Pod Trawlers Episode 14 - What is the Internet doing to us, Megan Phelps-Roper, Thanks a Million and MORE

This week we begin with:

Rabbit Hole

This podcast is all about what the internet is really doing to us. It's presented by Times tech columnist Kevin Roose, and his mission is to discover what happens when our lives move online.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/16/podcasts/rabbit-hole-internet-youtube-virus.html

Then we move on to Vic’s first choice is:

Unfollow – a BBC Podcast

This is the story of Megan Phelps-Roper about what it was like to be raised in a religious sect aggressive in its homophobia and antisemitism, and notorious for picketing the funerals of American soldiers and rejoicing in the world’s worst disasters. And what it was like to walk away from the sect, and her family, at the age of 26,

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p07wp2zt



then Veronika's second choice:

Birds' Eye View

The first podcast made by women in the Darwin Correctional Centre. The podcast explores what it's like to be a woman in a man’s prison. 

https://www.birdseyeviewpodcast.net/



And Vic's second, and our final, choice:

Thanks a Million 

A podcast presented by Angela Scanlon, about all the things people are grateful for! 

https://www.thanksamillionpodcast.com

As always, thank you for listening! 

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Thank you also to Anna Meredith for her brilliant music, and also, this week, to Yothu Yindi, for letting us borrow, unofficially, their classic tune.

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