I’m a podcast junkie. Here’s a current list of what I’m listening to. I’ve made a short parenthetical description of the show when the content isn’t readily apparent. Click the links for more details.
- NPR: All Songs Considered
- NPR: All Songs Considered Live In Concert
- WFMU’s Antique Phonograph Music Program
- BackStory (American history, usually tied in with current events)
- Ben Franklin’s World (Early American history)
- Best of the Left (kind of an audio Reader’s Digest of progressive political news and commentary)
- NPR: Code Switch (discussions of race and identity)
- The Concert (Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum)
- MPR: The Current Song of the Day
- Decode DC (politics, public affairs)
- NPR: Fresh Air (news, interviews)
- Slate’s Hang Up and Listen (sports)
- Have You Heard (American education policy discussion)
- WBUR: Here and Now (news, interviews)
- HUB History (Boston history)
- WNYC: Invisibilia (“about the invisible forces that control human behavior – ideas, beliefs, assumptions and thoughts”)
- Irish and Celtic Music Podcast
- Jacobin Radio (left-wing news and commentary)
- Life of the Law (“the relationship of law to American society and culture”)
- Maeve in American (interviews with immigrants to America)
- The Memory Palace (history, storytelling)
- The Mortified Podcast (adults read what they wrote as a child)
- The Moth Podcast (storytelling)
- 99% Invisible (design)
- WBUR-FM: Only A Game (sports)
- NPR: Planet Money (economics)
- Politically Re-Active with W. Kamau Bell & Hari Kondabolu (political discussion and interviews)
- pray-as-you-go (daily prayer session)
- ProPublica: Podcast (journalism)
- WBUR: Radio Boston (local news)
- WNYC’s Radio Lab (science and curiosity)
- RISK! (storytelling)
- Scientific American: 60 Second Science
- Sidedoor (ideas from the Smithsonian)
- NPR: Snap Judgment (storytelling)
- KEXP Song of the Day
- The Sounds in My Head (music)
- Sound Opinions (music)
- StarTalk Radio with Neil DeGrasse Tyson (science, popular culture)
- The Story Collider (storytelling about science)
- StoryCorps
- Third Coast International Audio Festival – Re:sound (audio stories from radio & internet worldwide)
- This American Life (audio stories, sometimes investigative journalism)
- NPR: Tiny Desk Concerts
- PRI: To the Best of Our Knowledge (ideas, culture, science, interviews)
- KCRW’s Todays Top Tune
- Song Exploder (“musicians take apart their songs, and piece by piece, tell the story of how they were made”)
- Spark London (storytelling)
- Start Making Sense (news and discussion from The Nation)
- Travel With Rick Steves
- Twenty Thousand Hertz (stories about sounds)
- Verity! (intelligent women discussing Doctor Who)
- WEDWay Radio (history of Walt Disney Company theme parks)
- APM: Garrison Keillor’s The Writer’s Almanac
Here are some podcast networks for more podcast suggestions:
And here are some posts I’ve made about podcasts:
- My favorite podcasts – my first podcast post. A lot has changed in 10 years.
- Storytelling podcasts – storytelling has particularly found a home in the podcast format.
- Dead podcasts – some of my favorite podcasts that are no longer updated but you may be able to find back episodes online.
- Also check out previous Podcast of the Week posts
How do you keep up with all these? I was up to 15 at one point and had to remove a few from the list. I think I’m at 10 now. It’s still a lot, but I don’t have a TV, so they are background noise a lot of time. Looks like we have Planet Money and This American Life in common. Also, I love that the ISG Museum has its own podcast. Who knew? I love that place.
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Good question! I work in an archives and spend lots of time in otherwise quiet and isolated spaces processing archival collections. Basically, I listen to podcasts and audiobooks all day at work. I also don’t listen to every episode of podcasts that come out daily or multiple time per week, just the ones that look most interesting.
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