Podcast Roundup: To the Beach Edition


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We all have our favorite beach reads, but what about beach listens? As you head to the shore this summer, we’ve put together a few podcasts that will keep the mood light and the beach vibes right. As co-founder of the Big Apple Circus, Paul Binder is a true ringleader when it comes to entertainment. Story and comic artists Bryan “Flash” Turner is living the dream as Mr. Marvel. A world without "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious"? No way. Two-time Oscar winning songwriter Richard Sherman lets us in on how great show tunes get written. Chef, restaurateur, and author Marcus Samuelsson creates new flavors with traditional food. Spider-Man, Fantastic Four, the X-Men, Iron Man, the Hulk, Doctor Strange: Stan Lee was there at the creation. Rutabaga Queen Kati Texas takes us behind the scenes of the Kinetic Sculpture Race, Grand Championship, where art and science go to play. With her character Lou Norton, Rachel Howzell Hall creates one of the few African-American female detectives. Award-winning cartoonist and Big Read author Roz Chast draws the lines of absurdity. Find out about the artistic exuberance that is Squonk Opera, which The Boston Globe has described as “a carnival on wheels.” Shannon O’Neill and Brandon Scott Jones, both members of the improve troupe Upright Citizens’ Brigade, tell us why improv is like pick-up basketball. Max Brooks, author of World War Z, really isn’t kidding when it comes to zombies. Click here to browse through our complete list of podcasts