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Learn research-tested strategies for a happier, more meaningful life, drawing on the science of compassion, gratitude, mindfulness, and awe. Hosted by award-winning psychologist Dacher Keltner. Co-produced by PRX and UC Berkeley's Greater Good Science Center. Follow us on Instagram @HappinessPod.
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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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Snap Judgment mixes real stories with killer beats to produce cinematic, dramatic radio. Snap’s raw, musical brand of storytelling dares listeners to see the world through the eyes of another. It's storytelling... with a BEAT.
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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 incarcerated people, fighting to hold the powerful accountable. The New Yorker described Reveal as “a knockout … a pleasure to listen to, even as we seethe.” A winner of multiple Peabody, duPont, Emmy and Murrow awards, Reveal is produced by the nation’s f ...
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Spooked features true-life supernatural stories, told firsthand by people who can barely believe it happened themselves. Be afraid. Created in the dark of night, by Snap Judgment Studios, in partnership with KQED & PRX. It is hosted by Glynn Washington.Episodes drop every week on Friday! Spooked is available for free on ALL podcast platforms. Featuring brand NEW stories -- along with episodes previously available only by subscription.For Luminary subscribers, previously released episodes are ...
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The Backstory to Great Audio Storytelling, hosted by Rob Rosenthal, for Transom and PRX.
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Psychedelics are now at the center of a global conversation about mental health, mysticism, and even how we experience illness and death. In Altered States, host Arielle Duhaime-Ross explores how people are taking these drugs, who has access to them, how they're regulated, who stands to profit, and what these substances might offer us as individuals and as a society.
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Maybe it’s just a quiet annoyance you’ve grudgingly learned to put up with, or a life defining issue that makes it hard to move forward. Whatever it is, Alex Goldman — reporter, radio producer, and overconfident idiot — will get to the bottom of it (if there’s a bottom to be found. Results may vary). Follow Alex as he figures out not only the vast hidden mechanisms that create these problems, but works with you, the listener, to find a solution. Or at least enough of an explanation that you’ ...
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Join How to Be a Better Human as we take a look within and beyond ourselves. How to Be a Better Human isn’t your average self improvement podcast. Each week join comedian Chris Duffy in conversation with guests and past speakers as they uncover sharp insights and give clear takeaways on how YOU can be a better human. From your work to your home and your head to your heart, How to Be a Better Human looks in unexpected places for new ways to improve and show up for one another. Inspired by the ...
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First-person diaries, sound portraits, and hidden chapters of history from Peabody Award-winning producer Joe Richman and the Radio Diaries team. From teenagers to octogenarians, prisoners to prison guards, bra saleswomen to lighthouse keepers. The extraordinary stories of ordinary life. Radio Diaries is a proud member of Radiotopia, from PRX. Learn more at radiotopia.fm
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Hosted by celebrated criminal justice reform advocate and founding board member of the Innocence Project Jason Flom, Pulitzer prize-winning podcast host and producer Maggie Freleng, and Emmy Award-winning writer, producer, and podcast host Lauren Bright Pacheco, Wrongful Conviction features intimate conversations with men and women who have spent years in prison for crimes they maintain they did not commit. Some have been fully exonerated and reunited with family and friends while others con ...
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A science-based, humor laced approach to health and fitness. With the help of top researchers from the health and wellness fields, Juna Gjata and Dr. Eddie Phillips break down the science behind good nutrition, exercise, stress, sleep, and more. Includes a generous helping of sarcasm (Juna), dad jokes (Eddie), and pristine sound design (our awesome producers).
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Hi, we’re Deb Perelman (Smitten Kitchen) and J. Kenji López-Alt (Serious Eats, The Food Lab, The Wok). We’re professional home cooks, which means we can - and will - make the same meal 57 times in a row on the quest for the perfect recipe. Is it crazy? For us, no, because we do this for a living. But for you? Yes, probably. Which is why you should listen to The Recipe with Kenji and Deb. You'll hear us talk about what goes into writing our recipes — the techniques we test, the ingredients we ...
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Ear Hustle is prison slang for eavesdropping, and that’s what listening to the show feels like: a raw, often funny, and always surprising peek into the reality of life inside prison. Hosts Nigel Poor and Earlonne Woods co-created the show that launched in 2017 while Earlonne was incarcerated at San Quentin State Prison, where Nigel was a volunteer teaching photography. Since Earlonne’s release in 2018, the show has expanded to include stories from prisons across the state, including the Cali ...
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”To the Best of Our Knowledge” is a Peabody award-winning national public radio show that explores big ideas and beautiful questions. Deep interviews with philosophers, writers, artists, scientists, historians, and others help listeners find new sources of meaning, purpose, and wonder in daily life. Whether it’s about bees, poetry, skin, or psychedelics, every episode is an intimate, sound-rich journey into open-minded, open-hearted conversations. Warm and engaging, TTBOOK helps listeners fe ...
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Personally connecting the dots. All of them. Benjamen Walker’s Theory of Everything is a proud member of Radiotopia, from PRX. Learn more at radiotopia.fm.
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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.
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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. The World, the radio program, is heard each weekday on over 300 public stations across North America.
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What happens to all that stuff on America’s favorite antiques show once the cameras leave town? DETOURS reveals the stories, secrets, and surprises of TV treasures which go beyond the screen. Join host Adam Monahan, a longtime producer with GBH’s Antiques Roadshow on a journey of discovery from behind the scenes of the hit PBS series. Each episode tells the deeper story of one object, amazing and amusing listeners along the way. From GBH and PRX.
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The Mortified Podcast is a storytelling series where adults share the embarrassing things they created as kids—diaries, letters, lyrics & beyond—in front of total strangers. PS: It totally likes you. The Mortified Podcast is a proud member of Radiotopia, from PRX. Learn more at radiotopia.fm. ------------------- // CREDITS: Podcast produced and hosted by Neil Katcher and David Nadelberg. Stage show created by David Nadelberg. Learn more: GetMortified.com. // TV: Watch our concert film, Morti ...
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Desert Oracle Radio is a weekly road trip through the weird American desert from the publisher of Desert Oracle, the pocket-sized field guide published in Joshua Tree, California. Hear tales of mysterious lights, missing tourists, lost mines, venomous creatures, weird history and weirder people. Hosted by editor Ken Layne and featuring a cast of intriguing mystics, oddballs, scientists and artists, Desert Oracle Radio is your soundtrack for a desert night. The program is broadcast on Friday ...
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Politics, unfiltered. Futuro Media presents a new political podcast where journalists tell you what you’re missing from the mainstream news. With Maria Hinojosa. Produced by Futuro Media. Distributed by PRX.
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Love stories. Dating stories. Relationship stories. Stories about romance, marriage, partnership, sex, loss, and the human heart. Served with a side of advice. Hosted by Boston Globe advice columnist Meredith Goldstein. Distributed by PRX.
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An award-winning, original, investigative series made by the team behind the acclaimed PBS documentary show, FRONTLINE. From the long and deadly arm of 9/11, to a police shooting in West Virginia with a startling twist, to what life is really like for children living in a Kenyan refugee camp, each episode follows a different reporter through an investigation that sometimes is years in the making. The FRONTLINE Dispatch – because some stories are meant to be heard. Produced at FRONTLINE’s hea ...
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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 die in prison—considered “irredeemable” by the state for crimes committed when they were just teenagers. One of them was David Luis “Suave” Gonzalez, who entered prison at 17 expecting to leave in a coffin. Suave tells the story of what happens when ...
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We’re living in unprecedented times. Maybe. In this show, Jody Avirgan (538, 30for30, TED) and historians Nicole Hemmer (Vanderbilt) and Kellie Carter Jackson (Wellesley) take one moment, big or small, from that day in U.S. political history and explore how it might inform our present –– all in about fifteen minutes. New episodes release Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Sundays. Sign up for the newsletter and more at ThisDayPod.com. We’re also posting about moments from the past @thisdaypod on Threa ...
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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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The Kitchen Sisters Present… Stories from the b-side of history. Lost recordings, hidden worlds, people possessed by a sound, a vision, a mission. Deeply layered stories, lush with interviews, field recordings and music. From powerhouse NPR producers The Kitchen Sisters (The Keepers, Hidden Kitchens, The Hidden World of Girls, The Sonic Memorial Project, Lost & Found Sound, and Fugitive Waves). "The Kitchen Sisters have done some of best radio stories ever broadcast" —Ira Glass. The Kitchen ...
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Scene on Radio is a two-time Peabody-nominated podcast that dares to ask big, hard questions about who we are—really—and how we got this way. Previous series include Seeing White (Season 2), looking at the roots and meaning of white supremacy; MEN (Season 3), on patriarchy and its history; The Land That Never Has Been Yet (Season 4), exploring democracy in the U.S. and why we don’t have more of it; The Repair (Season 5), on the cultural roots of the climate crisis; and Season 6, Echoes of a ...
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SongWriter turns stories into songs, ft. Questlove, Joyce Carol Oates, David Gilmour (Pink Floyd), George Saunders, Steve Earle, Susan Orlean & David Sedaris
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Be not a-feared of our yearly remembrance of the dead, of ghostly visits from our beloved and maybe not-so-beloved relations and ancestors. Know Death as an old friend who always eventually comes around, for you and everyone else. If your belief in the immortality of the soul is secure, do not shudder and sputter over the enjoyment of pumpkins and …
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1 year since the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel
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It's been one year since the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel that stunned the world. It forever changed the course of both large-scale global events and individual life stories. We'll step back and look at the impact of Oct. 7, 2023 — from the fate of the 100 Israeli hostages still unaccounted for, to the transformation of life in Gaza over the last …
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1 year after Oct. 7 attack, Israel and its neighbors are locked in a widening war
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Israelis took part in somber ceremonies on Monday. They marked one year since the Hamas led attack killed around 1,200 people, most of them civilians. The war that began in the Gaza Strip on that same day is still not over. And the conflict between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon is escalating, with Israeli air strikes and an expanding ground invas…
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Bolivians clean tons of trash from lake that's home to flamingos
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Lake Uru Uru, once clean enough to drink, has been practically ruined by mining waste and urban pollution. But now, a group of Indigenous women are cleaning the Andean lake in hopes they can revive its natural ecosystem. Sarah Birnbaum reports.By Sarah Birnbaum
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Argentina considers how to remember military dictatorship and its victims
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During Argentina’s dictatorship in the late 1970s and early 1980s, state terror led to the killing and disappearance of roughly 30,000 people. In recent decades, there have been efforts to remember the victims of these crimes, and more than a thousand people have been convicted for their roles. But the government of Argentina’s new libertarian Pres…
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Better weather forecasts help farmers in India
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As the world's climates change, farmers around the globe need more accurate weather forecasts to help them determine when and what to plant. A new paper from the University of Chicago shows that better monsoon forecasts in southern India, in fact, improved the returns for farmers in 250 villages. Sushmita Pathak visited a few of them in the state o…
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Israeli negotiator says there's a hostage release deal ready for signatures
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Gershon Baskin, a backchannel hostage negotiator for Israel, says a compromise he wrote with an Israeli general and a senior Hamas negotiator is ready for endorsement from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Joe Biden. He explains to host Carolyn Beeler what's in the proposed deal and what it's like trying to bring the hostages home.…
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Foliage fans flock to see larch trees across Canada
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Larch trees have become a foliage fan favorite across Canada and even parts of the US. Massive crowds are descending on national parks and forests to bear witness to the larch trees' crisp golden colors. Host Carolyn Beeler speaks with David Bird, a professor of biology at Mount Royal University in Canada, about the larches and what makes them so s…
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A year into Israel's war in Gaza, home is a plastic sheet
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Twenty-one year old computer engineering student Shayma Ahmed used to live in a house with concrete walls. She’d drive to campus each day in a car. Now, home is a tent. Her only means of transport is a donkey cart that winds through streets of rubble in the central Gaza city of Deir al Balah. She tells host Marco Werman about the immeasurable sorro…
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Amid sky-high rent in Moscow, Russians accept incentives to buy rural property — at a cost
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In Russia, interest rates for home mortgages are way up. But the Russian government has created a workaround. The catch is, you have to be willing to move out of the city, and into the hinterlands. And once you opt in, you have a vested interest in preserving the status quo of an authoritarian government. Levi Bridges reports on how Russians are na…
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India and Pakistan still not sharing big-budget releases, for now
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The 2022 Pakistani film "The Legend of Maula Jatt" broke the country's box office records. It should be headed for screenings in India right now, but politics got in the way, keeping an ad hoc ban in place that prevents the two countries from sharing films. As we hear, the musical production values in "The Legend of Maula Jatt" are still what we've…
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Today, we're continuing our conversation about metabolism, this time diving into aging and genetics. Ever wondered if you can actually control your metabolism or if it's just something you inherit from your parents? And what’s the deal with feeling like your metabolism was faster when you were younger? We're getting to the bottom of it all in this …
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How to let go of needing a plan (w/ Reggie Watts)
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Reggie Watts has no plan when he walks out on the TED stage — he just lets go and tries to make himself laugh. In this episode, he shares with Chris why the audience member you should pay the most attention to is yourself and how you can find more ways to improvise, laugh and find ridiculousness in your everyday life to get to a happier one.…
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Kids say the darndest things, and so do Deb and Kenji. “Nobody likes penne.” “Chiffonade is pretentious.” “I have honestly no idea what my recipe contains.” And they’re not the only ones. There are people out there who call baked ziti — get this — lasagna. While baked ziti may be universally loved as a workhorse of catered buffets, potlucks, and me…
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In the winter of 1995, Joyce Dennis was killed during her closing shift at a laundromat in North Philadelphia, PA. Police then rounded up a group of teenagers and, over the course of several months, got them to implicate two of their friends for the crime, including Eddie Ramirez. Despite the fact that no physical evidence tied him to the murder sc…
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Photos from Admiral Byrd’s famed Antarctic expedition brought in 2021 to GBH’s Antiques Roadshow in Sands Point, NY reveal rare glimpses into life at the South Pole almost 100 years ago. Join host Adam Monahan as he discovers how science and PR collide in this tale of one man’s quest for fame and a secured place in history and how that compares to …
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265: Most Mortified Semifinals - Chicago vs Portland
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The Most Mortified tournament has reached the semifinals! In this head to head clash of titans, the Mortified Chicago chapter battles the Mortified Portland chapter. Stories include: Inspired by the diary of Anne Frank, a girl sets out to keep an adolescent diary that will be remembered for the ages. The epic tale of a shy kid who works up the gump…
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2024 Election Sunday: Cross-Party Endorsements, A Race In Stasis
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On Sundays between now and the election, we're going to dip into the 2024 race to talk about the latest events -- plus offer some historical perspective. And these will all be video episodes! So if you'd like to watch the conversation, visit our YouTube page. www.youtube.com/@ThisDayPod Today, Jody, Niki, and Kellie discuss Liz Cheney's endorsement…
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After Elián’s rescue he was released to relatives in Miami. Just a day later the Cuban government sent a note: the boy’s father and Fidel Castro wanted Elián back. Tensions between the two countries had long been high, and relations were about to be tested to the extreme as the Thanksgiving miracle became an international custody battle. Just over …
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In 2020, Donald Trump won 84 percent of the white evangelical vote. Lately, he’s been leaning even more deeply into the rhetoric of Christian nationalists. Who are they, and what’s their role in the evangelical church? We talk with some Southern Baptists today, whose views may surprise you. Original Air Date: March 09, 2024 Interviews In This Hour:…
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As any schoolkid might tell you, US elections are based on a bedrock principle: one person, one vote. Simple as that. Each vote carries the same weight. Yet for much of the country’s history, that hasn't been the case. At various points, whole classes of people were shut out of voting: enslaved Black Americans, Native Americans, and poor White peop…
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Disastrous Climate Wake Up, Jill Stein for the Greens, Sudan's Climate and War Misery and more.
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Hurricane Helene brought devastating storm surge and winds to the Gulf Coast and deadly floods to the inland mountains of North Carolina. We discuss the societal toll of repeated climate-fueled disasters and whether this latest super cyclone might prove a tipping point for greater climate awareness and action. Also, physician Jill Stein, the 2024 G…
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Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam acquires groundbreaking botany book by a pioneering author
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The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, one of the leading museums of the world, just acquired a botanic book about Surinam for its collection. The author, Maria Sibylla Merian, was a 52-year-old divorcee who embarked on a self-funded voyage to Suriname in 1699, driven by relentless curiosity about the lives of insects. The World's Sarah Birnbaum reports.…
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UK cedes strategically precious Chagos Islands to Mauritius
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The Chagos Islands were once part of the British Empire, and islanders were forced out to make way for a military base that is run by the United States. Now, the UK is returning the islands to Mauritius. Michael Kugelman, director of the Wilson Center's South Asia institute, explains the deal the islands' strategic importance today.…
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Lebanon death toll exceeds 2K people amid Israel and Hezbollah conflict
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Lebanon's facing a massive crisis right now. More than 2,000 people have been killed in the past two weeks amid Israel and Hezbollah's war. Also, with flights to Iran, Lebanon and Iraq canceled, many travelers are stranded in Turkey, a regional transit hub. Our reporter takes us to the scene, as we hear how people stuck-in-transit are thinking abou…
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How Harris and Trump both plan to derail immigration from Latin America
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Former President Donald Trump has promised mass deportations if he makes it back to the Oval Office. Vice President Kamala Harris says if she wins in November, she’ll back a revamped version of the bipartisan Senate bill that would make it more difficult for migrants to get asylum. Claudia Masferrer of the El Colegio de México in Mexico City tells …
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Lebanon death toll exceeds 2K people amid Israel and Hezbollah conflict
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Lebanon's facing a massive crisis right now. More than 2,000 people have been killed in the past two weeks amid Israel and Hezbollah's war. One million people have also been internally displaced in the past two weeks alone. Host Carol Hill speaks with Nizar Ghanem, research director at the Alternative Policy Institute in Beirut, about how Lebanese …
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'I Am Not a Typo' campaign seeks to diversify auto-correct
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Spellcheck and auto-correct can be helpful when you’re drafting an email or a text message. But if that red, squiggly line appears under your own name, it’s a different story. The World’s Bianca Hillier reports on a campaign in the UK to make auto-correct more diverse and inclusive. This story first aired in March, 2024.…
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New research suggests part of Antarctica greening faster than expected
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Parts of Antarctica are turning green at an alarming rate, according to new research. Scientists used satellite imagery and data to analyze vegetation levels on the Antarctic Peninsula, a long mountain chain that points north to the tip of South America. They found plant life had increased in this harsh environment more than 10-fold over the past f…
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On Friday, Israel continued to batter the dense population center of Beirut, Lebanon as well as Gaza and the West Bank. Flights to Iran, Lebanon and Iraq have been canceled across the region. Though some airlines have resumed operations, the upset has left many travelers stranded in Turkey — a regional transit hub. This gave The World’s Durrie Bous…
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