Blowback
Apr 7: Sponsor - Society & CultureFor your Webby Consideration: Blowback for Best Individual Episode - Documentary. This history show promises a mini-series on Israel and America, a comic book, our seventh season and more this year: and, perhaps, a Webby too.
Two Percent with Michael Easter
Apr 7: Newsworthy - Health & FitnessTwo Percent with Michael Easter is new from the author and journalist's viral wellness newsletter. It's a twice-weekly "audio and video" podcast series (no video on Spotify or Apple Podcasts, just YouTube), produced by Kaleidoscope, and launches today.
Elis James and John Robins
Apr 7: Newsworthy - ComedyThe Elis James and John Robins show has added video and a new Patreon page. This expanded offering - led by Elis, John and Dave’s own company Significant Productions - comes after the recent announcement of the show’s involvement with the BBC Audio Release Policy.
Deep Care
Apr 7: Newsworthy - Health & FitnessThe new podcast Deep Care is a partnership between Dr. Kaytura Felix and PRX, highlighting the intimate stories of Black parents who chose midwifery care, and experienced transformative outcomes for themselves and their babies, and spotlighting Black maternal health and responses to the crisis.
Athletes Beyond the Game
Apr 7: New Season - SportsIn Athletes Beyond the Game this week, Julia and Sara kick off season two with D1 track athletes and twins, Sofia and Izze Calabrese, who speak about the realities of being a female athlete in a sport that focuses on weight. They talk about growing up with a twin in the same sport, body image, overcoming an eating disorder and injuries, and what happens after retirement.
Influence Anyone
Apr 7: Newsworthy - ScienceInfluence Anyone is now in video on YouTube and Spotify. The show gets into the psychology of influence as guests break down decades of research, stories, and real-world strategies face-to-face with Howie Chan. You’ll see legends like Dr. Robert Cialdini, Nir Eyal, and (today) a 50-minute masterclass with Matt Sucha on sales strategy you can actually use. This is the podcast for you about persuasion, communication skills for leaders, and high-level thinking.
The Hart Of It All with Teri Hart
Apr 7: Newsworthy - EducationOn The Hart Of It All this week — a podcast about navigating the realities of caregiving, for National Caregiver's Day. Host Teri Hart sits down with R. Scott Gemmill, creator/showrunner of the award-winning HBO Max show The Pitt, to talk about why caregiving has become such a central thread in the series.
Quantum Matters: Where Quantum Computing Gets Real
Apr 7: New Podcast - TechnologyIn Quantum Matters, the future isn’t hypothetical — it’s already happening. This podcast cuts through the sci-fi myths surrounding quantum computing to reveal how it’s actively reshaping industries today, from automotive to retail. Backed by D-Wave, the world’s first commercial quantum company, each episode translates complex breakthroughs into clear, compelling stories from the researchers and leaders putting quantum to work on real-world problems. It's a technology accelerating faster than most realize.
The History Chicks : A Women’s History Podcast
Apr 6: Sponsor - HistoryFor your Webby Consideration: The History Chicks for Best Individual Episode. The show celebrates the lives of remarkable women from ancient times to the modern day, exploring women’s history in engaging episodes full of deep research, pop culture references, and the occasional tumble down a rabbit hole.
Untold: Opus Dei
Apr 6: New Podcast - NewsNew last month from the Financial Times, Untold: Opus Dei follows special investigations reporter Antonia Cundy’s two-year investigation into the Catholic organisation and its growing influence in the United States. Drawing on interviews with more than 100 current and former members, the four-part series examines life inside Opus Dei and how it has developed a proximity to an ascendant conservative movement.
Sound, Light & Frequency
Apr 6: New Podcast - Society & CultureThe US government may have been conducting a slow-drip UFO disclosure campaign through Hollywood movies and television for more than 70 years. Sound, Light & Frequency is new from iHeartPodcasts, hosted by two Hollywood producers who say they were approached by the Men in Black - and offered a deal.
Outward Bound and Me
Apr 6: Newsworthy - EducationFor 85 years, the Outward Bound Trust has had a lasting impact on the lives of thousands of young people. In his new podcast Outward Bound and Me, Dylan Carroll speaks with Outward Bound alumni from across the decades - where they started, where life took them next, and how Outward Bound helped shape the journey. These are honest stories of challenge, adventure and change, told by people from all walks of life.
Strong Face
Apr 6: New Podcast - BusinessYou're enforcing a policy you fundamentally disagree with. You're delivering a message that contradicts your values. You're watching your team break under decisions you didn't make and can't change. Are you the problem? Strong Face is for leaders caught between caring for their people and enforcing a system that wasn't built to do so, and aims to help leaders see the difference so they can stop hiding behind their Strong Face.
Her Intentional Reset
Apr 6: New Podcast - BusinessHer Intentional Reset launches today - with stories of career pivot stories, big and small, from women in midlife. From 9-5 employee to romance novelist, marketing executive leaving finance world to pursue interior design, and accountant to gym owner, hear real stories of women who've made the leap.
What We Don’t Know with Matt Brittin & Hayaatun Sillem
Apr 3: New Podcast - BusinessThe new Director General of the BBC, Matt Brittin, has somewhat surprisingly released a podcast: What We Don't Know with Matt Brittin & Hayaatun Sillem. The first episode is entitled “Who Is Matt Brittin?”, with more than an hour of detail. It’s apparently recorded before he got the job at the BBC - a role which includes intense public scrutiny; so we can tell you that doing the podcast “fits in to his gap year plan”, and he enjoys baking lemon drizzle-cake.
Celebrity Trials - True Crime And Justice Stories Updated Daily.
Apr 3: New Season - True CrimeFollowing the success of over 300 “Celebrity Trials” podcast episodes, Caloroga Shark Media announces the next evolution of the series, relaunching it as Daily Crime & Justice. The show will continue to deliver in-depth reporting of the explosive courtroom proceedings surrounding the biggest names in music, film, sports, and entertainment, while expanding its scope to include other high-profile trials that captivate the nation and reshape the justice system in America and abroad.
The Royalist
Apr 3: New Podcast - Society & CultureNo family has more unfathomable privilege, unbelievable scandal, and unspeakable secrets than the British Royals. In The Royalist, veteran royal correspondent Tom Sykes draws on decades of reporting to expose the rivalries, paranoia, power-plays, and media manipulations that define the modern royals - and how personality, privilege, and fear drive decisions behind palace walls. Find out how the secret world of the Palace really operates in this weekly podcast.
The Edge of Everyday with Sandra Bargman
Apr 2: Newsworthy - Society & CultureThe Edge of Everyday has joined the Magic Thread Media network with a fresh new look. Hosted by actor, inter-spiritual minister, and storytelling teacher Sandra Bargman, the show has raw, soulful, and provocative conversations that challenge the status quo. Sandra and her guests explore the intersection of identity, spirituality, and social change, offering you a "provocative invitation" to leap out of your comfort zone and into a more conscious, authentic way of living.
The Obit Project
Apr 2: New Podcast - Society & CultureThe Obit Project is a new podcast from Jad Abumrad (founder of Radiolab and creator of Dolly Parton’s America and Fela Kuti: Fear No Man) and University of Montana Journalism Professor Jule Banville (An Absurd Result podcast), who teamed up to help journalists make a new kind of obit, through sound. From an obituary about a circus elephant, to one about a historian with an affection for ghosts, these are rich, honest stories about the lives of real Montanans after they die.
Americans Talk Australian Survivor
Apr 2: Newsworthy - TV & FilmG'day! Spiders! Snakes! Vegemite! No fuel at the servos! The Americans Talk Australian Survivor podcast has reached its 100th episode (just as contestant Simon reaching 100 days playing the game). The ridgy-didge fan podcast recaps each episode of Australian Survivor from an American perspective.