Introducing the Hub & Spoke Expo and our first limited-run series, The Rabbis Go South

Boston—July 4, 2024—Hub & Spoke has always been a collective of ongoing podcasts, which meant that we couldn’t really offer a home to limited-run series. Until now! Introducing… the Hub & Spoke Expo.

The Expo is our platform for featuring limited-run podcast series created by independent producers in collaboration with Hub & Spoke. We’re proud to offer this home for producers both inside and outside the industry who share our vision of curiosity, craft, and above all, a commitment to independence.

Our first Expo series, launching this fall, is The Rabbis Go South. Created by Boston-based independent filmmakers Gerald Peary and Amy Geller, it’s a seven-part series telling the little-known story of three dramatic days in June, 1964, when 16 rabbis answered the call of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. to join forces with civil rights activists in St. Augustine, Florida.

We’ll publish the first full episode of the show in September, and you can listen to the show’s trailer starting today.   

“We’re so excited to have brilliant partners like Amy and Gerry to help us launch the Expo,” says Wade Roush, co-founder of Hub & Spoke and producer of the podcast Soonish. “For a long time we’ve been wanting to expand the definition of the collective to include folks who aren’t necessarily making ‘forever podcasts,’ and the Expo is a way to acknowledge and promote all the amazing limited-run content coming from the community of independent audio storytellers. In The Rabbis Go South, Amy and Gerry are using the storytelling skills they’ve honed as documentary filmmakers to shed light on an episode of Jewish-Black cooperation that never really made it into the established histories of the civil rights movement. We’re proud to be able to present this story to our listeners.”

As a showcase for limited-run series, the Expo is also the new home for Hub & Spoke shows that have ended their runs or are on hiatus. As of now that includes The Briny, a show about the sea from producer Matt Frassica that ran from 2017 to 2024; Iconography, a history and culture show from producer Charles Gustine, who published his show from 2016 to 2022; and Mementos, a show about the things we keep and what they mean to us from producer Lori Mortimer, who created episodes from 2019 to 2021.

“Nobody who starts a podcast commits to making it for the rest of their lives,” says Tamar Avishai, co-founder of Hub & Spoke and creator of The Lonely Palette. “There should be a graceful way to put down the mic. All of these Expo shows and their creators remain cherished members of the Hub & Spoke community—and can return to publishing new episodes at any time. But now we have a way to honor them while focusing the promotional spotlight on our active shows.”

Check out the Hub & Spoke Expo at hubspokeaudio.org/expo.