Society & Culture Podcasts

S-Town

7 episodes - Latest episode: almost 3 years ago - ★★★★★ - 36.6K ratings
S-Town is a new podcast from Serial and This American Life, hosted by Brian Reed, about a man named John who despises his Alabama town and decides to do something about it. He asks Brian to investi...

Invisibilia

57 episodes - Latest episode: 30 days ago - ★★★★★ - 16.9K ratings
Unseeable forces control human behavior and shape our ideas, beliefs, and assumptions. Invisibilia—Latin for invisible things—fuses narrative storytelling with science that will make you see your o...

Culpable

25 episodes - Latest episode: about 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 16.9K ratings
Culpable explores unsettled cases where the people who seem deserving of blame have somehow eluded justice. On February 26, 2014, Christian Andreacchio was found dead in the upstairs bathroom of h...

Crimetown

51 episodes - Latest episode: 5 months ago - ★★★★★ - 12.9K 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, ...

Radio Rental

9 episodes - Latest episode: about 1 month ago - ★★★★★ - 12.8K ratings
Welcome to Radio Rental. Bizarre, true scary stories told by those who lived them.

2 Dope Queens

88 episodes - Latest episode: 4 months ago - ★★★★★ - 12.1K ratings
Phoebe Robinson and Jessica Williams are funny. They’re black. They’re BFFs. And they host a a live comedy show in Brooklyn. Join the 2 Dope Queens, along with their favorite comedians, for storie...

Man In The Window: The Golden State Killer

16 episodes - Latest episode: 24 days ago - ★★★★★ - 12K ratings
In Man in the Window, Paige St. John, a Pulitzer Prize winning investigative reporter has uncovered never before revealed details about the man who would eventually become one of California...

Believed

10 episodes - Latest episode: about 1 year ago - ★★★★★ - 11.6K ratings
How did Larry Nassar, an Olympic gymnastics doctor, get away with abusing hundreds of women and girls for two decades? Believed is an inside look at how a team of women won a conviction in one of t...

Dead Ass with Khadeen and Devale Ellis

29 episodes - Latest episode: 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 11.1K ratings
LOVE, SEX, MARRIAGE and everything in between! Each week Khadeen and Devale Ellis spread love the Brooklyn way. Listen in as they reveal personal truths, share opinions and inspire us to level up...

Heavyweight

43 episodes - Latest episode: 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 10.2K ratings
Maybe you’ve laid awake imagining 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. Join ...

Confronting: O.J. Simpson with Kim Goldman

17 episodes - Latest episode: 4 months ago - ★★★★★ - 8K ratings
25 years after the crimes that ignited the "Trial of the Century" Kim Goldman, sister of murder victim Ron Goldman, is digging deep into the vicious crime that changed her life, and many ot...

Oprah’s Master Class: The Podcast

48 episodes - Latest episode: 9 months ago - ★★★★★ - 7.2K ratings
Hear the greatest life lessons of some of the most respected and renowned actors, musicians, public figures and athletes. Handpicked by Oprah, these luminaries reveal their lives with candor and i...

Against the Rules with Michael Lewis

10 episodes - Latest episode: 4 months ago - ★★★★★ - 6.3K ratings
Journalist and bestselling author Michael Lewis (Liar's Poker, Moneyball) takes a searing look at what’s happened to fairness—in financial markets, newsrooms, basketball games, courts of law, and m...

The Teacher's Pet

19 episodes - Latest episode: 11 months ago - ★★★★★ - 5.9K ratings
Lyn and Chris Dawson appear to have the perfect marriage. He's a star footballer and popular high school teacher. She's a devoted wife and mother. They share a beautiful home above Sydney's norther...

Borrowed Future

9 episodes - Latest episode: 3 months ago - ★★★★★ - 5.8K ratings
There’s a massive student loan crisis in America. Millions have found themselves buried beneath a mountain of debt. This podcast series explores the lies we believe about college and digs into the ...

This is Love

21 episodes - Latest episode: 8 months ago - ★★★★★ - 5.3K ratings
From the makers of the award-winning podcast Criminal, This is Love investigates life’s most persistent mystery. Stories of sacrifice, obsession, and the ways in which we bet everything on ...

Headlong: Missing Richard Simmons

12 episodes - Latest episode: 10 months ago - ★★★★ - 5K ratings
On February 15, 2014, fitness guru Richard Simmons disappeared. He stopped teaching his regular exercise class at Slimmons, cut off his closest friends, and removed himself from the public ...

ChannelB پادکست فارسی

72 episodes - Latest episode: about 1 month ago - ★★★★★ - 4.9K ratings
در هر اپیزود پادکست فارسی چنل‌بی گزارش یک ماجرای واقعی را به نقل از یک رسانه‌ی معتبر انگلیسی‌زبان برای شما تعریف می‌کنیم.

Dan Carlin's Hardcore History: Addendum

9 episodes - Latest episode: about 1 month ago - ★★★★★ - 4.5K 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

Room 20

17 episodes - Latest episode: about 2 months ago - ★★★★ - 4.4K ratings
The sign above his hospital bed called him Sixty-Six Garage. For more than 15 years, he would lay there unidentified and unconscious. Or so, everyone believed. From L.A. Times Studios and t...

Under The Skin with Russell Brand

90 episodes - Latest episode: 3 months ago - ★★★★★ - 4.3K ratings
My new podcast 'Under The Skin' asks: what's beneath the surface - of people we admire, of the ideas that define our time, of the history we are told. Speaking with guests from the world of academ...

Swindled

47 episodes - Latest episode: about 1 month ago - ★★★★★ - 4.2K ratings
Utilizes narrative storytelling, archival audio, and immersive soundscapes to explore true stories of white-collar criminals, con artists, and corporate evil. From corruption and fraud to Ponzi sch...

This Land

10 episodes - Latest episode: 7 months ago - ★★★★★ - 4.1K ratings
An 1839 assassination of a Cherokee leader. A 1999 small town murder. Two crimes collide in a Supreme Court case that will decide the fate of one man and nearly half of the land in Oklahoma. Hoste...

Another Round

149 episodes - Latest episode: about 2 years ago - ★★★★★ - 4K ratings
Heben Nigatu and Tracy Clayton cover everything from race, gender and pop culture to squirrels, mangoes, and bad jokes, all in one boozy show.

Everything is Alive

22 episodes - Latest episode: 3 months ago - ★★★★★ - 4K 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...

Murder Book

15 episodes - Latest episode: 6 months ago - ★★★★★ - 4K ratings
Wiretaps, witness interviews, court recordings and detective recollections piece together this true crime podcast hosted by best selling author Michael Connelly that explores real homicide cases no...

History on Fire

52 episodes - Latest episode: 3 months ago - ★★★★★ - 3.9K ratings
Where history and epic collide--"History on Fire" is a podcast by author and university professor Daniele Bolelli. For more, go to LuminaryPodcasts.com

Sworn

28 episodes - Latest episode: about 1 month ago - ★★★★ - 3.7K ratings
From the producers of Up and Vanished, Sworn pulls back the curtain on the criminal justice system, exposing the untold stories and hard truths behind major cases. Host Philip Holloway, a defense a...

Life Will Be the Death of Me with Chelsea Handler

22 episodes - Latest episode: 3 months ago - ★★★★ - 3.7K ratings
Listen to Chelsea Handler's first ever podcast series featuring candid, hilarious conversations about her life, her work and where she’s headed next. The series is an entertaining, raw, smart, funn...

It Could Happen Here

12 episodes - Latest episode: 4 months ago - ★★★★ - 3.7K ratings
Boy, politics really has gotten hideous, hasn’t it? And protests seem a lot more violent than they were a couple of years ago. Are things getting worse? Could the U.S.A be on the road to a second c...