Society & Culture Podcasts

Up and Vanished

192 episodes - Latest episode: 3 days ago - ★★★★★ - 60.4K ratings
Host Payne Lindsey heads to the edge of the arctic circle to investigate a mysterious disappearance from Nome, Alaska. Up and Vanished investigates mysterious cold case disappearances with each new...

True Crime Obsessed

610 episodes - Latest episode: 2 days ago - ★★★★ - 33.2K ratings
The true crime / comedy podcast YOU NEED IN YOUR LIFE. We recap your favorite true crime documentaries with humor, sass, and heart. FROM VULTURE: "It’s not wrong to laugh when you’re listening to a...

To Live and Die in LA

57 episodes - Latest episode: 3 days ago - ★★★★★ - 30.5K ratings
In Feb 2018, an aspiring actress vanished from her Hollywood apartment. Rolling Stone journalist Neil Strauss was asked to help the family get answers. Together, they found them...sometimes at grea...

Freakonomics Radio

1,329 episodes - Latest episode: 2 days ago - ★★★★★ - 29.3K ratings
Freakonomics co-author Stephen J. Dubner uncovers the hidden side of everything. Why is it safer to fly in an airplane than drive a car? How do we decide whom to marry? Why is the media so full of ...

Reply All

220 episodes - Latest episode: 7 months ago - ★★★★★ - 27.3K ratings
"'A podcast about the internet' that is actually an unfailingly original exploration of modern life and how to survive it." - The Guardian. Hosted by Alex Goldman and Emmanuel Dzotsi from Gimlet.

In The Dark

69 episodes - Latest episode: 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 25.5K ratings
In the Dark, hosted by Madeleine Baran, is an award-winning investigative-journalism podcast that started in 2016. Its first season looked at the mysterious abduction of Jacob Wetterling in...

Making Sense with Sam Harris

417 episodes - Latest episode: 4 days ago - ★★★★★ - 25K ratings
Join neuroscientist, philosopher, and five-time New York Times best-selling author Sam Harris as he explores important and controversial questions about the mind, society, current events, moral phi...

And That's Why We Drink

909 episodes - Latest episode: 6 days ago - ★★★★★ - 22.4K ratings
Murder and the paranormal finally meet! Grab your wine and milkshakes and join us every Sunday for some chilling ghost stories and downright terrifying true crime stories. The world's a scary place...

Culpable

67 episodes - Latest episode: 3 days ago - ★★★★★ - 21.8K ratings
Explore unsettled true crime cases where culpability has yet to be established. Host Dennis Cooper covers new cases in Culpable: Case Review. In season one, Dennis explored the case of Christian An...

Heavyweight

98 episodes - Latest episode: 4 months ago - ★★★★★ - 15.4K ratings
Maybe you’ve laid awake and imagined how it could have been, how it might yet be, but the moment to act was never right. Well, the moment is here and the podcast making it happen is Heavyweight. Jo...

Philosophize This!

201 episodes - Latest episode: about 3 hours ago - ★★★★★ - 14.2K ratings
Beginner friendly if listened to in order! For anyone interested in an educational podcast about philosophy where you don't need to be a graduate-level philosopher to understand it. In chronologica...

Unsolved Murders: True Crime Stories

437 episodes - Latest episode: 1 day ago - ★★★★ - 13.6K ratings
Unsolved Murders: True Crime Stories is a podcast drama with a modern twist on old time radio that delves into the mystery of true cold cases and unsolved murders. With the help of an ensemble cast...

Terrible, Thanks For Asking

480 episodes - Latest episode: 25 days ago - ★★★★★ - 13K ratings
Subscribe within Apple Podcasts for ad-free listening, bonus episodes, and access to our full archive. For all those perks and more, including a supportive community of Terrible listeners, mail su...

Duolingo Spanish Podcast

172 episodes - Latest episode: about 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 12.5K ratings
True stories for English speakers learning Spanish. From the makers of Duolingo, the most popular language-learning app, comes a new podcast that delivers fascinating real-life stories in easy-to-u...

Embedded

144 episodes - Latest episode: about 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 11.5K ratings
NPR's original documentary podcast unearths the stories behind the headlines. Police shootings. Towns ravaged by opioids. The roots of our modern immigration crisis. We explore what's been sealed o...

Anna Faris Is Unqualified

619 episodes - Latest episode: 3 months ago - ★★★★ - 10.9K ratings
Relationship advice from completely unqualified Hollywood types. New episodes every week!  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Snap Judgment

635 episodes - Latest episode: 1 day ago - ★★★★★ - 10.7K ratings
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 anoth...

Scene on Radio

133 episodes - Latest episode: 3 months ago - ★★★★★ - 10.4K ratings
Scene on Radio is a two-time Peabody-nominated podcast that dares to ask big, hard questions about who we are—really—and how we got this way. Previous series include Seeing White (Season 2)...

Duncan Trussell Family Hour

654 episodes - Latest episode: 8 days ago - ★★★★★ - 10.2K ratings
A weekly salon-style supershow, where comedian Duncan Trussell and guests explore the outer reaches of the multiverse. And on April 20th 2020, the Duncan Trussell Family Hour podcast will be coming...

Southern Fried True Crime

282 episodes - Latest episode: 5 days ago - ★★★★★ - 9.9K ratings
Erica Kelley is a native Tennessean exploring historical and contemporary true crime in the South. Southern charm is attempted but southern sass is bountiful. Join her as she shows you just how sou...

On Being with Krista Tippett

1,049 episodes - Latest episode: 5 months ago - ★★★★★ - 9.6K ratings
Wisdom to replenish and orient in a tender, tumultuous time to be alive. Spiritual inquiry, science, social healing, and poetry. Conversations to live by. Fall 2023 season now available for li...

Going West: True Crime

418 episodes - Latest episode: about 8 hours ago - ★★★★★ - 9K ratings
Daphne Woolsoncroft and Heath Merryman discuss haunting details of different disappearance and murder cases week by week. New episodes released every Tuesday and Friday.

#SistersInLaw

184 episodes - Latest episode: about 1 hour ago - ★★★★★ - 8.7K ratings
Politicon brings the brilliant team of political and legal masterminds together for Politicon's #SistersInLaw. Joyce Vance, Jill Wine-Banks, Barb McQuade, and Kimberly Atkins Stohr will pull back ...

You and Me Both with Hillary Clinton

74 episodes - Latest episode: 5 months ago - ★★★★ - 8.7K ratings
Hillary Clinton sits down for candid, in-depth, and sometimes hilarious conversations with people she finds fascinating. With help from her guests, Hillary will tackle the topics that shape our liv...

Making Space with Hoda Kotb

67 episodes - Latest episode: 3 days ago - ★★★★★ - 8.7K ratings
Where do you draw your strength? Join TODAY’s Hoda Kotb as she continues on a journey of self-discovery and exploration of the resilience of the human spirit. Hoda hears from some of the people she...

Detective Trapp

29 episodes - Latest episode: 12 months ago - ★★★★★ - 8.7K ratings
Anaheim investigator Julissa Trapp is not like other detectives. She’s the only woman on the homicide squad, and a skilled chameleon: undercover cop in vice stings, crime-scene commander, patient c...

Bad Batch

70 episodes - Latest episode: 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 8.6K ratings
Patients in search of a miracle cure end up in critical condition. The race is on to find out what went wrong before more people get hurt. The trail leads back to a medical company with sli...

Voices for Justice

225 episodes - Latest episode: 1 day ago - ★★★★★ - 8.3K ratings
Voices for Justice is a true crime podcast hosted by Sarah Turney, sister of missing teen, Alissa Turney. Every episode ends with a call to action. Don't just listen to their stories, be a voice fo...

It's Been a Minute

850 episodes - Latest episode: 1 day ago - ★★★★★ - 8.2K ratings
Has it been a minute since you heard a thought-provoking conversation about culture? Brittany Luse wants to help. Each week, she takes the things everyone's talking about and, in conversation with ...

Imagined Life

136 episodes - Latest episode: about 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 8.1K ratings
What is it like to be famous before you’re famous? What is it like to walk in the shoes of another person? Each episode of Imagined Life takes you on an immersive journey into the life of a...