The Stream: Spring/Summer 2026 – Podcasts
PODCASTS Fela Kuti: Fear No Man Higher Ground Jad Abumrad traces the transformation of Fela Kuti from Western-trained musician to revolutionary artist. What begins as a search for identity becomes a confrontation with power, as Fela turns music into a vehicle for political resistance and creates Afrobeat along the way. Missing in the Amazon The Guardian A gripping investigative series into the disappearance of journalist Dom Phillips and Indigenous expert Bruno Pereira in Brazil’s Javari Valley. Reporter Tom Phillips follows the trail through a remote region of the Amazon, where environmental, political, and Indigenous rights collide Soft Power/FulStories Christopher Wurst...
Podcast: The Sound of Soft Power
The clearest through line to understanding soft power in geopolitics may not run through policy at all, but through ecology. For decades, scientists believed trees competed for resources in silence. What they later discovered was something closer to a conversation of roots sharing nutrients, warning signals, and information through vast underground networks—an exchange so constant and essential that dependence, not isolation, proved essential for survival. Those unseen systems beneath the surface that allow life to endure are on the forefront of my mind as I log on to chat with Christopher Wurst, a former foreign service officer and the host...