High Hanging fruits (playwright and astrophysicist chat about their life and work, occasionally do interviews)

• #34 身体新发现: zhuyi talks about her experience with egg freezing and liujia about being a mom, I learned a lot of things that I feel like should be common knowledge but are somehow taboo topics!? really recommend this episode!

Woshibai talk on 一席, youtube video version (basically chinese TED talk but have more culture focused stuff)

• woshibai is a popular cartoonist/illustrator who makes short comics online: https://www.instagram.com/woshibaii/
• this is a short, light 24 min talk with funny pics and comics, he talks about his process and cracks some deadpan jokes

新闻酸菜馆 (2 hosts chat about recently popular topics or news. the guy is a little annoying to me sometimes, but it’s still really neat to hear them talk about their different viewpoints)

• #422: talking about Double 11 shopping event, and their reaction to consumerism's growth in China. Also fun recent memes born out of the unbalanced class structures
• #420: recently viral topic about a 61 year old who fell in love with a celebrity impersonator on douyin (?!?)

故事FM (short stories and interviews from all kinds of people, funny/sad/interesting/niche topics galore, there’s something for everyone!)

• #430不消费主义者生存手册：吃剩饭，翻垃圾桶，我就是不购物: about a lady who lives her life avoiding buying things, and her personal solution to the harmful global effects of consumerism. very fun dumpster diving imagery!
• #292 第一次见她父母，我吐了：short interviews of people’s first times meeting their partner’s parents. I will never forget some of the mental images and secondhand embarrassment in this episode lmao

看理想电台 (interviews with random interesting people)

• 173.在娱乐之外，动画还有多少种可能？interviewing an animator about a recent short film《修容镇》that’s on YouTube with English subs, it won a lot of awards. the story was too on the nose for my taste, but I really liked hearing him talk about the animation industry in china, and the working process for a smaller group like his
• 166.专访大橘子：世界上总有更大的孤独 interviewing an illustrator who draws cute animals and references a lot of big fine artists, but in a fun, accessible kinda way! (pics: https://www.xiaoyuzhoufm.com/episode/5f883dcd83c34e85dd014a1d )
• 120. 颠颠、dy | 你正在收听的是2019年最后一期电台 older, pre-covid episode with relaxing new year vibes

有点田园 (usually feminism-related chats and interviews, sometimes light sometimes heavy)

• 140. Episode with a couple of female guests talking about their relationship to exercise, light hearted and cute