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Today online searches for lesbian and queer podcasts return a rich listing of content for our consumption. But how did we arrive at this particular moment? And what makes a podcast or radio show 'queer' anyway? Lesbian Radio Radicals and The Queer Podcast Revolution explores the cultural and political production of queer feminist soundwork. Highlighting the voices and experiences of past and present, this research queers our senses across media time and space, weaving its way through the campy sounds of Vancouver Co-Op Radio's The Lesbian Show (1979-2014) and CKUT Montreal's Dykes on Mykes (1987-2016) and, into the erotic politics of contemporary queer podcasts such as Queer Public and The Heart. Ultimately, Copeland aims to reveal the crucial role of soundwork in queering feminist media practices of cultural production, perception, and distribution. This work contributes a sound-centred queer feminist phenomenology relevant to anyone interested in cultural sound studies, queer theory, radio and podcast studies, feminist media studies or the study of gender, sexuality, and media in the humanities and social sciences.