Podcasts by Future Tense Fiction

Each month, Future Tense Fiction will bring you a dramatic telling of a short story exploring how tech that's emerging today could dramatically reshape tomorrow. Science journalist Maddie Stone will then have a conversation with the author about what inspired their writing, and their vision of the future.

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Future Tense Fiction: Coming March 25 from 2023-03-18T07:00

When you imagine how science and technology will reshape our future, does it excite you, or scare you, or both? Each month, the Future Tense Fiction podcast will introduce you to a short work of sc...

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5: Othello from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Othello isn’t just a play about race, toxic masculinity, and the nature of identity—it’s a play that has influenced our own views on race throughout the centuries. But what did race mean in early 1...

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4: Measure for Measure from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Five hundred years before #MeToo, Shakespeare wrote his darkest comedy, a story of religion, sexual coercion, and the nature of justice. In this fourth episode of Lend Me Your Ears, host Isaac Butl...

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3: King Lear from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

If a nation can be thought of as a family, what happens when the family running the nation falls apart? At the exact moment that King James I wanted to unite England and Scotland, Shakespeare answe...

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2: Richard II from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Richard II is God’s anointed representative on Earth, but by the end of the play that bears his name, he’s dead and his cousin sits on his throne. This is the story of how Shakespeare used English ...

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1: Julius Caesar from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Lend Me Your Ears is a six-part podcast miniseries exploring how Shakespeare’s works have shaped our modern views on politics. Each month, host Isaac Butler will dig into a different Shakespeare pl...

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1: Julius Caesar from 2018-05-08T14:38:26

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