Podcast recommendations

maya54
Sun, 08 Apr 2018 12:14:07 +0000

Mine are TV based

The West Wing Weekly: goes through every episode of the old The West Wing week by week. Josh Malina who was on the show is one of the hosts which prevents this from being a typical fan based gushing podcast. It instead it’s filled with visits from actors/writers and directors from the show. Including occasionally the brilliant Arron Sorkin. It also gets amazing guests who are relevant to the plot of the show. For example on the episode where the plot involved “ Don’t ask, Don’t Tell” the podcast talked about how things had changed and brought on the First gay Secretary of the Navy.An episode of the show that dealt with Canada resulted in Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as a guest.

Slate’s The Americans Podcast : Airs each week after an episode airs. Also “ insider” because the head of Slate is the brother of the creator of The Americans. Guests include the shows actors, directors, set designers (this was fascinating because they will only use era authentic things on set), as well as the translator who translate the parts of the script that are spoken by the Russians into Russian ( the show only hires native speakers to play the parts of Russians, other than the two leads). Guests also include former FBI agents as well as a former real life Soviet spy who was part of the program ( spies living in the US while pretending to be Americans) that the show is loosely based on.