Podcasts are big business. In this post-Serial audio world, journalists, celebrities, academics and yes, anyone else who owns a mixing desk and a microphone, now has a regular show. The quality is generally high but some efforts can still be hit and miss with dozens of podcasts popping up around the same themes or TV shows. To help you out we curate this every-changing list of interesting podcast recommendations spanning technology, culture, science, politics and beyond. And, if you’re interested in more listening ideas, try our guide to the best audiobooks as well.
Ways to Change the World
Channel 4 newsreader Krishnan Guru-Murthy sits down with some of the best and brightest figures in tech, politics, economics, science, business, arts, and culture to explore their work and ask one big question: what’s their big idea to improve the world? Each episode offers a deep and frank discussion on important issues, with Guru-Murthy’s welcoming yet piercing interview style extracting fascinating insight from each week’s guest. While the content and theme can vary wildly from week to week, every big idea is given a chance to shine, and offers new ways to look at problems you might not even be aware of going in.
RedHanded
True crime stories are often fascinating, but tales of murderers and serial killers in particular satisfy a grim craving for many people. Over the course of 200+ episodes – and counting – Suruthi Bala and Hannah Maguire delve into some of the most horrific criminal cases from around the world, bringing atrocities to light and trying to answer the question of how some people can become so broken and twisted that they murder – and sometimes worse – numerous victims. While the show has occasional episodes delving into supposedly supernatural stories (“RedHaunted”), truth is often stranger than fiction, as the exploration of real-world ‘vampire kings’, cannibal cults, and even the Church of Satan shows. A darkly absorbing listen.
My Dad Wrote a Porno
Jamie Morton’s dad wrote a porno. Refusing to suffer in silence, he now reads it to his friends Alice Levine and James Cooper – and a legion of listeners transfixed by the questionable adventures of globetrotting Belinda Blumenthal. Thankfully, the text in question is hilariously awful, evolving from boardroom business to international spy plots, by way of lesbian Duchesses, experimental penis enlargement procedures, and secret organisations devoted to selling cookware. Best – or worst? – of all, the actual porn shows such a poor understanding of human anatomy that Jamie frequently has to question if he’s adopted. Each episode of this comedy podcast covers a chapter in one of author “Rocky Flintstone’s” self-published Belinda Blinked books, while the companion Footnotes podcast sees the gang interviewing famous fans of the series. Come for the cringe, stay for the laughs… and the cringe.
Stuff the British Stole
Marc Fennell hosts this ABC podcast which delves into the complex and often dramatic histories of all manner of “stuff” stolen under the British Empire. Episodes cover subjects including a mission to return the Benin bronzes and the brutal story behind the acquisition of a dog aptly named Looty. Even if you think you already know a lot about this period of history, you’ll likely discover something you didn’t.
The Climate Question
This BBC World Service podcast is driven by one basic question: “What can we do about climate change?” It’s a broad remit, but each 27-minute episode is tightly produced and focuses on one, often timely, subject. Episodes in 2021 have covered the North American heatwaves where hundreds of people died, whether hydrogen gas will be the fuel of the future and if the internet can ever be green. Each episode gives an efficient overview on the big areas of each topic.
Bed of Lies
The modern history of Britain’s police forces is marred by a dark secret. For decades, dating back to the 1960s, undercover police officers infiltrated political groups into the UK and in the process duped women into having relationships with them. This podcast, produced by the Telegraph, tells the story of the spy cops scandal in the words of the women who were manipulated. The episodes cover the secrecy from the state, how the scandal unravelled and the fightback, which eventually led to the start of the UK’s Undercover Policing Inquiry in 2020.
How To Fail with Elizabeth Day
Journalist and author Elizabeth Day has made a career out of failure. Not literally – she’s a brilliant and engaging host, but uses failure as a lens through which to view success, not as a way of dwelling on misfortune, but to highlight what we can learn from it. She asks guests – actors, authors, athletes, politicians – to talk three some high profile moments in their lives where things just went wrong. It’s warm, reassuring and fascinating.
Revisionist History
Publishing behemoth Malcolm Gladwell does a good line in punchy pop-science books that use illuminating anecdotes to hammer home a very simple point. His style isn’t for everyone, but you can’t argue with sales figures. Each episode of Revisionist History is a fascinating self-contained story covering topics ranging from basketball free throw shots to college rankings – the idea behind the podcast is to take another look at past events, and reassess them with the benefit of hindsight.
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This isn’t like the other podcasts on the list. You probably won’t learn anything. But it is a lot of fun. Each week, comedians James Acaster and Ed Gamble ask a special guest for their favourite ever starter, main, side dish, desert and drink to be enjoyed in a mystical dream restaurant. Their answers range from mouth-watering fine dining (think foams, gels and Michelin stars) through to straight-up infuriating (A Ploughman’s). The premise is admittedly simple, but it acts as a platform for layers of in-jokes and references, and adds up to an appetising podcast.
I’m Not A Monster
How did an American woman and her children end up trapped in Syria under a terrorist regime? A suicide bombing in Iraq, a home video from inside the ISIS caliphate, and a desperate cry for help triggered a desperate quest to save them. This true story, narrated by BBC journalist Josh Baker, tells the story of a nearly four-year investigation to understand how Sam Sally (also known as Sam Elhassani) went from Indiana to ISIS territory, and what happened when she came back.
Dead Eyes
Actor/comedian Connor Ratliff goes on a mission to find out why the nicest man in Hollywood – Tom Hanks – fired him from a small role in the 2001 HBO mini-series Band of Brothers. Spoiler: it was because Hanks thought Ratliff had ‘dead eyes’. Or was it? Ratliff picks over his two-decade-old wound with other actors and comedians as he discusses failure, storytelling, and tries to work out what lead up to the brief moment when the most beloved actor in a generation sent his life into a irreversible tailspin.
Always Take Notes
Perhaps a little bit inside baseball, but a favourite in the WIRED office, Always Take Notes is a podcast about the craft of long-form writing. Hosts Simon Akam and Rachel Lloyd are both writers for the likes of Bloomberg, the Economist and The New York Times and their guests are a mixture of writers, editors and publishers from magazines and newspapers to novels. The conversations are thoughtful and introspective, and shine a light on the inner workings of journalism – including, crucially, how to make it pay.
Script Apart
Stephen Merchant’s back and forth on salty language in Fighting With My Family, Joe Cornish getting teen dialogue right for Attack The Block, Kelly O’ Sullivan, Barry Jenkins, Iannucci… this film interview podcast from British journalist Al Horner gets into the nitty gritty of screenwriting with obsessive detail, care and attention. Doubling up as a ‘how this got made’ for some incredible films (who approached who, character arcs, what was improvised), it’s a lovely deep dive into some recent classics for those of us who are heavily Covid-rationing cinema visits or not going at all.
Keen On
Andrew Keen became famous in the 2000s for his scathing criticism of internet culture and its deleterious effects on how expertise is perceived – in some ways prophesying many of the problems dogging cyberspace today. His podcast is less focused on that and more concerned with the future of capitalism at large. Keen, a bluff Brit whose accent verges on the Mid-Atlantic, conducts with panache interviews with luminaries of all stripes, from Yanis Varoufakis to Talking Politics’s David Runciman.
The format is admittedly bog-standard, but Keen is unpredictable enough to fire off the occasional left-field question, delivering a generally more original product than your usual talk-radio-style podcast.
Unearthed: Mysteries from an unseen world
In the leafy conservatory of Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, an apprentice is going about his rounds when something strikes him by its absence: in the spot where there should be one of Kew’s rarest and most valuable waterlilies is nothing – just a patch of mud. Thus opens the first episode of Unearthed, a podcast from Kew that focuses on the unexpected underworld of plant life. Hosted by botanist James Wong, the series covers everything from illegal traffickers willing to go to criminal ends to get the perfect specimen to poisonings solved with the help of plant science, all the while reminding listeners of the desperate need to conserve some of the world’s most endangered species.
This Day in Esoteric Political History
Some podcasts give you the whole shebang but This Day is more of a teaser for discussions about big and small moments in US history like the East Coast dim outs during WW2 or the time Texas House Democrats hid out in Oklahoma to avoid a redistricting vote. All brilliant fodder for longer internet rabbit holes. With Jody Avirgan (ex-538 and others) hosting, historian Nicole Hemmer, this pod sometimes features guests whose voices you’ll know from other American podcasts (Harry Enten, Jamelle Bouie)
Fake Doctors, Real Friends
Medical sitcom Scrubs ran eight good years and one bad one, and built much of its appeal around the warmth and camaraderie of its young cast. Zach Braff and Donald Faison, who played new doctors J.D. and Turk respectively, reunite here for an episode-by-episode watch through from the pilot onwards. Parts of the show itself may not have aged that well, but this is a pleasing dollop of nostalgia for fans.
Gastropod
What exactly is pizza? How did chicken tikka masala become a quintessential British dish? And how was the humble bagel catapulted from culinary obscurity to breakfast ubiquity? Every other week, Gastropod co-hosts Cynthia Graber and Nicola Twilley explore a different topic relating to food and dig into the science and history behind it. Featuring interviews with chefs, scientists and experts from all over the world, the duo are excellent at digging up the fascinating stories behind the stuff that ends up in our plates, bowls and mouths.
The Last Archive
Told in the style of a 1930s radio drama – scary sounds, dramatic music, hammy reenactments – The Last Archive is a podcast that explores how history can be understood through documents and evidence. According to its website, the show will use “historical record” – from court case transcripts and official reports to Instagram posts – to tell stories about broad social and cultural themes and to answer the question: “Who killed the truth?”
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The first episode, for what it’s worth, is luscious. It recounts the cold-case murder of Lucina Broadwell, killed in Vermont in 1919, and it sounds like what Serial would have sounded like had it been set in the 1920s, and hosted by someone not as ludicrously memeable as Sarah Koenig.
Office Ladies
If you’re a super fan of The Office there’s only one thing you should be listening to right now, Office Ladies. Best friends and co-stars of the iconic show, Jenna Fischer and Angela Kinsey (or better known as Pam Beesly and Angela Martin) have teamed up to do the ultimate Officere-watch podcast and it is an absolute delight. The pair’s friendly banter and love for the show is obvious from episode one. Every week they break down a new episode of The Office and give listeners an extra insight into the behind-the-scenes world of Dunder Mifflin. The podcast also features interviews with Office icons like Rainn Wilson (Scranton oddball, Dwight Schrute), Melora Hardin (Former Dunder Mifflin head honcho, Jan Levinson), and writer Greg Daniels. But the real highlight here is hosts Fischer and Kinsey, their interaction with fans and candid storytelling about working in Hollywood makes Office Ladies a really wholesome listen.
The 80,000 Hours Podcast
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80,000 Hours is a British organisation studying which careers can achieve the most positive impact on the world, and a lynchpin of that cluster of Oxford researchers, utilitarian thinkers, and bloggers à-la Dominic Cummings comprising the Effective Altruism movement. From its podcasts, expect a lot of philosophical debates on morality, metacognition, and global catastrophic risks – from climate change to rogue AI. Of course, they saw the pandemic coming months in advance
The Privacy, Security & OSINT Show with Michael Bazzell
Michael Bazzell – not his real name – says he worked for over a decade for the FBI’s cybercrime unit before pivoting to consulting, blogging, writing, and podcasting about being an online sleuth. In his fortnightly podcast he delivers a compact digest of tips and tools to dig up information about a person or organisation by weaponising everything from social media to credit score reports. The flip-side of that is, of course, what Bazzell calls ”extreme privacy”: making sure in every conceivable way that you are not exposing your information to internet voyeurs and cyber-criminals. Hence the episodes where Bazzell explains, in incredible detail, how everything around you is rigged to extract your personal information and turning it against you. That goes from data-guzzling loyalty card schemes, to borderline scenarios like hidden cameras in hotels – to the detection and neutralisation of which Bazzell devoted an hour-long episode. Bazzell’s style is conversational and relatable, and his tips are real gold if you are into online detective-work. But even for those who are not wont to investigate shady individuals via their TikTok profiles, the podcast offers a glimpse of the scope of potential cyber-threats we pass by every day without even realising, and of the quasi-paranoid lengths to which privacy-minded individuals are ready to go to keep out of harm’s way.
Gladiator: Aaron Hernandez and Football Inc.
Aaron Hernandez had just signed a multi-million contract with the New England Patriots, the most successful team in the NFL, when he murdered his friend Odin Lloyd. Once arrested, it soon became clear his crime was just the grim end to years of deviant behaviour seemingly enabled by his status as a star player. Gladiator, a co-production between the Boston Globe’s Spotlight investigation team and Wondery, delves into his story and the impact American Football, particularly its culture and its violence, had on his life. It’s an absorbing listen for any sports fan.
The WIRED UK Podcast
From the award-winning team at WIRED UK (yes, that’s us) comes a sideways look at the week in tech, culture, science and politics. Every week, we discuss the most interesting stories on WIRED that week, share our favourite random facts and catch you up on the world of technology. And, while this is a tech podcast, we skip the gadget chat in favour of more interesting topics, like why high-tech Japanese toilets are conquering the West. It’s important. You can listen on Spotify, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.
WeCrashed
In just 40 days, office-sharing firm WeWork went from a $47bn valuation to the biggest business scandal since Enron, via a botched IPO and the resignation of charismatic CEO Adam Neumann. The WeCrashed podcast is the definitive inside story of the rise and fall of the company, where Neumann built a cultish following as he created one of the most valuable startups in the world. It hints at wider issues in the tech startup – how did what was essentially a real estate company get such a huge valuation? Listen to WeCrashed to find out.
Dolly Parton’s America
If you’ve written off Dolly Parton as merely a living reminder of the kitschiest edge of Americana, then prepare to have your pigeonhole thoroughly blown apart. RadioLab creator and host Jad Abumrad reaches deep inside the Dollyverse to find out how Parton’s genius as a songwriter and musician has turned her into the rarest of things: an icon equally loved by people on both sides of today’s cultural divide. Starting with a chance encounter between Parton and his father in an emergency room, Abumrad tells the full story of Parton’s troubled ascendancy and her perception of herself as a feminist in action, if not in theory.
Fake Heiress
“Fake it until you make it on an industrial scale” underpins the tale of Anna Delvey, real name Anna Sorokin, who conned the Gossip Girl class of New York into believing she was a rich trust fund heiress. She racked up bills at expensive hotels and forced friends to pay for her, blaming difficulty in moving money from her overseas accounts, and stole $275,000 through a variety of scams. Fake Heiress is an entertaining mix of fictional reenactments, narration and interviews with those who knew her to understand how a girl from a tiny town in Russia became a big name in New York. Naturally, Netflix and HBO are both working on TV shows based on the same story, but this a fun intro to the story all the same.
Intercepted
Jonathan Goldstein is not a self-help guru, but that doesn’t stop him trying. Every episode, the Heavyweight host takes a guest back to a point in their life where everything changed and helps unravel the mysteries that sprang from that moment. There’s the addict who sold his dad’s prized possession to get high, or the woman who never found the right moment to tell the father of her child that he had a daughter. Each episode is as touching as it is funny, as Goldstein bumbles himself and his companion towards some kind of resolution.
Binge Mode: Star Wars
Binge Mode is part of the growing trend of recap podcasts that delve into the finer details of films and TV shows. Having previously tackled Game of Thrones and the Harry Potter movies, hosts Mallory Rubin and Jason Concepcion bring their eye for detail and hilarity to Star Wars. Each episode deals with a specific film in the series or examines a character in more detail. The inevitable Jar Jar Binks episode is brilliant as the hosts have a knack for laugh out loud skits and bring plenty of context from canon and #noncanon extended universe stories, which add depth for film viewers.
Call Your Girlfrien
‘For long distance besties everywhere’. Call Your Girlfriend is co-hosted by New York Times journalist Ann Friedman and businesswoman Aminatou Sow, who are based on opposite sides of the US. It takes the format of a weekly phone call between the two friends, where they connect to share fresh, irreverent takes on pop culture and politics (particularly the ravings of the ‘Cheeto in Chief’), and chat to a range of fascinating interviewees from novelists to politicians to activists.
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Want to know how the west’s narrow definition of corruption obscures a vast wealth transfer from the global south to wealthy westerners? How news sites’ favourite ‘neutral experts’ on Iran might not be so neutral after all? Or which terms the media employs over and over to vilify the homeless? Citations Needed fearlessly explores how mainstream US media narratives shelter the powerful and distort our views on a huge variety of topical issues.
Hit Parade
Chris Molanphy’s Hit Parade, from Slate, isn’t the kind of podcast you dip into on the commute. It’s more the kind of thing you cancel all your evening plans for. The Bridge trivia episodes, in which Molanphy competes with listeners on music trivia, are fun but it’s the major themed episodes that are the real star. Get into the three phases of the Bee Gees; the power of posthumous hits or the chart history of show tunes with Molanphy’s meticulously researched deep dives that treat No.1 records with the respect they deserve.
The Dream
In the mid-1980s, the US went wild for something called the “Plane Game”. The idea was simple. You, and seven fellow “passengers” each pay $1,500 to hop on board a make-believe plane. Once that plane is full, the “captain” pockets all the cash and each passengers moves up a rung on the ladder towards being the “captain” of their own plane. While a few early joiners revelled in what appeared to be an limitless money machine, those towards the bottom wasted thousands. In The Dream, Jane Marie explores every facet of multi-level marketing schemes, from the heady get-rich-quick days of the Plane Game to the pyramid schemes that are rife on Instagram and Facebook. Get ready to meet some strange characters behind multi-level marketing schemes and the people who had their lives changed by them forever in unexpected ways.
The Secret History of the Future
What does lab grown meat have in common with a potato? Strange and unappetising, the vegetable was initially shunned by Europeans when it was first imported to the continent in the mid-sixteenth century, but soon it became a staple crop for millions. Lab grown meat, argue Slate’s Seth Stevenson and The Economist’s Tom Standage in one episode, may well become the new basis of our future diets. Every week the journalists dig up a story from the history books that gives a hint about where we might heading in the future. Whether they’re discussing the return of wind-powered ships or investigating the link between the phonograph and online music, each episode of The Secret History of the Future is crammed with new ways of looking at the modern world.
Ear Hustle
Co-hosted by former San Quentin inmate Earlonne Woods and the visual artist Nigel Poor, every episode of Ear Hustle looks at the challenges of prison life – and the struggle to reintegrate on the outside – told through the words of inmates themselves. In prison, even the most trivial things take on an outsized significance, with episodes going in-depth on the trials of dating from prison, the politics of friendships and the crucial role that postage stamps play in the incarcerated economy.
Against the Rules
As he takes us through stories of the ‘refs’ who adjudicate and pass judgement in worlds like finance, art, charity and sport, Michael Lewis always sounds slightly amused, even as he’s digging into the decline in the power of fair, neutral referees and regulators, and the rise of biased ones, in every industry and aspect of our lives. Maybe the author of Moneyball and The Big Short knows something we don’t or maybe you just have to laugh when story after story shows how susceptible most people are to some sort of incentivised behaviour or corruption. Against The Rules is from Malcolm Gladwell and Jacob Weisberg’s new-ish podcast joint Pushkin Industries and despite the fact it makes us pretty despondent about our fellow humans, it’s a hoot.
Articles of Interest
If you’re a long time subscriber to 99% Invisible (below), you might have seen Articles of Interest pop in up your feed. Also available as a standalone, six episode series, each instalment takes on one specific detail about clothing – plaid, pockets, blue jeans – and digs into their history, looking at everything from class and gender to the impact of the loom on computer programming. Hosted by 99% producer Avery Trufelman, who speaks to experts on topics such as how Hawaii’s Aloha shirt lead to casual Fridays in offices, it’s perfect for people who’d rather listen to a podcast about dressing well than dress well.
Exponent
For smart, well-thought-out analysis of the biggest trends shaping the tech industry, look no further than Exponent. Hosted by Ben Thompson, the writer of one of the most highly-regarded tech blogs and newsletters, Stratechery, and James Allworth, head of innovation at Cloudflare, each episode dissects the workings of the tech industry from a strategic point of view. With a leaning towards the business side of things, rather than the cultural implications of technology, Exponent draws links between companies and headlines to really bring to the fore the trends that are driving the tech industry today. After a few episodes in, you’ll begin to realise that although it feels like we’re in truly uncharted technology, there is usually an antecedent to the situations tech companies end up in today, and getting your brain out of the latest headlines can reveal much about where you can expect firms to head in the future.
The Week Unwrapped – with Olly Mann
Every week, Answer me This! co-host Olly Mann and writers from the news magazine The Week discuss three major news stories that aren’t necessarily getting big headlines today, but have big implications for our lives. The scope of the show is huge and you can expect to hear stories about science, politics and culture dissected and vociferously debated. If you’re bored of the same old headlines about Trump and Brexit, The Week Unwrapped is the perfect podcast to peek behind the news agenda and sink your teeth into something a little more substantial.
Eat Sleep Work Repeat
Hosted by Bruce Daisley, Twitter’s European vice president, Eat Sleep Work Repeat focuses on how individuals and businesses can improve workplace culture. In each episode, Daisley interviews a different guest to get their insight on various aspects of life at work – it’s a great one to check out if you don’t have time to get through as many business books as you’d like. Guests include Sue Unerman on gender inequality in the workplace, Rob Briner on evidence-based management and Cal Newport on digital minimalism.
Bombshell
Politically-inclined podcasts in the UK and US are so often obsessed with the insular (admittedly juicy) goings-on of Westminster and Washington. Bombshell has a bit of that but the chat is much more obsessed with national security and whatever the international crisis is that fortnight – the Middle East, Venezuela, US trade with China – as it’s twice monthly. On the mics, “the ladies” are Radha Iyengar Plumb and Loren DeJonge Schulman, both ex-National Security Council and Department of Defense bods, together with ex-academic and defence industry exec Erin Simpson. As a bonus treat, there’s in-the-know special guests and delightful pop culture asides too.
Believed
Believed from NPR tells the horrific story of Larry Nassar, the US Olympic gymnastics doctor got away with sexually abusing hundreds of young girls over several decades under the cover of “medical” procedures. The series forensically details how he got away with his crimes, playing on the trust in him that led many parents not to believe their children when they accused him, and the institutional failures that led him to evade numerous investigations.
Lovett or Leave It
With Barack Obama’s former speechwriter Jon Lovett as the presenter, you can’t expect less than carefully picked words for the finest degree of eloquence. Lovett or Leave It rounds up what is worth remembering from the week’s top news, and is regularly punctuated with guest appearances from comedians, actors and journalists. The content is heavy with North American stories – that is, Trump-related news – but it is delivered so neatly that you are sure to laugh along. Particularly recommended if you are into rants and impressions.
99% Invisible
Everything around us in the non-natural world has been designed and shaped by human beings. From city benches built to be deliberately uncomfortable to deter rough sleepers, to the serious design flaws that mean governments are turning their backs on cul-de-sacs, 99% Invisible tells the fascinating stories behind the parts of our world we don’t always pay much attention to. As an added bonus, host Roman Mars has one of the smoothest voices in podcasting.
The Dollop
The Dollop with Dave Anthony and Gareth Reynolds is the most fun you will ever have during a history lesson. Every week, Anthony reads a story from American history to Reynolds who has no idea what the topic is going to be about. This power dynamic puts Reynolds in the place of the listener, and the ensuing reactions are hilariously relatable – with just the right amount of mockery. The hosts make this podcast genuinely funny, whilst successfully teaching you about some seriously interesting topics, from the Radium Girls who rotted away, the history of Opium in the US and a shrewd look at Uber.
The Tip Off
The Tip Off asks journalists to explain how they got the leads for their biggest stories. This weekly podcast gives a satisfyingly dramatic look at the detective work behind journalism. There will be car chases, slammed doors, terrorist cells, meetings in dimly lit bars and close shaves with despotic regimes. However, while all of these are worth a listen, what you really stay for is the episode on the Panama Papers. Hosted by investigative journalist Maeve McClenaghan, she asks the journalists who led the investigation how they managed to keep the biggest data leak in history a secret for so long.
The Habitat
In January 2017, Nasa placed six people inside a dome at the base of at the summit of a Hawaiian volcano. And then the space agency left them there. For an entire year. The Habitat follows six imitation astronauts taking part in an experiment designed to test how real astronauts would survive in cramped quarters during a long and lonely mission to Mars. The result is a striking documentary series that’s part Big Brother and part The Martian, told through interviews and audio diaries.
Exponential View
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Those familiar with Azeem Azhar’s in-depth and smartly curated newsletter of the same name will find the same level of quality and attention to detail in his Exponential View podcast. For those not familiar, Azhar is a former technology entrepreneur and journalist with a serious interest in exponential technologies – those, like AI, that are rapidly developing and changing business, political economy and society. Though Azhar is a brilliant and penetrating host, whether discussing cyberspace regulation or the future of renewable energy, the real star of his podcast are the guests: they read like a who’s who of world experts on the future of technology.
Reply All
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This podcast will take you down some of the strangest online rabbit holes that you never knew existed. Whether it’s exploring why mysterious Amazon packages keep getting sent to random addresses or finding out who is really behind those annoying call centre scams, Reply All is an investigative podcast about things you see on the internet but usually dismiss in an instant. Hosted by Gimlet’s PJ Vogt and Alex Goldman (with occasional appearances from Gimlet CEO Alex Blumberg), it reveals just how bizarre our hyper-connected world has become.
How I Built This
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NPR’s How I built this tells the story of successful companies in the words of their creators. Host Guy Raz speaks to a different entrepreneur in each episode, and has them recount how they built their business. The real draw for listeners is the calibre of guests that the show manages to attract: past episodes have featured the brains behind prominent startups including Instagram and Airbnb, but also more mainstream business leaders such as the executive chairman of Starbucks and the founders of Ben & Jerry’s. It’s an intimate insight into the history of well-known brands, and great inspiration if you’re looking to get your own business idea off the ground.
Ctrl Alt Delete
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Funny and honest, Ctrl Alt Delete brings a much needed female perspective to the internet. As the former social media editor of British Glamour, Emma Gannon draws on her own experiences online to discusses the world of work and existing online with her high profile guests. If you are worried about how employable you will be in five years, worry not. From dealing with trolls to baring your soul on social media, this series has never been more relevant for emerging women in the workplace.
