Thanks to those of you who sent me tips, hacks, and other advice for coping during a pandemic. Please keep those answers coming. In the meantime I have a new prompt:

• When are you finding time to listen these days? Do you listen in a particular place? Do you listen alone or with others? Have your tastes changed?

PLEASE hit reply and answer the prompt. I love it when you send pictures to go along with your story, but doing so is optional. Today I've rounded up the news — new podcasts, industry headlines, events, etc. 

Skye

P.S. I've recently released two bonus episodes of the Inside Podcasting podcast. One contains delightful tape from my interview with Post Reports' Martine Powers and the other is more good stuff from my conversation with Hello Monday host Jessi Hempel. Catch up on the show before season two arrives in May!

Kids

• Julie's Library, in which Julie Andrews and her daughter [pictured] will read a new story to kids every week, arrives today.
• In TIME For Kids' inaugural episode, "listeners learn about the new coronavirus and pandemics of the past." This podcast is available to Pinna subscribers only. 

Love and Family

• Dating Diaries: Quarantine Confessions explores how singles are dealing with life during the pandemic.
• Ochenta Podcasts has adapted the French podcast Amour & Confinement ("Love and Quarantine") into English, Spanish, Dutch and Italian. "The show is a funny, upbeat guide to making the most of dating in quarantine," reads a tweet. 
• Juleyka Lantigua-Williams has released a trailer for How to Talk to Mamí & Papí About Anything, a show that will offer "practical approaches to intergenerational tensions adult children of immigrants face in the U.S."

Comedy and Popular Culture

• Gimlet Media's Mogul is launching The Mogul Mixtapes today, a miniseries that "take[s] us back to some of the most iconic rap beefs, parties, iconic fashion and wild backstories from our favorite albums."
• The New York Times' Rabbit Hole "explores what happens when our lives move online." The first couple of episodes show how YouTube can influence or change a person's beliefs.
• Music podcast Dissect will spend its newest season examining Beyoncé's iconic Lemonade. Don't miss the podcast's in-depth visual guides to each song. 

Art and Fiction

• Hello Monday published a two-part series on what happens to art during a pandemic. In part one host Jessi Hempel speaks with writer Glennon Doyle, who published a new book just as the virus hit. 
• Play Me's new series The Show Must Go On "features audio adaptations of contemporary works from Canadian playwrights that were disrupted by COVID-19."
• The BBC World Service's Miriam and Youssef, a ten-part audio drama about the founding of Israel, launches today. It's told from the perspective of two neighbors: a Jewish refugee and a Palestinian Arab. 
• Acclaimed off-Broadway theater company Playwrights Horizons has launched Soundstage, which features new work from accomplished playwrights. The show's creators moved up the launch date in order to make the content available to performing arts fans under quarantine. 

History and Education

• On May 15, iHeartMedia will launch Commencement: Speeches for the Class of 2020, in which celebrities like Jimmy Fallon, Abby Wambach, David Chang, Chelsea Handler, Pitbull, and plenty of other famous people will share words of wisdom with graduates sheltering in place. 
• Pulitzer Prize-winner Jon Meacham hosts Cadence13's limited series Hope, Through History, which explores America's battle with five past crises. 

Coping with Covid and a Brand New World

• Rick Wilson and Molly Jong-Fast host The Daily Beast's The New Abnormal, which promises "blunt truth and dark humor for a world in chaos." 
• Tomorrow In the Dark launches a limited-run series on how the pandemic is impacting the communities of the Mississippi Delta. 
• Podcaster Emily Shaw crowdsourced a wonderful piece of audio titled "Sounds of Comfort During Quarantine: A Global Audio Experiment" and is now seeking sounds of anger for her next piece. Please send your recording (voice memo app works fine), name, and location to emilylshaw89@gmail.com. If you can, send a picture, too.
• In This Covid Life a doctor "shares thoughts from the frontlines with a curious friend." ("Fun Friend" AKA PodReacher founder Jaclyn Schiff.)
• Deepak Chopra and son Gotham have launched Now For Tomorrow, which is "tailored to a world in crisis, for people needing immediate answers, advice and spiritual support."

Audio

• In this episode of HowSound, we hear how reporters are managing to create compelling and sound-rich narratives while sheltering in place. 
• In Tape Club, Rachael King in Los Angeles and Pete Naughton in London break down the latest podcast industry stories. 

And More

• In The Confessional, hosted by unconventional pastor Nadia Bolz-Weber, guests reveal their worst moments and "what changed in their life as a result."
• Southern Jewish Life alums Arielle and Shira have released Counter Programming, "your new favorite coronavirus/COVID-19 distraction podcast." It's about countertops. It's funny and weird and I'm all for it.

• In Social Distance Assistance, a mother-daughter team [pictured] set out to find the people who are making positive change during the pandemic.
• Coronavirus: What's REALLY going on promises "stories and voices behind the numbers, the opinions and actions, and the concerns and solutions related to the battle against the epidemic."
• What Was That Like has a new episode featuring a doctor who survived COVID-19. 
• The new season of An Arm and a Leg looks at the intersection between COVID-19 and healthcare. 
• Pandemic Economics covers the economic implications of the pandemic.

• New York Times opinion columnist and podcast entrepreneur Kara Swisher [pictured] will begin hosting a new podcast "under the banner of Opinion Audio" this fall. According to a spokesperson, Kara will continue hosting Vox's Pivot podcast with Scott Galloway, but her interview-style podcast Recode Decode will come to an end this summer. 
• Third Coast is canceling its in-person 2020 audio festival (sob). Let organizers know what you think of a potential virtual event by completing this survey.  
• According to Podtrac's podcast data, downloads and audience growth increased last week. "This is the first week both measures were positive since the week of March 2-8." reads the firm's weekly report. 
• In a Bloomberg story about Luminary's first year, Nick Quah is quoted as saying "I have not seen any suggestion this app has blown up or built anything that feels like a base." Read the whole thing here. 
• Spotify made headlines this month by developing curated playlists for six countries, recording the company's "largest monthly increase" in podcast downloads last month, and adding This American Life to its catalog.
• Will Ferrell and Paul Rudd will star in an Apple TV+ adapted version of Wondery's The Shrink Next Door. In its new form, this show about a creepy doctor who takes full control over someone else's life, will be reborn as a dark comedy. 
• Each week Bello Collective is publishing a calendar of live online podcast events. This week you can register for events featuring Latif Nasser, Malcolm Gladwell, Misha Euceph, Julie Shapiro & Jody Avirgan, Rekha Murthy, and more. 
• #GivingTuesdayNow is an initiative whereby participants recommend podcasts by releasing a podcast about great podcasts or promoting them on social media. It kicks off May 5 with a month of various activities designed to help out the podcast community. Learn more here. 
• Over at #PodRevDay, participants are encouraged to review podcasts on the 8th day of each month. After posting a review, share the link on Twitter with the hashtag. Details here. 

This picture of a recovered Tom Hanks participating in a recent Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me! Zoom (lower left) made my heart sing because it's indisputable evidence that the much-beloved movie star is a) healthy and b) interested in guesting on podcasts. With this in mind, I think it's reasonable to assume that Hanks could make an appearance on my fave pandemic show Dead Eyes, in which actor Connor Ratliffe investigates why Hanks fired him from a small role in Band of Brothers two decades ago. Tom, if you're listening, please live up to your reputation as the nicest guy in showbiz!