Best Passenger List and Radiotopia Podcasts (2024)

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No Small Endeavor Thanksgiving Special 1:11

10M ago1:11

1:11

Oliver Burkeman, author of 4000 Weeks: Time Management For Mortals, shares how perhaps it's not what's happening in life, but the fact that it happens at all as a sort of revelation to reboot us to be attuned to awe, wonder, and the present moment.By PRX

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The Incident at Ong's Hat from the creators of Passenger List and The Polybius Conspiracy 2:53

1+ y ago2:53

2:53

Ong’s Hat is rumored to have once been the site of a gateway to another dimension. After meeting on a forum devoted to the urban legend, yoga instructor Sarah Larsen, and academic Charlie Brill, go on a road trip to the New Jersey Pine Barrens where a group of renegade Princeton professors had once conducted quantum physics and chaos theory experim…

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1.1 Q&A "5,000 Rupees..." from Radiotopia's Mumbai Crime 15:25

2y ago15:25

15:25

Radiotopia is thrilled to bring you another show from the creators of Passenger List — MUMBAI CRIME. Enjoy episode 1 from the first season, then head over to the Mumbai Crime feed to subscribe and listen to episode 2. ************* Thomas is a contestant on the hit Indian TV show “Who Will Win A Billion”...As he ponders over the first question, his…

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Radiotopia Presents: Blind Guy Travels 23:55

3y ago23:55

23:55

Listening to The MoviesWhy watch a movie if you can’t see the screen? Matthew and his friend Ben take in a Marx Brothers film and showcase the power of a good description. Blind Guy Travels is written and performed by Matthew Shifrin, and produced and sound-designed by Ian Coss. Blind Guy Travels is a production of Radiotopia from PRX and part of R…

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The AM Archives (Trailer) from Lauren Shippen 2:43

3y ago2:43

2:43

This week we’re featuring the series The AM Archives, created by Passenger List writer Lauren Shippen. It’s a spinoff of her hit series, The Bright Sessions. To hear The AM Archives in full, subscribe to The Bright Sessions feed.By Passenger List and Radiotopia

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Q&A with the Passenger List Creative Team - June 29, 2021 40:13

3y ago40:13

40:13

*Due to a recording error this recording begins with Kellie Marie Tran answering a question*Join the creators and cast of the hit podcast Passenger List from PRX's Radiotopia for a fan-submitted Q&A about the mystery fiction series. This recording includes Kelly Marie Tran (Executive Producer, Voice of Kaitlin Le), John Dryden (Executive Producer a…

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After the Hum from Radiotopia's The Truth 28:21

3y ago28:21

28:21

We’d like to share another fiction podcast we think you’ll like, from our fellow Radiotopia show The Truth. In a post-apocalyptic world, a young woman faces her fears of the outside world in order to save her sister. Written by Mary McDonnell, and produced by Jonathan Mitchell. Associate produced by Sophie Yalkezian and Cara Ehlenfeldt. Performed b…

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Blackout from QCODE Media 30:30

3y ago30:30

30:30

Attention Passenger List fans: If you enjoyed the story of Kaitlin Le and the mystery of flight 702, then we’ve got another fiction show we think you’ll like. Academy Award® winner Rami Malek stars in this apocalyptic thriller as a small-town radio DJ, Simon Itani, fighting to protect his family and community after the power grid goes down nationwi…

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2.8 Duty Free 47:21

3y ago47:21

47:21

That fateful night, a perfume bottle, the truth about Flight 702. Visit passengerlist.org to see a script and full list of credits for “Duty Free,” and join the investigation. Passenger List Season 2 was created and directed by John Scott Dryden; sound designed by Steve Bond; with music by Mark Henry Phillips. “Duty Free” was written by John Scott …

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2.7 Tundra 37:24

3y ago37:24

37:24

Flying debris, two familiar agents, across snow and ice. Visit passengerlist.org to see a script and full list of credits for “Tundra” and join the investigation. Passenger List Season 2 was created and directed by John Scott Dryden; sound designed by Steve Bond; with music by Mark Henry Phillips. “Tundra” was written by Lauren Shippen. Passenger L…

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2.6 Athena Presses On 32:03

3y ago32:03

32:03

Cockpit recording, computer game, past misdemeanors. Visit passengerlist.org to see a script and full list of credits for “Athena Presses On” and join the investigation. Passenger List Season 2 was created and directed by John Scott Dryden; sound designed by Steve Bond; with music by Mark Henry Phillips. “Athena Presses On” was written by Meghan Fi…

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2.5 Trojan Horse 28:44

3y ago28:44

28:44

Prisoner release, the twin brother’s connections, a whistle-blower. Visit passengerlist.org to see a script and full list of credits for “Trojan Horse,” and join the investigation. Passenger List Season 2 was created and directed by John Scott Dryden; sound designed by Steve Bond; with music by Mark Henry Phillips. “Trojan Horse” was written by Jan…

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2.4 InfoExpose 33:39

3+ y ago33:39

33:39

Bolivian embassy, the unlisted passenger, a stolen weapon. Visit passengerlist.org to see a script and full list of credits for “InfoExpose” and join the investigation. Passenger List Season 2 was created and directed by John Scott Dryden; sound designed by Steve Bond; with music by Mark Henry Phillips. “InfoExpose” was written by Mark Henry Philli…

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2.3 The Black Pill 30:10

3+ y ago30:10

30:10

Off the grid, white rabbit, the passenger swap. Visit passengerlist.org to see a script and full list of credits for “The Black Pill,” and join the investigation. Passenger List Season 2 was created and directed by John Scott Dryden; sound designed by Steve Bond; with music by Mark Henry Phillips. “The Black Pill” was written by Lauren Shippen. Pas…

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2.2 Pay Day 34:33

3+ y ago34:33

34:33

Psychiatric assessment, the coffee jar, something going down. Visit passengerlist.org to see a script and full list of credits for “Pay Day” and join the investigation. Passenger List Season 2 was created and directed by John Scott Dryden; sound designed by Steve Bond; with music by Mark Henry Phillips. “Pay Day” was written by Sara Lotz. Passenger…

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2.1 Class Action 33:01

3+ y ago33:01

33:01

The lawyer, passenger contact, her last movements. Visit passengerlist.org to see a script and full list of credits for “Class Action,” and join the investigation. Passenger List Season 2 was created and directed by John Scott Dryden; sound designed by Steve Bond; music by Mark Henry Phillips. “Class Action” was written by John Scott Dryden. Passen…

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Breaking News 3:05

3+ y ago3:05

3:05

The wreckage of Flight 702 has been found in the North Atlantic, confirming the plane has crashed. But when Kaitlin gets a call from one of the passengers, her twin brother Conor, she herself disappears into the story. Season 2 launches May 10.By Passenger List and Radiotopia

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Fasten your seatbelt 2:40

3+ y ago2:40

2:40

Prepare for some turbulence. Passenger List Season Two, starring Kelly Marie Tran, Ben Daniels, Rob Benedict and Colin Morgan is scheduled for arrival spring 2021.By Passenger List and Radiotopia

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4+ y ago0:52

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Behind the Scenes: Opening Montages 15:15

4+ y ago15:15

15:15

Passenger List creator, co-writer and co-director John Scott Dryden and editor, sound designer and composer Mark Henry Phillips dive deep into the show's opening news montages, in conversation with Audrey Mardavich, managing producer of Radiotopia. Time is running out. Make your mark on Passenger List and Radiotopia before the new year at radiotopi…

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1.8 The White Matchmaker 40:59

5y ago40:59

40:59

The wreckage, a missing passport, an unexpected call. The Passenger List season one finale. Sponsorship for this episode comes from Squarespace, The RealReal and Away. Visit passengerlist.org to see a script and full list of credits for “The White Matchmaker,” and join the investigation. Passenger List was created, co-written and co-directed by Joh…

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1.7 Inoperative Operative 26:15

5y ago26:15

26:15

A rogue agent, a storage unit, deadly cargo. Sponsorship for this episode comes from Squarespace, The RealReal and HelloFresh. Visit passengerlist.org to see a script and full list of credits for “Inoperative Operative,” and join the investigation. New episodes every Monday. Passenger List was created, co-written and co-directed by John Scott Dryde…

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1.6 7h:100c:95f 29:20

5y ago29:20

29:20

A cryptic code, a familiar song, a friend unmasked. Sponsorship for this episode comes from Squarespace, The RealReal and Care/of. Visit passengerlist.org to see a script and full list of credits for “7h:100c:95f,” and join the investigation. New episodes every Monday. Passenger List was created, co-written and co-directed by John Scott Dryden; co-…

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1.5. Cyberspace 34:46

5y ago34:46

34:46

The twin brother and his lover, how to hack a plane, a Russian connection. Sponsorship for this episode comes from Squarespace, The RealReal and Upstart. Visit passengerlist.org to see a script and full list of credits for “Cyberspace,” and join the investigation. New episodes every Monday. Passenger List was created, co-written and co-directed by …

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1.4 Psychic Witch 31:05

5y ago31:05

31:05

The one who got away, a suicidal war criminal, a family secret. Sponsorship for this episode comes from Squarespace, The RealReal and HelloFresh. Visit passengerlist.org to see a script and full list of credits for “Psychic Witch,” and join the investigation. New episodes every Monday. Passenger List was created, co-written and co-directed by John …

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1.3 Kinshasa 30:45

5y ago30:45

30:45

A sick passenger, an anxious gate attendant, the man in the green jacket. Sponsorship for this episode comes from Squarespace, The RealReal and Upstart. Visit passengerlist.org to see a script and full list of credits for “Kinshasa,” and join the investigation. New episodes every Monday. Passenger List was created, co-written and co-directed by Joh…

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1.2 Flock of Geese 36:26

5y ago36:26

36:26

A replacement co-pilot, a suspected terrorist, the official version of events. Sponsorship for this episode comes from Squarespace, The RealReal and Away. Visit passengerlist.org to see a script and full list of credits for “Flock of Geese,” and join the investigation. New episodes every Monday. Passenger List was created, co-written and co-directe…

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1.1 Traffic 32:53

5y ago32:53

32:53

An abandoned child, a missing plane, a new ally. Suspicious of the official versions of events, Kaitlin Le begins her own investigation into the disappearance of Atlantic Flight 702 — and with it, her twin brother. Visit passengerlist.org to see a script and full list of credits for “Traffic,” and join the investigation. Sponsorship for this episod…

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Pre-Flight Announcement 2:30

5y ago2:30

2:30

A missing plane, a cabin full of suspects, a search for truth. A new mystery thriller from PRX’s Radiotopia, starring Kelly Marie Tran, Colin Morgan, Rob Benedict and Patti LuPone. Arriving September 16. Subscribe now.By Passenger List and Radiotopia

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Building 29 31:07

5+ y ago31:07

31:07

All things in the cosmos have a lifespan, from the smallest particles to the most ancient suns. Everything has its season. Every season must come to an end.And this episode marks the end of Orbital Path.So, for the last transit of our podcast, Dr. Michelle Thaller and producer David Schulman join NASA astrobiologist Dr. Jen Eigenbrode on a site vis…

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HELLO, ASTEROID FINAL MIX 20:45

5+ y ago20:45

20:45

Asteroids, as the dinosaurs found out, can have big effects on life on Earth. Sixty-five million years ago, an asteroid crashed into the Yucatán. The impact caused apocalyptic tsunamis and volcanic eruptions. Grit and ash blotted out the sun. It wiped out species that had roamed the Earth for millions of years.Yet asteroid hits also were critical t…

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Black Holes from the Dawn of Light 22:34

6y ago22:34

22:34

To make a black hole, you need to think big. Really big. Start with a star much bigger than the sun — the bigger the better. Then settle in, and wait a few million years for your star to die.That should do the trick, if you want to get yourself a garden-variety black hole. But there’s another kind of black hole. They are mind-boggling in size. And …

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Space Lasers for the Home Planet 23:58

6y ago23:58

23:58

On September 15, 2018, the last Delta II rocket lifted off from Vandenberg Air Force base, in California. It carried into orbit IceSat-2 — a satellite equipped with perhaps the most sophisticated space laser ever built. NASA didn’t put it up there to shoot down rogue asteroids. Instead, it’s taking aim — with exquisite precision — at Earth.On this …

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Brian Greene goes to 11 — again 30:56

6y ago30:56

30:56

In this encore episode of Orbital Path (previously heard in October 2017), Brian Greene, a celebrated explainer of how our universe operates and the director of the Center for Theoretical Physics at Columbia University, sits down to talk with Dr. Michelle Thaller. We live our lives in three dimensions. But we also walk those three dimensions along …

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The Universe of Leonard Susskind 27:11

6y ago27:11

27:11

To hear Leonard Susskind tell it, we are living in a golden age of quantum physics. And he should know.Susskind is a grandee of theoretical physics. In the 1960s, he was one of the discoverers of String Theory. His friends and collaborators over the years include the likes of Nobel Prize winners Gerard 't Hooft and Richard Feynman.And, for more tha…

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Mars Goes Organic 28:12

6y ago28:12

28:12

For a long time, probably as long as we have been gazing up at the night sky, people have been asking ourselves: Are we alone? Is there life out there, anywhere else in the universe?For modern Earthlings, our fascination with extraterrestrial life has focussed on one place in particular: Mars.The planet today is a forbidding, arid place. But billio…

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Earth, Desert Planet? 6:59

6+ y ago6:59

6:59

Zoe is in 8th grade. She’s a student in Mr. Andersen’s Earth science class at a public school in Brooklyn.Lately, she’s been concerned about the future of the planet.Specifically, Zoe has been learning about the phenomenon of planetary dehydration — and she wanted to ask Dr. Michelle Thaller what would happen if Earth lost its water.It’s part of a …

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Introducing...Telescope! 8:20

6+ y ago8:20

8:20

Instead of grappling with the big, cosmic questions that preoccupy adults, this week on Orbital Path we’re doing something different.We’re grappling with the big, cosmic questions that preoccupy kids.It’s part of a new project called “Telescope,” where Dr. Michelle Thaller takes on the really big questions in astronomy—from public school students.I…

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Star Death Tango 24:11

6+ y ago24:11

24:11

On August 17, 2017, an alert went out. Gravitational wave detectors in Louisiana and Washington state had detected a disturbance from deep space. The effect was subtle — these detectors and a sister site in Italy measure disturbances smaller than a proton. But the evidence was dramatic. And the story they told was truly cataclysmic: A pair of neutr…

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Ozone Disaster Redux 20:02

6+ y ago20:02

20:02

Scientists in 1985 discovered something that threatened the world we live in: The ozone layer had a hole in it. A big one. And this hole was growing very quickly. If it continued to grow, the consequences would be dire.Presented with the science, world leaders came up with an international agreement. The Montreal Protocol, as the treaty was called,…

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Fireside Physics: A Solstice on Saturn? 17:00

6+ y ago17:00

17:00

In this darkest season of the year, Dr. Michelle Thaller and NASA astronomer Andrew Booth curl up by the fire. Gazing into the embers, red wine in hand, they consider the meaning of the winter solstice — on other planets. Like Uranus, where parts of the planet go 42 earth years without seeing the sun. Or Mars, where winters are made colder by an or…

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From Another Star 16:15

6+ y ago16:15

16:15

NASA’S office of planetary defense isn’t worried about Klingons or Amoeboid Zingatularians. They worry about asteroids and comets. Like the one that exploded over Chelyabinsk, Russia in 2013. It was about 20 yards across. An asteroid 150 yards in diameter could take out a city. An even bigger one — as the dinosaurs reading this will attest — could …

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Winter's Night Sky 12:00

6+ y ago12:00

12:00

These days, astrophysicists like Dr. Michelle Thaller use instruments to probe the distant reaches of our galaxy, and far beyond. They use interferometry, the Hubble space telescope, and other technology impossible to imagine when the constellations of the winter sky were named. But, as the season changes and Orion returns to view, Michelle still f…

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Aliens Again! 16:37

7y ago16:37

16:37

We've got some awkward news to share, folks: The producer of Orbital Path is claiming he’s been abducted by space aliens.So this week, we're dusting off the theremin and returning to one of our favorite early episodes — “Must Be Aliens.” Dr. Michelle Thaller talks with Phil Plait — AKA the "Bad Astronomer" — about the Kepler mission to find planets…

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Time and Space in the Kingdom of Bhutan 9:35

7y ago9:35

9:35

The Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan avidly guards its traditional culture. Bhutan is a nation that — instead of looking to GDP or debt ratios — measures success by an index of “Gross National Happiness.”In this episode of Orbital Path, Dr. Michelle Thaller describes her recent adventures in Bhutan — including a climb to a Buddhist monastery perched on …

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The 11 Dimensions of Brian Greene 29:23

7y ago29:23

29:23

We live our lives in three dimensions. But we also walk those three dimensions along a fourth dimension: time.??Our world makes sense thanks to mathematics. Math lets us count our livestock, it lets us navigate our journeys. Mathematics has also proved an uncanny, stunningly accurate guide to what Brian Greene calls “the dark corners of reality.”??…

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Minisode 5: Scary Math 11:42

7y ago11:42

11:42

In a scary time, in a scary world, in a scary universe, NASA astronomer Andrew Booth says one of the things that frightens him most is math. Specifically, the unshaken power of mathematics to describe the universe. That’s because, beyond the comforting world of Newtonian physics, math gets mind-bendingly weird. So from the relative safety of their …

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Episode 22: Journey to the Sun 18:00

7y ago18:00

18:00

Remember the myth of Icarus? He and his dad were trying to escape from prison. Locked up on the Greek island of Crete, they made wings out of beeswax and bird feathers. They soared to freedom — but Icarus got cocky, flew too close to the sun, and fell into the sea. A few thousand years later, NASA is ready to do the job right.The Parker Solar Probe…

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Minisode 4: Hot Tub Physics! 11:27

7y ago11:27

11:27

After a full day in a clean suit, there’s nothing like a dip in the hot tub.NASA astronomer Andrew Booth spends his days working with lasers, developing some of the word’s most advanced telescopes. When he gets home from work, he loves to pour a glass of wine and slip into the hot tub.And ponder some of the weirder aspects of astrophysics.Orbital P…

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Episode 21: First Light 22:53

7y ago22:53

22:53

There was a time before planets and suns. A time before oxygen. You could say there was time, even, before what we think of as light.Back in 1989, the Big Bang theory was still in question. But that year, a NASA team led by cosmologist John Mather launched a mission to probe the earliest moments of the universe.Mather won the Nobel Prize in Physics…

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