TED Radio Hour

The women missing from music

at the end of the day, women were always creating, their music was there, but what disappeared somehow was our memory.

Fresh Air

Best Of: Rhiannon Giddens / Investigating Diddy’s Rise & Fall

The work that I do is very culturally difficult, because what I'm doing is, in a large part, I'm talking about very difficult things in our history to mostly white audiences, you know. So every night, I'm sort of just burying everything, you know, so that people can have an emotional connection to some really, really difficult history. I shouldn't have to do that, you know.

It's Been a Minute

Buy to own: the resurgence of physical media

We have digital content that has never been made physical. And often these things are, you know, behind streaming services and, you know, other kinds of platforms, these proprietary platforms, and we subscribe to access them, but we don't actually own them. And so when those things go away, we lose access to that.