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In our episode, The Great Narrative Escape, we asked: is it possible to tell a boring story that will keep people listening? Now, we put that question to the test. Invisibilia presents our version of Slow Radio: (mostly) Americans watching Norwegian Slow TV together on the radio (by which we mean podcast). We recommend wearing […]
In 2009, a couple of Norwegians pioneered a whole new genre of television: Slow TV. They debuted with the story of a train traveling from one side of the country to the other over the course of seven hours. Every once in a while, the point of view switched from a landscape shot to one […]
In Stockton, there are competing narratives: the 209 Times camp believes the city establishment and its institutions have failed the people. The other side insists they are battling a dangerous source of misinformation that makes it harder for them to serve their city. In the final installment of “The Chaos Machine” series, co-host Yowei Shaw […]
It’s one of the biggest beefs in our country these days: Who gets to own the truth? What happens when someone spots bias in the mainstream news and decides to revolt? In Part 2 of “The Chaos Machine” series, Yowei meets the man behind 209 Times, talks to Stockton’s very own “deep throat,” and encounters […]
Invisibilia co-host Host Yowei Shaw gets a tip about Russian trolls in Stockton, California and falls down a hole of swirling conspiracy theories. At the center is a scrappy, controversial website that has become one of the most popular sources of local news in town. Some say it’s doing important investigative journalism while others say […]
The summer of 2020 a lot of folks were asking this question: what should we do? The layered crises of a pandemic, unemployment, and police-sanctioned violence against Black folks left many anxiously searching for some sort of action to take. For a couple of young Black people in Vermont, their action was to try to […]
Photos by Brandon Watson and Marcus Branch. Designed by Andre Bransford for NPR. NPR hide caption toggle caption NPR Photos by Brandon Watson and Marcus Branch. Designed by Andre Bransford for NPR. NPR This week, Invisibilia is back with two new hosts. Kia Miakka Natisse and Yowei Shaw bring us stories that illuminate the hidden […]