Scene on Radio - Podcast Rankings and reviews

Put this on when you can pay attention and are open to having what you think you know challenged and expanded. Thank you to the team that creates every episode with care and intention and really great production. One of my favorite podcasts, and one of the podcasts that got me into loving podcasts!

Scene on Radio consistently produces some of the most educational podcasts available concerning history and development and current effects of political forces such as racism, sexism, and—in this series—capitalism.

It’s really, really, excellently produced, actually fun to listen to. Which is not what one expects from such deep and important political history and philosophy.

Scene on Radio is a wonderful series that tries to explain why the world is in the mess it's in by considering inequalities. The seasons cover inequalities of (2-Seeing White) race , (3-Men) gender, and (7-Capitalism) wealth. Season 4 (The Land That Never Has Been Yet) explores how racial, gender, and economic inequality were part of the founding principles of the United States. Season 5 (The Repair) considers climate change as being due to some people's belief in the inferiority of nature and where that may have come from. Season 6 is outlier, it covers the specific history of the only successful coup in the US, part of the fraught racial strife after Reconstruction. This series focuses on the US and how it is affected by and has contributed to these problems. This podcast is often uncomfortable and depressing listening, but it does offer some hope.

I’m so grateful to John and Ellen for this season on capitalism! Great, thought-provoking history in an engaging audio storytelling package. I’m learning so much and got my 13-year-old hooked, too.

I love that this show is intriguing and spends a lot of time on history, especially the darker and little talked about parts of it. And I feel the show trying not to just talk about the negatives of capitalism, but their effort is a straw-man. I would love them to speak at length about the positives and the negatives. I love that they aren’t scared of upsetting a free-market audience (of which there are probably very few), but I wish they were also not afraid of upsetting their majority viewership of left-leaning folk. They may be asking hard questions if put toward at a Trump convention, but I would get a more authentic feel if they talked about both sides.