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This is the official newsletter of Hub & Spoke Audio Collective. We're a nonprofit collective of independent podcasts, dedicated to helping one another shine. We believe that stories told through sound have the power to change minds and stir souls.
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The Hub & Spoke Radio Hour | Sounds Like America, Vol. 2 (opens the original)
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H&S Presents: The Lonely Palette Turns 10! (opens the original)
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The Lonely Palette, a flagship Hub & Spoke podcast, turned 10 in May. To mark the occasion, creator, host, and Hub & Spoke co-founder Tamar Avishai invited Julie Shapiro — creator of the Audio Flux podcast, radio visionary, and one of the newest members of Hub & Spoke — into a conversation about the industry, audio independence, and what it means to produce a show entirely on your own… and entirely for the love of it.This episode was produced by Tamar Avishai. Music used: Th
H&S Presents: Stories of Sound (opens the original)
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Stories of Sound is an audio series that delves into sound arts and audio storytelling, offering listeners a window into the creative processes, challenges, and inspirations of artists, authors and theorists who tell stories through sound. It is also the newest addition to the Hub & Spoke slate of curious, mind-expanding podcasts.We’re proud to present an episode of Stories of Sound’s most recent season, featuring Rikke Houd, a Danish radio maker working in the field of crafted audio storytellin
Lowlines, Episode 7: Epilogue (opens the original)
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PLACE:Out of the container of funk where everything was like this moving compost heap, being turned over and over by all the life within its busy layers. Out of the place where Maestra Estela and her family tune into the plant information highway with their thousands year old roots in the jungle. Out of the part of me that was feeling the boundaries between my body and where I was start to disappear…PULSE:Towards comfort and temperature controlled rooms, hot running water, spiced foods and on-de
Lowlines, Episode 6: Low Vines (opens the original)
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PLACE:A tiny plane from Lima to Iquitos, a mototaxi down deep mud tracks to Aya Madre plant medicine retreat in Nauta, within the The Amazon jungle. Here there is white sand, a blood red river, giant winged trees and shallow roots. There are rampant levels of growth and rot and mould – and a cacophony of sound that drenches you even more than the rains that come down and squelch up the ground every day.Aya Madre is part of a huge web of plant medicine centres radiating out from Iquitos, each one
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