Smart Travel: Upgrade Your Getaways
May 13: Sponsor - Society & CultureWith Airwave: Smart Travel from Nerdwallet helps you get the most out of your travel dollars, your travel pounds, your travel euros and even your travel đồng. They'll know the best way to get from Heathrow to your London hotel, for example (clue: not a black cab). Today - How to Travel Without Paying for a Hotel.
Slow Burn
May 13: New Podcast - HistorySlow Burn is back with a three-episode season on Justice Neil Gorsuch. "He’s the wild card on the most powerful Supreme Court in modern history, the swing vote in certain, critical cases, and a central pillar of the conservative supermajority reshaping American life. To understand this Court and where it’s headed, you have to understand Gorsuch."
Front Page
May 13: New Podcast - NewsFront Page was new from the Black Effect podcast network yesterday. Hosted by the current news correspondent for iHeart’s nationally syndicated morning show, The Breakfast Club, Mimi Brown will expand her on-air coverage of the most talked about news stories each weekday into easily digestible 10-to-12-minute episodes that will give listeners more of the headline-making details they crave.
Mythical Creatures for Kids
May 13: New Podcast - Kids & FamilyMythical Creatures for Kids is an audio-only, educational podcast that brings magical legends to life. Co-created, written and hosted by a 5 year old and parent. The show asks big questions about creatures like Dragons, Loch Ness Monster, the Kraken and so many more! Completely human-made and perfect for curious kids ages 4–8 and their grown-ups who love a little bit of magic.
Kitchen Island HQ
May 13: New Podcast - BusinessKitchen Island HQ is where business and real life meet - a podcast for service-based entrepreneurs building sustainable businesses while raising little humans. Hosted by Kelly McCracken, expect honest conversations around practical strategies, smart systems, work-life balance, and what it really looks like to grow a business in the in-between moments: at the kitchen island in the middle of everyday life.
Witchpunk: A Cyberpunk Story
May 12: New Podcast - Fiction22nd Century America is crumbling from relentless climate change, collapsing supply chains and recurrent pandemics. In Witchpunk: A Cyberpunk story, a new gritty full cast audio drama, a bickering crew release there’s something badly wrong with their cargo.
On The Talking
May 12: Newsworthy - ComedyIn Australia, it's Federal Budget week. Is this going to be a fair dinkum budget? Will we have to pay more for a schooner of beer? The Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese joined Jeremy and Norman for an exclusive chat on On The Talking.
The Writer
May 12: New Podcast - FictionIn The Writer’s debut episode, a catastrophic event in London triggers the outbreak of World War III. Oliver, an aspiring Australian writer, and his father are forcibly conscripted under emergency orders and sent to a chaotic enlistment camp, where families are separated and everyday life collapses under rapid global mobilisation.
Design This Day
May 12: New Season - TechnologyDesign This Day skips the theory, and instead talks with people who are quietly building the world you're about to live in: the engineer behind the world's largest aircraft, the designer bringing human-centered thinking to autonomous weapons systems, the founder growing bionic hands for humans and robots. The actual people doing the work speak with futurist Devin Liddell, who has spent 20 years helping Boeing, Nike, Google, and Amazon figure out what comes next.
Hidden History with Dr. Harini Bhat
May 11: New Podcast - HistorySome questions don't have answers. Yet. New from REWIND, the new brand from PAVE Studios, today - Hidden History with Dr. Harini Bhat unravels real events from history that still can't be fully explained. Mass hysterias. Medical oddities. Vanished civilizations. Strange signals. Unexplained phenomena that keep repeating, centuries apart, as if history is trying to tell us something.
Stories From A Stranger
May 11: New Podcast - Society & Culture“Every stranger has a story.” This is what Hunter Prosper realized when he began posting man-on-the-street interviews with real-life strangers to his social media accounts. Stories From A Stranger features portraits of strangers connected by themes of love, loss, regret, inspiration, illness, family and more - remind us that we are all human and more connected than we realize.
A Lot More
May 11: Newsworthy - TV & FilmIn the US it's National Hospital Week, and the Warner Bros TV Group's podcast A Lot More is spotlighting its acclaimed medical drama The Pitt - with candid behind-the-scenes conversations with stars and writers of the series to reflect on its impact.
Work-Shaped Life
May 11: New Podcast - Society & CultureHow do you build a satisfying career when you, and everything around you, never stop changing? Work-Shaped Life is a new podcast launching today from Dave Weich, the founder of Sheepscot Creative, talking with people going through that in real time: pivots, drifts, reinventions, and the self-awareness that comes from doing the work of figuring it out.
Attitude Presents: Out with Suzi Ruffell
May 8: New Podcast - Society & CultureAttitude Presents: Out with Suzi Ruffell is a newly-reimagined podcast from the UK's Attitude magazine. Now in video, the award-winning show promises a high-profile guest lineup, and is part of a redesign of the LGBTQ+ magazine's brand.
Paper Trail
May 8: Newsworthy - NewsPaper Trail is a new investigative podcast from Pulitzer-winning ProPublica, hosted by Jessica Lussenhop. "Informing the public is how change happens. That’s what this whole show is all about," says Lussenhop. The podcast is a partnership with PRX.
Bodega Botanica Tales: Short Story Podcast
May 8: New Podcast - FictionBodega Botanica Tales is a short story podcast where myths and real life collide. Each episode is an original tale inspired by the gossip you hear in bodegas, the botánica, and from cultural myths and folklore that shape us all. Many of the tales are rooted in Latinx culture, but you don't need to share that heritage to enjoy this podcast. If you enjoy discussing traditions, legends or superstitions that sometimes make you uneasy, curious, or totally confused, this folklore story podcast is for you.
The Making of One Nation
May 8: Newsworthy - NewsFor almost three decades, One Nation and Pauline Hanson have been ridiculed, dismissed and shut out. Now, as the party surges in the polls and is a serious contender for a second lower house seat in Australia's federal parliament, no one is laughing. In The Making of One Nation host Ashlynne McGhee joins politics expertcs from academic in Australia and overseas to break down how a party built on fear and grievance thrived, died and rose again to upend Australian politics.
Data & AI Mastery
May 7: New Podcast - NewsInside the Algorithm takes you beyond the AI headlines into the research labs, academic papers, and technical breakthroughs shaping the future of artificial intelligence. Hosted by Jeremy Bradley, Chief AI Officer at Cambridge Spark, it's a technical, practitioner-led series designed for people building AI systems, leading AI transformation, or looking to understand what’s really happening beneath the surface.
Memento Morbid
May 7: New Podcast - Society & CultureIn Memento Morbid, you’ll hear Joanna Ebenstein — founder of New York’s Morbid Anatomy — in conversation with a range of guests from morticians and artists to bestselling authors, scholars, and spiritual practitioners, exploring death, ritual, grief, and the strange, beautiful ways humans make meaning from mortality. When death doulas are making headlines (hello Nicole Kidman) and conversations about dying are moving into the cultural mainstream, the series feels especially timely.
Dakota Spotlight: True Crime & Cold Case Investigations
May 7: New Season - True CrimeThe Bagpiper and His Brother is a five-part series and the 13th season of the Dakota Spotlight true crime podcast. You’ll follow two Midwestern brothers whose ordinary lives concealed troubling behavior, tracing their path from rural North Dakota to a 1971 bombing in South Dakota. Along the way, you’ll encounter wiretapping, theft, and violence, while the victim’s life unfolds in parallel, building toward an unsettling end.