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xkcd #2834: Book Podcasts
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I've been working my way through this 1950s podcast by someone named John Tolkien called 'Lord of the Rings'--it's a deep dive into this fictional world he created. Good stuff, really bingeable!
Audiobooks are themselves “rediscovering”/part of the tradition of oral storytelling, an art that books themselves had somewhat overtaken. Oral storytelling is probably one of the oldest art forms out there apart from fingerpainting and banging rocks together.