Great Pods Weekly Digest #3

The latest picks from Great Pods critics — 5 newly reviewed podcasts, straight from the reviewers.

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Great Pods Digest #3 rounds up critic reviews of 5 podcasts:

• 1865 — rated 5/5 by Michael Bergonzi, Audio Drama Reviews
• No Time But Now with William Shatner and Melanie Shatner Gretsch — rated 5/5 by Azariah France-Williams, Church Times
• The Idiot — rated 5/5 by Fiona Sturges, BBC Culture
• Call 'Em Like Museum with Eric Johnson — rated 5/5 by Lauren Passell, Podcast The Newsletter
• In the Zone: Understanding Big Feelings for Kids — rated 4.5/5 by Frank Racioppi, Ear Worthy

1865

★★★★★

(Season One) A piece of an historical fiction podcast where relistening isn't so much a chore as it is enlightening.

— Michael Bergonzi, Audio Drama Reviews

No Time But Now with William Shatner and Melanie Shatner Gretsch

★★★★★

What follows is a vulnerable conversation about mortality, the preciousness of life, and the enduring power of love. [...] Their differences make the conversation richer. [...] Yet there is no attempt to win the argument. Instead, there is affection, curiosity, and gentle respect between father and daughter. Beneath all the talk of cosmology, consciousness, and mortality is something wonderfull...

— Azariah France-Williams, Church Times

The Idiot

★★★★★

What begins as a run-of-the-mill family drama turns into an in-depth and atmospheric character study of a man high on entitlement and a misplaced sense of injustice.

— Fiona Sturges, BBC Culture

Call 'Em Like Museum with Eric Johnson

★★★★★

It's not only worth studying their history, curation, exhibit design, and the visitor experience, which Eric is doing, but it's also worth recognizing our emotional ties to them. This is a rich, inviting topic, whether you have memberships to multiple museums now or have childhood trauma left over from when your parents used to drag you through them as a child.

— Lauren Passell, Podcast The Newsletter

In the Zone: Understanding Big Feelings for Kids

★★★★★

In The Zone: Understanding Big Feelings For Kids is a musical audio series for early learning listeners that follows Leon, a lovable chameleon whose colors change with his emotions. Whenever Leon experiences a big feeling, the magical Zone Center transforms alongside him — glowing red for frustration, blue for sadness, yellow for nervous energy and excitement, and green when calm returns.

— Frank Racioppi, Ear Worthy

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