10 Podcasts like Heat and Light
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1. Seriously...
Seriously is home to the world’s best audio documentaries and podcast recommendations, and host Vanessa Kisuule brings you two fascinating new episodes every week.
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29:02 | Aug 6th, 2021
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Women may be caricatured as babbling chatterboxes, but in public, women speak a lot less. Be it in conferences or committee meetings, television or parliamentary debates, women do not get a proportio...Show More
2. Longform
Interviews with writers, journalists, filmmakers, and podcasters about how they do their work. Hosted by Aaron Lammer, Max Linsky, and Evan Ratliff.
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51:51 | Apr 1st, 2020
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Ed Yong is the author of I Contain Multitudes and a science writer at The Atlantic . His most recent article is "How the Pandemic Will End." “Normally when I write things that are about a pressing s...Show More
3. Monocle 24: The Foreign Desk
Presented by Andrew Mueller, Monocle 24’s flagship global-affairs show features expert guests and in-depth analysis of the big issues of the week. Winner in the ‘best current affairs’ category of the 2018 British Podcast awards.
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30:00 | Feb 23rd, 2019
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As Brexit draws nearer, British politics is facing another shake-up. This week, several members of both the Conservative and Labour parties left the government and opposition benches to form a new Ind...Show More
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The Inquiry gets beyond the headlines to explore the trends, forces and ideas shaping the world.
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Do children in two-parent families do better?
24:06 | Aug 8th, 2019
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In 1965 a report from within the US government noted that the number of children born outside marriage, and the number of divorces, in the parts of the American population were rising rapidly. It argu...Show More
5. TALKING POLITICS
Coronavirus! Climate! Brexit! Trump! Politics has never been more unpredictable, more alarming or more interesting: Talking Politics is the podcast that tries to make sense of it all. Every week David Runciman and Helen Thompson talk to the...Show More
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6. GroundTruth
At the height of the Vietnam War, a government insider named Daniel Ellsberg leaked 7,000 pages of classified documents to American newspapers. The Pentagon Papers revealed that Americans had been lied to for decades about the war. Fifty years later,...Show More
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The Fix: Chapter 1 - The History You Never Heard
0:00 | May 4th, 2017
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The South Bronx, New York's poorest neighborhood, has been dealing with a deadly heroin epidemic for generations. We look at the origins of the epidemic, residents' efforts to handle the crisis and th...Show More
AUDIO REMOVED: The podcast creator has removed the audio for this episode.7. Crimetown
Welcome to Crimetown, a series produced by Marc Smerling and Zac Stuart-Pontier in partnership with Gimlet Media. Each season, we investigate the culture of crime in a different city. In Season 2, Crimetown heads to the heart of the Rust Belt: Detroi...Show More
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37:37 | Feb 26th, 2017
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After a lucrative career as a thief, Charles Kennedy has an important realization: the real money is in drugs. He rises to become one of the East Coast’s biggest traffickers, throwing coke-fuelled par...Show More
8. The Kicker
Columbia Journalism Review's mission is to encourage excellence in journalism in the service of a free society.
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The Washington Post starts a daily news podcast in a saturated market
16:44 | Dec 13th, 2018
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9. Inside the Hive by Vanity Fair
Every week, cohosts Emily Jane Fox and Joe Hagan tackle the week's news with fresh takes on current affairs, exclusive insights from the staff of Vanity Fair’s The Hive, and a featured conversation with a marquee guest at the center of the action who...Show More
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How to Survive America's Job Apocalypse
1:03:09 | Jan 17th, 2020
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Are you about to lose your job to a robot? Adam Davidson, creator of NPR's "Planet Money," joins Nick to talk about his new book, "The Passion Economy: The New Rules for Thriving in the Twenty-First C...Show More
10. Newscast
Former Health Secretary Matt Hancock disputes claim he rejected care home Covid advice.
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Emergency Brexitcast: The second 'what the hell is going on?’ edition
32:10 | Dec 8th, 2017
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There’s a deal! And we’re absolutely knackered, but here we are again. Producer: Dino Sofos
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