Episodes 133
Avg. Duration 26m
Activity Highly Active
Apple Rating 4.5 (2,139)
Since Feb 2013
Latest Episode Jun 2026

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Since 2014 this longstanding podcast favourite has been creating hard-hitting cinematic stories about love, bodies and all of the things between humans that we don’t know how to name. Creator Kaitlin Prest works with her friends, idols and all kinds of loved ones to bring you into an expansive sonic universe that challenges what we think we know about relationships.

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S20E6 Suburban Paradise | Water, Honour, Anger, Grief

Jun 04, 2026 55m

The sound of the water in a river in Wissahickon, Philadelphia. An episode in honour of organizers. Greg aka my dad learns that most of the time we call "activism" "organizing" now. We listen to an…

S20E5 Suburban Paradise | Canada Geese, Perfect Circles and Crying Messes

May 26, 2026 18m

Is done still better than perfect? Is the Canada goose a swan in less glamourous clothing? Are people who need people lucky or unlucky? The Queen of the Ducks (my bff Bekky) advises not to appear to…

S20E4 Suburban Paradise | The Bike Ride, the Abortion and the Swans

Apr 18, 2026 20m

A driveway moment. Time travel back to October 2020; the lover that Aliya Pabani once joked I was doing "straight womanhood" fetish play with; to everyone else it was just a conventional relationship…

S20E3 Suburban Paradise | All Kinds of Blue

Mar 18, 2026 17m

Typewriter ribbons, shutters, jays, french, dusty, periwinkle, the desk of a currently abandoned short film, a door that isn’t really blue. A non-practicing coven, a shack full of runner ducks, and a…

S20E2 Suburban Paradise | Suburban Where-a-dise?

Feb 18, 2026 16m

Parenthood vs Adulthood. Birds singing. Pen on paper. Play first work later. Admin avalanche. The customer is always right on hold. Daddy (age 68) saves the day with the anti-to do list. KP (age 38)…

S20E1 Welcome to Suburban Paradise

Jan 15, 2026 14m

A series of episodes quietly created from her parents' garage in the sleepy government city of Ottawa. In an era of well-crafted tightly edited, lushly designed and rigorously vetted (either by the…

S19E6 NO: Questions + More Questions

Oct 08, 2025 42m

[Ep 4 of 4 and more to come] We were all left with burning questions after the first three episodes. In the final installment of the original ‘NO’ series from 2017, KP and the team play VMs and read…

S19E6 NO: Answers + Updates

Sep 05, 2025 53m

[Ep 3 of 4] Answers: Kaitlin’s search asking why coercion is so omnipresent lands her in one obvious place. Straight, cis-gendered men. In this episode, Kaitlin consults the men in her life that she…

S19E3 NO: Inheritance + Reality Check

Aug 13, 2025 41m

[Ep 2 of 4] Why listen to this series now? KP's schpiel. And then: we catch up with our shero in her mid-twenties, waiting to fall in love. Over the years she has become an expert at advocating for…

S19E2 NO: Advance + Advance

Jul 26, 2025 28m

[Ep 1 of 4] Inside a locked diary are the hopes and dreams of a little girl who wants one thing more than everything else: this little girl wants to be wanted.  [TW: SA]When the little girl becomes a…

S19E1 NO: Again? Again.

Jul 11, 2025 8m Trailer

Revisiting NO: after 8 years and several disappointing hook-ups wherein KP found herself wondering if the world forgot the lessons that shook 2017; she decides it's high time to listen again to the…

S18E9 EPILOGUE | Letter to Gaza

Oct 19, 2024 11m

In 2024 Ashtar Theatre started a new project: letters to Gaza. When Tarneem sat down to write a letter to her home, this work of poetry emerged in only a couple of hours. We didn't edit a single…

S18E8 AHMA-NOLOGUE | An Anniversary + A Birthday

Oct 15, 2024 1h 4m

This episode was named months ago: a prayer, a wish shared by one Tarneem Jaber and one Kaitlin Prest. "THE GENOCIDE IS A MEMORY, NOT AN ANNIVERSARY". The genocide has gotten even more terrifying as…

S18E7 MONOLOGUE#10 | Whatever You Build + Empty Cans

Sep 23, 2024 1h 3m

Artist and business owner Doreen Toutikian, founder of Beirut Design Week (and many other beautiful things that she’s had to leave in her past due to war) sits down with KP on February 23rd 2024 and…

S18E6 MONOLOGUE #19 | If the Sea Could Talk

Sep 14, 2024 31m

Audio artist and organizer Aliya Pabani takes Gaza Monologue #19 and binaural in-ear microphones (be sure to listen for the 3-dimensional effect: listen in headphones and you will walk with her) to a…

S18E5 IN THIS MONOLOGUE | A Point in the Sea + Gaza’s Dreams

Sep 03, 2024 1h 12m

“Before, you could count how many buildings they destroyed. Now, you count how many buildings they didn’t destroy” — Tarneem JaberTarneem Jaber (19 yrs old)  was starting her first week of med school…

S18E4 MONOLOGUE#22 | A Cup of Tea + The Horse of Jenin

Aug 23, 2024 46m

Comedian Alaa Shahada talks about artist life in Jenin, West Bank. We hear a radiomagic excerpt of his one-man show "The Horse of Jenin". He talks about his dreams for the future of Palestine and…

S18E3 MONOLOGUE#1 | Electricity Complexes + Keys Around Their Necks

Aug 15, 2024 33m

Ali Dajani grew up in Jordan and studied in Canada, where he met KP, the friend that sits down with him in his Amsterdam home to read Gaza Monologue #1: the story of Ahmad El Ruzzi. Ali's paternal…

S18E2 TRAILER: Great Love | GAZA MONOLOGUES Revisited

Jul 25, 2024 6m

"It's kind of corny, but I think about this quote from Che Guevara: "the true revolutionary is guided by feelings of great love." Aliya Pabani, artist, organizer and collaborator. A glimpse into the…

S18E1 PROLOGUE | The Best Valentine's Day I Ever Had

Jul 19, 2024 34m

In this update-isode, we follow KP's whereabouts and goings-on since the Processing Palestine episode and the events that led to the genesis of our upcoming series: GREAT LOVE: The Gaza Monologues…

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