Dive into the emotionally complicated human mess with podcasters Nick van der Kolk and Jonathan Goldstein.
Hyper-honest and unreliable narrators, full of desires, conflicts, regrets and self-deprecation take you beyond facts to reveal what makes life so unpredictable: relationships. Through naked voices and intimate stories, we’ll discover familiar but singular worlds, where each storyline unfolds as we listen…
Segments from the 5th season of Love and Radio
From Radiotopia and Nick van der Kolk, Love and Radio features in-depth, otherworldly-produced interviews with an eclectic range of subjects, from the seedy to the sublime. You’ve never heard anything like it before.
A selection of stories from Gimlet Media's brand new podcast with Jonathan Goldstein, Heavyweight.
Heavyweight is a non-fiction podcast all about second chances.
“Maybe you’ve laid awake imagining how it could have been, how it might yet be, but the moment to act was never right. Well, the moment is here and the podcast making it happen is Heavyweight.”
Nick van der Kolk is a radio producer, sound designer, events organizer, and the host and creator of the critically acclaimed Love + Radio podcast. His work has appeared on This American Life, The New York Times, Snap Judgment, Marketplace, and numerous radio outlets worldwide. He is also the co-founder of Megapolis — an audio art and leftfield radio festival. His media career began in 2001 as a DJ and later station manager of his college’s 5-watt, student-run station (slogan: “Stations with listeners have sold out”). He has won multiple awards from the Third Coast International Audio Festival, and is a 2012 USA Artists Collins Fellow.
Sruthi Pinnamaneni is a producer at Gimlet Media’s Reply All. Her work has aired on Studio 360, Radiolab, Freakonomics, Marketplace and Love + Radio. She worked on the award-winning feature film, Kumare. As the audio/video correspondent at The Economist, she traveled between cities and villages in India to produce a series on rural education and the informal economy in slums. Sruthi grew up in South India. She has a bachelor’s degree in mathematics from the University of Michigan and a master’s in journalism from Columbia University. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and two sons.
Jonathan Goldstein’s writing has appeared in The Walrus, The New York Times, GQ, and The National Post. He is a frequent contributor to PRI’s This American Life and the New York Times Magazine, and was a 2002 co-recipient of The Third Coast Audio Festival’s Gold Prize. In 2004, he was awarded a Canadian National Magazine award for humor. He is author of ‘Lenny Bruce is Dead’ and ‘Ladies and Gentlemen, The Bible! and I’ll Seize the Day Tomorrow. He hosted and produced PRIs Wiretap for 11 years, and he now has his own show: Heavyweight, on Gimlet Media.
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FORMS OF ERRANTRY delves into the mesmerizing and haunting films of Miryam Charles and is edited by Lakshmi Padmanabhan. GEOLOGIC LISTENING centers the monumental and expansive work of filmmaker Deborah Stratman and is edited by Sukhdev Sandhu.
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