10 Podcasts like Wind of Change
Patrick Radden Keefe’s podcast investigating the Scorpions’ song Wind of Change is a deep dive into the CIA and their covert cooperation with Hollywood and other cultural industries. If you’re itching to hear more well-reported stories about spies, secret operations, the cold war, and music, check out this list of podcasts similar to Wind of Change, curated with the help of Podyssey’s community of podcast lovers.
Last Updated: Aug 4th, 2021
1. The Catch and Kill Podcast with Ronan Farrow
For the past two years, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Ronan Farrow has been following a trail of clues from his investigation of Harvey Weinstein to other blockbuster stories about the systems that protect powerful men accused of terrible crimes ...Show More
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35:35 | Nov 26th, 2019
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Igor Ostrovskiy is a private investigator in New York. In 2017, he was contracted to surveil Ronan Farrow on behalf of a secret client. Igor would eventually learn that the secret client was Black Cub...Show More
2. Whirlwind: America, Russia & Ukraine
Written and narrated by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Tim Weiner and created by the Peabody-nominated studio C13Originals, Whirlwind: America, Russia & Ukraine examines the ongoing war in Ukraine -- the worst war in Europe since WWII -- in interviews...Show More
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Ep 5: The Department of Disinformation
52:47 | Oct 14th, 2020
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The KGB specialized in fake news, and its Department of Disinformation successfully spread lies around the world. But starting in the 1980s, America began to fight back. Host Tim Weiner is joined by t...Show More
3. Headlong: Surviving Y2K
December 31, 1999: The world braced for disaster as midnight approached. Then, nothing happened. The hysteria over the Y2K computer bug quickly became an afterthought; a punch-line. In Surviving Y2K, Dan Taberski takes you back to the turn of the mil...Show More
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4. Lost Notes
A collection of the greatest music stories never told. This season the poet and cultural critic Hanif Abdurraqib explores a single year: 1980 - the brilliant, awkward and sometimes heartbreaking opening to a monumental decade in popular music.
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Louie Louie: The Strange Journey of the Dirtiest Song Never Written
31:40 | Apr 12th, 2018
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An FBI Investigation, an engagement ring, wine coolers... the surprising story behind the ubiquitous anthem that every teenager bangs out on their first guitar.
5. Dolly Parton's America
In this intensely divided moment, one of the few things everyone still seems to agree on is Dolly Parton—but why? That simple question leads to a deeply personal, historical, and musical rethinking of one of America’s great icons. Join us for a 9-epi...Show More
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We begin with a simple question: How did the queen of the boob joke become a feminist icon? Helen Morales, author of “Pilgrimage to Dollywood,” gave us a stern directive – look at the lyrics! So we di...Show More
6. Good Assassins
Season 2 is the unbelievable but true story of the greatest spy of World War II. The Nazis don't know her name, but they want this woman dead. A mysterious agent is strategically dismantling their violent grasp on France and not only leading her own ...Show More
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50:26 | May 28th, 2021
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The story of the spy and the murderer isn't over. There is something missing in the story: the answer to the question of *why*. Why did Herbert Cukurs go from being a national hero to a mass murderer?...Show More
7. True Spies: Espionage | Investigation | Crime | Murder | Detective | Politics
True Spies takes you inside the world's greatest espionage and detective operations. Our hosts Hayley Atwell, Vanessa Kirby and Sophia Di Martino talk to the real spies behind the missions. What do they know? What are their skills? And what would you...Show More
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The Real Black Klansman | Crime
48:26 | Aug 24th, 2020
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Vanessa Kirby meets Ron Stallworth, the black Colorado cop who fooled the USA's most notorious racists. In 1979, Ron and a white colleague infiltrated a local chapter of the Ku Klux Klan. Posing as tw...Show More
8. Spy Affair
A charismatic Russian woman arrives in the US on a mission to improve relations between the two countries, and she soon makes some powerful friends. But who is Maria Butina? And who is she working for? As Maria gets closer to the rich and connected s...Show More
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9. The Soyuz Files
In an alternate history of the Cold War, the Soviet Union wins the Space Race -- American astronauts never land on the Moon. Told through radio news broadcasts in 1968 and 1969, The Soyuz Files takes you from the skyscrapers of Manhattan to the spire...Show More
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The Soyuz Files – Part 1 – “The Space Race” – Nov. 1, 1968
13:42 | Jun 8th, 2016
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Breaking news! The United States has lost the Space Race to the Soviet Union. On October 31, 1968, Americans received transmissions from Cosmonauts on the Lunar surface. Jack Schechter, host of WNYX&#...Show More
10. Flashback: History's Unintended Consequences
A series of stories of disastrous turning points, dangerous ideas, crazy coincidences, unsung heroes and forgotten villains. From OZY’s Sean Braswell, host and creator of the chart-topping, Webby-nominated The Thread, comes a new show about how some ...Show More
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FB 107: A Tale of Two Pests: How Gypsy Moths and Kudzu Took Over America
36:09 | Jun 10th, 2020
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Gypsy moths and the invasive vine kudzu were supposed to be solutions. Instead they’re problems that seem to grow … and grow.