Introducing 'The Midnight Rebellion,' a new climate fiction podcast
On Point with Meghna Chakrabarti
WBUR
4.3 • 3.9K Ratings
🗓️ 16 May 2026
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
From WBUR, here's a new kind of story, one that's all about the big questions and decisions we face. The Midnight Rebellion is a pick-your-own-path podcast set 100 years in the future, where the stakes are nothing less than the planet itself. It's fiction rooted in real science, built for the kids in your life (ages 7 and up) — and the whole family.
You're listening to Chapter 1 of The Midnight Rebellion. Each chapter ends with a choice. YOU decide what’s next. Choose wisely.
And if you liked what you heard, listen to the rest and follow The Midnight Rebellion wherever you get your podcasts.
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| 0:30.0 | Support for WBUR comes from Is Business Broken, a podcast from the Merotra Institute at Boston |
| 0:36.6 | University that explores questions like, |
| 0:39.1 | why is innovation and healthcare so hard? |
| 0:42.2 | Is ESG just greenwashing? |
| 0:44.6 | And of course, is business broken? |
| 0:47.1 | Listen, wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:49.1 | Hey, it's Magna Chakra Bardi, and we have a very special podcast drop for you today, and trust me, it is awesome. |
| 0:57.1 | Did you ever love those Choose Your Own Adventure books when you were growing up? |
| 1:01.2 | I know I definitely did. |
| 1:03.2 | When I was a kid, I used to sit on the library floor next to the entire Choose Your Own Adventure section and just obsessively go through the books for hours. |
| 1:12.2 | Or actually, sometimes it would take me hours to go through one book, |
| 1:16.1 | through all the different choices on how to die or how to succeed in the adventure. |
| 1:20.9 | Well, anyway, WBUR's podcast team loves that kind of storytelling too |
| 1:26.1 | and has come up with a pick your own path podcast. |
| 1:31.8 | So cool. |
| 1:34.1 | And this podcast has to do with saving the planet from climate change. |
| 1:39.0 | It's an adventure story backed by real climate science and you get a say in what happens, |
| 1:44.0 | or actually let me be more specific, your you get a say in what happens, or actually let me be more |
| 1:45.2 | specific, your kids get a say in what happens because this is really for them, but you can |
| 1:50.3 | definitely listen to. The podcast is called The Midnight Rebellion, and we're offering episode |
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