podcasts

APM: Ideas from Aspen

By American Public Media

The Aspen Ideas Festival brings some of the most inspired and provocative thinkers, writers, artists, businesspeople, teachers and other leaders from across the country and around the world to a single place-Aspen, Colo.-for deep and inquisitive discussion of the ideas and issues that shape our lives and challenge our times.

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.

The Doha Debates

By contact@squareeye.com

The Doha Debates are a unique venture in the Arab world, providing a battleground for conflicting opinions and arguments about the major political topics of the region.

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

APM: Ideas from Aspen

By The Atlantic

From narrated travel slideshows and blogger roundtables to mini-documentaries and interviews, a range of multimedia offerings reflecting the diversity of The Atlantic magazine.

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.

NPR: Foreign Dispatch Podcast

By NPR

Foreign Dispatch is a weekly podcast of the biggest news and best stories as covered by National Public Radio’s Foreign correspondents from around the world.

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.

Real Time with Bill Maher

By HBO Podcasts

Bill Maher and his panelists are back to take on the contenders, and pretenders, all year long! Download complete episodes including Overtime, where Bill and his guests answer fan questions. For more of Real Time, go to hbo.com/real-time-with-bill-maher

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.

NewsPod BBC Radio

By BBC Radio

Daily programme highlights from BBC Radio News. Interviews and reports from BBC Radio 1, BBC Radio 4, BBC Radio 5 live, the BBC Asian Network and the BBC World Service.

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.

n+1

By noemail@noemail.org (Jason Das)

The n+1 podcast is a monthly conversation on arts, culture, and literature hosted by Liz Hynes and Daniel Smith, and produced in conjunction the New School and WNSR: New School Radio.

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.

PBS podcasts

PBS podcasts range from public affairs programs to cutting-edge independent films, interview with technology leaders and in-depth examinations of science, history and more.