Selects

About Selects

Selects is a show that brings you unearthed audio works we’ve found buried in web archives, radio streams, and old podcasts. They’ve come to us through the recommendations and inspirations of some of the most talented audio creators working today. Every two weeks we release a new episode right here and it is going to be something that you definitely want to hear. The works that we are going to feature are going to be some of the most compelling and exciting and ambitious works in audio. You can find the whole library of exclusively curated works and bonus content at selects.fm or on our Apple Podcasts channel.

Publisher

Selects

Category

society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

19 Mar 2025

Latest episode

16 Sept 2026

Latest episodes

1 of 34 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   16 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT

   A Cow A Day by Pejk Malinovski for Falling Tree Productions

   Poet and radio producer Pejk Malinovski explores inter-species relationships and presence by following a cow from sunrise to sunset.

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   24 Jun 2026

   A White Horse by the memory palace

   This week, we offer a bittersweet Pride tradition from the memory palace. This episode of the Memory Palace was written and produced by Nate DiMeo with engineering support from Kath Tu and research assistance by Andrea Miln.  It was originally released in 2016 in the days after the shooting at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando. It is re-released every year on the anniversary of the incident.

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   10 Jun 2026

   Footloose in Greenwich Village (WNYC, 1959)

   Today we're sharing a classic from the WNYC Archives - an unnamed reporter goes on the hunt to interview Beat poets in the Village, but has a hard time finding anyone willing to admit to being one. ******** The original WNYC Municipal Archive discs of this program are missing. The old catalog indicates there were 2 - 16" discs. The recording on CD 993 was taken from a Rhino Records reissue of an excerpt of the longer work. Municipal Archives # LT 9089.  Based on the Peabody archive # this dates from February 8, 1959.  WNYC archives id: 12099

Inside a recent episode

A Cow A Day by Pejk Malinovski for Falling Tree Productions

Published 16 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] There's a man doing laundry on a rock. You can hear all the boats out on the river ferrying tourists. You can hear the temple bells in the distance ringing in the morning prayer. So this is the holiest city of Hinduism. People come here to die actually. If you die in Varanasi, you apparently skip a bunch of steps in your reincarnation cycle and you go straight to Nirvana. When you come to Varanasi as a foreigner, one of the first things you notice is all these cows walking around everywhere. It's almost like human beings, you know, they walk on the road, they go into shops. They seem to just hang out with their friends on a street corner. […]

Who has been a guest on Selects

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Pejk Malinovski
• Arlie Adlington
• Bridgette McGee
• Kelly McEvers
• Mariya Karimjee

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Apple Podcasts (US)

4.8 / 5

21 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 27 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

35

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

51

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