10 Podcasts like Timber Wars
10 podcasts like Timber Wars picked by Podyssey's community of podcast lovers.
It’s the 1990s in the Pacific Northwest. A march of chainsaws clear-cuts the country’s last available ancient forests. Protesters bury themselves in front of bulldozers and spend months sitting in the tallest trees in the world. And at the center, th...Show More
Podcasts like Timber Wars
What's CODE SWITCH? It's the fearless conversations about race that you've been waiting for! Hosted by journalists of color, our podcast tackles the subject of race head-on. We explore how it impacts every part of society — from politics and pop cult...Show More
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A Decade Of Watching Black People Die
22:37 | May 30th, 2020
7 RECOMMENDATIONS
The last few weeks have been filled with devastating news — stories about the police killing black people. At this point, these calamities feel familiar — so familiar, in fact, that their details have...Show More
In August of 1619, a ship carrying more than 20 enslaved Africans arrived in the British colony of Virginia. America was not yet America, but this was the moment it began. No aspect of the country that would be formed here has been untouched by the 2...Show More
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Episode 1: The Fight for a True Democracy
43:31 | Aug 23rd, 2019
18 RECOMMENDATIONS
America was founded on the ideal of democracy. Black people fought to make it one. “1619” is a New York Times audio series hosted by Nikole Hannah-Jones. You can find more information about it here. ...Show More
Tim Harford and the More or Less team try to make sense of the statistics which surround us. From BBC Radio 4
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Auction Theory - Paul Milgrom and Robert Wilson
08:58 | Oct 17th, 2020
1 RECOMMENDATION
Paul Milgrom and his former tutor Robert Wilson worked together for years developing ways to run complicated auctions for large resources. This month the two Stanford University professors were awarde...Show More
From prisons to protests, immigration to the environment, Peabody Award-winning Reveal goes deep into the pressing issues of our times. The Atlantic says “the experience of each episode is akin to a spoonful of sugar, even when it’s telling a story a...Show More
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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
Serial is a podcast from the creators of This American Life, hosted by Sarah Koenig. Serial unfolds one story - a true story - over the course of a whole season. The show follows the plot and characters wherever they lead, through many surprising twi...Show More
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54:00 | Oct 3rd, 2014
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It's Baltimore, 1999. Hae Min Lee, a popular high-school senior, disappears after school one day. Six weeks later detectives arrest her classmate and ex-boyfriend, Adnan Syed, for her murder. He says ...Show More
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
3 RECOMMENDATIONS
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
“Pod Save America” cohost Tommy Vietor thought foreign policy was boring and complicated until he got the education of a lifetime working for President Obama’s National Security Council. His new show “Pod Save the World” will bring you behind the sce...Show More
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Emergency North Korea update then Putin’s #1 enemy
47:38 | Aug 9th, 2017
5 RECOMMENDATIONS
Former Deputy National Security Advisor Ben Rhodes talks through Trump’s promise of “fire and fury” if North Korea threatens the US and today’s reports on advances in North Korea's nuclear program. Th...Show More
Dr Ruja Ignatova persuaded millions to join her financial revolution. Then she disappeared. Why? Jamie Bartlett presents a story of greed, deceit and herd madness.
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22:53 | Sep 19th, 2019
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Dr Ruja promised financial revolution. And then, two years ago, she disappeared. Why?
9. Derailed
Wisconsin Public Radio
In 2010, Wisconsin got a federal grant to build a high-speed rail line between Madison and Milwaukee. Derailed is the story of how the rail project came together, how it fell apart and how Wisconsin changed along the way.
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0:00 | Oct 9th, 2019
2 RECOMMENDATIONS
Even if you remember that it was Gov. Scott Walker who wanted to kill the high-speed rail line between Madison and Milwaukee, there's a chance you don't remember who started it. It wasn't Walker's Dem...Show More
10. Intelligence Squared U.S. Debates
IQ2US Debates / Panoply
America feels divided. From the most salient questions about our national identity and place in the world, to fundamental concerns about technology, religion, the economy, and public policy, Intelligence Squared U.S. is here to help. A respite from p...Show More
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Unresolved: The Techonomic Cold War With China
53:15 | Mar 8th, 2019
2 RECOMMENDATIONS
With Ian Bremmer, Michèle Flournoy, Yasheng Huang, Parag Khanna, and Susan ThorntonPresident Xi Jinping has made it clear: When it comes to big data, advanced weaponry, and other innovations in tech a...Show More
