Kim Hill Wants To Know
Sep 22: New Season - Society & CultureNew Zealand broadcasting icon Kim Hill is back with a new season of her chart-topping RNZ podcast Kim Hill Wants To Know - now also a video series. Following unmissable interviews with the likes of Boris Johnson, Malcolm Gladwell and Jon Lee Anderson in season one, Kim continues her conversations with guests from around the world such as The Undertones Feargal Sharkey, BBC Security Correspondent Frank Gardner, and Professor of International Relations Rory Cormack.
Green Arenas
Sep 22: Newsworthy - Society & CultureGenuine environmental advocates are often silenced by corrupt politicians and powerful corporations. But, podcasting can help - and Green Arenas, which launched nine months ago, has just hit 100,000 downloads. The latest episode focuses - where else - on data centers.
The Me Mindset
Sep 22: Newsworthy - EducationThe Me Mindset explora la psicología de quiénes somos y en quiénes nos estamos convirtiendo. El programa habla sobre desarrollo personal, filosofía, comportamiento humano, mentalidad, relaciones, propósito y los patrones ocultos que dan forma a tu vida, e invita a desafiar tu manera de pensar.
The Rest Is Politics
Sep 22: Newsworthy - NewsThe Rest Is Politics is part of the 'Be Hope’ podcast takeover - a global collaboration, where major podcasts have come together to inspire hope. Top podcasts from India, the UK, the US, Canada, South Africa and Australia are joined by activists, experts and influential public figures this week to offer a hopeful take on the future, while remaining honest about the scale of the challenges ahead.
Podmastery: podcasting insights and advice for indie creators
Sep 22: Newsworthy - TechnologyIn Podmastery: podcasting insights and advice for indie creators this week, we learn what Podnews Weekly Review hosts James Cridland and Sam Sethi, Hall of Famer Dave Jackson, and this show's host Neal Veglio all share in common. (All devastatingly handsome?)
Unfamous with Justin Tranter
Sep 22: Newsworthy - MusicUnfamous with Justin Tranter launched in March, but had already had an episode selected for Spotify’s Best Podcasts of the Year So Far. Co-created by Grammy-nominated songwriter Justin Tranter and producer/director Morgan T. Stuart, it focuses on the creative processes and collaborators behind major moments in pop culture, including failures, nonlinear career paths and difficult decisions.
This Is Leadership
Sep 22: New Podcast - EducationThis Is Leadership is a new ten-part video podcast hosted by Karen Blackett CBE and Katie Lloyd in partnership with British Airways. It launches today on podcast platforms, before joining BA’s in-flight entertainment from November. It's from HERA, which launched in October last year.
Gone Medieval
Sep 22: Newsworthy - HistoryWhat do you really know about the Plantagenet Kings? Is Richard III just a hunchbacked monster, and Henry V a tavern-crawling prince turned warrior? The truth is, much of what we believe comes from William Shakespeare, who cheerfully bent historical facts and relied on Tudor propaganda to script his dazzling plays. In Gone Medieval, Matt Lewis and Dr. Eleanor Janega are joined by Professor Emma Smith to unravel where history ends and the Bard begins.
The Climate Denier’s Playbook
Sep 21: New Season - ComedyIf last week was Podcast Week NYC, this week is Climate Week NYC. Accordingly, The Climate Denier’s Playbook returns for a new season, and there's a live performance tonight in NYC as well. One of the claims investigated in this season: "golf is draining the water out of Lake Powell". Is it?
World of Secrets
Sep 21: New Season - Society & CultureFrom BBC Eye and the BBC World Service, the global investigative podcast World of Secrets launches a new five-part podcast today, focusing on allegations of sexual abuse in an Indonesian boarding school. BBC reporters went undercover to investigate, and discovered significant allegations against a teacher trying to evade justice.
Wickedly Smart Women
Sep 21: Newsworthy - BusinessWickedly Smart Women marked its seventh anniversary last week - after nearly 400 episodes and listeners in more than 160 countries. A new focus this year is to ask: what comes after corporate?
The Haunted Library
Sep 21: New Podcast - FictionSomeone at BBC Studios has been paying attention to Asia, where horror podcasts are the top genre. The Haunted Library is brand new and always on, and contains classic horror stories. We gather Good Tape did the artwork. It's very nice artwork.
Humanity in Journalism
Sep 21: New Podcast - NewsThe Media Integrity Project, an independent, volunteer-run initiative focused on journalism accountability, launched Humanity in Journalism, a podcast examining the people and decisions behind the news. The show is built on a premise its founder argues is largely missing from public media conversation: readers are asked to evaluate journalism constantly, but are almost never shown how it is made.
CONNESSIONI Quando le parole uniscono
Sep 21: New Season - Society & CultureCONNESSIONI Quando le parole uniscono turns ten years old later this year. The Italian-language show from Puglia has had over 300 guests. A new season starts today: the conversations explore the experiences and ideas behind voices from literature, science, music and entertainment.
Learning Curve
Sep 18: Newsworthy - TechnologyMIT officials say AI is eroding the university's unique, nerdy culture where students spent hours in study groups trying to figure out how to do their homework. These days, students just ask AI — without the messiness of, you know, talking to other people in the dorm. On the Season 2 premiere of Learning Curve podcast about AI and education, host Jeff Young dives into the issue, and looks at MIT's push to save its culture from chatbots.
LAIKA presents - MADE BY HUMANS: CREATIVES IN CONVERSATION
Sep 18: Newsworthy - ArtsIn Made By Humans artists talk about filmmaking, the grind, and the inspiration behind making award-winning animations. They explore craftsmanship and mythic wonder that bring their most iconic worlds to life - from Coraline and LAIKA’s upcoming film Wildwood to Jurassic Park and Project Hail Mary.
The Long War: Canada in Afghanistan
Sep 18: Newsworthy - HistoryTwenty-five years after Canada went to war in Afghanistan, a new podcast by the Canadian War Museum explores the mission through the voices of those who experienced it. Hosted by journalist Anna Maria Tremonti and guided by War Museum historian Andrew Burtch, The Long War: Canada in Afghanistan takes listeners through eight episodes covering key chapters of Canada’s 13-year mission — from the early victories and efforts to build a democratic state to the counterinsurgency and the fall of Kabul.
Countermeasures
Sep 18: Newsworthy - ScienceOne week after 9/11, letters laced with anthrax spores began arriving at newsrooms and Senate offices across the country. By the time it was over, five people were dead, seventeen more were sickened, and the United States was confronting its first major act of bioterrorism in real time. In Countermeasures, you'll hear from the scientists on the ground 25 years after the attacks.
Question Everything
Sep 18: Newsworthy - Society & CultureThe South Florida Standard looked like a legitimate local news site. It wasn't. Florida Trib reporter Kate Payne originally flagged its nonexistent reporters, which prompted Question Everything producer Zach St. Louis to embark on his own investigation in which he discovered five other fake outlets connected to the same source. In a major breakthrough, he eventually tracked down the person behind them, someone with a past that made the whole thing even stranger.
Yasha
Sep 17: New Podcast - HistoryIn Yasha, Jeremy Gendelman brings to life his grandfather's harrowing flight across the Soviet Union during the Nazi invasion of WWII. Through archival tape, historical storytelling, and immersive sound design, step into a childhood in the shadow of Hitler and Stalin, where growing up meant never standing still.