The week in audio: Can You Dig It?; Blond Ambition; The Lavender Scare; For Fitness Sake – review

Chuck D (left) and Flavor Flav perform at the Hip Hop Museum block party to celebrate the 50th anniversary of hip-hop. Photograph: Erik Pendzich/Shutterstock

Can You Dig It? | Audible Originals
Blond Ambition: Growing Up With Madonna (BBC Radio 4) | BBC Sounds
The Lavender Scare | NPR
For Fitness Sake (BBC Local Radio) | BBC Sounds

Hip-hop turned 50 last week. In commemoration, Chuck D, the co-founder and frontman of Public Enemy, has narrated a deep-dive into the origins of the genre in a five-part docu-drama podcast series Can You Dig It? for Audible Originals. It blends “immersive reenactments, oral history and expert discussion”. The first two episodes explore the place in which the genre first emerged – the Bronx in the late 1960s and early 70s – and discuss the social and political landscape; the ways that poverty, racism, unfit housing, fires, unemployment and gang wars plagued the New York borough.