brilliantly clear sighted journalism
If podcasts are a new form of publishing Hot Mess a Pulitzer Prize winning classic. The narrative is superb, Richard Aedy deftly connects psychological insights and evolutionary limitations that impair our ability to comprehend the problem due it’s sheer scale across time and place. It’s almost too large an issue for us to hold in our thoughts. Richard reveals the added complexity due to intentional obfuscation by lobbyists, distorting the facts revealed by science. Like a cloud of ink from a threatened octopus, climate change was covered over, allowing the industry to slide its tentacles into politics to keep feeding and growing. The pandemic has created a moment of concentrated global pause: science & politics, life & death, values & beliefs are playing out in days and weeks, not in the slower moving (& therefore harder to see) increments of climate change, and Richard is weaving this together into something brilliant in this series.
Damien JVC via Apple Podcasts · Australia · 05/08/20
More reviews of RN Presents
Why the Cold War still matters is great! The last episode gave me chills. This podcast was a refreshing positive change to other podcasts. I will be recommending.
hayesie2019 via Apple Podcasts · Australia · 11/21/19
This would be interesting at any time but with our current interest in epidemiology and the ways in which disease spreads it is particularly pertinent. Very well done, highly recommended.
pukidog via Apple Podcasts · Australia · 09/08/20
Dr Dapin has just joined my list of favourite historians. (The others are David Hunt, Professor Grace Karskens and Dr Clare Wright!) Keep going, Dr Dapin. Can’t wait to hear more, and read more.
PlutoPup1980 via Apple Podcasts · Australia · 01/15/20
Do you host a podcast?
Track your ranks and reviews from Spotify, Apple Podcasts and more.