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"Financial Times reporter Antonia Cundy uncovers how a little-known group within the Catholic Ch... | Financial Times | 26 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 Rating | ||||||||||||||
"The largest oil spill in American history captivated the public's attention for the entire summ... | American Public Media | 11 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3 Ratings | ||||||||||||||
"Dive into a case of domestic terrorism from the past that’s really a warning about the future. ... | USG Audio | -- | 14 | - | - | - | - | - | -- | - | 0 Ratings | ||||||||||||
"The Burden is a documentary series that takes listeners into the hidden places where justice is... | Orbit Media | 93 | - | - | - | - | - | -- | - | 0 Ratings | |||||||||||||
"In the mid-1970s, the Republican Party looked on the verge of self-destruction. Until 1976. A p... | NPR | 18 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 0 Ratings | ||||||||||||||
"Global investigations from the BBC. Gripping stories from around the world – delve into a World... | BBC | 96 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 7 Ratings | ||||||||||||||
"Through a series of riveting, complex narratives, LONG SHADOW makes sense of what people know —... | Long Lead & PRX | 46 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 7 Ratings | ||||||||||||||
"Jamie Bartlett asks why, in so many parts of modern life, fakery is no longer punished - it's r... | BBC Radio 4 | 19 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 Ratings | ||||||||||||||
"1944. Europe is in the grip of the Nazi war machine. But on the shores of Great Britain, thousa... | NOISER | 16 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 6 Ratings | ||||||||||||||
"This is a story of three brothers, one crown, and not an ounce of loyalty between them. It’s th... | Sony Music Entertainment | 201 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 Ratings | ||||||||||||||
"The Secret History of Flight 149 Imagine boarding a flight thinking you’re heading on holiday, ... | Crowd Network | -- | 38 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 Ratings | |||||||||||||
"In December 2016, a US official in Havana went to the embassy medical centre to report a debili... | Brazen | -- | 22 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 Ratings | |||||||||||||
"This is the story of a modern-day Erin Brockovich, set on the Mississippi River in an area know... | Lemonada Media | 64 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 Ratings | ||||||||||||||
"Everybody remembers the morning of September 11, 2001, when two passenger jets flew into the Wo... | Apple TV / Truth Media | -- | 10 | - | - | - | - | - | -- | - | 1 Rating | ||||||||||||
"The murder of 18-year-old Rhonda Sue Coleman in 1990 has been a thorn in the side of the small ... | Imperative Entertainment | 37 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 12 Ratings | ||||||||||||||
"The shocking, riveting inside story of one of the biggest cover-ups in US military history. You... | Crowd Network | -- | 29 | - | - | - | - | - | -- | - | 1 Rating | ||||||||||||
"How do police get away with killing unarmed people? It’s because of a legal loophole called qua... | Crowd Network | -- | 9 | - | - | - | - | - | -- | - | 1 Rating | ||||||||||||
"From a deathbed tape to a witness in protection, Buried is the award-winning true-crime series ... | BBC Radio 4 | 25 | - | - | - | - | - | -- | - | 2 Ratings | |||||||||||||
"What happens when tragedy makes you a target? Why would anybody accuse terrorism survivors of b... | BBC Radio 4 | 16 | - | - | - | - | - | -- | - | 1 Rating | |||||||||||||
"Forget Willy Wonka and those heart-shaped Valentine’s boxes. OBSESSIONS: Wild Chocolate. is a t... | iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope | 19 | - | - | - | - | - | -- | - | 1 Rating | |||||||||||||
""Best True Crime Podcast" Nominee, 2023 Ambies
Warsaw, Missouri, is a small, rural town of jus... | Imperative Entertainment and Vespucci | 12 | - | - | - | - | - | -- | - | 1 Rating | |||||||||||||
"A Tradition of Violence is a podcast about deputy gangs that operate within the LA County Sheri... | A Tradition of Violence | 17 | - | - | - | - | - | -- | - | 2 Ratings | |||||||||||||
"What if California seceded from the United States? If it did, what would happen? Would it usher... | Awfully Nice | 11 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 Rating | ||||||||||||||
"Confessions of a Dirty Tricks Operative. Meet David Wallace, political fixer. After decades in ... | CANADALAND | 7 | - | - | - | - | - | -- | - | 1 Rating | |||||||||||||
"An A-List Hollywood actress vanishes from a yacht and her body washes ashore the following morn... | AMI | -- | 13 | - | - | - | - | - | -- | - | 2 Ratings | ||||||||||||
"SNAFU with Ed Helms, America’s favorite podcast about history’s greatest screwups, returns for ... | iHeartPodcasts | 85 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 4 Ratings | ||||||||||||||
"Where the law of the land ends, the story begins. Pulitzer-prize winning journalist Ian Urbina ... | CBC | 22 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 10 Ratings | ||||||||||||||
"In the 1970s it's estimated that about 60% of the world's LSD came from one place: Wales. This ... | BBC Radio Wales | 7 | - | - | - | - | - | -- | - | 0 Ratings | |||||||||||||
"Believe Her is true crime, upside down. In September 2017, young mom Nikki Addimando shot and k... | Lemonada Media | 73 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 7 Ratings | ||||||||||||||
"The actress Wyn Reed had that powerful combination of charisma, beauty and smarts. She was such... | NBC News | 62 | - | - | - | - | - | -- | - | 12 Ratings | |||||||||||||
"Investigative Reporter Julie K. Brown exposed Jeffrey Epstein’s crimes to the world. Now his su... | Hyperobject Industries / Sony Music Entertainment | 53 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 5 Ratings | ||||||||||||||
"Unravelling the strange death of a man who seemed to have everything to live for. Was it suici... | BBC Scotland | -- | 8 | - | - | - | - | - | -- | - | 5 Ratings | ||||||||||||
"The arrest of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou in Vancouver in December 2018 placed Canada in the ... | CBC | 14 | - | - | - | - | - | -- | - | 1 Rating | |||||||||||||
"From LAist Studios, the creators of The Big One, the second season of The Big Disaster series w... | LAist Studios | 23 | - | - | - | - | - | -- | - | 0 Ratings | |||||||||||||
"In the Dark, hosted by Madeleine Baran, is an award-winning investigative-journalism podcast th... | The New Yorker | -- | 88 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 131 Ratings | |||||||||||||
"According to the official story, on April 4th, 1968, a lone gunman assassinated Dr. Martin Luth... | iHeartPodcasts and Tenderfoot TV | 36 | - | - | - | - | - | -- | - | 2 Ratings | |||||||||||||
"Sean Kipe tells the story of former Georgia police officer Michael Chapel, convicted of the 199... | Imperative Entertainment | 22 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 5 Ratings | ||||||||||||||
"From LAist Studios, the creators of The Big One, the second season of The Big Disaster series w... | LAist Studios | 120 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3 Ratings | ||||||||||||||
"Some call it Hurricane Katrina. Some call it the Federal Flood. Others call it the day the leve... | The Atlantic | 16 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 15 Ratings | ||||||||||||||
"In Deep is a podcast about water, climate and environment from The Water Main at American Publi... | American Public Media | 15 | - | - | - | - | - | -- | - | 1 Rating | |||||||||||||
"On the surface, there was nothing remarkable about Larry Lavin. He lived in a quiet neighborhoo... | Audacy Podcasts | 13 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 Rating | ||||||||||||||
"Still My Baby is a powerful, intimate limited series that tells the untold story of one of the ... | Lemonada Media & Campaign Zero | 62 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 Rating | ||||||||||||||
"Dream fans....WE ARE BACK!We're reimagining The Dream as a weekly interview podcast with guests... | Little Everywhere | 127 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 68 Ratings | ||||||||||||||
"In Rigged, we’ll rummage through the bag of tricks used by PR to shape the world you live in. O... | Critical Frequency | 10 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 Rating | ||||||||||||||
"America through the looking glass - enter a world where nothing is as it seems.As America heads... | BBC Radio 4 | 31 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 13 Ratings | ||||||||||||||
"A documentary series from host Robert Evans investigating the Capitol insurrection. Stories of ... | iHeartPodcasts, Cool Zone Media, and Novel | 13 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 4 Ratings | ||||||||||||||
"Lost Hills investigates the dark side of Malibu, California. Beneath a seductive facade, this c... | Western Sound and Pushkin Industries | 88 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 10 Ratings | ||||||||||||||
"Why are some lonely, young men a growing threat to our safety? In 2018, a Toronto man drove a v... | CBC | 11 | - | - | - | - | - | -- | - | 5 Ratings | |||||||||||||
"2022 Webby Award Honoree, Podcast Documentary Limited Series and Specials.
The Agent is the re... | Imperative Entertainment | 38 | - | - | - | - | - | -- | - | 7 Ratings | |||||||||||||
"FBI undercover agent Scott Payne’s job was to infiltrate the most dangerous gangs of our times:... | CBC | 23 | - | - | - | - | - | -- | - | 6 Ratings | |||||||||||||
"“The Flamethrowers” captures the punch-you-in-the-mouth energy and sound of right-wing talk rad... | CBC | 19 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 7 Ratings | ||||||||||||||
"'Best Podcasts of 2022' - Paste Magazine
It’s been 25 years since Anne Champion’s friend was k... | Imperative Entertainment and Vespucci | 24 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 9 Ratings | ||||||||||||||
"Carrie Low trusted police when she reported her horrific rape. But she says they failed to inve... | CBC | 10 | - | - | - | - | - | -- | - | 1 Rating | |||||||||||||
"Celebrities are always talking about their bests. Now hear them at their worst.Join award-winni... | The Sonar Network | 36 | - | - | - | - | - | -- | - | 2 Ratings | |||||||||||||
"She was once the world's youngest self-made female billionaire. Now Elizabeth Holmes, founder o... | Three Uncanny Four | 32 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 13 Ratings | ||||||||||||||
"Onscreen, Bruce Willis dodged bullets and explosions in Die Hard and countless action films, ma... | iHeartPodcasts | 124 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 4 Ratings | ||||||||||||||
"Statistically, a Jew in Canada is now 9 times more likely to be a victim of a hate crime than a... | Canadaland | 57 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 11 Ratings | ||||||||||||||
"When Afrikka Hardy was strangled in 2014 it seemed completely random, but it wasn’t. It was par... | iHeartPodcasts and TenderfootTV | 34 | - | - | - | - | - | -- | - | 5 Ratings | |||||||||||||
"Missing in Alaska is a deep dive into the mysterious disappearance of Congressmen Hale Boggs an... | iHeartPodcasts | 65 | - | - | - | - | - | -- | - | 1 Rating | |||||||||||||
"When the young CEO of Canada’s largest cryptocurrency exchange is reported to have died while h... | CBC | 27 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 43 Ratings | ||||||||||||||
"George White ran the CIA brothel. He watched from a hidden room while men were dosed with LSD —... | iHeartPodcasts | 173 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 Rating | ||||||||||||||
"Background and breakdown on 100 days of Portland insurrection, going in to the background, hist... | Cool Zone Media and iHeartPodcasts | 17 | - | - | - | - | - | -- | - | 2 Ratings | |||||||||||||
"More than 80 women from around the world have accused the fast-fashion mogul Peter Nygard of ra... | CBC | 26 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 7 Ratings | ||||||||||||||
"In the wake of the January 6th insurrection in D.C., Robert Evans and co-host Propaganda take a... | Cool Zone Media and iHeartPodcasts | 12 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 4 Ratings | ||||||||||||||
"How did American police get so violent? The answer to that question goes back centuries, to the... | Cool Zone Media and iHeartPodcasts | 16 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 6 Ratings | ||||||||||||||
"These are...not optimistic times for most Americans. Across the world, the dangers of climate c... | Cool Zone Media and iHeartPodcasts | 21 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 7 Ratings | ||||||||||||||
"S-Town is a podcast hosted by Brian Reed from Serial Productions, a New York Times company. The... | Serial Productions | -- | 10 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 459 Ratings | |||||||||||||
"From the producers of Up and Vanished, Tenderfoot TV and iHeartPodcasts present, 'Atlanta Monst... | iHeartPodcasts and Tenderfoot TV | 97 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 46 Ratings | ||||||||||||||
"From Tenderfoot TV and iHeartPodcasts, 'Monster: The Zodiac Killer' dives into one of the most ... | iHeartPodcasts and Tenderfoot TV | 60 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 14 Ratings | ||||||||||||||
"From iHeartRadio and TenderfootTV, ‘Monster: DC Sniper’ reinvestigates the beltway sniper attac... | iHeartPodcasts and Tenderfoot TV | 59 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 19 Ratings | ||||||||||||||
"How do you take down a criminal network that’s hidden in the shadows? How do you rescue child a... | The 'X' Zone Broadcast Network | -- | 28 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 139 Ratings | |||||||||||||
"In 1983, Paladin Press, a fringe publisher, released a book called Hit Man: A Technical Manual ... | iHeartPodcasts | 82 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 13 Ratings | ||||||||||||||
"Zac Stuart-Pontier and Bill Klaber take a trip down a rabbit hole surrounding the assassination... | iHeartPodcasts | 46 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 17 Ratings | ||||||||||||||
"America is divided, and it always has been. We're going back to the moment when that split turn... | Gimlet | -- | 32 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 12 Ratings | |||||||||||||
"On a remote mountain in Hawaii, there's a fake planet Mars. Six volunteers are secluded in an i... | Gimlet | -- | 22 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 59 Ratings | |||||||||||||
"Our newest podcast, “The Preventionist” is out now. Search for it wherever you get your podcast... | Serial Productions & The New York Times | 140 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 410 Ratings | ||||||||||||||
"When Elizabeth Short, also known as The Black Dahlia, was brutally killed in 1947, it gripped t... | TNT / Cadence13 | -- | 25 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 47 Ratings | |||||||||||||
"American Jihadi is the incredible story of a complicated relationship between journalist Christ... | Endeavor Content | -- | 12 | - | - | - | - | - | -- | - | 3 Ratings | ||||||||||||
"The Hollywood & Crime series explores notorious true crime stories from the heart of Hollywood,... | Audible | 557 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 29 Ratings | ||||||||||||||
"Winner of the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for Audio Reporting. Discover a social media empire with an u... | NPR | 10 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 8 Ratings | ||||||||||||||
"In August of 1619, a ship carrying more than 20 enslaved Africans arrived in the English colony... | The New York Times | 7 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 44 Ratings | ||||||||||||||
"A strange letter appears on a city councillor’s desk in Birmingham, England, laying out an elab... | Serial Productions & The New York Times | 20 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 39 Ratings | ||||||||||||||
"This is the story of a 22-year-old with no health care experience who talked his way into a COV... | WHYY | 8 | - | - | - | - | - | -- | - | 0 Ratings | |||||||||||||
"It’s here. AI has arrived in the criminal justice system and it’s in the role of witness. The E... | CBC | 352 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 36 Ratings | ||||||||||||||
"Deep Cover is a show about people who lead double lives. Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jake... | Pushkin Industries | 115 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 14 Ratings | ||||||||||||||
"Megacorp is an investigative podcast series exposing some of the world's most unethical corpora... | Cool Zone Media and iHeartPodcasts | 18 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 6 Ratings | ||||||||||||||
"One autumn night in 1997, 18-year-old Anastasia WitbolsFeugen is found brutally murdered, her b... | iHeartPodcasts and AYR Media | 50 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 Ratings | ||||||||||||||
"How did Larry Nassar, an Olympic gymnastics doctor, get away with abusing hundreds of women and... | NPR | 12 | - | - | - | - | - | -- | - | 31 Ratings | |||||||||||||
"SEASON 4: The Many Secrets of Marcial Maciel The Many Secrets of Marcial Maciel is a gripping i... | My Cultura and iHeartPodcasts | 66 | - | - | - | - | - | -- | - | 2 Ratings | |||||||||||||
"For Melissa Moore, 1995 was a nightmare. That’s the year the teenager learned her father, Keith... | iHeartPodcasts | 107 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 32 Ratings | ||||||||||||||
"Love, marriage… and a secret history of trauma. Anna Maria Tremonti has been keeping her past a... | None Found | -- | -- | 15 | - | - | - | - | - | -- | - | 0 Ratings | |||||||||||
"If you could call a number and say you’re sorry, and no one would know…what would you apologize... | Audible | 84 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 17 Ratings | ||||||||||||||
"If you've ever yelled at someone on social media about, say, cancel culture or mask-wearing, th... | BBC Radio 4 | 23 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 19 Ratings | ||||||||||||||
"Objects hold history. They're evocative of stories stamped in time. As part of The Washington P... | APM Reports & The Washington Post | 10 | - | - | - | - | - | -- | - | 2 Ratings | |||||||||||||
"Order 9066 chronicles the history of the WWII Japanese American Incarceration through vivid, fi... | APM Reports & The Smithsonian | 14 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 6 Ratings | ||||||||||||||
"The BBC’s space podcast. The story of Artemis II: Nasa’s mission to loop around the Moon. Nasa ... | BBC World Service | 62 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 34 Ratings | ||||||||||||||
"We all want love, that happily-ever-after feeling of finding your soulmate. What if someone not... | Audible | 67 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 16 Ratings | ||||||||||||||
"Jon Ronson, the creator of Audible Original The Butterfly Effect, delves into the pornography i... | Audible | 17 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 23 Ratings | ||||||||||||||
"How did 9/11 the day become 9/11 the idea? That question drives Pineapple Street Studios and aw... | Pineapple Street Studios | Amazon Music | Wondery | 24 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 14 Ratings | ||||||||||||||
"For 544 days, Jason Rezaian was held hostage in Iran’s notorious Evin prison. Interrogated. Sea... | Gimlet / Crooked Media / A24 | 22 | - | - | - | - | - | -- | - | 1 Rating | |||||||||||||
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