Society & Culture Podcasts

Dirty John

47 episodes - Latest episode: 6 months ago - ★★★★★ - 40.9K ratings
All episodes are available for free, with remastered ad-free episodes available for Wondery+ subscribers.Debra Newell is a successful interior designer. She meets John Meehan, a handsome man who se...

Cold

143 episodes - Latest episode: 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 40K ratings
Cold is a narrative podcast series focused on missing persons cases. Investigative journalist and host Dave Cawley takes on a single story with each season. Season 3: The Search for Sheree...

To Live and Die in LA

58 episodes - Latest episode: about 1 month 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...

Reply All

221 episodes - Latest episode: 10 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: 5 months ago - ★★★★★ - 25.9K 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

428 episodes - Latest episode: 3 days ago - ★★★★★ - 25.2K 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...

Heavyweight

98 episodes - Latest episode: 7 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...

Crimetown

56 episodes - Latest episode: 3 months ago - ★★★★★ - 14K ratings
Welcome to Crimetown, a series produced by Marc Smerling and Zac Stuart-Pontier in partnership with Gimlet Media. Each season, we investigate the culture of crime in a different city. In Season 2, ...

Unsolved Murders: True Crime Stories

437 episodes - Latest episode: 3 months 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...

Duolingo Spanish Podcast

172 episodes - Latest episode: 5 months ago - ★★★★★ - 12.6K 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...

Anna Faris Is Unqualified

619 episodes - Latest episode: 6 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.

Voices for Justice

237 episodes - Latest episode: about 11 hours ago - ★★★★★ - 8.5K 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...

Modern Love

365 episodes - Latest episode: about 2 months ago - ★★★★ - 8K ratings
For 20 years, the Modern Love column has given New York Times readers a glimpse into the complicated love lives of real people. Since its start, the column has evolved into a TV show, three books a...

Dan Carlin's Hardcore History: Addendum

29 episodes - Latest episode: 4 months ago - ★★★★★ - 7.9K ratings
Interviews, musings and extra material from the makers of Dan Carlin's Hardcore History. If it did not fit in the HH feed it's probably here

Death, Sex & Money

802 episodes - Latest episode: 3 days ago - ★★★★★ - 7.2K ratings
Anna Sale explores the big questions and hard choices that are often left out of polite conversation.

Accused

56 episodes - Latest episode: about 2 months ago - ★★★★ - 7.2K ratings
Season 4: When Rhoda Nathan's lifeless body was discovered in her hotel room, it was assumed she'd had a heart attack. The autopsy proved otherwise: Nathan, 67, had been viciously beaten to...

Gangster Capitalism

69 episodes - Latest episode: 9 months ago - ★★★★★ - 7K ratings
The Peabody nominated series presents Season Three: Jerry Falwell Jr. and Liberty University. A sex scandal rocks one of the world’s largest Christian universities and the man at the center of it. ...

Tides of History

330 episodes - Latest episode: about 23 hours ago - ★★★★★ - 6K ratings
Everywhere around us are echoes of the past. Those echoes define the boundaries of states and countries, how we pray and how we fight. They determine what money we spend and how we earn it ...

Dear Sugars

367 episodes - Latest episode: 6 days ago - ★★★★★ - 5.5K ratings
Radically empathic advice. Produced by WBUR.

Correct Opinions with Trey Kennedy and Jake Triplett

257 episodes - Latest episode: 2 days ago - ★★★★★ - 5.4K ratings
Welcome to Correct Opinions -- the first show where every opinion is correct (in my opinion.) If you're just as annoyed as I am with the over-the-topness of today's social media crazed world then y...

Everything is Alive

58 episodes - Latest episode: 8 months ago - ★★★★★ - 5.1K ratings
Everything is Alive is an unscripted interview show in which all the subjects are inanimate objects. In each episode, a different thing tells us its life story--and everything it says is tr...

Family Ghosts

108 episodes - Latest episode: about 1 month ago - ★★★★★ - 4.8K ratings
Every house is haunted. In each episode of Family Ghosts, we investigate the true story behind a mysterious figure whose legend has followed a family for generations. Grandmothers who were ...

Mommy Doomsday

28 episodes - Latest episode: 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 4.7K ratings
The disappearance of two of Lori Vallow’s children in Rexburg, Idaho in September 2019 would expose a bizarre trail of death, devotion and Doomsday beliefs that captivated the nation… A haunting po...

The Mike O'Meara Show

1,174 episodes - Latest episode: 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 4.6K ratings
A fun mash-up of real life, pop-culture, news of the day, dynamic audio clips, and three guys busting each others’ balls.

Duolingo French Podcast

129 episodes - Latest episode: 5 months ago - ★★★★★ - 4.4K ratings
Deepen your language skills and knowledge of the French-speaking world through fascinating true stories in easy-to-follow French, with added English for context. From Duolingo, the world's #1 way t...

Teenager Therapy

260 episodes - Latest episode: 3 months ago - ★★★★★ - 4K ratings
Five stressed, sleep-deprived, yet energetic teens sit down and talk about the struggles that come with being a teenager. Is high school really as bad as everyone says? A podcast that's a coming-of...

HISTORY This Week

221 episodes - Latest episode: 11 months ago - ★★★★★ - 3.7K ratings
This week, something momentous happened. Whether or not it made the textbooks, it most certainly made history. Join HISTORY This Week as we turn back the clock to meet the people, visit the places ...

Fall of Civilizations Podcast

20 episodes - Latest episode: 6 months ago - ★★★★★ - 3.7K ratings
A history podcast looking at the collapse of a different civilization each episode. What did they have in common? Why did they fall? And what did it feel like to watch it happen?

Now & Then

123 episodes - Latest episode: 10 months ago - ★★★★★ - 3.6K ratings
How can the past help inform today’s most pressing challenges? Every Wednesday, award-winning historians Heather Cox Richardson and Joanne Freeman use their encyclopedic knowledge of US history to ...

Jeff Lewis Has Issues

242 episodes - Latest episode: 1 day ago - ★★★★ - 3.5K ratings
Jeff doesn’t hold back when it comes back to his personal life, and his many, many, issues. From legal battles to his messy relationships, or arguments with neighbors and staff, Jeff airs it all ou...