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The Miles Davis Story: 1. Don't Call Me Legend
1w ago00:28:23Tap to summarizePodcast: Legend (LS 39 · TOP 2% what is this?)Episode: The Miles Davis Story: 1. Don't Call Me LegendPub date: 2026-05-29Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationClarke Peters explores the life and legacy of a visionary artist whose relentless pursuit of the "new" often scorched his own life and the lives of those around him. In September 1944, an 18-year-old Miles Davis arrives in New York with a trumpet in his hand and a secret mission. He may have first arrived in New York to take up a place at the prestigious Juilliard School, but in reality Miles was actually patrolling the smoke-filled jazz clubs of 52nd Street, chasing the high-speed sounds of his bebop heroes, Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie. Across the series, Clarke charts Miles’s ever-evolving artform, starting with this first great transformation of a legend - when the young Miles chose to step into the unknown, seize control of his own creative destiny, and begin his journey as a leader.Narrator, acclaimed actor and longtime fan, Clarke Peters (The Wire, Treme, Da 5 Bloods) reveals the restless genius and radical evolution of Miles Davis. Growing up in a New York household where his father’s jazz records were the permanent soundtrack, Clarke was captivated by Miles long before he fully appreciated the man behind the music. Across five episodes, Clarke traces a 50 year odyssey of constant reinvention - from a teenage outsider chasing the bebop revolution in 1944 to a global icon who redefined what it meant to be Black, to be cool, and to be an artist.Blending archival recordings and legendary tracks with fresh perspectives from a range of creators, the series reveals how Miles’ influence ripples far beyond the world of jazz. We discover how his "take no shit" attitude and aesthetic fearlessness impacted on the likes of Oscar-winning filmmakers, celebrated designers and music icons like Prince, Joni Mitchell, Sting and even bands like Radiohead, as well as generations of now also legendary jazz musicians that he championed early in their careers - John Coltrane, Bill Evans, Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter, Keith Jarrett and Marcus Miller, to name a few. The series also grapples with the darker side of Miles’ legacy, including the domestic abuse that left a trail of pain for those closest to him and the substance issues that took a deep toll on his health. It asks difficult questions about how to regard an artist capable of creating the most sublime aesthetic statements while engaging in brutal behaviour. Clarke Peters, whose own creative journey as an actor was sparked by Miles’s music, leads a searching investigation into a man who refused to be palatable, refused to be a "legend", and simply refused to stop moving forward.Miles Davis Interview: From Jazz Talking by Ben Sidran, 1986. The Arsenio Hall Show, Paramount, originally broadcast in 1989. 60 Minutes, CBS News. Originally broadcast in 1989Featured tracks (in order of appearance) “So What” – Miles Davis “Blue in Green” – Miles Davis (feat. John Coltrane & Bill Evans) “Bitches Brew” – Miles Davis "Miles Runs the Voodoo Down" - MIles Davis “Agitation” – Miles Davis “Flamenco Sketches” – Miles Davis & Bill Evans “Ko Ko” – Charlie Parker “Salt Peanuts” – Dizzy Gillespie "Jivin with Jack the Bellboy" - Miles Davis "Move" - Miles Davis "Moon Dreams" - Miles Davis "Boplicity" - Miles Davis Presenter: Clarke Peters Series Producer: Clem Hitchcock Executive Producer: Rami Tzabar Editor: Kirsten Lass Production Manager: Emily Duffy Music Consultant: Guy Barker Additional Music: Guy Barker Archivist: Simon Rooks Script Consultant: Anne Harbin Technical Production and Sound Design: Melvin Rickarby Commissioning Editors for the BBC: Dan Clarke and Matthew Dodd A Loftus Media production for BBC Radio 4The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from BBC Radio 4, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.
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Merciless Indian Savages | Episode 1
1w ago00:36:04Tap to summarizePodcast: First America (LS 69 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)Episode: Merciless Indian Savages | Episode 1Pub date: 2026-06-22Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationWe’ve all been told the American Revolution was fought over taxation and representation. But that's not what the Declaration of Independence says. According to our founders, in their own words, what they were most upset about was Native Americans. How did we all miss that? Rebecca sits down with historian Ned Blackhawk (Western Shoshone) to talk about how hunger for Indigenous land drove the Revolution. Welcome to First America, the true story of how the United States came to be, and how our current political moment was 250 years in the making. Resources: - Dig into more of Ned Blackhawk's scholarship hereSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Pushkin Industries, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.
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Spy Cities: London
1w ago00:37:01Tap to summarizePodcast: Spy CitiesEpisode: Spy Cities: LondonPub date: 2026-06-24Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationThe Spying Starts HereWhere the modern game was invented and professionalised.In episode one of Spy Cities come and walk with us around the streets of London where we'll share stories of fact and fiction, and maybe a cocktail or two... Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Chatterbox Audio, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.
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Collapsology (SOCIETAL COLLAPSE, LOL!) with Joseph Tainter
1w ago01:27:08Tap to summarizePodcast: Ologies with Alie Ward (LS 81 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)Episode: Collapsology (SOCIETAL COLLAPSE, LOL!) with Joseph TainterPub date: 2026-07-01Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationWhat is your Roman Empire? It’s about to be this episode. What causes the big dogs to stumble and fall? Do societies collapse suddenly, or would one notice as it happens? What *is* a complex society – and is it better than a simple one? Depends on who you ask, and we went straight to the source: the legendary anthropologist, scholar, historian and author of “The Collapse of Complex Societies,” Dr. Joseph Tainter. New obsession awaits you in the fall of the Roman Empire, cities lost to the desert dust, diminishing returns, fiddling amid the flames, the worst beard in history, fossil fuels, fertilizer, bread, circus, hanging chads, and if you should go live on a small goat farm. Happy 250th birthday to the currently United States of America! Follow Dr. Tainter on Google Scholar Buy his book, The Collapse of Complex Societies A donation went to Utah State University's Ecology Center More episode sources and links Other episodes you may enjoy: Classical Archeology (ANCIENT ROME), Revolutionology (REBELLIONS & SOCIAL CHANGE), Futurology (THE FUTURE), Nomology (THE CONSTITUTION), Genealogy (FAMILY TREES), Agnotology (IGNORANCE), Genocidology (CRIMES OF ATROCITY), Syndesiology (CONNECTIONS), Space Archaeology (SPACE JUNK), Astrobromatology (SPACE FOOD), Paternology (FATHERHOOD) 400+ Ologies episodes sorted by topic Smologies (short, classroom-safe) episodes Sponsors of Ologies Transcripts and bleeped episodes Become a patron of Ologies for as little as a buck a month OlogiesMerch.com has hats, shirts, hoodies, totes! Follow Ologies on Instagram and Bluesky Follow Alie Ward on Instagram and TikTok Editing by Mercedes Maitland of Maitland Audio Productions and Jake Chaffee Managing Director: Susan Hale Scheduling Producer: Noel Dilworth Transcripts by Aveline Malek Website by Kelly R. Dwyer Theme song by Nick Thorburn Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Alie Ward, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.
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We Are Monumentally Bad at Statues
2w ago00:48:50Tap to summarizePodcast: Decoder Ring (LS 64 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)Episode: We Are Monumentally Bad at StatuesPub date: 2026-07-01Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationIt seems like the only time you hear about new statues these days is when something goes horribly wrong. Unfortunate bronze renditions of Lucille Ball, Cristiano Ronaldo, Dwayne Wade, and many others are always going viral, becoming a fixture of late-night shows and mocking comment sections. Is the internet too harsh a critic? Or is American statuary a total bust?In this episode of Decoder Ring, host Willa Paskin talks to artist Atalanta Arden-Miller about what’s happened to one of the oldest artistic traditions in the world—why so many contemporary statues turn out off-center, off-kilter, and off-putting. The answer takes us from ancient Greece to Nazi Germany to North Korea.This episode was written by Willa Paskin. It was produced by Max Freedman. It was edited by Josh Levin and Evan Chung, our supervising producer. Merritt Jacob is Senior Technical Director. Our intern is Phoebe Mulder.Special thanks to the Works in Progress Podcast, where we first heard Atalanta talk about the dismal state of statuary today.If you have any cultural mysteries you want us to decode, email us at DecoderRing@slate.com or leave a message on our hotline at (347) 460-7281.Get more of Decoder Ring with Slate Plus! Join for exclusive bonus episodes of Decoder Ring and ad-free listening on all your favorite Slate podcasts. Subscribe from the Decoder Ring show page on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Or, visit slate.com/decoderplus for access wherever you listen.Need to set up your Slate Plus feed? If you subscribed through Slate.com, check out our FAQ at slate.com/podcastfaqs for easy instructions. Members subscribed via Apple Podcasts get automatic access—no setup required. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Slate Podcasts, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.
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Mary Keen on a lifetime of gardening
2w ago00:26:02Tap to summarizePodcast: Why Women Grow (LS 44 · TOP 1% what is this?)Episode: Mary Keen on a lifetime of gardeningPub date: 2026-06-30Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationMary Keen has worked in, documented and designed gardens all over the world for decades. But it’s the garden she’s made at home, during her ninth decade, that she writes most affectionately about. In her seventh book, Diary of a Keen Gardener, she reflects on both a life shaped by plants and her more recent years, when she has weathered grief, illness and aging. It’s an honest love letter to what makes a garden. And it’s here that we meet Mary, on a breezy spring day, to take a studied tour around her Gloucestershire garden.Diary of a Keen Gardener is available in hardback now, and you can follow Mary’s exploits on instagram: @keenkeengardener.This podcast is inspired by my book, Why Women Grow: Stories of Soil, Sisterhood and Survival, which is available in all good bookshops. We’ve also been photographing our guests and their gardens and you can see the beautiful images captured by India Hobson on my website and instagram account @alicevincentwrites. Thank you to our friends at Niwaki. You can get 10% off your order with the code WHYWOMENGROW.If you’re new to the Why Women Grow podcast, do check out our previous episodes, including guests such as Sarah Raven and Ula Maria. And if you’ve enjoyed this episode, it would mean so much if you could rate and review the podcast on whichever platform you’re listening in on, or share it with someone you think may enjoy it.This episode was produced by Holly Fisher. The theme music is by Maria Chiara Argiro. The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Alice Vincent, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.
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This is Your Brain on Hormones
2w ago00:39:43Tap to summarizePodcast: Radiolab (LS 85 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)Episode: This is Your Brain on HormonesPub date: 2026-06-19Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationAfter reading something that said her menstrual cycle changes her brain each month, Senior Correspondent Molly Webster goes on a reporting mission to see if that’s true, and, if so, how. This journey into sex hormones and the brain involves females and males, and exacting self-experimentation. It gets into PTSD, and ends with a new twist on self-care (hint: it’s biological). And, it starts to reveal a sneaky truth: that each one of us is at the mercy of a crashing sea of chemicals inside of us – those things we call hormones. Special thanks to Emily Jacobs, Laura Pritschet, Pavel Shapturenka, and Dr. Catherine Woolley.EPISODE CREDITS: Hosted by - Molly Webster Reported by - Molly Webster Produced by - Mona Madgavkar with help from - Molly Webster Fact-checking by - Diane A. Kelly EPISODE CITATIONS: Articles - **The experiments we feature in this episode are called: 28andMe, 28andOC, and 28andHe, all of which took place at Emily Jacobs lab at the University of California, Santa Barbara.** The 28 Project (https://zpr.io/CSx6MnwZjRvp), background from the Jacobs lab For more on how much variability there is between female and male animals, check out this “groundbreaking” study, referenced by Emily Jacobs in our episode Sex Bias in Neuroscience and Biomedical Research(https://zpr.io/ZRgKZzdNejUA), by Beery AK, Zucker I., Neurosci Biobehav Rev. 2011 Dr. Catherine Woolley has revolutionized the field of neuroscience and sex hormones, here’s more about her work … Sex Differences in the Brain Get Down to the Molecular Level Sex (https://zpr.io/UNCLE9J782N5), by Stephanie DeMarco, PhD, The Scientist.com Hormonal Effects on the Brain (https://zpr.io/DvNM9EkXdtGG), by Woolley, C.S. and Schwartzkroin, P.A. Epilepsia Data sets - 28andMe and 28andOC (https://zpr.io/hbXVNTVp2Q7j): 28andHe (https://zpr.io/sZXhfMbMwKb7) Audio - In the episode, we mention Dr. Russ Poldrack and the Midnight Scan Club, as inspo for self-experimentation The Midnight Scan Club (https://zpr.io/CLBhNQSxK844), by Science Friday. Signup for our newsletter!! It includes short essays, recommendations, and details about other ways to interact with the show. Sign up (https://radiolab.org/newsletter)! Radiolab is supported by listeners like you. Support Radiolab by becoming a member of The Lab (https://members.radiolab.org/) today. Follow our show on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook @radiolab, and share your thoughts with us by emailing radiolab@wnyc.org. Leadership support for Radiolab’s science programming is provided by the Simons Foundation and the John Templeton Foundation. Foundational support for Radiolab was provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from WNYC Studios, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.
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Everything is iPod
3w ago00:37:54Tap to summarizePodcast: Tasteland (LS 25 · TOP 10% what is this?)Episode: Everything is iPodPub date: 2026-06-26Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationWe convene three guests to discuss 25 years of the iPod, the consumer hardware End of History, and the possibility of a new consumer hardware Cambrian Explosion. Hosts Francis Zierer and Daisy Alioto are joined by: Molly Mary O'Brien is a freelance video editor and writer living in Los Angeles, California. She is the writer behind the blog “I enjoy Music,” and the host of a podcast about words about music called “And Introducing.” Liz Dorman is a technologist, design engineer, and world wanderer. She is a co-founder of Era, a company working to usher in a new era of computing with an intelligence layer for physical devices. Joy Howard is the Chief Marketing Officer at Back Market, a global marketplace for refurbished electronics. Previously, she’s held similar roles at Lyft, Sonos, Patagonia, Nike, and Coca Cola. Before she got he business degree, she was the vocalist in a shoegaze band, playing with acts like Cat Power and Modest Mouse in the 90s. Find a full, linked syllabus of all articles mentioned in this episode here. 00:00 The iPod's Legacy and Impact 03:04 Personal Experiences with the iPod 06:00 Nostalgia and Cultural Shifts 08:54 The Evolution of Music Consumption 12:05 The Aesthetics of the iPod 14:55 The Right to Repair Movement 17:57 The Future of Consumer Electronics 21:07 The Afterlife of the iPod 24:07 Generational Perspectives on Music Devices 26:55 The Role of Music in Youth Culture 30:06 The Future of Technology and Human InteractionThe podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Tasteland, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.
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David Hockney Tribute
3w ago00:33:03Tap to summarizePodcast: Stories of Art (LS 45 · TOP 1% what is this?)Episode: David Hockney TributePub date: 2026-06-17Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationDavid Hockney, who died last week, was a giant of British art. In this special episode, Alastair and James pay tribute to the late, great artist.Photo Credit: Jean-Pierre Goncalves De LimaArtworks in this episode include:David Hockney, We Two Boys Together Clinging, 1961David Hockney, The Arrival of Spring, Normandy, 2020David Hockney, Mother, Bradford. 19 Feb 1979, 1979David Hockney, J-P Gonçalves de Lima, 11th, 12th, 13th July 2013, 2013David Hockney, The Big Hawthorn, 2008David Hockney, Winter Timber, 2009David Hockney, Beverly Hills Housewife, 1966-67David Hockney, A Bigger Splash, 1967David Hockney, Mr and Mrs Clark and Percy, 1970-71David Hockney, Christopher Isherwood and Don Bachardy, 1968Piero della Francesca, The Baptism of Christ, c.1437-45David Hockney, My Parents, 1977David Hockney, My Parents and Myself, 1976David Hockney, Pearblossom Hwy., 11-18th April 1986 (Second Version), 1986David Hockney, A Year in Normandie, 2020-2021David Hockney, Bigger Trees Near Warter, 2007David Hockney, Delphiniums on My Garden Table, July 2025, 2025For more great art content visit www.heni.com or visit the Heni Talks YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/@HENITalksHosts: Alastair Sooke and Dr James FoxAdditional Research: Catherine IngramProducer and Editor: Ben HardingExecutive Producer: Emma CahusacChapters00:00:00 News of Hockney's Death00:03:06 An Artist of Joy00:08:45 A National Treasure and Cultural Icon00:15:06 California and Double Portraits00:21:11 Yorkshire Landscapes00:27:06 How to LookThe podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from HENI Talks, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.
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The Flood, Part 1
3w ago00:34:58Tap to summarizePodcast: Where the River Took Us (LS 48 · TOP 1% what is this?)Episode: The Flood, Part 1Pub date: 2026-05-26Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationTexas Monthly senior editor Aaron Parsley remembers the night before the flood and everything that led up to the moment that changed his family forever.To read Aaron Parsely’s Pulitzer Prize-winning feature, go to:https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/texas-flood-firsthand-account/.The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Texas Monthly, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.
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