Guest Spotlight: Parakeet Panic
Radio Diaries
Radio Diaries & Radiotopia
4.6 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 1 February 2024
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
This week, we’re featuring an episode of a podcast we’re big fans of: The Last Archive! The Last Archive tells little known histories and how they affect our modern lives. Today’s story, “Parakeet Panic,” explores when invasive parakeets began to spread in New York City in the 1970s — and the government decided that the solution was to kill them all.
If you liked this episode, you can listen to more of The Last Archive at thelastarchive.com, or wherever you get your podcasts.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Radio Diaries, this is Joe, and we have some exciting news from a fellow |
| 0:04.8 | radiotopia show. Benjamin Walker, host of The Theory of Everything podcast, has a new |
| 0:10.6 | mini-series out. It's called Not All Propaganda is Art. Not All Propaganda |
| 0:16.0 | is Art takes us to the Cold War era. It explores how security agencies like the |
| 0:21.0 | CIA used writers and artists to fight the Cold War and how some of these |
| 0:25.1 | artists ended up becoming targets. Here's a clip. The CIA funds were free. I mean no one |
| 0:30.6 | was told what to say. |
| 0:32.0 | Gloria Steinham, activist who sees the CIA as a sort of enlightened pal or rich uncle, there is another viewpoint. |
| 0:39.0 | The show was complex, beautifully made, and of course timely, looking at how past attempts at censorship |
| 0:45.3 | relate to today's battle over disinformation. |
| 0:48.6 | New episodes drop weekly, find not all propaganda as art in the Theory of Everything podcast feed. |
| 0:54.6 | Radiotopia. |
| 0:59.9 | From PRX is Radiotopia, this is Radio Diaries. I'm Joe Richmond. |
| 1:04.0 | This week in the podcast, we're bringing you something a little different. |
| 1:08.0 | Here at Radio Diaries, we are fans of highly produced narrative storytelling podcasts, not just our own, and we like to support |
| 1:16.1 | them like a collective. These days more than ever. So every once in a while we feature another |
| 1:21.5 | great podcast on our show. this one for example, The Last Archive. |
| 1:26.9 | The Last Archive does something we love. |
| 1:28.8 | They tell stories about little known histories and how they're linked to our modern lives. |
| 1:33.6 | Stories that maybe at first seem to be about something small, |
| 1:36.5 | but they end up being about a whole lot more. |
| 1:39.1 | This one is about a parakeet. |
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