3 years, 3 months ago

Podcast experience: The in-between spaces

I pour the coffee. But time seems to have scrunched itself into these dense knots, unfurling and escaping into nothingness if I don’t insert my multiple to-dos inside every twist and turn of its second-scored fibre. Podcasts — and the spoken word by other means — have made the mundane tasks of my daily life a little more bearable, and helped me in managing the isolation of the past 19 months. Even before the pandemic, I was a podcast junkie, spending my two-hour-something commute listening to drama, documentaries, true crime, features, and talk, but the listening filled what one might think of as the empty hours between departure and arrival or the time spent waiting for something, like the milk to boil or sleep to come. I’ve sometimes listened deeply, at other times with just one ear, but in listening to podcasts, I have learned to better appreciate the layers of sound that mark the context of my life.

The Hindu

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