This is the official podcast of Hub & Spoke Audio Collective. We're a nonprofit collective of independent podcasts, dedicated to helping one another shine. We believe that stories told through sound have the power to change minds and stir souls. The Hub & Spoke Radio Hour is a sampler of our work, complete with themes and producer interviews. Take a listen, and subscribe to any of our shows at hubspokeaudio.org, or wherever you get your podcasts. <br/><br/><a href="https://hubspokeaudio.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast">hubspokeaudio.substack.com</a>
Hub & Spoke Presents
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This is the official podcast of Hub & Spoke Audio Collective. We're a nonprofit collective of independent podcasts, dedicated to helping one another shine. We believe that stories told through sound have the power to change minds and stir souls. The Hub & Spoke Radio Hour is a sampler of our work, complete with themes and producer interviews. Take a listen, and subscribe to any of our shows at hubspokeaudio.org, or wherever you get your podcasts. <br/><br/><a href="https://hubspokeaudio.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast">hubspokeaudio.substack.com</a>
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July 1, 2026
Lowlines, Episode 2: Floodlines
<p><strong>PLACE:</strong>The lower half of Louisiana is a puzzle of waterways, swamps, canals and levees. A once complex and resilient ecosystem carved through, for generations, by commerce. From a plane the land looks like a mass of fresh scabs – little flakey islands floating in the water for as far as the eye can see.</p><p>And at the bottom of the map is Plaquemines Parish – the ‘bird’s foot’. This area was fertile farm land, alive with life but place names are literally dropping off the map. Down here, the ground is squelchy, watery, loose and the land disappearing so fast, so they say, that 30 football field sized chunks of it are slipping away from the state every single day.</p><p><strong>PULSE:</strong>The Mississippi river is the main artery of the whole area but she has been shackled in place by a complex levee system, designed to protect people and keep commerce flowing. As a living breathing entity, all she really wants to do is…river. To sway this way and that, sending nutrient rich sediment either side of her with every switch of her muddy hips, building up land and a natural defence system with it as she goes.</p><p><strong>ROLL CALL:</strong><a target="_blank" href="https://bywater.tulane.edu/david-baker">Dave Baker</a> – the passionate ecologist who provided deep context as we walked amongst the 800 year old live oaksWade Pitre – the friendly oil company worker who used to live off the landJustine DeMolle at <a target="_blank" href="https://www.changesrestaurants.com/">Changes Restaurant</a> – seafood kickers and a lot of heart from the doyenne of this Venice, La establishment<a target="_blank" href="https://lighthouselodgevenice.com/">The Lighthouse Lodge</a> – Trampus and Barbara and Jowald who run such a welcoming spot</p><p><strong>CREDITS:</strong>Petra Barran — Host and Producer</p><p>Lucia Scazzocchio — Producer</p><p>Lina Prestwood — Executive Producer</p><p>More information about Lowlines <a target="_blank" href="https://low-lines.com/">here</a>.</p><p>Follow all the Hub & Spoke shows <a target="_blank" href="https://www.hubspokeaudio.org/">here</a>.</p><p><a target="_blank" href="https://hubspokeaudio.substack.com/">Subscribe</a> to our newsletter.</p> <br/><br/>This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit <a href="https://hubspokeaudio.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1">hubspokeaudio.substack.com</a>
June 24, 2026
Lowlines, Episode 1: Second Line
<p><strong>PLACE:</strong>The first stop on this journey to tune into the pulse of place has to start in New Orleans. So powerful and charismatic is it that the mere mention of it to almost anyone, anywhere, elicits a reaction – a look of wonder, excitement, energy. Yes, it is the seafood, the jazz, the Mississippi – but the idea of it carries a charge. What is that? To me it’s the ‘irrational’ swampland within which the city sits, low down, below sea level, acting like a bowl. It’s the darkness of its past in the trading of sugar, cotton, humans – and the emergence from that of a rich music, culture and vibration. There’s a thickness in the air here, an embodied, tactile feeling where the city gets on you and in you – where the streets are almost bouncy</p><p><strong>PULSE:</strong>And bubbling up from those streets is the high-voltage pulse that provides the life force for the whole city – it’s the second line. A Sunday parade, a rolling block party a barrelling procession of brass bands, social aid and pleasure clubs, friends, family, neighbours that courses through the city’s veins every week. It’s syncopated, polyrhythmic, exploding with funk, groove and glorious, soaring melodies. And for many Black New Orleanians it’s the day when you OWN the streets, so you better bring that FOOTWORK</p><p><strong>PERSON:</strong>There are a hundred different styles of footwork at the second line, but it’s <a target="_blank" href="https://www.jarraddegruy.com/">Jarrad DeGruy</a> who always gets me when I see her hit those streets like they’re damn trampolines! The levity, the spirit, the freedom! – but also the intent. Because when you tap in you see that it’s a party with a purpose, deeply connected to this place, these swamps, these streets, those who have been here, danced here, stamping out community, personality, frustrations, on the contours of these streets, week after week, come hell or high water. For Episode 1 I sat down with Jarrad to discover more about the relationship between her and the ground upon which she dances</p><p><strong>ROLL CALL:</strong></p><p><a target="_blank" href="https://www.jarraddegruy.com/">Jarrad DeGruy</a> – for giving me her time, spirit and new ideas while I visited her at her grandma’s house</p><p><a target="_blank" href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/443415579092001/">Da Truth Brass Band</a> – for messing up the streets at the second line so many weeks, and in particular for the week I put my recorder in the air for this episode</p><p><a target="_blank" href="https://www.hnoc.org/dits-club-narratives/ole-nu-style-fellas">Ole & Nu Style Fellas Social Aid & Pleasure Club</a> – for putting on the parade that I recorded at. The clubs pay big money to come out when they are the ones who should be getting paid to create all that feeling and value for the cityEveryone who took a minute to talk with me at the second line</p><p><a target="_blank" href="https://www.mynameisphlegm.com/">My Name is Phlegm</a> – for coining the mantra that ‘Everything You Love About New Orleans is Because of Black People’</p><p><strong>ROUTE:</strong>Episode 1 is the most conventional format of the series in terms of interviewing one person about a subject. It begins on the streets and at the second line, with all its propulsive music and energy. Then it moves to Jarrad’s home where we get into a fairly free-flow conversation, with footwork and connection to the ground at the centre. Speaking with Jarrad is rich and powerful and lays out many of the themes and threads that the series goes on to tune into.</p><p><strong>CREDITS:</strong></p><p>Petra Barran — Host and Producer</p><p>Lucia Scazzocchio — Producer</p><p>Lina Prestwood — Executive Producer</p><p>More information about Lowlines <a target="_blank" href="https://low-lines.com/">here</a>.</p><p>Follow all the Hub & Spoke shows <a target="_blank" href="https://www.hubspokeaudio.org/">here</a>.</p><p><a target="_blank" href="https://hubspokeaudio.substack.com/">Subscribe</a> to our newsletter.</p> <br/><br/>This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit <a href="https://hubspokeaudio.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1">hubspokeaudio.substack.com</a>
June 17, 2026
H&S Expo Presents: Lowlines
<p>Hub & Spoke Expo is proud to present Lowlines, a sonic scrapbook, a passport to roam, following a pull to tune into the pulse of place—befriending strangers along the way.</p><p>Part precursor, part trailer, this prologue is the set up for the series and a hint at what’s to come.</p><p></p><p>CREDITS:</p><p>Petra Barran — Host and Producer</p><p>Lucia Scazzocchio — Producer</p><p>Lina Prestwood — Executive Producer</p><p>More information about Lowlines <a target="_blank" href="https://low-lines.com/">here</a>.</p><p>Follow all the Hub & Spoke shows <a target="_blank" href="https://www.hubspokeaudio.org/">here</a>.</p> <br/><br/>This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit <a href="https://hubspokeaudio.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1">hubspokeaudio.substack.com</a>
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