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Hosted by Bexley Public Library · education · EN · 66 episodes
The BPL Podcast features concise, informative discussions with select guests from our top-notch programming lineup. Tackling a range of topics from horror films to Ohio's opioid epidemic, we capture conversations that are sometimes funny, sometimes poignant, but always human.
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Signup to Generate a PitchThe BPL Podcast features concise, informative discussions with select guests from our top-notch programming lineup. Tackling a range of topics from horror films to Ohio's opioid epidemic, we capture conversations that are sometimes funny, sometimes poignant, but always human.
BPL Podcast is hosted by Bexley Public Library. The show has published 66 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "Between Home and Here: Ghanaian-American Poets on Identity and Voice" (29 August 2025, 59 minutes), "Four Women with Dr Jack Marchbanks and Gamal Brown" (28 February 2025, 33 minutes), and "Y2K Twenty Five Years Later with Directors Brian Becker and Marley McDonald" (31 December 2024, 55 minutes).
BPL Podcast publishes roughly every few months, with episodes averaging 44 minutes across 66 episodes.
Booking probability for BPL Podcast is 21%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. BPL Podcast requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. BPL Podcast's contact route on record: public web form.
The strongest fits for BPL Podcast are Libraries, Archives & Web Portals. BPL Podcast has an education audience.
Bexley Public Library hosts BPL Podcast, an education show with 66 episodes published.
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Episode #80
<p>In this episode, WIR Cynthia Amoah sits down with Ghanaian-American poets Claudia Owusu and Tasha Lomo for a layered conversation about language, place, and what it means to write and create from the in-between...
Episode #79
<p>Dr Jack Marchbanks and Gamal Brown sit down with us to talk about the legacies of Four Women: Maya Angelou, Lorraine Hansberry, Abbey Lincoln, and Nina Simone. These icons of African American artistic achievement...
Episode #78
<p>Happy New Year! </p> <p>Explore the Y2K scare with technology librarian, Josh, as he interviews Marley Mcdonald and Brian Becker, directors of the HBO documentary Time Bomb Y2K. We'll revisit the global panic...
Episode #77
<p>We are excited to invite Hanif Abdurraqib back to the podcast to discuss writing, building community around art, and basketball! Hanif is a poet, essayist, and cultural critic from Columbus, Ohio whose new book...
Episode #76
<p>The first part of this episode is an interview with Dr. Wayne Schlingman and Dr. Stephan Frank from the OSU Astronomy Department to talk about the eclipse: the science, the history, and general coolness of having a...
Episode #75
<p>The best of 2023! </p> <p>Timestamps</p> <p>Adult Fiction (:24)</p> The Hexologists by Josiah Bancroft Bookshops and Bonedust by Travis Baldtree System Collapse by Martha Wells Even though I knew the End by C. L...
Episode #74
<p>Banned Books Week is an annual celebration of the freedom to read. The theme for Banned Books Week 2023 is “Let Freedom Read” and it’s being celebrated from October 1-7. A PEN America report for the first half of the...
Episode #73
<p>Ohio State Electrical and Computer Engineering Professor, Ness B. Shroff, and BPL Technology Librarian, Josh Bryant, discuss the fascinating world of artificial intelligence (AI), including its history, applications...
Episode #72
<p>For Holocaust Remembrance Day we pulled an episode from one of our most recent author events with Elizabeth Petuchowski.</p> <br> Elizabeth Petuchowski shares her life story growing up as a young Jewish girl in...
Episode #71
<p>A celebration of Toni Morrison with two of Ohio’s most revered poets and authors as Hanif Abdurraqib and Dionne Custer Edwards discuss the influences of Toni Morrison’s work on their own and celebrate the importance...
Episode #70
<p>The best of 2022! </p> <p>Special thanks to fo/mo/deep for lending us their song, "Bourbon Neat" for the podcast!</p> <p>Find out about upcoming Bexley Public Library events at https://www.bexleylibrary.org</p>...
Episode #69
<p>Vampire Week is here! Plucked from our blog, Julianna tells us about her favorite vampire movies and everything the library has to offer this week.</p> <p>Julianna mentions some of her favorite vampire movies. Here’s...
Episode #68
<p>Owen dives into the history of banning books, reasons books are challenged, and he even recommends his favorite challenged title. Here is a list of all the books Owen mentions:</p> Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet...
Episode #67
<p>Pamela Espinosa de los Monteros, Assistant Professor and the Latin American, Iberian, and Latino/a Studies Librarian at The OSU University Libraries, and Patti Vocal, The OSU Center for Latin American Studies (CLAS)...
Episode #66
<p>Jack Marchbanks sits down with Dionne Custer Edwards, Scott Woods, and Is Said for a discussion about Black poetry using James Weldon Johnson's groundbreaking anthology The Book of American Negro Poetry as a...
Episode #65
<p>Ohio State University Eastern European experts, Theodora Dragostinova, Marianna Klochko, and Mykyta Tyshchenko, to try and make sense of the evolving crisis in Ukraine following the Russian invasion.</p> <p>The panel...
Episode #64
<p>The best of 2021!</p> <p> </p> <p >Special thanks to fo/mo/deep for lending us their song, "Bourbon Neat" for the podcast!</p> <p >Find out about upcoming Bexley Public Library events at...
Episode #63
<p>New York Times best seller, Natalie D Richards, sat down with Josh to talk about Five Total Strangers becoming a Big Library Read, her book Seven Dirty Secrets coming out this month, and the inspiration for her...
Episode #62
<p >Kristopher and Gretchen Armstrong sit down with Josh to talk about their literary journal Tomorrow and Tomorrow, how it highlights artists from Bexley, the importance of mixtapes, and ghost stories that are too...
Episode #61
<p>LC Johnson, founder and CEO of Zora's House, shares her journey from the dream (literally!) of a co-working-community-space for women of color in Columbus to the bright future ahead for Zora's House. LC talks about...
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