Culture Gabfest Explained

Slate's Culture Gabfest
Host:Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens, and Julia Turner
Genre:culture
Updates:weekly
Began:2008
Provider:Slate

Slate's Culture Gabfest is a New York-based podcast from Slate hosted by Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens and Julia Turner.[1] The show has been positively reviewed in The Guardian, The Daily Telegraph,[2] The A.V. Club,[3] and Kill Your Darlings, which described the show as the "distilled... pleasures, the prowess and, indeed, the rigours of sophisticated cultural critique".[4]

From 2012 until 2014, the show was also broadcast on the radio in an abridged version alongside the Slate Political Gabfest as part of WNYC's now discontinued Gabfest Radio.[5]

Notes and References

  1. News: Slate's Culture Gabfest – podcast review. January 17, 2014. The Guardian. July 30, 2019. en-UK. July 30, 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20190730134732/https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2014/jan/17/slate-culture-gabfest-radio-review. live.
  2. News: The best arts, books and entertainment podcasts. https://web.archive.org/web/20131203051551/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/10409425/The-best-arts-books-and-entertainment-podcasts.html. dead. December 3, 2013. August 11, 2014. The Daily Telegraph. July 30, 2019. en-UK.
  3. The best podcasts of 2010. December 29, 2010. The A.V. Club. July 30, 2019. en-US.
  4. News: The Podcast Review: The Slate Culture Gabfest. September 19, 2012. Kill Your Darlings. July 30, 2019. en-AU. July 30, 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20190730134719/https://www.killyourdarlings.com.au/2012/09/the-podcast-review-the-slate-culture-gabfest/. live.
  5. News: What a podcast needs to do to put on a good live show (and why so many are trying). September 19, 2012. NiemanLab. October 31, 2017. en-US. October 31, 2022. https://web.archive.org/web/20221031112502/https://www.niemanlab.org/2017/10/what-a-podcast-needs-to-do-to-put-on-a-good-live-show-and-why-so-many-are-trying/. live.