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What’s new to listen to

Rounds up what podcasts we’re tuning into.

Ximena Smith

Head Noise

Contact sports have been facing a reckoning in recent decades over long-term consequences from head injuries, and it’s the subject of this new investigative podcast from The Australian. Hosted by former league star James Graham, the series follows Graham’s journey as he discovers the truth about the long-term damage the sport has caused to his brain. The show’s well-crafted scripting and excellent use of archival audio takes listeners back to key moments, such as one of Graham’s particularly devastating concussions he’d experienced during a game, which really effectively paints a vivid picture of the brutality that rugby stars deal with on the field. What makes the show so compelling is Graham’s openness and vulnerability about his situation, but Head Noise also deftly combines expert voices with those on the front line, to tell a story that will be of broad interest. Episodes released every Monday.

Cold Cases

True crime specialists Parcast have just released this show, which takes a look at cases that have all spent decades sitting on the shelf, some of which were eventually solved, and others that are still open. The style is very reminiscent of the hugely popular true crime series, Casefile: eerie background music and single voice narration (in this case, American actor Carter Roy). As with Casefile, Cold Cases sits at the more gruesome, graphic and disturbing end of the true crime genre. New episodes every Monday.

Death of an Artist

In 1985, an up-and-coming Cuban artist, Ana Mendieta, fell to her death from the 34th floor apartment in New York City she shared with her husband, the sculptor, Carl Andre, who has always maintained that he had no involvement in his wife’s tragic death. But the host of this new podcast from Pushkin Industries, the curator Helen Molesworth, is clearly skeptical. Throughout the six-part series, Molesworth speaks to art world insiders about Mendieta’s relationship with Andre, the circumstances surrounding Mendieta’s death, and how the broader power dynamics of the art industry played into the incident and its fallout. Molesworth also grapples with her own complicity in the story as a high-profile curator and the art world’s tendency to always separate the art from the artist. New episodes are being released weekly, but if you can’t wait, the whole series is available ad-free on Pushkin+.

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