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What do these great podcasts have in common?
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What do these great podcasts have in common?
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Nov 15th, 2021
These podcasts aren't part of any particular genre, although they are all primarily nonfiction. (A few of these podcasts occasionally broadcast fiction pieces as part of a mix of content). What they have in common is a strong host personality that infuses the podcast, and use of audio as an art form to tell stories. ...
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Podcast | Description | Created By | Categories | Networks | # of Episodes | Total Reach Monthly | Total Reach Per Episode | Contacts | Gender Skew | Age | Income | Parental Status | Hosting Provider | Hosts | Top Country | Ratings | Curator's Notes | Expand | |||||
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"Each week we choose a theme. Then anything can happen. This American Life is true stories that ... | This American Life | 311 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 322 Ratings | ||||||||||||||
"First-person diaries, sound portraits, and hidden chapters of history from Peabody Award-winnin... | Radio Diaries & Radiotopia | 290 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 11 Ratings | ||||||||||||||
"The Kitchen Sisters Present… Stories from the b-side of history. Lost recordings, hidden worlds... | The Kitchen Sisters & Radiotopia | 287 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3 Ratings | ||||||||||||||
"Nick van der Kolk's Love and Radio features in-depth, otherworldly-produced interviews with an ... | ASD | 157 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 15 Ratings | ||||||||||||||
"Radiolab is on a curiosity bender. We ask deep questions and use investigative journalism to ge... | WNYC Studios | 726 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 233 Ratings | ||||||||||||||
2006-2012 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
"Since 2014 this longstanding podcast favourite has been creating hard-hitting cinematic stories... | Kaitlin Prest | -- | 181 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 7 Ratings | |||||||||||||
"the memory palace" | Nate DiMeo | -- | 325 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 55 Ratings | |||||||||||||
"Wanna see a trick? Give us any topic and we can tie it back to the economy. At Planet Money, we... | NPR | 1221 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 203 Ratings | ||||||||||||||
"Design is everywhere in our lives, perhaps most importantly in the places where we've just stop... | Roman Mars | 792 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 275 Ratings | ||||||||||||||
"Snap Judgment mixes real stories with beats to produce cinematic, dramatic audio. Snap’s raw, m... | Snap Judgment and PRX | 785 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 30 Ratings | ||||||||||||||
2013-2014 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
"The Nod tells the stories of Black life that don’t get told anywhere else, from an explanation ... | Gimlet | -- | 245 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 16 Ratings | |||||||||||||
""'A podcast about the internet' that is actually an unfailingly original exploration of modern ... | Gimlet | 174 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 355 Ratings | ||||||||||||||
"A series about what it's really like to start a business." | Gimlet | -- | 242 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 44 Ratings | |||||||||||||
"Criminal is the first of its kind. A show about people who’ve done wrong, been wronged, or gott... | Vox Media Podcast Network | 381 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 200 Ratings | ||||||||||||||
"Song Exploder is a podcast where musicians take apart their songs, and piece by piece, tell the... | Hrishikesh Hirway | 366 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 61 Ratings | ||||||||||||||
"Hosts Isaac Butler, Ronald Young Jr., and June Thomas interview creative people about how they ... | Slate Podcasts | 625 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 0 Ratings | ||||||||||||||
"How to Be a Girl is an audio podcast I produce about life with my six-year-old transgender daug... | Marlo Mack | -- | 44 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 19 Ratings | |||||||||||||
"There are 24 hours in a day. Seems pretty straightforward. But what do you really know about th... | Nocturne | 268 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 16 Ratings | ||||||||||||||
"Unseeable forces control human behavior and shape our ideas, beliefs, and assumptions. Invisibi... | NPR | 99 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 91 Ratings | ||||||||||||||
2015 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
"A podcast about mysteries, hosted by Starlee Kine. From Gimlet." | Gimlet | -- | 7 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 76 Ratings | |||||||||||||
"A show that delves into topics that seem mundane, annoying and sometimes downright boring - to ... | Gimlet | -- | 54 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 Ratings | |||||||||||||
2016 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
"The stories behind the world's most recognizable and interesting sounds. Whether you're a profe... | Dallas Taylor | -- | 255 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 108 Ratings | |||||||||||||
"Celebrate the beauty and messiness of human connection. Real stories of real, complicated relat... | CBC | 53 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 Rating | ||||||||||||||
"We’re taught the Supreme Court was designed to be above the fray of politics. But at a time whe... | WNYC Studios | 50 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 43 Ratings | ||||||||||||||
2017 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
"Why do news anchors all sound the same? Do wolves really howl at the moon? How did Elvis imitat... | Gimlet | -- | 214 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 42 Ratings | |||||||||||||
"America is divided, and it always has been. We're going back to the moment when that split turn... | Gimlet | -- | 32 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 12 Ratings | |||||||||||||
"Professor Elizabeth Joh teaches Intro to Constitutional Law and most of the time this is a pret... | Roman Mars | 93 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 17 Ratings | ||||||||||||||
"A new family history podcast hosted by A.J. Jacobs. They say we’re one big family: this is the ... | Gimlet | -- | 16 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 4 Ratings | |||||||||||||
"Ear Hustle is prison slang for eavesdropping, and that’s what listening to the show feels like:... | Ear Hustle & Radiotopia | -- | 188 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 81 Ratings | |||||||||||||
"In 2004, a racial controversy erupted at a small, mostly white performing arts high school in r... | Radiotopia | 168 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 8 Ratings | ||||||||||||||
"BFF Kathy Tu and Tobin Low are super queer, super fun and ready to take over your podcast feed.... | WNYC Studios | 155 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 8 Ratings | ||||||||||||||
2018 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
"An Arm and a Leg is a podcast about why health care costs so freaking much and what we can (may... | An Arm and a Leg | 179 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 21 Ratings | ||||||||||||||
"Articles of Interest is a show about what we wear. Produced and Hosted by Avery Trufelman" | Avery Trufelman | -- | 64 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 17 Ratings | |||||||||||||
2019 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
"We tell our children unsettling fairy tales to teach them valuable lessons, but these Cautionar... | Pushkin Industries | 242 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 47 Ratings | ||||||||||||||
"Throughline is a time machine. Each episode, we travel beyond the headlines to answer the quest... | NPR | 435 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 40 Ratings | ||||||||||||||
"Michael Lewis’s best-selling book The Big Short is now 15 years old. The Oscar-winning movie ba... | Pushkin Industries | 155 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 16 Ratings | ||||||||||||||
"In this intensely divided moment, one of the few things everyone still seems to agree on is Dol... | WNYC Studios & OSM Audio | 24 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 36 Ratings | ||||||||||||||
2020 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
"The Last Archive is a show about the history of truth, and the historical context for our curr... | Pushkin Industries | 109 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 15 Ratings | ||||||||||||||
"Far Flung with Saleem Reshamwala is a journey across the globe in search of the world's most su... | TED | 29 | - | - | - | - | - | -- | - | 3 Ratings | |||||||||||||
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