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iHeartPodcasts Tips Off ‘Basketball, Etc.,’ a Storytelling-First Hoops Show Hosted by Claire de Lune
Basketball coverage has no shortage of shouting. iHeartPodcasts is betting there is an audience for the opposite. On September 29, the network announced “Basketball, Etc.,” a new weekly podcast hosted by basketball journalist Claire de Lune that trades hot takes for long-form narrative storytelling and intimate conversation.
The series, produced by iHeartPodcasts with Life Here Is Grand and School of Humans, launched October 6 with new episodes every Tuesday, and its debut season runs a hefty 30 episodes. De Lune, a Los Angeles-based national NBA writer for The Guardian, built a devoted online following by blending informed analysis with wit, pop culture and a focus on the people behind the game.
“I live and breathe basketball, and consume a ton of content about it,” de Lune said. “But I was really craving a show that dug into the kind of niche, interesting stories on the fringes of the sport, and did so with a level of nuance and empathy. When I realized that show didn’t really exist, I decided to make it myself.”
The first season’s guest list reflects that range, with conversations featuring Flea, Nick Wright, Desus Nice, Kazeem Famuyide and Eve Peyser, and topics spanning the relationship between art, philosophy and the Los Angeles Lakers, the secret life of NBA mascots, the story of Lenny Cooke with Carmelo Anthony, women’s professional basketball in the 1970s, and Connie Hawkins and basketball justice. The premiere episode, “Meditation & Mindfulness in Basketball,” starts from a familiar sight — a player pausing at the free-throw line — and explores how pros use mindfulness on and off the court.
“‘Basketball, Etc.’ offers a different take on the game, moving beyond the debate-driven coverage that often dominates sports media,” said Will Pearson, president of iHeartPodcasts. The show is available on the iHeartRadio app and everywhere podcasts are heard.
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Billy Porter Opens a Faith-and-Identity Conversation Series as First Guest of ‘This Is Our Story’
A new monthly conversation series is making room for the stories people are rarely asked to tell in full. “This Is Our Story,” hosted by Seth Pinnock — founder of the UK charity Symphony Co. — launched October 20 from Symphony Co. and In Details Studios, exploring culture, faith, sexuality, identity and the life-shaping stories in between.
The inaugural guest sets the tone: Billy Porter, the Emmy, Grammy and three-time Tony Award winner, sits down with Pinnock for an open conversation about growing up in the Pentecostal church, enduring bullying, and the long road through faith, healing and forgiveness.
Porter’s reflections anchor the episode. “Forgiveness is for me,” he says in the conversation. “It’s not forgive and forget. It’s forgive and move forward.” It is the kind of unguarded exchange the series is built to hold — personal history examined without spectacle, by a host whose own work through Symphony Co. centers community and young people’s stories.
As a monthly series, “This Is Our Story” is positioned as a slow conversation in a fast medium: one guest, one story, and the space to tell it properly. With Porter as its first voice, it opens with a story that moves from the church pews of Pittsburgh to the highest stages in entertainment — and finds healing, not bitterness, at the center of it.
That is precisely the ground Pinnock wants the series to hold. The conversations are structured around the moments that shape a life rather than the highlights that sell one, and Porter’s episode — part testimony, part masterclass in survival — gives the young series an unmistakable statement of intent from its very first installment.
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