In the first half of 2025, I wrapped up a year-long podcast contract with Bloomberg Green— a few final production highlights included:
- hearing from sci-fi novelist Kim Stanley Robinson about how he imagined the year 2025 in The Ministry for the Future;
- speaking with environmental lawyer Jonathan Lash about why Trump’s assault on climate legislation reminded him of the Reagan administration’s fights with the EPA;
- and bringing Zero podcast listeners rousing remarks from Mia Mottley, the Prime Minister of Barbados, on the case for climate action.
For the Washington Post, I reviewed two new soulful, searching books on silence: Aflame by Pico Iyer and A Natural History of Silence by Jérôme Sueur.
For the Guardian I reviewed Emma Barnett’s (disappointing) Maternity Service and The Sexual Evolution, Nathan Lent’s provocative consideration of how and why animals do it.
For the Intelligence Squared podcast, I had the pleasure of speaking with Alice Mah about her book Red Pockets— a genre-defying memoir of tomb sweeping, pollution in the villages of rural China, spiritual and material debts, and eco-anxiety.
I also started a new contract with the lovely podcast team at Raw, where I’m working on a series for Audible. But more on that later!
Finally: Last year, I spent some time helping the BBC Sounds innovation team pilot a new show. The idea was to find a way to bring the deeply-sourced beat reporting of local radio reporters around the UK to a true-crime-loving podcast audience.
That series has since been greenlit, and though I didn’t have a hand in producing the new series, it’s exciting to see Strange But True out in the world.
Mythili G. Rao 