25 Best The Center for Investigative Reporting and PRX Podcasts

A list of the most popular The Center for Investigative Reporting and PRX podcasts on Podyssey Podcasts.

25 Best The Center for Investigative Reporting and PRX Podcasts

  • 1. Reveal

    Reveal’s investigations will inspire, infuriate and inform you. Host Al Letson and an award-winning team of reporters deliver gripping stories about caregivers, advocates for the unhoused, immigrant families, warehouse workers and formerly incarcerat...Show More

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    The honor walk

    13:34 | Feb 12th, 2020

    7 RECOMMENDATIONS

    A new ritual called an honor walk is bringing solace to families who’ve lost a loved one and consented to have organs donated. Hospitals are organizing these walks as a way to honor the gift of life t...Show More

  • 2. Snap Judgment

    Snap Judgment (Storytelling, with a BEAT) mixes real stories with killer beats to produce cinematic, dramatic, kick-ass radio. Snap’s raw, musical brand of storytelling dares listeners to see the world through the eyes of another.

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    The Border Hacker

    49:50 | Feb 8th, 2019

    7 RECOMMENDATIONS

    A computer hacker tries to make his way home through two countries, a dense jungle and a seemingly endless string of technical challenges. Season 10 Episode 4

  • 3. The Science of Happiness

    Learn research-tested strategies for a happier, more meaningful life, drawing on the science of compassion, gratitude, mindfulness, and awe. Hosted by award-winning professor Dacher Keltner. Co-produced by PRX and UC Berkeley's Greater Good Science C...Show More

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    How To Make Time for Happiness

    18:16 | Jan 2nd, 2020

    5 RECOMMENDATIONS

    Her New Year's resolution was to have more joyful and fulfilling experiences in her daily life. Our guest tried a practice to help make that happen.

  • 4. Selected Shorts

    Our greatest actors transport us through the magic of fiction, one short story at a time. Sometimes funny. Always moving. Selected Shorts connects you to the world with a rich diversity of voices from literature, film, theater, and comedy. New episod...Show More

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    Trust Your Senses

    1:00:57 | Nov 30th, 2017

    2 RECOMMENDATIONS

    Guest host Michael Cerveris presents stories in which trusting your senses is important.  In Jeanne Dixon’s “Blue Waltz with Coyotes,” a rebellious farm girl flirts with danger. It’s read by Mia ...Show More

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  • 5. Studio 360 with Kurt Andersen

    The Peabody Award-winning Studio 360 with Kurt Andersen, from PRI, is a smart and surprising guide to what's happening in pop culture and the arts. Each week, Kurt introduces the people who are creating and shaping our culture. Life is busy – so let ...Show More

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    Extra: New York Icons: The Brill Building

    30:51 | Dec 10th, 2019

    2 RECOMMENDATIONS

    For a few years in the late 1950s and early ‘60s, the heart of the music industry was an 11-story structure in midtown Manhattan: The Brill Building. There, and at the nearby 1650 Broadway, a group of...Show More

  • 6. Latino USA

    Latino USA offers insight into the lived experiences of Latino communities and is a window on the current and merging cultural, political and social ideas impacting Latinos and the nation.

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    Digging Into 'American Dirt'

    53:13 | Jan 29th, 2020

    3 RECOMMENDATIONS

    The novel American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins was released this January with much anticipation. Oprah selected it to be part of her book club, writer Don Winslow called it, "a Grapes of Wrath for our tim...Show More

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  • 7. The World in Words

    The World in Words is a podcast about languages and the people who speak them. What happens to the brain on bilingualism? Does it matter that so many languages are dying out? Should we fear the rise of global English? Is the United States losing i...Show More

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    To Catch a Fortune Cookie Thief

    25:51 | Jul 24th, 2017

    2 RECOMMENDATIONS

    This week on the podcast producer Lidia Jean Kott cracks open a case of fortune cookie theft. "Some men dream of fortunes. Others dream of cookies." This is a real fortune cookie fortune. A presci...Show More

  • 8. The Takeaway

    A fresh alternative in daily news featuring critical conversations, live reports from the field, and listener participation. The Takeaway provides a breadth and depth of world, national, and regional news coverage that is unprecedented in public medi...Show More

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    How Hollywood Harms the Dwarfism Community

    15:21 | Feb 3rd, 2022

    3 RECOMMENDATIONS

    Last week, actor Peter Dinklage—best known for his role on Game of Thrones—appeared on the podcast WTF with Marc Maron.  Dinklage talked about a lot: the evolution of his career, mainstream success, a...Show More

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  • 9. The Tobolowsky Files

    You've seen him in movies like Groundhog Day, Memento, Sneakers, and on TV in shows like Deadwood and Glee. Now hear what he's like when Stephen Tobolowsky is playing himself! The Tobolowsky Files is a podcast brought to you by the people behind the ...Show More

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    The Tobolowsky Files Ep. 99 - My Possible Future (Season Finale)

    1:19:39 | Jan 11th, 2021

    If life is perplexing just remember: It’s almost always about the guitar.

  • 10. Suave

    Winner of the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in Audio Reporting The U.S is the only country in the world that allows minors to be sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. Approximately 2,500 juveniles have been effectively sentenced to d...Show More

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    6. The Corner

    35:29 | Mar 9th, 2021

    1 RECOMMENDATION

    “That little place right here changed my whole life. December 6, 1986. 15 seconds. 15 seconds changed my whole life.” Suave has been cleared from all accusations and is free once again. He returns wi...Show More

  • 11. The World

    Host Marco Werman and his team of producers bring you the world's most interesting stories that remind us just how small our planet really is.

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    North Korean leader spends a successful week in Beijing

    50:17 | Sep 5th

    When Chinese Leader Xi Jinping attended this week's massive military parade in Beijing, he arrived with Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un. It was one of many wins fo...Show More

  • 12. Things That Go Boom

    Stories about the ins, outs, and whathaveyous of what keeps us safe. Hosted by Laicie Heeley. Things That Go Boom takes an unconventional look at critical global and national security issues -- so grab a beer and buckle up. It gets bumpy.

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    MAGA, Mahmoud Khalil, and the War for Free Speech on Campus

    34:07 | Mar 31st

    Mahmoud Khalil became the face of Palestinian rights at Columbia University when the Syrian-born refugee refused to wear a mask and negotiated on behalf of the encampment with the University administr...Show More

  • 13. Afropop Worldwide

    Afropop worldwide is your source for music and stories from the African planet. We explore the the world through sound, from the ancient past to the cutting edge present, combining music, history, and culture. Distributed by PRI.

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    Global Griots in France

    59:03 | Dec 12th, 2024

    1 RECOMMENDATION

    Traditional Manding (Mande) griots living in France sit at the crossroads between Africa and Europe. Historically, their role has been to weave traditional, oral histories, often within music, to prom...Show More

  • 14. Nixon at War

    Most accounts of the collapse of Richard Nixon’s presidency begin with Watergate — the now iconic tale of a bungled break-in and the misbegotten cover-up that followed.  But what led to Watergate?  How — and more puzzlingly, why — did one of the shre...Show More

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    S3 Ep 4 - Searchlight on the Lawn

    54:02 | Jul 5th, 2021

    1 RECOMMENDATION

    In the spring of 1970, the war in Vietnam comes home with a vengeance.  A year of secret bombing having produced no movement from the North Vietnamese, Nixon and Kissinger raise the stakes, dramatical...Show More

  • 15. To The Best Of Our Knowledge

    To The Best Of Our Knowledge is a nationally-syndicated, Peabody award-winning public radio show that dives headlong into the deeper end of ideas. We have conversations with novelists and poets, scientists and software engineers, journalists and hist...Show More

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    Worshipping Waterfalls: The Evolution of Belief

    52:04 | Feb 19th, 2022

    Jane Goodall has seen wild chimpanzees dance and bristle with excitement around roaring waterfalls — and she thinks it’s an experience of awe and wonder — and possibly a precursor to animistic religio...Show More

  • 16. Orbital Path

    Astronomer Michelle Thaller takes a look at the big questions of the cosmos and what the answers can reveal about life here on Earth. From podcast powerhouse PRX, with support from the Sloan Foundation.

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    Building 29

    31:05 | Dec 21st, 2018

    Orbital Path signs off with a site visit to NASA’s mysterious and extraordinary building 29.

  • 17. ROS Presents: Roughhousing

    ROS Presents is home to Religion of Sports’ most ambitious and engaging audio storytelling, existing at the intersection of sports and society. We are now in our third season with Roughhousing, an exploration of hazing in high school sports. Our fi...Show More

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    COUNTERATTACK Part 6: The Comeback

    31:29 | Jun 15th, 2023

    Telling their stories opens the door for Sinead Farelly and Mana Shim — and the NWSL itself — to undergo radical transformations.

  • 18. Transistor

    Transistor is podcast of scientific curiosities and current events, featuring guest hosts, scientists, and story-driven reporters. Presented by radio and podcast powerhouse PRX, with support from the Sloan Foundation.

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    No Inoculation without Representation!

    09:44 | Nov 13th, 2017

    Vaccinations, in one form or another, have been around longer than the United States. In fact, during the Revolutionary War in 1776, future first lady Abigail Adams pursued the controversial scientifi...Show More

  • 19. Live Wire with Luke Burbank

    Like late-night for radio, hosted by Luke Burbank (Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me), the show artfully blends an eclectic mix of artists, musicians, writers, filmmakers, comedians and cultural observers. Music, comedy, and conversation, live and packed with ...Show More

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    Aubrey Gordon, Jean Grae, and Rogê

    51:51 | Aug 29th

    Podcaster Aubrey Gordon dives deep into topics tackled on her hit show Maintenance Phase, including the monopolization of weight-loss medications; multi-disciplinary artist Jean Grae explains why she'...Show More

  • 20. RadioWest

    Conversation and stories that explore the way the world works. Produced by KUER 90.1 in Salt Lake City and hosted by Doug Fabrizio. Find archived episodes at http://radiowest.org

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    Lake Bell on the Human Voice

    51:30 | Nov 18th, 2022

    1 RECOMMENDATION

    A true multi-hyphenate, writer-director-actor Lake Bell is obsessed with how we sound. Her new audiobook celebrates that “least-appreciated” trait: our voices.

  • 21. Otherhood

    In an era of “us” and “them,” be an “other” — someone trying to understand how we all live together. Journalism about the multicultural nation America will become — hosted by Rupa Shenoy.

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    MIT looked for slavery in its past... and undergrads found it in the present

    17:30 | Jun 11th, 2018

    A university redefines what it means to have connections to slavery.

  • 22. Our Global Economy

    Stories that provide depth and context to interrelated economic issues, including the best from PRI’s The World, The Takeaway, Living on Earth, and other popular programs.

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    How much will a 25% tariff hurt sales of Scotch?

    04:55 | Oct 17th, 2019

    Distillers — and consumers — are worried about the impact of a 25% tariff on exports of Scottish whisky to the US.

  • 23. Living on Earth

    As the planet we call home faces a climate emergency, Living on Earth is your go-to source for the latest coverage of climate change, ecology, and human health. Hosted by Steve Curwood and brought to you by PRX.

    3 FANS

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    Oyster Trash to Treasure, The Outlaw Ocean, A “Little Sea” with a Big Champion and more.

    51:52 | Aug 29th

    Oysters on the half shell are big business on Nantucket Island, and a local program recycles oyster shells from restaurant waste into habitat for young oysters. These recycled oyster shell reefs are h...Show More

  • 24. The World: Global Hit

    A daily spotlight on international musical artists and trends. Created by host Marco Werman, the Global Hit features interviews with musicians, critics and deejays around the globe.

    3 FANS

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    South Africa’s Pilani Bubu has ‘jumped off the shoulder of giants’ to create music filled with tradition

    0:00 | Apr 17th, 2023

    The singer-songwriter has always straddled between the worlds of globalization and the traditions of her homeland.

  • 25. Politics with Amy Walter

    Every Friday, Amy Walter brings you the trends in politics long before the national media picks up on them. Known as one of the smartest and most trusted journalists in Washington, D.C., Amy Walter is respected by politicians and pundits on all s...Show More

    3 FANS

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    Big Announcement!

    01:27 | Nov 12th, 2021

    Guess what? We are officially phasing out The Takeaway's Politics with Amy Walter.  We are still making our weekly politics show, but it will officially be housed on The Takeaway Podcast feed starting...Show More

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