The premise was simple: talk about a day that changed your life forever. But what unfolds in this collection of anonymous interviews with everyday people is about more than just one day: these stories span years, borders, and generations.
Nichole Perkins wants people to stop feeling bad about feeling good, and This Is Good For You lets you know you are never alone in what you like. There’s no such thing as a guilty pleasure when you learn to love it freely! To find out what’s good for you, listen to new episodes every other Friday.
A few minutes with Ronald aka ohitsbigron, hosting the show that nobody asked for, yet somebody is listening to.
This podcast uses theory to explain the world around us, from pop culture to politics to our personal lives. Each month, co-hosts Maria Sachiko Cecire and Noorain Khan raid academia for the the most fascinating and relevant social, cultural, and scientific theories and figure out what they mean for us today.
Moonrise, by the Washington Post, digs into the nuclear arms race of the Cold War, the transformation of American society and politics, and even the birth of science fiction, to unearth what really drove us to the moon.
Self Evident challenges the narratives of where we come from, where we belong, and where we're going — by telling Asian America's stories. With host Cathy Erway, we present reported narratives, personal stories, and community conversations that tackle today's tough questions about identity, cultural change, and nationhood.
How can learning the secrets of competitive breath holding help a woman fix an online shopping habit? What can a recovering alcoholic learn from a Domino's Pizza marketing campaign? We unearth surprising stories from science and business to offer solutions to people's problems.
How will the future unfold? What is the impact of technology on business & society? As technology reorders the world in which live, who will be the winners and who will be the losers?
Locals are addressing the role of jails in the broader criminal justice system. We will travel around the country and hear from people directly impacted by jails and chronicle the progress ground-up efforts have made in diversion, bail reform, recidivism, adoption of technology and other crucial aspects of the move toward decarceration at local levels.
Good Code is a weekly podcast on ethics in our digital world. We look at ways in which our increasingly digital societies could go terribly wrong, and we speak with those trying to prevent that. Good Code is a collaboration of Cornell Tech's Digital Life Initiative and visiting journalist Chine Labbe.
A bite-sized podcast about traveling while running a business and being an introvert.
Everything is Alive is an unscripted interview show in which all the subjects are inanimate objects. In each episode, a different thing tells us its life story--and everything it says is true.
Think About It engages today's leading thinkers in conversations about powerful ideas and how language can change the world.
In each three-episode miniseries of Veritalk, you’ll hear how PhD students from different fields are trying to answer really big questions about the world.
Find out what happens when women break the rules - those unwritten but all too real bullsh*t expectations of how we should live our lives. Cristen Conger and Caroline Ervin (formerly Stuff Mom Never Told You) tackle questions through their trademark obsessive research, stories from rule-breakin’ ladies and a solid dose of delightful feminist rage.
Think art history is boring? Think again. It's weird, funny, mysterious, enthralling, and liberating. Join us as we cover topics from ancient art through the present day. Who is Banksy, really? Did Van Gogh actually kill himself? And why were the Impressionists so great?
Every episode tells a story showing how we think and talk about the future, what can we do to shape it, and why are our best forecasts—and our worst fears—are usually wrong.
Ear Hustle brings you the stories of life inside prison, shared and produced by those living it.
Relentless is a podcast about the pursuit of farfetched ideas and unusual aspirations. In other words: tenacity. How do people set their sights on a hard-to-reach goal? In what ways do they change course once they get started? What keeps them going? What is more satisfying, the pursuit or the result?
One block at a time, radio producer Aaron Henkin and electronic musician Wendel Patrick are sharing the stories of Baltimore in a way that's never been heard before.
A conversation about life's unseen patterns.
Criminal is a podcast about crime. Not so much the "if it bleeds, it leads," kind of crime. Something a little more complex. Stories of people who've done wrong, been wronged, and/or gotten caught somewhere in the middle.
Food with a side of science and history. Every other week, co-hosts Cynthia Graber and Nicola Twilley serve up a brand new episode exploring the hidden history and surprising science behind a different food- or farming-related topic, from aquaculture to ancient feasts, from cutlery to chile peppers, and from microbes to Malbec.
Personally connecting the dots. All of them.
Join host Angela Ledgerwood as she discusses books, writers, life, love and all things literary with the authors she loves.
A podcast about grandmas and who we are in relation to them. Interviews with grandmas, stories on grandmas and lots of recollections. Hosted and produced by Becca DeGregorio.
Not Your Little Lady is a podcast featuring women living outside of the South's socially accepted norms. Topic experts will give advice and relay realistic steps on how to implement it in our daily lives. They explore the importance of women owning their past, present and future while keeping it light and funny, like a lady will do.
Your Black Friend is a podcast about Black folks answering questions that white folks have about what it means to be Black in the United States. The truth is that many white people don’t have any Black friends, yet they’re encouraged to become allies. In each episode the host, Maxwell Griffin will invite a new Black friend on and they’ll candidly answer anonymous questions submitted by white people.
Tell Them, I Am is about the small moments that define who we are and who we are not. The stories are universal. The voices are all Muslim. New episodes every day this Ramadan.
Live recordings from Betaworks Studios featuring builders: the makers and the doers, not just the talkers. Covering the tech ecosystem and beyond. People who are making a dent in the universe.
The World in Words podcast is about language — everything from bilingual education to the globalization of English to Icelandic insults.
Each week, over the course of 10 weeks, Revisionist History will go back and reinterpret something from the past. An event. A person. An idea. Something overlooked. Something misunderstood. Because sometimes the past deserves a second chance.
Invisibilia (Latin for all the invisible things) is about the invisible forces that control human behavior – ideas, beliefs, assumptions and emotions. Co-hosted by Lulu Miller and Alix Spiegel, Invisibilia interweaves narrative storytelling with scientific research that will ultimately make you see your own life differently.
Is your phone watching you? Can texting make you smarter? Are your kids real? These and other essential quandaries facing anyone trying to preserve their humanity in the digital age. Join host Manoush Zomorodi for your weekly reminder to question everything.
What About Your Friends (WAYF) is a weekly podcast featuring Charneil and Frankie. The show was created to offer views of life experiences, good and bad, through the lens of queer people of color. The friends tackle topics from navigating the dating scene to family woes. WAYF aims to encourage and facilitate dialogue, not just between the two hosts, but everyone tuning in. If you feel a lot about a lot, this is the podcast for you.
Here Be Monsters is a podcast exploring the dark corners of the human mind. Stories from artists, scientists, philosophers and journalists. Decidedly brainy and always interesting.
Each week, hear surprising conversations that explore the riddles of everyday life and the weird wrinkles of human nature—from cheating and crime to parenting and sports.
How Do We Fix It? is a podcast for people who are interested in solutions. Hosts Richard Davies and Jim Meigs call on experts and seek solutions to vital maters that concern all of us. From getting out personal debt to finding better teachers for our kids and the probing the future of space exploration, How Do We Fix It? presents positive views on challenging matters.
There are a lot of fads, blogs and strong opinions, but then there’s SCIENCE. Science Vs is the new show from Gimlet Media that finds out what’s fact, what’s not, and what’s somewhere in between. We do the hard work of sifting through all the science so you don't have to.v
Hank and John Green (YouTubers and etc) answer questions, give questionable advice, and talk about Mars (the planet) and AFC Wimbledon (the 4th tier English football club).
Overdue is a podcast about the books you've been meaning to read. Join Andrew and Craig each week as they tackle a new title from their backlog. Classic literature, obscure plays, goofy murder mysteries: they'll read it all, one overdue book at a time.
The Karen & Ellen Letters are found correspondence between two teenage girls and their landlord, over a three year period, from the 1980s. This podcast is the reading of those letters and a re-telling of the host’s journey to validate their authenticity.
Welcome to the world according to Wesley Morris and Jenna Wortham! They’re talking every week (to each other, to colleagues, to friends, to makers) about culture in the broadest sense. That means television, film, books, music — but also the culture of work, dating, the internet and how those all fit together. Wesley is The Times’s Pulitzer Prize winning critic at large, and Jenna is a staff writer for The New York Times Magazine. They're working it out, one week at a time.
Our Americana is a podcast that explores unique small towns across America & the stories that impact, cultivate, & challenge community.
A show all about the culture and marvels of the internet, hosted by PJ Vogt and Alex Goldman. From Gimlet.
Ten years ago, over three hundred men, women and children disappeared from a small town in Tennessee, never to be heard from again.
Science meets comedy and pop culture on StarTalk Radio! Astrophysicist and Hayden Planetarium director Neil deGrasse Tyson, his comic co-hosts, guest celebrities and scientists discuss astronomy, physics, and everything else about life in the universe.
What's the story of Louisa May Alcott? Who were some other notable members of the Alcott family? Join Holly and Tracy as they bring you the greatest and strangest Stuff You Missed In History Class in this podcast by HowStuffWorks.com
Falling in love in a pandemic should have been a nightmare, with ghosting and men who only take pictures with fish. So how did these couples manage to weed out the rough for the gold? Join your host Olivia `Reevell as she talks with couples about how they found love, held on to love and some who discovered new things about their loves while living in unprecedented times.
All humans have emotional baggage, and yet, so many of us are unaware of what we're carrying until we hit a low point, experience a health crisis, or recognize that we're in a painful pattern with our relationships or how we feel about and treat ourselves.
Maybe you’ve laid awake imagining how it could have been, how it might yet be, but the moment to act was never right. Well, the moment is here and the podcast making it happen is Heavyweight. Join Jonathan Goldstein for road trips, thorny reunions, and difficult conversations as he backpedals his way into the past like a therapist with a time machine.
True Stories of Good People is a podcast about people who are making a difference in other people's lives, or have had their lives changed by someone kind.
Chef Soleil Ho and journalist Zahir Janmohamed interview chefs and purveyors of color and tackle food's relationship to race, gender, and class in their bi-weekly podcast from Portland, Oregon.
In August of 1619, a ship carrying more than 20 enslaved Africans arrived in the English colony of Virginia. America was not yet America, but this was the moment it began. No aspect of the country that would be formed here has been untouched by the 250 years of slavery that followed. On the 400th anniversary of this fateful moment, it is time to tell the story.
Everyone has a story about failure; even successful people. Listen to frank discussions with artists, executives, entrepreneurs, actors, entertainers, and more, about failures of all sorts and how they turned their failures into successes.
Big questions about technology, science, and culture, hosted by The Atlantic’s Derek Thompson.
The Pledge Podcast explores political activism through short audio portraits. We call it The Pledge because it celebrates activism as a commitment to the hard work of democracy. Making this pledge means taking risks, speaking out, working hard and fighting day after day.
What makes you … you? Is it your DNA, culture, environment? SAPIENS hosts Jen Shannon, Esteban Gómez, and SAPIENS.org Editor-in-Chief Chip Colwell speak with anthropologists from around the globe to help us uncover what makes us human.
Brooklyn has so many stories to tell, and a lot of them start at the library. Every other week, “Borrowed” brings you stories that start here and take you somewhere new. We're talking to people starting businesses, finding their roots, playing Dungeons & Dragons, creating community—and of course, borrowing books!
A podcast that focuses on racism, sexism, homophobia, and other -isms and -phobias in pop culture.
A weekly conversation between married gamers about films, the latest gaming news, and a topic in the gaming industry.
Welcome to CULTure, a podcast about pop culture's cult of personality. Each episode will look into different people, places, things and ideas that society obsesses over.
The Bitter Southerner Podcast, hosted by Bitter Southerner magazine editor Chuck Reece, explores the culture and history of the American South.
Have you ever found a note on the ground, maybe meant for someone else? Help Davy Rothbart solve these mysteries on the FOUND Podcast, where we explore personal stories of love, loss, hope, transformation and aspiration through the lens of lost and found notes --with the power of humor and music.
Harry Potter and the Sacred Text is a podcast reading Harry Potter, the best-selling series of all time, as if it was a sacred text. Just as Christians read the Bible, Jews the Torah and Muslims read the Quran, we will embark on a 199-episode journey to glean what wisdom and meaning J.K. Rowling’s beloved novels have for us today.
Flash Forward is a podcast about the future. Each episode we take on a possible (or not so possible) future scenario — everything from the existence of artificial wombs, to what would happen if space pirates dragged a second moon to Earth.
entwined is a podcast about how so much of the world around us is wound or twisted together. This podcast strives to lay bare unexposed or indiscernible connections using historical and anecdotal sources.
On Being with Krista Tippett takes up the big questions of meaning with scientists and theologians, artists and teachers — some you know and others you'll love to meet. Updated every Thursday, a new discovery about the immensity of our lives.
Upstream is a radio documentary and interview series offering themed episodes that explore a wide variety of topics pertaining to our 21st-century economy.
Us & Them tells stories from the fault lines that separate Americans. Peabody Award-winning public radio producer Trey Kay listens to people on both sides of the divide.
Death, Sex & Money is a podcast about the big questions and hard choices that are often left out of polite conversation. Host Anna Sale talks to celebrities you've heard of—and to regular people you haven't—about the Big Stuff: relationships, money, family, work and making it all count while we're here.
Dannielle & Claire take you on a journey of the heart as they interview their favorite couples about how they fell in love and stayed in love.
The Guardian Books podcast is our weekly look at the world of books, poetry and great writing presented byClaire Armitstead, Richard Lea, & Sian Cain. With in-depth interviews with leading authors and investigations into the thematic trends in contemporary writing, this is the perfect book worm’s companion.
The Partially Examined Life is a philosophy podcast by some guys who were at one point set on doing philosophy for a living but then thought better of it. Each episode, we pick a short text and chat about it with some balance between insight and flippancy.
How can we fix work? Each week we chat to scientists and experts to improve our jobs.
Climate change is a man-made problem with a feminist solution! Join former Irish President Mary Robinson and comedian Maeve Higgins in this uplifting and fascinating new podcast, and meet a host of game-changing women fighting to save all our lives.
Gravy shares stories of the changing American South through the foods we eat. Gravy showcases a South that is constantly evolving, accommodating new immigrants, adopting new traditions, and lovingly maintaining old ones.
What does it mean to be Filipino outside of the homeland? Long Distance is an independent narrative podcast about life in the Filipino diaspora.
In the war on terror, who is it that we’re really fighting? “Caliphate” follows Rukmini Callimachi, who covers terrorism for The New York Times, on her quest to understand ISIS.
This podcast is a place to talk about creativity, learn about some artists and writers. It is a safe place for artists and writers to learn about each other's creative processes and craft.
Unwell, a Midwestern Gothic Mystery is a new audio drama from HartLife NFP. Lillian Harper moves to the small town of Mt. Absalom, Ohio, to care for her estranged mother Dorothy after an injury. Living in the town's boarding house which has been run by her family for generations, she discovers conspiracies, ghosts, and a new family in the house's strange assortment of residents.
Ministry of Ideas is a podcast about the ideas that shape our world.
Plastic has become the basis for our modern lives. And yet, the waste it creates threatens animals, ecosystems as well as our own health and well-being. Will we be able to develop a healthy relationship to this material we’ve created?
What'sHerName women's history podcast tells the stories of fascinating women you've never heard of, but should have. Through compelling interviews with well-known and unknown scholars, curators, authors and historians, What'sHerName restores women's voices to the conversation.
Versify is part storytelling and part poetry. It begins by sending our team of poets out into neighborhoods and to community events, where we invite people to share a story from their life. The person they are sharing it to — the person listening — is one of our poets. This is where the magic comes in. The poet listens intently and then turns that life story into a poem, on the spot.
In each podcast episode, a guest with a passion for food and music cooks us a dish and tells us their story. You will hear the conversation, eggs cracking, and oven door slamming. Use your imagination– smell, see, and taste the story.
Here There Be Dragons is a podcast about fear, identity and the cities we live in.
Co-discussants Anna Holmes, Baratunde Thurston, Raquel Cepeda and Tanner Colby host a lively multiracial conversation about the ways we can’t talk, don’t talk, would rather not talk, but intermittently, fitfully, embarrassingly do talk about culture, identity, politics, power, and privilege in our pre-post-yet-still-very-racial America.
A bookish advice show that answers your questions about life, love and literature.
How do landfills work? How do mosquitoes work? Join Josh and Chuck as they explore the Stuff You Should Know about everything from genes to the Galapagos in this podcast from HowStuffWorks.com.
Welcome to The Lonely Palette, the podcast that returns art history to the masses, one painting at a time. Each episode, host Tamar Avishai picks a painting du jour, interviews unsuspecting museum visitors in front of it, and then dives deeply into the object, the movement, the social context, and anything and everything else that will make it as neat to you as it is to her.
the get is hosted by Ivy and Rhiana, women of color who are committed to social justice, living, and being free. We are inspired by by LaVerne Cox's concept of "possibility models" and the growing representation of marginalized voices in all forms of social media. The Get is our effort to take up space, to share our voices, and to encourage our listeners to do the same.
Design is everywhere in our lives, perhaps most importantly in the places where we've just stopped noticing. 99% Invisible is a weekly exploration of the process and power of design and architecture. From award winning producer Roman Mars, KALW in San Francisco, and Radiotopia from PRX.
Since its launch in 1997, The Moth has presented thousands of true stories, told live and without notes, to standing-room-only crowds worldwide. Moth storytellers stand alone, under a spotlight, with only a microphone and a roomful of strangers. The storyteller and the audience embark on a high-wire act of shared experience which is both terrifying and exhilarating.
The TED Radio Hour is a journey through fascinating ideas: astonishing inventions, fresh approaches to old problems, new ways to think and create.
Nick van der Kolk's Love and Radio features intimate and otherworldly-produced interviews with an eclectic range of subjects, from the seedy to the sublime.