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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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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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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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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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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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The Backstory to Great Audio Storytelling, hosted by Rob Rosenthal, for Transom and PRX.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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”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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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. Our latest is Season 7, Scene on Radio: Capitalism. 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 roo ...
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THE TRUTH makes movies for your ears. They're short stories that are sometimes dark, sometimes funny, and always intriguing. Every story is different, but they all take you to unexpected places using only sound. If you're new, some good starting places are: Silvia's Blood, That's Democracy, Moon Graffiti, Tape Delay, or whatever's most recent. Listening with headphones is encouraged! We're a proud member of Radiotopia from PRX.
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Make bedtime a favorite part of your child’s day with Cozy Critters. Join Dougie Pickles and his kitten co-host, Miss Meow Meow, on a calming bedtime adventure, as they visit the world’s coziest critters. Experience relaxing soundscapes, animal insights, and serene, guided breathing exercises that help kids unwind for bedtime. So grab your pillow and join a journey where the wonders of the natural world meet the dream world. Brought to you ad-free by PRX.
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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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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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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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Vietnam court upholds death penalty for property tycoon
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A court in Vietnam has upheld the death penalty for property tycoon Truong My Lan. This follows her April conviction for embezzlement and bribery amounting to $12.5 billion, equivalent to 3% of the country’s GDP. The court said Truong My Lan's sentence could be commuted to life in prison if she reimburses $11 billion of what she owes. Host Carolyn …
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China announces a ban on rare earth mineral exports to the US
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In an escalation over global supply chains for technology, China is blocking the export of rare earth minerals to the United States a day after the Biden Administration announced export controls on certain advanced technology to China. Gracelin Baskaran, the director of the Critical Mineral and Security Program at the Center for Strategic and Inter…
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Concerns over potential bird flu pandemic 5 years after first known COVID-19 cases in China
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December marks five years since Chinese authorities informed the WHO about a growing number of patients in the country experiencing pneumonia-like symptoms from an unknown sickness. This was the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. Now, virologists worry about the spread of H5N1, a respiratory disease commonly known as bird flu. Host Marco Werman sp…
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Syria rebels continue advance, nearing Hama city
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A coalition of rebel forces in Syria is continuing its advance following its capture of Aleppo. The rebels continue to take towns and villages as they move south toward the central city of Hama. Host Carolyn Beeler speaks with Aron Lund, a senior fellow at the Century Foundation, to find out more about the rebels and how they've been able to conduc…
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Helado Negro explains how work inspired some of his recent tracks
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Roberto Carlos Lange performs under the name Helado Negro, which means “Black Ice Cream.” Lange is the son of Ecuadorian immigrants, raised in South Florida and, in this installment of our series "Movement with Meklit Hadero," he talks about how that upbringing shapes his own work ethic. His latest album "Phasor", opens with a song that is very muc…
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South Korea's president declared martial law. But it didn't last long.
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In the middle of the night, South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol issued a surprise announcement on television, imposing martial law on the country. He said "North Korean forces" needed to be eradicated. Lawmakers quickly acted to cancel the emergency declaration. But the bitter political divide in South Korea remains unresolved. The World's Matthew…
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Belgium must pay restitution for forced adoptions in its former African colonies
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Belgium must pay restitution to five women who were forcibly taken from their mothers in the 1950s and placed in orphanages run by the Catholic Church. Like thousands of other children in Belgium's African colonies, such as the Belgian Congo, they were mixed race with a European father and an African mother, taken from their homes at a time when mi…
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Dredging destroys a unique surfing wave in Spain
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Europe's longest left-breaking wave suddenly disappeared some 20 years ago. The culprit: dredging by a nearby shipyard and by local government. The deeper water doomed the Wave of Mundaka, leaving surfers and townsfolk nostalgic to this day. The World's Gerry Hadden reports from Spain's Basque Country in the north.…
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South Korean president declares martial law, but it doesn’t last long
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South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol issued a surprise televised announcement overnight imposing martial law, saying "North Korean forces" needed to be eradicated. Lawmakers quickly acted to cancel the emergency declaration, but the bitter political divide in the country remains unresolved. Also, a coalition of rebel forces in Syria is continuing i…
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Hosts Carolyn Beeler and Marco Werman give quick updates on news you may have missed.By Jenna Gadbois
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Across Japan, an aging population is redefining what it means to work. Elderly employees now make up a record 13.5% of the country’s workforce. To find out why so many seniors in Japan stay on the job well into their 70s and 80s, and even beyond, reporter Rebecca Rosman met up with some of them to get their stories. Starting with Kamekichi Fujiwara…
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Nothing seems guaranteed these days for creative audio makers. "Short Cuts" was recently cancelled and "Pretendians" is seeking funding for a second season, two shows on this episode of Sound School that are high on Rob's must-listen list because they elevate the craft and deliver essential storytelling.…
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Catherine Bauer Wurster, Housing Advocate: A Thoroughly Modern Woman
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A pioneer in her field, Catherine Bauer Wurster was advisor to five presidents on urban planning and housing and was one of the primary authors of the Housing Act of 1937. During the 1930s she wrote the influential book Modern Housing and was one of the leaders of the "housers" movement, advocating for affordable housing for low-income families. Ca…
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What Really Killed Emmett Till (1955) w/ Wright Thompson
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**It's the Radiotopia fundraiser! We can only make this show with your support. Give now and help support This Day and all the independent shows at Radiotopia. Thank you! https://www.radiotopia.fm/donate** It's December 3rd. This day in 1955, the Civil Rights movement is gaining attention across the South and the country, due in part to the protest…
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At a live performance in London, journalist, filmmaker, and author Sarfraz Manzoor reads a piece he wrote for SongWriter about the things he had to learn for himself. Researcher Dr. Elizabeth Gulliford talks about her work at the Jubilee Center for Character & Virtues, and the ways reconciliation and forgiveness work within Sarfraz’s story. And SK …
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Mandatory retirement ages complicate Japan's effort to keep people working longer
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Japan's government says keeping older folks in the workforce is one way it hopes to bolster its economy as the working-age population decreases. Municipal job centers host job fairs for older people, and the government gives out awards for companies that employ lots of older workers. But most medium and large Japanese companies enact mandatory reti…
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Resistance may be futile, but some Russian politicians are trying
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Russia's presidential election last spring gave President Vladimir Putin a fifth term in office and mostly overshadowed many other Russian political stories. But this fall, Russia held another set of national elections where voters elected nearly 4,000 candidates to regional positions. Among them were some opposition candidates who vocally oppose t…
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The president of the International Criminal Court lashed out at the United States and Russia for interfering with its investigations, calling attacks on the court “appalling.” Host Marco Werman has more on comments made as the institution’s annual meeting opened on Monday.By Patti Daniels
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Syrian rebels take Aleppo city in surprise offensive
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Syria's anti-government rebels launched a massive offensive last week against the regime of President Bashar al-Assad. The offensive took most observers by surprise — especially as the rebels took control of Syria's largest city, Aleppo. The Assad regime has responded by carrying out aerial attacks on Aleppo city and Idlib province. Host Marco Werm…
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Syrian rebels overtake Aleppo in surprise offensive
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Syria's anti-government rebels launched a massive offensive last week, taking most observers by surprise and gaining control over the largest city, Aleppo. The regime of President Bashar al-Assad has responded by conducting aerial attacks on Aleppo city and Idlib province. Also, the president of the International Criminal Court lashed out at the US…
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Today, Hong Kong launched its "PANDA GO! FEST HK" festival. There are 2,500 panda statues made of recycled rubber barrels that will be displayed at several sites throughout the city over the course of this month. Host Marco Werman has the details.By Jenna Gadbois
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France's prime minister is facing a no-confidence vote after pushing through a controversial budget. Prime Minister Michel Barnier bypassed parliament to enact a budget, saying it was necessary for "stability." But sharp backlash against the move means a no-confidence vote could topple Barnier's government as soon as Wednesday. Host Marco Werman ex…
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A gathering of more than 200 nations that convened to reach a landmark agreement on ending plastic pollution broke down on Monday without achieving its goal. The talks in Busan, South Korea, collapsed due to pressure from oil-rich nations who argued that plastic production should not be phased out. The World’s Host Marco Werman discusses the reperc…
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Deaths from food at convenience stores highlight South African xenophobia
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So far, some two dozen kids in South Africa have died after eating tainted food from some of the country's small convenience stores, known as "spazas." The government has declared the crisis a national disaster. But the deaths are also bringing up a deep-seated distrust of foreigners, who some South Africans blame for a host of ills. Elna Schutz re…
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In the country of Georgia, protesters take to the streets night after night, in a new grassroots uproar over the ruling party's decision to suspend talks to join the EU. Giorgi Lomsadze, a freelance reporter in the capital, Tbilisi, explains what's happening.By Chris Harland-Dunaway
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Scottish try to slow erosion of historic monuments due to climate change
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Erosion, rising sea levels and increasingly severe storms pose significant threats to the integrity of historic sites in Scotland. The castles and monuments are deteriorating faster as the effects of climate change are felt. Reporter Emma Jacobs travels to several sites in Scotland to learn about efforts to protect them for generations to come.…
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Orcas have been spotted off the west coast of North America, balancing salmon on their heads. The phenomenon, first observed in 1987, is a bit of a mystery. But after a long absence, they're bringing it back. Host Marco Werman has the details.By Jenna Gadbois
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