Podcasts about the wonders of imagination
What happens when your dreams can’t be separated from reality? What would happen if you could interview the inanimate objects around you — what would they say? Featuring: Everything is Alive, Bubble, Afropop Worldwide and more.
This week we're sharing one of our favourite episodes from October 2018.
Podcasts featured this week:
- Longest Shortest Time - Meet Amy, her son Alejandro and his three imaginary friends 'Subway,' 'Milk' and 'Miso-soup-n-rice.' Click here to hear the full episode.
- Afropop Worldwide - Learn about the phenomenon of trance in Moroccan culture and how music can help one enter another plane of being. Click here to listen to the full episode.
- Here Be Monsters - Chrissy was having trouble remembering who she was when she woke up. First she thought it was early-onset dementia, then she thought it was schizophrenia. But it was something else. Click here to listen to the full episode.
- The Moth - As a kid, Tim Manely was suddenly hospitalized. Now he's a healthy adult, but he credits his recovery to two things: his mother and his imagination. Click here to listen to the full episode.
- Bubble - The gig economy meets monster hunters, all in the Portland-like town of Fairhaven. Click here to listen to the full episode.
- Minding the Brain - Dr. Jim Davies gives us practical advice on how to make our imaginations work for our future selves. Click here to listen to the full episode.
- Everything is Alive - An interview show in which all the subjects are inanimate objects. In each episode, a different thing tells us its life story. In this clip we meet Louis, a can of cola. Click here to listen to the full episode.
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