Music

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From his viral, Webby-winning Orange Tree Series, The Vic Mensa Show is new, premiering today. Fellow Chicago artist Chance the Rapper joins Vic as the first guest, with a season one lineup also featuring Durand Bernarr, Rapsody, Lena Waithe, Aja Monet, Van Lathan Jr. and more.

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Business

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In the start-up tech leaders podcast Code Story this week, the show kicks off Season 13 featuring Dave Garcia, Co-CEO of Pensero, telling us all about why the AI token winter is coming.

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Music

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On Toy Heart, CBC radio host Tom Power ("q") presents conversations with with bluegrass greats like Del McCoury, Alice Gerrard, and Jerry Douglas. In a special episode, Power welcomes modern bluegrass legend Billy Strings in front of a live audience at IBMA World of Bluegrass in Chattanooga, TN. Strings talks openly about poverty, addiction in his family, and the role music played as a coping mechanism and survival tactic.

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Fiction

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Ella Watts (Doctor Who: Redacted, Camlann, Eliza: A Robot Story) and Naomi Clarke (The Secret of St Kilda) join the writers’ room for I Need A Miracle season 2, if the production can hit its crowdfunding goal by 1 October. Also on board to write episodes for the second season are Bel Lazarus (Radio San Lazaro), Rhys Lawton (star of Ethics Town and writer of the experimental flash fiction series Paddleboat), and improviser and horror storyteller Fiona K.T. Howat.

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History

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Call 'Em Like Museum with Eric Johnson debuts this week with a provocative question: What's the point of going to a museum? Historian Susan Crane talks about how museums & their visitors have been changed by technology, why the Mona Lisa only got famous after it was stolen, and what you need to understand about the Trump administration's efforts to censor the Smithsonian.

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True Crime

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For twenty years, the United States Marine Corps has tried to bury the truth about Haditha. In 2005, 24 civilians were killed by a squad of United States Marines in the Iraqi city of Haditha, a massacre that became one of the most notorious and controversial incidents of the war. Fault Line: Haditha is new this week from iHeartPodcasts: Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Michael Epstein delivers a gripping investigative series that finally reveals the truth about the Haditha Massacre and the government cover-up that followed.

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Arts

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Funny You Should Ask is a new podcast from GOLD Comedy, hosted by founder Lynn Harris. It unlocks GOLD's members-only vault of conversations with your favorite funny people, all chatting candidly about making a living making people laugh. It launches today with Maria Bamford, then runs weekly through a season that includes Judy Gold, Jeff Hiller, Jonterri Gadson, and Shaun Cassidy.

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Fiction

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In every job that must be done, there is an element of fun. Finding fun once more in Jane Austen's words, Dame Julie Andrews returns to narrate more Jane Austen Stories - this time, the original text of Emma. The show is a Noiser production, and launches tomorrow.

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Science

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Mark Victor Hansen got rejected 144 times before Chicken Soup for the Soul became one of the bestselling book series in history. In the latest episode of Influence Anyone, Howie Chan sits down with the legendary author, publisher, and co-creator of the Chicken Soup for the Soul franchise to unpack the psychology behind persistence, goal-setting, purpose, and influence.

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Leisure

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Good news: Hello, Puzzlers! recently had NYT Puzzle Editor Will Shortz on the show. Lex Friedman tells us it was "lovely".

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