Boston, Mass. — October 7, 2019 — Language and how it unites and divides us is the subject of Subtitle, the first podcast launched as an affiliate of the Hub & Spoke audio collective. Co-hosted by veteran audio producers Patrick Cox and Kavita Pillay, the show is produced with the Linguistic Society of America with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Subtitle’s Season 1 trailer is available for download starting today.

Boston, Mass. — September 16, 2017 — The independent audio producers at Hub & Spoke today announced the addition of an eighth show to the collective: Rumble Strip, producer Erica Heilman’s podcast featuring extraordinary conversations with ordinary people. 

Boston, Mass. — September 3, 2019 — In a partnership bringing together one of Boston’s oldest and most respected audio productions and one of its newest media organizations, Open Source with Christopher Lydon announced today that it has joined the ranks of Hub & Spoke, the Boston-based collective of smart, idea-driven independent podcasts.

Boston, Mass. — July 11, 2019 — The producers at Hub & Spoke, the Boston-based audio collective, are thrilled to welcome a new show into their community of independent, story-driven podcasts: The Constant from Chicago-based producer Mark Chrisler.

Here at Hub & Spoke we’re delighted to share the news of our first “graduation.” Hi-Phi Nation, a podcast about philosophy from producer Barry Lam, is leaving the collective in order to join the Slate Podcasts Network beginning with the show’s third season in late January 2019.

Boston, MA — June 25, 2018 — The Improper Bostonian has unveiled the winners of its "Boston Best 2018" competition. The magazine of the arts, fashion, sports, food, and more named Hub & Spoke's own The Lonely Palette as Boston's Best Podcast.

Boston, MA — June 20, 2018 — Hub & Spoke, a Boston-centric collective of independent, high-quality, story-driven podcasts, is proud to announce the addition of two new podcasts to its network.

On May 25 the MIT Press released Twelve Tomorrows, an anthology of hard science fiction stories commissioned by MIT Technology Review and edited by Soonish host Wade Roush. For more details about the book, and about the official June 5 launch party / author panel / book signing at the MIT Press Bookstore, check out the full post here. And stay tuned for the next episode of Soonish, which will be all about “hard” science fiction, how it’s different from today’s mainstream science fiction & fantasy genres, and why it’s important.

Fans of The Lonely Palette,  Hub & Spoke's one and only art history podcast, are invited to join host Tamar Avishai and a stellar panel of other guests at the the next edition of Gertrude’s Artists Salon | Art Writing, Part 2: Changing Landscape of Arts Writing, at the Mills Gallery at the Boston Center for the Arts, Thursday, May 17, 6–7:30 pm.

You can catch Ministry of Ideas host Zachary Davis in live conversation with leading thinkers at two events coming up on April 18 and April 25.

Following in the footsteps of Ministry of Ideas producer Nick Andersen, Wade Roush, host and producer of Soonish and co-founder of Hub & Spoke, will go on stage April 15 at Story Collider, the live storytelling series focused on science, medicine, and technology.

Right now at the PRX Podcast Garage in Allston, MA, there's a compelling exhibit of sculptures, masks, and collage-based works by award-winning artists Vusumuzi “Vuzi” Maduna and Ekua Holmes. The pieces explore...

The NPR One app for iOS, Android, and Windows Phones is one of the best ways to hear NPR shows and other great audio content. And now, you can listen to all of the Hub & Spoke shows through the app!

We're proud to share the news that Nick Andersen, co-producer of Ministry of Ideas, one of the foundings shows at Hub & Spoke, will perform a live story at The Story Collider at Harvard's Oberon Theater in Harvard Square, at 8:00 pm on January 30.

Boston, Mass. — December 21, 2017 — Hi-Phi Nation, the first sound- and story-driven podcast about philosophy, is the newest member of Hub & Spoke, a collective of thoughtful, high-quality, story-driven podcasts born in Boston in 2017. It's the first show from outside Boston to join the collective.

Zachary Davis, founder and host of the “Ministry of Ideas” podcast, and Diane L. Moore, director of the Religious Literacy Project at Harvard Divinity School, have announced a partnership to bring contemporary issues in religion, philosophy, and history to a wider podcast audience.

Boston, Mass. — October 5, 2017 — To bolster the Boston-area podcasting ecosystem and ensure that great independent shows made here reach a wider audience, local audio producers joined today to launch Hub & Spoke (hubspokeaudio.org), a Boston-centric collective of podcasts produced outside the traditional public media system.