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I’m sad that the Unmarked Graveyard series has ended. It is a deeply engaging series that looked at the lives of the anonymous people who surround us and reminds us that we are all only a heartbeat away from becoming an unknown, anonymous body in the eyes of authorities—lost with no past and buried in an unmarked mass grave, little more than biological waste. I genuinely wish the series would continue restoring names and lives to the dead by telling their stories.
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This past week I binged all 160+ episodes. At first I really enjoyed all the stories, but then after a while I started noticing that they just keep recycling the same 20-25 stories over and over again. How many times do we have to hear “Amy‘s Diary“? How many times are you going to replay Studs Terkel’s interviews? How many different ways can you re-edit Nelson Mandela‘s audio documentary trying to pass it off as a new episode (when really it’s just a re-edited version of the old one?) This podcast was really good at first, but it seems like they are out of fresh material and are resorting to just recycling and repackaging older episodes over and over again. You get maybe 1-2 new stories a year, the rest is just filler recycled episodes.
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Honest, beautiful, thoughtful - the diaries episodes are gorgeously narrated, the archival episodes powerfully edited. This show is time capsules and affective oral histories. You will never be disappointed.
My only criticism is that I wish the episodes were longer.
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I always learn something from this podcast. I especially like the way Joe Richmond gets out of the way and lets the people he’s interviewing do the talking, yet the interviews are poignant and Concise
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