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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.

Guy Raz dives into the stories behind some of the world's best known companies. How I Built This weaves a narrative journey about innovators, entrepreneurs and idealists—and the movements they built.

Code Switch explores how race impacts every part of society — from politics and pop culture to history, sports and everything in between.

Conversations with the philosophers, scientists, activists, healers, artists and others who are leading the movements to restore our beleaguered planet to its natural balance.

A research-driven rundown of the ever-evolving challenges facing women today and throughout history, paired with smart, strategic solutions to further women’s lives, careers, and activism.

NPR's weekly radio quiz show. Test your knowledge alongside some of the celebrity panelists made up of the best and brightest in the news and entertainment world.

We explore what anthropologists and anthropology can teach us about the world and people around us.

Common things and how they work.

The biggest stories of our time, told by the best journalists in the world. Hosted by Michael Barbaro.

Twice a week, this podcast will take you on a smart, direct, sometimes scary, sometimes profane, sometimes hilarious tour of the inner workings of American power and of the impact of our leaders and their policies on our standing in the world.

Host Kelly McEvers takes a story from the news and goes deep.

Pod Save the World is a no-b*s* conversation about foreign policy hosted by Tommy Vietor that explores some of the most important decisions of our time.

Pop Culture Happy Hour is a lively chat about books, movies, music, television, comics and pretty much anything else that strikes a nerve, all in a weekly roundtable from NPR.

Through interviews with researchers, community leaders, and service providers, Paul Mattessich examines pressing issues facing our Minnesota communities today to offer insight beyond the numbers.

Our Farms, Our Future brings together the sustainable agriculture community for thought-provoking conversations about the state of agriculture, how we got here, and where we're headed.

Proof is a podcast from America’s Test Kitchen, hosted by Bridget Lancaster. It goes beyond recipes and cooking to investigate the foods we love (such as deep-fried oreos and tiki drinks) and don’t love (like once-in-vogue celery and the meteoric rise of the grain bowl). Proof solves food mysteries, one story at a time.

The Splendid Table is public radio's culinary, culture, and lifestyle program that celebrates food and its ability to touch the lives and feed the souls of everyone.

All adventures start—and end—with a story. A good story can inspire us to veer off the beaten path and reach for the unknown. A good story is also the explorer’s reward, an opportunity to share and celebrate risks taken and new ground trodden.

The Memory Palace is a monthly historical podcast hosted by Nate DiMeo. The program features historical narratives concerning such subjects as the Cardiff Giant and the CIA project Acoustic Kitty.

More Perfect, connects you to the decisions made inside the Supreme Court's hallowed halls, and explains what those rulings mean for "we the people" who exist far from the bench.

Revisionist History is Malcolm Gladwell's journey through the overlooked and the misunderstood. Every episode re-examines something from the past—an event, a person, an idea, even a song—and asks whether we got it right the first time.

Join Dr. Sydnee McElroy and her husband Justin for a tour of all the dumb, bad, gross, weird and wrong ways we've tried to fix people.

Explore history's interlocking lives and events. Turn back the clock, one story at a time. Discover how various strands are woven together to create a historic figure, a big idea or an unthinkable tragedy.

We ransack the official version of the Civil War, and take on the history you grew up with. We bring you untold stories about covert operations, corruption, resistance, mutiny, counterfeiting, antebellum drones, and so much more. And we connect these forgotten struggles to the political battlefield we’re living on right now.

YouTube series about knitting, not groceries.

A safe space for nerding out about all the things you're watching, reading, listening to and encountering in real life.

YouTube series creating spinning content for hand spinners of all levels. Participating in community, inspiration & motivation. For the love of making yarn. How to Do Everything

Join the 2 Dope Queens, along with their favorite comedians, for stories about sex, romance, race, hair journeys, living in New York, and Billy Joel.

Justin, Travis and Griffin McElroy from My Brother, My Brother and Me have recruited their dad for a campaign of high adventure.

While Scott Aukerman begins by traditionally interviewing the celebrities, the open-door policy means an assortment of eccentric oddballs can pop by at any moment to chat, compete in games, and engage in comic revelry.

WNYC radio presents actor Alec Baldwin's podcast that includes conversations with artists, celebrities, and politicians that take an unpredictable and unexpected approach in an effort to deliver insightful stories and interviews about what motivates his guests to do what they do.

The Mortified Podcast is a storytelling series where adults share the embarrassing things they created as kids—diaries, letters, lyrics & beyond—in front of total strangers. PS: It totally likes you.

Free advice, from three of the world's most qualified experts.

Join husband Travis McElroy and wife Teresa McElroy every Friday and they'll improve your etiquette week by week! Perplexed by thank you notes? Baffled by black tie? Dismayed by dinner parties? Worry no more, Shmanners has your answers!

Provocative stories and frank conversations about the LGBTQ experience today.

QUEERY explores individual stories of identity, personality and the shifting cultural matrix around gender, sexuality and civil rights.

Philosophy Bakes Bread is a podcast offering food for thought about life and leadership.

Philosophy Accessible to All. Everywhere. The Institute for Philosophy in Public Life bridges the gap between academic philosophy and the general public. We cultivate discussions between professional philosophers and those with an interest in the subject, regardless of their experience or credentials.

The UnMute Podcast is a philosophy podcast where philosophy and real-world issues collide

Host Fred Dews interviews experts from the Brookings Institution, a nonprofit public policy organization (think tank) based in Washington, D.C., about their research and ideas on solutions to the most pressing public policy challenges facing the nation and the world.

Online video creator Dylan Marron calls some of the folks who wrote him hateful messages to ask one simple question: why? Sometimes awkward, often political, and always fascinating, Conversations with People Who Hate Me takes contentious online conversations and moves them offline.

Conversational style on topics in politics, media, culture, sports, and technology that aren’t making headlines but still have a major impact on our world

Ezra Klein gives you a chance to get inside the heads of the newsmakers and power players in politics and media.

Ira Madison III, culture critic and columnist, is joined each week by comedians, journalists, actors, musicians, activists, politicians and more for a conversation at the intersection of pop culture and politics at a time when we're all obsessing over both.

Jon Lovett, co-host of Pod Save America, is joined by comedians, actors, journalists, and many, many renowned Friends of the Pod for a roundup of the week's top news.

The NPR Politics Podcast is where NPR's political reporters talk to you like they talk to each other.

Four former presidential aides are joined by journalists, politicians, comedians, and activists for a freewheeling conversation about politics, the press and the challenges posed by the Trump presidency.

Organizer and activist DeRay Mckesson explores news, culture, social justice, and politics through deep conversations with influencers and experts, and the weekly news

On Codebreaker we decipher our complicated feelings about technology by asking straightforward questions with a sense of humor, a sense of awe — and sometimes a sense of dread.

Cybersecurity is not just computers and digital processes. Whether it's the threat or the response, the most important, and most interesting, part of the story is the people behind the keyboard.

Shankar Vedantam uses science and storytelling to reveal the unconscious patterns that drive human behavior, shape our choices and direct our relationships.

The Moth is an acclaimed not-for-profit organization dedicated to the art and craft of storytelling. Moth shows are renowned for the great range of human & social experiences they showcase.

Inspiring curiosity. Each episode of the Radiolab podcast is a patchwork of people, sounds, stories, society and experiences.

Listeners are challenged to see the world through the eyes of another.

This American Life podcast gives listeners touching, humorous and often unexpected vignettes of life in America.

Through first person, short format storytelling with no commentary, This Is Actually Happening probes the chaotic interiors of the human experience as we find out what happens when everything changes.

A truck driver searches across America for the wife she had long assumed was dead. In the course of her search, she will encounter not-quite-human serial murderers, towns literally lost in time, and a conspiracy that goes way beyond one missing woman.

The Black Tapes Podcast is a serialized docudrama about one journalist's search for truth, her enigmatic subject's mysterious past, and the literal and figurative ghosts that haunt them both. Do you believe?

Therapy for the strange and unusual.

The 10-episode series follows Ross, a low level employee at the FBI, who spends his days conversing online with his wife Charlie – who died eight months ago. But the technology behind this digital resurrection leads Ross down a dangerous path that threatens his job, his own life, and maybe even the world.

Ten years ago, over three hundred men, women and children disappeared from a small town in Tennessee, never to be heard from again.

Our fears have roots. Lore exposes the darker side of history, exploring the creatures, people, and places of our wildest nightmares. Because sometimes the truth is more frightening than fiction.

When Carly Parker’s friend Yumiko goes missing under very mysterious circumstances, Carly’s search for her friend leads her headfirst into an ancient mysterious game known only as Rabbits. Soon Carly begins to suspect that Rabbits is much more than just a game, and that the key to understanding Rabbits, might be the key to the survival of our species, and the Universe as we know it.

Tanis is a serialized docudrama about a fascinating and surprising mystery: the myth of Tanis. Tanis is an exploration of the nature of truth, conspiracy, and information. Tanis is what happens when the lines of science and fiction start to blur...

A classic style radio drama, updated for today with a full sound design and a large cast of actors. This audio drama focuses on a group of survivors in a world on the brink of collapse.

Community updates for the small desert town of Night Vale, where every conspiracy theory is true. Turn on your radio and hide.

Stories of people who've done wrong, been wronged, and/or gotten caught somewhere in the middle.

True crime story reported by Christopher Goffard of the LA Times. Debra Newell is a successful interior designer. She meets John Meehan, a handsome man who seems to check all the boxes: attentive, available, just back from a year in Iraq with Doctors Without Borders. But her family doesn’t like John, and they get entangled in an increasingly complex web of love, deception, forgiveness, denial, and ultimately, survival.

Ear Hustle brings you stories of life inside prison, shared and produced by those living it.

Reporter Madeleine Baran examines the case of Curtis Flowers, who has been tried six times for the same crime. For 21 years, Flowers has maintained his innocence. He's won appeal after appeal, but every time, the prosecutor just tries the case again.

Lifelong fans of true crime stories Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark tell each other their favorite tales of murder and hear hometown crime stories from friends and fans.

Serial unfolds one story - a true story - over the course of a whole season. The show follows the plot and characters wherever they lead, through many surprising twists and turns.

The Undisclosed podcast investigates wrongful convictions, and the U.S. criminal justice system, by taking a closer look at the perpetration of a crime, its investigation, the trial, and ultimate verdict... and finding new evidence that never made it to court.

Ever felt like you missed the handbook on life? Sam Lamott sits down with experts across all disciplines to pick their brain on their strategies, insights, and ideas they've learned along the way.

Groundbreaking Peabody Award-winning conversation about the big questions of meaning — spiritual inquiry, science, social healing, and the arts.

Living a meaningful life with less stuff.

The Simple Self Care Podcast is your weekly nudge to take good care. This podcast covers all aspects of self care, be it physical, mental, or emotional, and gives you practical and tangible ways to bring it into every area of life.

Hosted by author and notable widow (her words) Nora McInerny, this is a funny/sad/uncomfortable podcast about talking honestly about our pain, our awkwardness, and our humanness, which is not an actual word.