By Short Cuts

Short documentaries and adventures in sound presented by Josie Long.

By Slate

Leon Neyfakh excavates the strange subplots and forgotten characters of recent political history—and finds surprising parallels to the present. Season 1 of Slow Burn captured what it felt like to live through Watergate; Season 2 does the same with the saga of Bill Clinton’s impeachment.

By Arab Tyrant Manual

We are an independent online publishing platform focused on freedom, human rights and the fight against all forms of authoritarianism – social, political or religious. We aim to provide a hub for analysts, researchers, writers and activists to share ideas on the Arab experience, as well as relate it to the rest of the world.

By VOX

We’re living in a confusing and scary time, bombarded everyday with stories from around the world and here at home that are hard to even follow, let alone fully understand. Worldly will be your guide to the story behind the stories and to the one thing you need to understand each week to make sense of the world around you.

By BBC World Service

The world’s great authors discuss their best-known novel.

WSJ

Know what comes next with this in-depth look at how science and technology are revolutionizing the way we live, work and play.

The New York Times

The world’s top authors and critics join host Pamela Paul and editors at The New York Times Book Review to talk about the week’s top books, what we’re reading and what’s going on in the literary world.

By Talking Politics

We record every week in David Runciman’s office in the Cambridge politics department with a regular panel of experts and invited guests. David and friends talk to novelists, historians, scientists, philosophers, comedians – anyone and everyone who has something interesting to say about the state we’re in.

By Columbia Global Centers:

Audio recordings of a global network of centers creating opportunities in research, scholarship, teaching and service.

By BBC Radio 4

This podcast features Open Book and A Good Read. In Open Book Mariella Frostrup talks to authors about their work. In A Good Read Harriett Gilbert discusses favourite books.

By the Guardian

The Guardian Books podcast is our weekly look at the world of books, poetry and great writing presented by Claire Armitstead, Richard Lea, & Sian Cain. With in-depth interviews with leading authors and investigations into the thematic trends in contemporary writing, this is the perfect book worm’s companion.

By Beyond The Lede

A weekly podcast hosted by Mike Skinner (@mikeskinnner) & Patrick Foran (@PatrickFO) that discusses current events and big ideas.

By PBS Frontline

Each episode of The FRONTLINE Dispatch will focus on uncovering crucial domestic and international stories, with the same authenticity and transparency that you’ve come to expect from FRONTLINE’s award-winning documentaries.

By NPR

How are the things we’re talking about being talked about somewhere else in the world? From a Ukrainian battlefield to a Somali prison cell, an Indian yoga studio and a Syrian refugee’s first date, host Gregory Warner tells stories that follow familiar conversations into unfamiliar territory. At a time when the world seems small but it’s as hard as ever to escape our echo chambers, Rough Translation takes you places.

By The New York Times

This moment demands an explanation. This show is on a mission to find it. Only what you want to know, none of what you don’t. Hosted by Michael Barbaro. Powered by New York Times journalism. Fifteen minutes a day, five days a week, ready by 6 a.m.

By POLITICO

Each Monday, POLITICO’s Susan Glasser will go backstage in a world disrupted, interviewing leaders in Washington — and around the globe — who can help us understand an international scene that can seem like it’s spinning out of control. The podcast will skip the punditry to feature candid, revealing, news-making conversations about global politics with those who are helping shape it.

By Aaron Mahnke

By London School of Economics and Political Science

LSE is one of the foremost social science universities in the world. In this podcast Dr Brian Klass, author of The Despot’s Accomplice, asks important questions: “Why are the world’s despots thriving, and how can the West start winning the global battle for democracy?”

By Malcolm Gladwell / Panoply

By SouriaLi Radio

Radio SouriaLi is a Syrian-based regional grassroots non-profit online radio station dedicated to working with Syrian people in fostering an advanced level of awareness in civil society, active citizenship, communication, women-empowerment and youth-motivation through high quality music, performance and public affairs programming. We hope to inform and educate active individuals and inspire them to work towards the future of a new Syria.

By Kerning Cultures | Middle East

Middle East culture, philosophy, entrepreneurship, science, and tech stories to paint a more complete narrative of our region. Produced by Alex Atack, Razan Alzayani, Dana Ballout, Ramzi Bashour, Hebah Fisher, Charles Gedeon, Jacqueline Sofia, and Ahmad Zeid.

By NPR

Hosted by Kelly McEvers, Embedded takes a story from the news and goes deep. What does it feel like for a father in El Salvador to lie to his daughter about the bodies he saw in the street that day? What does it feel like for a nurse from rural Indiana to shoot up a powerful prescription opioid? Embedded (EMBD) takes you to where they’re happening.

By Longform

A weekly conversation with a non-fiction writer about how they got their start and how they tell stories. Co-produced by Longform and The Atavist.

Life of the Law

By Nancy Mullane / Panoply

Law is alive. It doesn’t live in books and words. It thrives in how well we understand and apply it to everyday life. We ask questions, find answers, and publish what we discover in feature episodes and live storytelling.

A Phone Call From Paul

By Literary Hub

A Phone Call From Paul is a Literary Hub’s weekly podcast in which the inimitable Paul Holdengraber telephones a friend and sees what they’re up to.

Granta

By Granta Magazine

GroundTruth

By WGBH

Newseum

by Newseum.org

Hosts Frank Bond and Sonya Gavankar take listeners behind the scenes of some of the Newseum’s most popular artifacts and exhibits and share details about the production of many of the museum’s award-winning films.

World War One

By BBC Radio

The events of the first truly global war and its devastating and far reaching impact.

Puffin

By Puffin Books UK

Attention all bookworms, dream weavers and story lovers alike! Tune into the Puffin Podcast for exclusive author interviews, audiobook extracts, awesome competitions and loads of chat about all things kids’ books.

Reveal

By The Center for Investigative Reporting and PRX

The official free download of the award-winning radio program “Reveal,” produced by The Center for Investigative Reporting and PRX. Hidden stories, uncovered – that’s what this show is about. It takes you deep inside stories that impact your world, revealing injustice and holding the powerful accountable. The first-of-its-kind investigative program on public radio, “Reveal” is hosted by Al Letson and updated regularly.

Radio Diaries

By Radio Diaries

First-person diaries, sound portraits, and hidden chapters of history from Peabody Award-winning producer Joe Richman and the Radio Diaries team. From teenagers to octogenarians, prisoners to prison guards, bra saleswomen to lighthouse keepers. The extraordinary stories of ordinary life.

Writers on Writing

By Barbara DeMarco-Barrett

A weekly podcast on writing and getting published.

BrainStuff

By HowStuffWorks.com

What is a rice krispy? What is a blowout preventer? What makes glass transparent? Join Marshall Brain as he explores the science behind everything from microwave popcorn to metal detectors.

Photography tips and tricks

By Kelby Media Group

The weekly podcast that offers tips and techniques for taking the best photos you have ever taken

Columbia Global Centers – Middle East

By Columbia Global Centers

Listen to talks from the Speaker Series and other events at the Columbia Global Centers | Middle East featuring Columbia University faculty and other prominent speakers, including Rashid Khalidi, Joseph Stiglitz, Ahdaf Soueif, Thomas Friedman, and Yezid Sayegh.

APM: Marketplace

By American Public Media

Cash, dough, loot, moolah, bread, bank, bucks. Whatever you call it, money is important to us. Very important. For better or for worse, it’s a factor in every major decision we make. American Public Media’s Marketplace looks at major national and international stories that impact the average listener’s wallet. It’s “the money show for the rest of us.”

Democracy Now! Video

By Amy Goodman

A daily TV/radio news program, hosted by Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez, airing on over 900 stations, pioneering the largest community media collaboration in the United States.

APM: On Being

By Krista Tippett on Being

On Being is a spacious conversation about meaning, faith, ethics, and ideas — online and on public radio. Join Krista and her guests as they discuss the big questions at the center of human life, from the boldest new science of the human brain to the most ancient traditions of the human spirit. Each week a new discovery about faith, meaning, and the immensity of our lives. The Being podcast contains each week’s show — and the unedited interview — in its entirety and is updated every Thursday.

From Our Own Correspondent

by Alan Johnston.

Insight, wit and analysis as the BBC’s foreign correspondents take a closer look at the stories behind the headlines. Presented by Kate Adie. Broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in the UK on Thursdays at 1100 (local time) and Saturdays at 1130 (local time) for about 25 weeks of the year. BBC World Service broadcasts on Saturdays and Sundays all year round, presented by Alan Johnston. For more information

iTunes: Meet the Author

By iTunes

iTunes and the Apple Store in New York’s Soho district have teamed up to bring you the hottest authors talking about the season’s biggest books. Subscribe and you’ll hear authors like Stephen Colbert, Chuck Palahniuk, and Portia de Rossi read from and discuss their latest works of fiction and non-fiction. If you like what you hear, you can download the books on the iBookstore and read on the iPad, iPhone and iPod touch and get the audiobook if you’d like someone else to do the reading.

New Yorker: Fiction

By The New Yorker

iA monthly reading and conversation with the New Yorker fiction editor Deborah Treisman.

On the Media

By Brooke Gladstone & Bob Garfield

The smartest, wittiest, most incisive media analysis show in the universe. The weekly one-hour podcast of On the Media is your guide to how the media sausage is made. Hosts Brooke Gladstone and Bob Garfield examine threats to free speech and government transparency, criticize media coverage of the week’s big stories, explore new technology and unravel hidden political narratives in the media. In an age of information overload, OTM helps you dig your way out. The Peabody Award winning show is produced by WNYC Radio and distributed by NPR.

Slate Poetry Podcast

By Slate Magazine

From Slate.com, a weekly poem, read by the author.

World Book Club

By BBC World Service

World Book Club invites the globe’s great authors to discuss their best known novel. This monthly programme, presented by Harriett Gilbert, includes questions by World Service listeners.

WNYC radio lab

By Jad Abumrad & Robert Krulwich

On Radiolab, science meets culture and information sounds like music. Each episode of Radiolab® is an investigation — a patchwork of people, sounds, stories and experiences centered around One Big Idea.

PRI’s award-winning series of sort fiction read by the stars of stage and screen

By Public Radio International

It’s story time for adults with PRI’s award-winning series of short fiction read by the stars of stage and screen.

Slate Audio Book Club

By Slate Magazine

Join Slate’s critics for monthly discussion of new and important books

Moyers and Company

By Public Affairs Television, Inc.

Moyers and Company is a weekly hour of compelling and vital conversation about life and the state of American democracy.

NYT Critics’ Picks with A.O. Scott

By The New York Times

Noteworthy films recommended by New York Times’s film critic A.O. Scott.

Philosophy Bites

By Edmonds and Warburton

David Edmonds (Uehiro Centre, Oxford University) and Nigel Warburton (The Open University) interview top philosophers on a wide range of topics.

Here’s the thing with Alec Baldwin

By WNYC Radio

In WNYC’s new podcast series, award-winning actor Alec Baldwin gives the listener unique entrée into the lives of artists, policy makers and performers.

TEDTalks

By TEDTalks

a nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. On this feed, you’ll find TEDTalks video to inspire, intrigue and stir the imagination from some of the world’s leading thinkers and doers, speaking from the stage at TED conferences, TEDx events and partner events around the world. This podcast is also available in high-def video and audio-only formats.

Slate Magazine Daily Podcast

By Slate Magazine

Slate’s Daily Podcast includes the Political Gabfest, the Culture Gabfest, our sports show Hang Up and Listen, the Double X Gabfest, the Audio Book Club, and Manners for the Digital Age. You’ll also find audio versions of Slate articles and other special features.

Slate’s Political Gabfest

By Slate Magazine

Featuring Slate’s Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz, the Gabfest aims to recreate the kind of informal and irreverent discussions Washington journalists have after hours over drinks.