Podcasts

I’ve been a big podcast listener for several years. Here’s roughly the current list of podcasts I subscribe too, organized by how vehemently I recommend them.

Everyone Must Listen To

These are so good, it’s not worth explaining why, just listen to:

• This American Life 🔗
• Radiolab 🔗
• 99 Percent Invisible 🔗
• Freakonomics Radio 🔗
• Serial 🔗
• The Moth 🔗
• Invisibilia 🔗
• More Perfect 🔗

I Recommend

• Planet Money 🔗
• Tim Harford 🔗
  • 50 Things That Made the Modern Economy 🔗
  • Pop-Up Ideas 🔗
• Flash Forward 🔗
• BBC Analysis 🔗
• TED Radio Hour 🔗
• EconTalk 🔗
• Embedded 🔗
• BBC World Service Documentaries 🔗
  • It’s downright humbling to realize how diverse the world is.
• BBC Seriously… 🔗
  • This one gets extra credit for being so sonically interesting.
• Seminars about Long Term Thinking – The Long Now Foundation 🔗

I also listen to

Which is a recommendation in itself, just less strongly than the above.

• ProPublica 🔗
• C-Span After Words 🔗
• NPR Story of the Day 🔗
• Codebreaker 🔗
• Intelligence Squared 🔗
• The Infinite Monkey Cage 🔗
• Reply All 🔗

Honorable Mention

I don’t really listen to these, but that’s no fault of theirs. They are worth checking out.

• Hardcore History with Dan Carlin 🔗
• The Joe Rogan Experience 🔗
• Song Exploder 🔗
• Democracy Now! 🔗
  • These guys do great journalism. I’ve contributed to them. I just can’t spare an hour a day on the daily news cycle.
• Death, Sex and Money 🔗