?
Long-time listeners will know Sarah and Mike met because Sarah wrote an article about Tonya Harding, and Mike loved it so much he emailed her. So it's no surprise that their episodes re-examining infamous women (and the moral panics that surrounded them) are where the show truly shines.
A highlight for me has been their book club series — which includes Michelle Remembers (1980), Jessica Simpson's memoir Open Book (2020), Nancy Grace's memoir Objection! (2005) — and like all the best book clubs, you don't have to read anything to follow along.
Rudi Bremer is the producer of the ABC's Awaye! and Thin Black Line podcasts.
Tortoise is an independent, UK-based news outlet that launched a couple of years ago, built on a membership funding model. Their Slow Newscast delivers really fantastic weekly episodes that hit the sweet spot between deep investigative reporting and strong storytelling.
Episodes run to about half an hour, and cover stories that sit just outside the constant rush of daily news, so you're left with some useful context and a good amount of detail.
I got a lot out of recent episodes on how the world solved the ozone layer problem and the fraught relationship between the Chinese Communist Party and Alibaba founder, Jack Ma. But where this podcast really shines is in the miniseries they drop within the feed, allowing a story to unfold over a few episodes.
Start with the brilliant four-part series, My Mother's Murder, which covers the assassination of Maltese journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, who was killed in a car bomb outside her home in 2017.
The series is hosted by Galizia's son, Paul, now himself a journalist and living in pseudo-exile in London, as he takes in the scale and depth of corruption in Malta (despite being an EU member state), and his family's great loss.
Right now, I'm making my way through their miniseries on Happy, an Asian elephant held by the Bronx Zoo and the subject of a recent court case to have her freed from captivity on the grounds that elephants, as "extraordinarily complex creatures", ought to be granted personhood.
Elizabeth Kulas is the presenter of Days Like These, an ABC podcast that tells great Australian stories.
What better way to farewell a year defined by a global pandemic than with a podcast dedicated to disease?
TPWKY, hosted by two epidemiologists both called Erin, delves into the history, biology and current state of ailments that have plagued us over the centuries … including the actual plague.
When I started listening, a modern-day pandemic was a spooky thought exercise, not something lurking around the corner. But in 2020 I realised how well this pod prepared me for what was to come.
From the episode on cholera, I'd learned about the origins of epidemiology; from tuberculosis, about aerosol spread; from smallpox and polio, about vaccine development and clinical trials.
And from the episode on malaria, I learned the word "abracadabra" was once considered a cure for the disease.
Oh, and for anyone who thinks they coined the term "quarantini" for 2020 lockdown drinks, you didn't. The Erins have been mixing quarantinis themed to each episode since 2017, alongside non-alcoholic placeboritas (placebo, geddit?).
Tegan Taylor is co-host of the ABC's Coronacast podcast and a regular contributor to the Health Report.
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