The Selects Podcast
Episodes
A Chat with Eleanor McDowall
25 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This week we're featuring a super interesting conversation with Eleanor McDowall, creator of Radio Atlas, about the world of the radio feature and the...
Ten Years of Radio Atlas (Video Podcast)
11 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Note: this week's episode is a video podcast because it is a celebration of audio subtitles. You'll need to experience it on a platform that support...
S.E.I.N.F.E.L.D. by Ross Sutherland
25 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Today we share a prescient work by Ross Sutherland from his long running, award winning show Imaginary Advice. It's a darkly funny spiral and a fant...
The Big Read: A Lesson Before Dying
11 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This week we're sharing a piece from The Big Read, a book club for public radio from the National Endowment for the Arts. This episode is about Ernest...
American Icons: I Love Lucy by Studio 360
28 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Today we're featuring one of our favorite series, American Icons, on a true work of art: I Love Lucy. It's a hilarious and bittersweet documentary, ...
The Vietnam Tapes of Lance Corporal Michael A. Baronowski by Christina Egloff with Jay Allison
14 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This week we share a story from the front lines. Literally, from the front lines of a brutal war. But also figuratively, from the front lines of a...
Holiday Shorts! feat. Cat Names, Arlie Adlington, and the humble farmer
17 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we offer a few of our favorite shorts as sonic gifts. We've got the humble farmer, an early work by Arlie Adlington, and one of the...
Willie McGee and the Traveling Electric Chair by Radio Diaries
03 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week we bring you a rare longform piece by Radio Diaries featuring Bridgette McGee, our narrator as she uncovers the truth about her grandfather'...
Diary of a Bad Year by Kelly McEvers
12 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week we're sharing a banger documentary from Kelly McEvers which may leave you standing, staring at a wall by the end. The podcast version of a...
Tony Schwartz: 30,000 Recordings Later by The Kitchen Sisters
29 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today we're presenting a documentary about an icon, Tony Schwartz, and made by icons, The Kitchen Sisters. For thirty years (1945-1976), Schwartz cr...
Contested by Scene on Radio
15 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week we're sharing the story "A Level Playing Field" from John Biewen's series Contested, the first season of his iconic show Scene on Radio. C...
Mariya by The Heart
01 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today we present a documentary by The Heart that is astonishing. "When I was younger, someone took a knife to my clitoris and cut out a small, but s...
The Lemon Tree by Sandy Tolan
17 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today we're sharing the 1998 documentary The Lemon Tree by Sandy Tolan, as well as the 2006 documentary The Imaginary Village by Sandy Tolan and Mel...
The Sunshine Hotel
03 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today we present an all time favorite of the team at Selects. This iconic work by Dave Isay and Stacy Abramson is a vivid portrait of New York City’...
The Big Read: The Joy Luck Club
20 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week we're featuring one episode of The Big Read, a series that is essentially a national book club for the radio. In 2007, America decided it ...
Surviving the Tulsa Race Riot by Radio Diaries
06 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today we're publishing a new collection for subscribers featuring three eyewitness accounts to historical events we often know solely through images o...
Mei Mei: A Daughter's Song by Dmae Lo Roberts
16 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week, we follow Dmae Lo Roberts and her mother, Chu-Yin, as they travel to Taiwan together. Dmae seeks an opportunity to grow closer with her m...
New: Early True Crime + Tossing Away the Keys
09 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week we've got a new collection for subscribers and we're excited to share one of them with you today. Tossing Away the Keys is a documentary...
Beyond Gay Marriage by Lisa Dettmer
18 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This Pride, we're proud to present a pointed and spicy documentary about fractures in the LGBTQ movement over the fight for gay marriage. This piece o...
BONUS: Interview with Sonja Williams
06 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Mitra speaks with Sonja Williams, one of the producers of Black Radio: Telling It Like It Was about her career in audio, and in particular her relatio...
Concerning Breakfast by Annie Cheney and Jay Allison
21 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It’s the first thing you learn as a radio reporter. Check your levels by asking an interview subject the question “what did you have for breakfast...
BONUS: Travels with Mom by Larry Massett
14 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
At the end of last month, we lost an audio icon: Larry Massett. As a sort of tribute, we want to share one of the Four Stories About Travel we just ...
New: Four Stories About Travel
30 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We have got four stories about travel for you. However, these are not your typical travel stories - we've got a story from Outer Voices about nomadic ...
Black Radio: A Woman's Touch
16 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This month we're proud to present one episode of the six-part series Black Radio: Telling It Like It Was (1996), created by PRX and the Smithsonian te...
New: American Icons by Studio 360
02 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We've got a new show available for Selects members! These four selections of the American Icons series are astounding listens, and made by some of t...
Call NOW! by Sean Cole
19 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
For our inaugural episode of Selects, we're proud to present Sean Cole's piece Call NOW! originally created for Life of the Law.