'Podcasts' recommended for December: confessions about anxiety, the tragedy of 'They live' and the C side of culture

'Lambs'

White noise, reverberation and silence are part of the soundtrack of this sound fiction from Podium Podcast Chile.

In its first seconds, it already makes it clear in what shades this story is going to be painted.

Victoria García makes a call for help.

“I am in a cabin.

There's someone else in here,” she says between sobs before muffled screams shut down the connection.

She is a forensic psychologist specializing in adolescents.

She has gone to an elite school to investigate a mysterious audio that announces a massacre against "the impious lambs".

With a certain air of

, which became a horror classic exploring new narrative paths,

begins , which is also reminiscent of

.

Its first four episodes are already available.

'The C side' by Juan March

The pedagogical universe of the Juan March Foundation is expanding.

is the selection of video essays that explore the lesser-known stories surrounding the live activities program organized by the cultural institution.

And, for a couple of years,

has expanded that universe in sound format.

With editing and original soundtrack by Javi Álvarez, this

tells us terribly entertaining cultural stories in 15 to 25 minute pills.

The most recent one recalls the creation of something as unusual as the Cuenca Museum of Abstract Art in the midst of the Franco regime, making reference to popular culture, with the absurd humor of

by José Luis Cuerda.

Goya's Spain narrated as someone who tells an anecdote to a friend is another of his great moments.

'Survivors: The Andes Odyssey'

And we return to Chile through this audio documentary by Podimo that recalls the infamous plane crash that occurred in the country in 1972, 50 years after the tragedy.

The narration of the Uruguayan journalist Aureliano Folle gives it an enormously personal touch, having maintained contact in his youth with some of the crew of the plane, members of the Old Christians Club rugby team.

With the collaboration of the writer Alejandro De Barbieri, he compiles the voices of survivors, relatives of those who did not return, and friends.

'Forest Report'

Equally personal is this sound expansion of the book

.

The Peruvian writer Jaime Rodríguez talks about anxiety.

From his anxiety.

Although he sometimes resorts to fiction,

is an almost autobiographical essay on mental health in which the voice of his friend, the actress Raquel Rodríguez Bartolomé, sneaks in like that inner noise that whips him and that he clearly shows. fascinating the internal struggle that the author maintains even in the process of creating this

.

“I have very few quiet hours in my life,” her friend Mafer confesses in a chapter, with whom she shares experiences around guilt.

The writer says that he has been playing cat and mouse with anxiety for over a decade.

And that, somehow, she always ends up finding him.

In Catalan: 'miso soup'

With this clear reference to Japanese culture, Mariona Borrull and Adriana Díaz share this space dedicated to the world of

If you already know about this creative universe or if, otherwise, the shônen genre and

sounds like… Japanese, this is your

.

But his talks in this Serielizados sound space, in addition to focusing on what we can see through the screens, also analyze other sociological aspects of the Asian country, such as furry filia or gastronomic porn.

And they, absolute experts on the subject, mix wisdom with a refreshing halo of permanent curiosity and even surprise.

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