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The Audio Browser — 346 episodes
1. ‘I’m Done With That Life’
Evel Knievel Faces the Abyss
Why America Is Switching From Booze to Weed
Can this museum rebrand AI art?
Noctohabitology (SLEEP PROCRASTINATION) with Vanessa “Nessy” Hill
The Weight of Fame: A Hollywood Tragedy
Episode 333: P-hacking the Mind
William Buckley: How an escaped convict spent 30 years with an Indigenous group
The Dream is Alive
Fabricated Memories and Stories: David Byrne's View From A Bridge
100 Objects #10: Nunchaku
The Bone Man
1. Beginnings, Plural
Father Brendan McGuire: Bringing AI to Church
Ogham: The Mystery of Ireland’s Oldest Writing
Lauryn Hill: The Miseducation, The Fugees and Her Enduring Legacy
58: The Other Mitford Girl
Episode 1: Illinois
Episode 1: Aftermath
The geography of sports movies (with Chuck Klosterman and Michael Weinreb)
To the Manor Born
The Miles Davis Story: 1. Don't Call Me Legend
Merciless Indian Savages | Episode 1
Spy Cities: London
Collapsology (SOCIETAL COLLAPSE, LOL!) with Joseph Tainter
We Are Monumentally Bad at Statues
Mary Keen on a lifetime of gardening
This is Your Brain on Hormones
Everything is iPod
David Hockney Tribute
The Flood, Part 1
Ep 1: The Friendly Arctic
The Seven Addresses To The Reader In PURGATORIO
Why Tomatoes Are the Most Expensive They've Been in Four Decades
A Very Long Road
Smile
17. Oscar Wilde's Downfall: The Picture of Dorian Gray
Darkness Falls
Mama se mama sa mamacoosa
Rejecting Joan Jett
When Shiraz Calls
How to Lose a Car in 15 Days
The unfortunate incident
How the right embraced psychedelics
Live Film Special: Good Night, and Good Luck w/Helen Lewis
Mary Beard on the Classics
Hit That Perfect Beat: The London Records Story | Episode 1 - A New Era
The “Steroid Olympics”
100 Objects #1: The Century Safe
The early "voice notes" that give us a window into the past
Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 2
Closing Small Colleges
Sir David Attenborough: The Voice of the Natural World Turns 100
The languages that shaped Hind Hassan
The Secret Language
The Head Case
My Mother’s Lies | 1. The Hero Housewife Who Solved A Murder
How To Solve a Mystery
670. Beeconomics 101
Confucius and Women, with Erin Cline
4. The Lance Armstrong Defence
1: You don’t know about this?
65: The indies fight back! Damon Krukowski on the value of sound
Who’s afraid of realism? Three stories by Anton Chekhov
Your accent… explained
How To Have Fun
Let’s all get started: 5 steps to action | with Jon Alexander
Shotgun Ornithology
1. Murder on Chesil Beach
How to redraw a city: Land readjustment in Japan
When is a Pancake Not a Pancake?
Manfred George’s Aufbau: Reconstructing the News
Biden and the Border (Part 1), with Charanya Krishnaswami
Episode 182: Christopher Clark on A Scandal in Königsberg
“Everybody Loses” by Danny Funt
The Wright Sister
Season 10, Cassette 10: You Should See It
I’ve Understudied The Same Role For 15 Years - Longevity, Addiction & Being a World Record Holder | Clive Marlowe
‘KPop Demon Hunters’ Creator Maggie Kang on the Global Hit No One Saw Coming
Ruixue Jia et al., "The Highest Exam: How the Gaokao Shapes China" (Harvard UP, 2025)
How a Congressional Office Actually Works
8. How to Be a Tower Climber
Alice Costelloe
On Liberty
Richard the Lionheart part 3 w/ The Bazaar of War -- Ep28
Episode 1: Minimum Viable Company
Loneliness Is Reshaping America (w/ David Brooks)
Kidnapped By The Taliban | Journalist Sean Langan's Incredible Story
Why we still trust Wikipedia, with cofounder Jimmy Wales
Dark Shadows | 1
Yellowstone
1: The Job
The Countertenor
In search of names
60. Poppy & Shanti - Hackney City Farm
The Declaration of Independence: 250 Years of the United States, with Selby Kiffer
Jonathan C. Slaght: The Journey to Save the Siberian Tiger from Extinction
The history of collecting
Garden of England
#377 ‒ Special episode: Understanding true happiness and the tools to cultivate a meaningful life—insights from past interviews with Arthur Brooks
Episode 1: Did Swayze Start the Fire?
Episode 150, The World's Worst Philosopher (Part I - T.R.U.T.H)
624. Jack The Ripper: History’s Darkest Mystery (Part 1)
To Crack Wu-Tang Album's Secrets, FOIA FOIA Y'All (Feat. Open Mike Eagle)
(Ep. 5) - Special Delivery: From Farm Rebellion to Mailed Babies. Your Rural Free Delivery is here because rural America organized and fought for it
U Is for Urbanism
1: To Hell and Back
From the archive: A day in the life of (almost) every vending machine in the world
When Productivity Becomes Pathological
Inside the Biggest Sting Operation Ever (with Michael Bobbitt)
Episode 1: An Unsettling Secret
#64 Kevin
Andrew Ross Sorkin: What the Crash of 1929 Says About Today
Worldbuilding Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein
Why Are There So Many Shipwrecks in the Great Lakes?
How to be a polymath
The “Fall of Rome” with Sarah Bond
Samira Ahmed – The Blondie hit that’s about Debbie Harry’s stalker
The Labour Party – Part One – A Very British Socialism
Ep. 136 - Diane Keaton
George Packer on Liberal Values in Authoritarian Times
The Usual Suspects
The economics of the baby bust with Jesús Fernández-Villaverde
The Age of Choice: Disha Karnad Jani Interviews Sophia Rosenfeld
The Prime Minister, Sir Keir Starmer
Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook of The Rest Is History Podcast
Thomas Sowell: A Free Man | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution
The Sunshine Hotel by Sound Portraits
You're Not a Weirdo
The Mystery of the Sleepy Sickness
Thrill Seekers, Episode 1: Are You a Thrill Seeker?
“Of Light” by Agha Shahid Ali
I know what you know – why that’s good for both of us
A Freakin’ Animal
Ep 1: The Deportation Order: Hitler’s Retaliation
Early warning systems: using tech to predict disease outbreaks
Miriam Solomon on How Stigma Shapes Psychiatry
The Cardboard Boxpocalypse and the State of the US Economy
TL Scotland 1. PLAY
The Gritti Palace, Venice
Floating Market
Symphonic Marches
David Woodman, "The First King of England: Æthelstan and the Birth of a Kingdom" (Princeton UP, 2025)
Legacies of Covid-19
#11 - I Feel Love / Donna Summer
The Bus Ride
Off-the-Wall Stories of Off-Label Use
Three is murder | The Lab Detective Ep1
Hark | 9 | The Silent Type
Zippers
Games about death improve our lives
Cyan
Why Does My Mind Keep Thinking That?
How it Started: 15 minutes of EICs on the bizarre process of getting hired.
102. “The Starry Night”
Episode 1: Whispering Pines
The Evolution of Lungs
From the archive: how two BBC journalists risked their jobs to reveal the truth about Jimmy Savile
Hark | 12 | Trailblazers
Why are we so obsessed with manufacturing?
Fromology (CHEESE) Part 1 with Kyra James
[45] Laura Spinney — The First Human Language and How We Think
Poison in the water: the town with the world’s worst case of forever chemicals contamination
Focus On What’s Right About Young Men with Barack Obama
Are friars electric?
The Space Shuttle: 1. The spaceplane
How to Cross the Sahara as a Tenth-Century Cameleer
How a king, a president, a railway empire and a hot dog helped save the free world
Guilty: The Jury returns its verdict
Madness, Mysticism, and Philosophy – A Talk with Wouter Kusters
45. Recycling labels explained, with Alice Harlock from OPRL
The Mysteries of Easter Island
Missing in the Amazon: the disappearance – episode one
"Varmint Rifle": 2
Civility, trash talking and more sociable cities
Adapt or Design
Episode 1: Early One Morning
Killed by a Traffic Engineer
The Echo in the Machine
National Parks Week: Take a Walk, Find A New Species
Substack: Chris Best and Hamish McKenzie
The New Rules of Subculture
What the Evidence Shows - The Problem We All Live With
Georgian wallpaper and an enduring fashion trend
Coyotes! with Lulu Miller
How economists (and TikTok) know if a recession is coming
Who Broke the Internet? | E2: Ctrl, Ctrl, Ctrl
Episode 1: The Warrior
Katja Hoyer on East Germany Then and Now
The Yellow Dwarf | The Lang Fairy Tales: The Blue Fairy Book (1889)
Daniel Swift: The Making of William Shakespeare
The Spy Who Dressed the Queen | The Man with the Missing Finger | 1
The Image of Her by Simone de Beauvoir
Rock Paper Scissors (Entry 1079.1CH2613)
The Baron Hotel
Twin Iditarod Mushers Kristy and Anna Berington
General Wolfe | The Battle of Culloden
1. Who Killed Vine?
The Great Sausage Uprising
"What the Chicken Knows" by Sy Montgomery
Channel Tunnel
The Casting Director: Kate Ringsell
Was the Tyrannosaurus rex fast or slow? (Featuring Dr. John Hutchinson)
Kim Philby: Greatest Liar of All Time?
Chapter 1: An Explosive Cauldron
Unidentified Flying Drones in Denmark
Close Readings: ‘Mansfield Park’ by Jane Austen
Mass Shootings | Kurt Blankschaen
"I'm a location scout."
EP 27: Seven Crashes (with Harold James)
Why we shouldn't see museum artefacts as 'stolen'
The Lost Food of Soho
Dead Fish Tell No Tales: Part 1 | 2
Starts With A Bang #116 - Disintegrating exoplanets
A Brain Surgeon
A Georgian Polyphonic Feast
Armando Iannucci
The Rise and Fall of Quinoa: From Incan "Superfood" to Buddha Bowl Basic
What Happens if the Internet Archive Goes Dark?
1. The Attack That Shook America: German Spies in New York (Ep 1)
1. The Man from the East
Kapitia Skink
ADVENTURE: The Long Ride Home: 10,000-miles on Horseback from Canada to Brazil
14x12: The Leprechaun Impersonator Almost Kidnapped Us!
Radio Station Jingles: 80 Years of Earworms
Norway & the Arctic
Season 2 - Episode 2: Drill
Bring back the beaver!
Feminist Rebels
Episode One – George Hall in Conversation with Neil Pearson and Leonie Mellinger
401: Chinese Zodiac: Rat Race
Sophia Rosenfeld, "The Age of Choice: A History of Freedom in Modern Life" (Princeton UP, 2025)
348: What if you survived the Burundian genocide?
Episode #222 ... Dostoevsky - Love in The Brothers Karamazov
Tapestries For Troubled Times
Did NIMBYs Kill the American Dream?, with Yoni Appelbaum
Episode 1: Quality Assurance
Ghana’s Exiled King: Prempeh I
The Fifth Tellytubby
Minimalists and Hoarders (with Michael Easter)
The Nazi Block
Thyroidology (THYROID GLAND) with Kepal Patel
The Strange, Lonely Childhood of Neko Case
How Flavor Has Guided Human History & The Threat of Pseudoscience - SYSK Choice
The cyclist who raced 2,750km across Africa on almost no sleep: Abdullah Zeinab S3:E1
Service Denied
String theories
Speaker Terror Upper: When Bass Tapes shook the streets
The History of Revolutionary Ideas: The Reformation (part 1): Luther
My family and other Nazis
Margie and the Sheep
Episode 4: Kristoffer Tjalve
Folk on Foot Classic: Julie Fowlis on the Shores of Loch Ness
Virginia Squier's Story
The Times They Have a-Changed: Where is the protest song now?
Xiaohongshu's "TikTok Refugees," with Ivy Yang and David Fishman
In Pieces
Eyes Wide Shut
What crypto wants from Trump
A History of Movement in New York City
History's Youngest Heroes: St Francis of Assisi: Teen Rebel
Beef is the worst food for the climate. Can it be done better?
Sadiq Khan, mayor of London
Myths of Magna Carta
Topaz Adizes On How To Ask Questions (And Sell Them, Too.)
Frostbite: From Napoleonic era treatments to the first FDA approved frostbite drug
Tyler Cowen: Trump's DOGE team should read Shakespeare.
Andrew Hui, "The Study: The Inner Life of Renaissance Libraries" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Why is the pool at Buckingham Palace a secret?
A Little Pompeiian Fish Sauce Goes a Long Way
The Shipping Forecast: A Haven
The Missing Minister: The Vanishing of Qin Gang
398: Nordic Christmas: In the Bleak Mid-winter
The Willpower Detectives: 1. The Doorstep Stranger
The Adventure of the Speckled Band: Part One
How to Build a Flying Ebola Hospital
Curb Appeal: Finding Home After Loss with Rev. Steven Tomlinson
Cement City: Episode 1 | I’ll Die Here
Who buys luggage at the airport luggage store?
Say a Little Prayer Edition Part 1
Contagious Realities (2024) - Alice Dawkins, Natasha Mitchell, Sandersan Onie, Jean Twenge & Sonny Jane Wise
Overconsumed
The Last Request: 1
204. Lexicat, part 1
Playing with Words
Sense, sensibility and the authentic self
Secret War
Eva Needs to Measure
Autobahn at 50: How Kraftwerk defined modern music
Going Off on Stroganoff
A London Cabbie
Emotions 2.0: What's Better than Being Happy?
Risky Science and Public Consent
Cynicism won’t protect you from getting hurt
Pack It In
Episode 1: Save The Whale
🍟 The Happy Meal: A Delicious McMystery | 1
Bringing Salmon Home: The Story of the World's Largest Dam Removal Project
How linguists solve crimes, with Natalie Schilling
1. Switched - Part 1
The Common Kingfisher
EPISODE 7: The Disappearing Cyclist
The Fairytale Escape
The Many Names and Stories of the Canada Jay
1: The Fire
Oil Shocks, Price Controls, and War
Spirit Halloween
A Stonemason's Secrets
1: A Criminologist in Dublin
Alan Hollinghurst, The Granta Podcast
The Hack | 1
Momiology (MUMMIFICATION) Part 1 with Kara Cooney & Salima Ikram
Mark Knopfler, musician
456: Cook Like a Food Stylist with Pearl Jones
Tartans (Entry 1279.DE2230)
Episode 283: How To Design a Book Cover
Can you taste a place?
Liar, Liar
The Sound of Home
Airbnb: Prints of Thieves
The Nice Guy, the Bully and the Kiss
‘A diagnosis can sweep away guilt’: the delicate art of treating ADHD
The Judas Priest Suicide Trial
Off The Map
Jim the Penman
Season 3, Episode 1: The Green Grass
Why cynicism is bad for you
Wendy and Lisa
64. Sushi Fish
The Rise of Fox News | 1. We Report. You Can Suck It.
Episode 1: Connie Converse’s Long Wandering
Documenting Shifting Landscapes – A Conversation with Kalyanee Mam
The Dire State of Movie Development
Hanif Abdurraqib on what it means to “make it”
Chapter 1: The Transdimensional Haboob
Great Auks!
Leif Erikson
Joseph Allen: The Pivotal Importance of Air Quality, Ventilation and Exposures (Such as "Forever Chemicals") For Our Health
Haircuts in Space, Tutus, and the Nasal Ranger
An Open Conversation About Marriage, with Molly Roden Winter
5. Be Here Now: Blair, Blur And a Backlash
Episode 368: Mosquito
Tolkien: Middle Earth & the Middle Ages
Gaslighting – No, you’re not imagining it
Homework
Errollyn Wallen, composer