Articles of Interest, hosted by Avery Trufelman, https://99percentinvisible.org/aoi/ Handcut Radio, hosted by Aleks Cvetkovic, https://www.handcutradio.com

Since their inception in the early twenty-first century, podcasts have acted as a portable and easily digestible mode of storytelling, whether documentary or narrative, self-contained or serialised episodes. An already popular format, podcasts took on new value at the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, when anxiety was high and concentration levels low, and access to in-person research sites (libraries, museums, galleries) was restricted. When access to physical spaces is limited, podcasts can provide dress researchers with a digital avenue of investigation, outside the public collection, for the oral histories around clothing