Spiral
Oct 27: New Season - Society & CultureNew today from UK news outlet Tortoise comes Spiral - a six-part investigation into how the rush to build ever more persuasive AI is pulling some users away from reality. AI chatbots have been built to mirror us, to flatter us, to keep the conversation going. But the same design choices that make these systems so appealing can also make them dangerous.
Podmastery: podcasting insights and advice for indie creators
Oct 27: Newsworthy - TechnologyIn Podmastery: podcasting insights and advice for indie creators this week, Neal celebrates 100 episodes of the podcast, with a free podcast health check for every listener that you can follow along with in real time, or use his supplied free tool in your own time.
The Hart Of It All with Teri Hart
Oct 27: New Season - EducationCaregiving is messy, exhausting, sometimes hilarious, and almost nobody talks about it. The Hart Of It All does. Each week, veteran broadcaster Teri Hart sits down with doctors, advocates and familiar faces to get real about caring for the people we love. Season 2 kicks off with comedy legends Colin Mochrie and Debra McGrath, who’ve been making each other laugh for more than 35 years. Then Colin needed a knee replacement. You’ll hear them hash out the walker, the physio, the bruised egos and the strange new job of looking after each other. It’s funny, tender and a little chaotic, just like caregiving itself.
Hyperfixed
Oct 26: Newsworthy - Society & CultureWhy does the microwave have a "Popcorn" button when almost every bag of microwave popcorn tells you not to use it? Hyperfixed talked to the microwave industry, to the popcorn industry, and even cold called the man who patented the first microwave popcorn sensor, the technology behind the first popcorn button. In this week's show - the question is finally answered.
Podnews Weekly Review
Oct 26: Newsworthy - NewsOn the Podnews Weekly Review this week, Steven Goldstein suggests that RSS isn't podcasting's future. "It won't stand the test of time," he suggests. "That's not so great for us, but let's be realistic about where things are going."
PodBiz | Where’s The Money In Podcasting?
Oct 26: Newsworthy - BusinessRichard Fawal, founder and CEO of Voxtopica, is the guest in this week's PodBiz. He talks about why mission-driven and educational spaces are powerful avenues for professional podcasting.
Take It From Us with Kent Johns
Oct 26: Newsworthy - Health & FitnessAs New Zealand heads to the polls, Take It From Us with Kent Johns brings two conversations that sit apart from the campaign noise. You'll hear former Deputy Prime Minister Grant Robertson and former National Party leader Todd Muller speak more candidly than they ever could while in office about the very personal toll of a life in politics. It’s not about parties or policy. It’s about the people behind the billboards, and it’s for listeners of any political leaning.
Podnews Weekly Review
Oct 23: Newsworthy - NewsThe Podnews Weekly Review this week talks with Steven Goldstein about "liquid content" - and why measurement is still holding us back as an industry.
Ripple FX
Oct 23: Newsworthy - BusinessIn Ripple FX this week, we're celebrating International Day of Climate Action (October 24th) with Yelle Belle of HomeSwap Stories, a NYC-based content creator who interviews New Yorkers on their sustainable lives. Her advice is to pick one small thing you can control at home & start there. The episode includes a few easy eco-friendly habits to try.
Manual Not Included with Daniela Tempesta: Psychology, Relationships, and The Life Skills No One Taught Us
Oct 22: New Podcast - Health & FitnessManual Not Included launches today. Episodes will cover relationships, boundaries, and burnout for listeners whose lives look great on paper and still feel confusing. Host Daniela Tempesta, a psychotherapist and recovering overachiever, and her guests will bring psychology-backed insight and humor to the parts of adulthood that never came with instructions.
The We Do Not Care Club Podcast with Melani Sanders
Oct 21: New Podcast - EducationThe We Do Not Care Club Podcast with Melani Sanders is new today from Audacy. The show will feature candid, unfiltered conversations about midlife, menopause, health, wellness, relationships, reinvention, and more; the We Do Not Care Club movement is a space where women come together to talk openly about the experiences, challenges, and opportunities that come in midlife.
Dan Snow's History Hit
Oct 21: Newsworthy - HistoryIt's Halloween and in History Hit, Dan is examining mummies: one of history's most fascinating and macabre topics - even the Victorians were obsessed with Egyptian mummification! Dan and Dr Campbell Price explore this obsession from 'unrolling parties' to those who consumed ground-up mummies as medicine. This episode looks at centuries of colonial obsession, superstition and misunderstanding that has shaped how we view ancient Egypt.
Pleasure People
Oct 21: New Podcast - Health & FitnessA vibrator, three weeks, and 1,000 people willing to turn their pleasure into data. New six-part series Pleasure People, launching today, asks a question science rarely does: what does daily pleasure actually do for you? Hosted by veteran sex educator and researcher Danielle Bezalel, the series follows eight participants in the first-of-its-kind Magic Wand study tracking pleasure’s impact on sleep, stress, relationships, and more, with insight from study lead Dr. Candice Hargons and legendary sex researcher Emily Nagoski, Ph.D. The findings WILL surprise you.
Strange Health
Oct 20: New Season - Health & FitnessFrom the curdy world of cottage cheese to migraine hacks and homemade sunscreen, Strange Health from The Conversation is back for a second season. Hosts Katie Edwards and GP Dan Baumgardt dive into the science behind bizarre and sometimes questionable health trends going viral on social media with the help of experts. Expect honest, funny and sometimes stomach-turning discussions.
The 7 Percent
Oct 20: New Podcast - News93% of transformation programmes fail to deliver their full value. Today, The 7 Percent is new from Sullivan & Stanley - built entirely around the people who get it right. Senior leaders are more confident than ever in their strategy, technology budgets have never been bigger, and yet value continues to leak out of transformation programmes at an alarming rate. The average organisation loses 27% of the value it originally committed to deliver; this podcast aims to fix that. It's hosted by Goup CEO Andy Haley.
The Builders
Oct 20: New Podcast - Society & CultureWhat have Elon Musk and Peter Thiel got in common? Apart from that, they're also on the new Walter Isaacson podcast The Builders which launched this week. Isaacson examines the ideas, ambitions, and decisions behind the AI revolution, from its impact on jobs and misinformation to the possibility of superintelligent machines.
Rewriting the Illness Story
Oct 20: New Podcast - Health & FitnessIn Rewriting the Illness Story they talk about illnesses and how they affect people on all levels; emotional, mental, spiritual and physical. Host Paula Hescock interviews practitioners, people that have had near-death experiences, people living with chronic conditions, and people who have overcome adversities and are now thriving. They're real stories about living authentically through personal agency and accepting life even when it’s not perfect.
National Emergency
Oct 20: New Season - FictionListen. Obey. Survive. National Emergency returns today for a new season - and the unexplained emergency Broadcasts are still taking over devices without warning: and one mistake means you disappear forever.
Don't Call Me Darlin'
Oct 19: New Podcast - ArtsBefore social media, the women of bluegrass had a bright blue newsletter that showed up in the mailbox and said what no one would say out loud. In Don't Call Me Darlin', host Carolyn Kendrick and co-creator Tristan Scroggins hit the road to find the women Murphy Henry profiled decades ago, in a story about genre, identity, feminism, and the communities we built before the internet. In conversations with legends such as Alice Gerrard, Kristin Scott Benson, Laurie Lewis, Missy Raines, Alison Brown, Rhonda Vincent, Sierra Hull, Bronwyn Keith-Hynes, and many more, our hosts learn how tradition can bring community together and how it can break it apart.
Crown and Controversy - King George III and the American Revolution
Oct 19: New Podcast - HistoryCrown and Controversy: Kate Middleton, premieres this week from Caloroga Media: an ordinary girl from a village in Berkshire who went on to become the future Queen of England. The show traces the life of Catherine, Princess of Wales, from her childhood in Bucklebury to St Andrews, through the years of waiting the press labelled "Waity Katie," and on to a wedding watched by hundreds of millions. It follows the rift with the Sussexes and a cancer diagnosis she shared publicly, in her own words. Nine episodes. Twenty years. The girl who chose the hardest life imaginable, and what it made her.