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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Your Nightly Scripture
May 7: Newsworthy - Religion & SpiritualityLifeAudio announces a new podcast, Your Nightly Scripture a peaceful nightly show blending Scripture and prayer to help you unwind, connect with God, and drift into restful sleep.
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.
Disability Deep Dive
May 7: New Season - Society & CultureSeason 3 of Disability Deep Dive is new - clicking off with an episode featuring Spencer West, and his new book, "Breaking Free: Stop Following Expectations and Start Following Yourself." Spencer reflects on anxiety, self-doubt, the pressure to live up to other people’s expectations, and what it means to build a life rooted in authenticity instead of approval. The conversation also explores disability, public visibility, self-trust, and how people can move toward a life that feels honest and self-directed.
Business (Un)usual
May 6: New Podcast - BusinessBusiness (Un)usual is a podcast for people who suspect there’s a better way to build businesses, and are brave enough to try. Hosted by Sophia Wyatt, co-founder of Library of Things, each episode examines the assumptions we accept about how business should work. And asks: what if there’s another way? This isn’t about growth-hacking or hustle culture. Just honest conversations about what it actually takes to build something that matters.
Tell Me Moir
May 6: New Podcast - ArtsTell Me Moir, where the chats are candid, the laughs are loud and nothing is off limits. Harriet Moir sits down with brilliant women (or people who identify as women) for no-filter and no-nonsense chats about, well, pretty much anything. Real, relatable and at times raucous, Tell Me Moir dives right into the conversations we want to have but don’t have time for and the ones we don’t want to have but we know we should.
Bad Chat with Greg James and Alice Levine
May 6: New Podcast - ComedyBad Chat with Greg James and Alice Levine is brand new from Persephonica - and already in the charts. It's a club for the pair (and their listeners) to share the 'best-worst' parts of the week; shame spirals, existential crises, petty grievances, mild injustices — and this is just Greg's morning.