Documentary

Weekly podcast from public radio’s award-winning program Humankind.

Design is everywhere in our lives, perhaps most importantly in the places where we've just stopped noticing. 99% Invisible (99 Percent Invisible) is a weekly exploration of the process and power of design and architecture. From award winning producer...

Making Contact, is an award-winning 29-minute weekly magazine/documentary-style public affairs program heard on 140 radio stations.

Unfictional highlights the work of radio producers around the country, including short documentaries and compelling stories. It's radio designed to grab the listeners' attention and keep it. It's all part of KCRW's initiative to promote the work of...

Re:sound is a remix of music, documentaries, found sound, sound bites, and little audio surprises we find all over the world.

Join us for a curated presentation of special programs from public radio producers across the country. Specials air every weekend - Saturdays at 6AM on 93.9 FM and 2PM on AM 820. Sundays at 8PM on AM 820 and at other times as scheduled.

Radiolab's More Perfect is a series about the Supreme Court. More Perfect explores how cases deliberated inside the rarefied world of the Supreme Court affect our lives far away from the bench. Produced by WNYC Studios, home of other great podcasts...

Tanis is a bi-weekly podcast from the creators of Pacific Northwest Stories, and is hosted by Nic Silver. Tanis is a serialized docudrama about a fascinating and surprising mystery: the myth of Tanis. Tanis is an exploration of the nature of truth,...

L+R features in-depth, otherworldly-produced interviews with an eclectic range of subjects, from the seedy to the sublime. Get inside the mind of a rogue taxidermist. Find out what it's like to experience a stroke firsthand. Or spend time with an...

Kansas City, MO

Thought provoking journalism on air and online. FRONTLINE presents audio versions of select full-length episodes for listening on the go.

From Lea Thau, Peabody award-winning producer and creator of The Moth Podcast and The Moth Radio Hour, comes her new storytelling baby, Strangers, part of KCRW’s Independent Producer Project and of PRX’s Radiotopia network. Each episode is an empathy...

Available Early April! Brought to you by the editors of Outside, this podcast aims to apply the magazine’s long-standing literary storytelling methods to the audio realm. Each episode is either prompted by a feature from the archives or simply...

Radio Diaries works with people to document their own lives for public radio: teenagers, seniors, prison inmates and others whose voices are rarely heard. We help people share their stories—and their lives—in their own words, creating documentaries...

From APM Reports, the Educate podcast (formerly American RadioWorks) is a weekly program about ideas and research in education.

This is the kind of question posed on Profiles. Beyond the public image, Profiles lets the listener get to know the person behind the persona, the substance behind the image.

The Kitchen Sisters Present… Stories from the b-side of history. Lost recordings, hidden worlds, people possessed by a sound, a vision, a mission. The episodes tell deeply layered stories, lush with interviews, field recordings and music. From...

The World in Words is a podcast about languages and the people who speak them. What happens to the brain on bilingualism? Does it matter that so many languages are dying out? Should we fear the rise of global English? Is the United States losing its...

In-depth documentaries which each week explore a different aspect of history, science, philosophy, film, visual arts and literature. The Sunday Feature is broadcast every Sunday at 7.45pm on BBC Radio 3. Each episode lasts 45 minutes. We aim to...

United States

Love comes in many forms, and our hand-picked collection brings a story for every occasion.

An unidentified body. Who was she? Why hasn’t she been missed? A BBC World Service and NRK original podcast, investigating a mystery unsolved for almost half a century.

Every week, WNYC tells you about the best documentaries as they become available on screens of any size. Our hosts are Thom Powers and Raphaela Neihausen, co-founders of the Pure Nonfiction podcast and the DOC NYC festival, the largest non-fiction...

There Goes the Neighborhood: Los Angeles is a podcast about how LA has gone from the place to chase your dreams to the least affordable cities in the country. Housing prices are soaring, developers and landlords see opportunity, and many longtime...

The Uncertain Hour is an immersive docu-pod that reveals the origin stories of our economy in unexpected and provocative ways. Host Krissy Clark dives deep into one topic each season, unpacking what we see as normal to show it didn't just happen....

Cambridge, MA

The Story From Here is a weekly cross country tour tapping into story telling from CBC Radio One locations from every region. Ted Blades is your guide, presenting listeners with a selection of the best of local CBC broadcasting.

Where does inspiration for music come from? What is a conductor thinking as he steps onto the podium? How do world events shape a composer?s work? Inside the Music takes you into the musical minds that have created some of the best music of our times....

A special program of calls from March and April, 1965. The war in Vietnam dominates many of these calls between LBJ, White House Press Secretary George Reedy and members of the media. Topics include LBJ’s relationship with the press and the Treasury...

Are you Hearing Voices? Well, you ain't heard nuthin' yet. Hearing Voices from NPR is a weekly sixty-minute stream of "driveway moments" all connected by a theme; the best stories, sound-portraits, slam poets, docs, dramas, features, and found-sound.

Free podcast of the award-winning public radio show State of the Re:Union. Each episode of SOTRU, host Al Letson travels to a new community to tell stories about the people who are doing extraordinary work to help each other, to engage their...

Oral histories: Ordinary folks, extraordinary circumstances.

The program showcasing a wider variety of personalities, from Sarah Jessica Parker to Osama bin Laden to Jay-Z.

Public Radio produces many great programs that have just a few episodes a year: Intelligence Squared U.S., America Abroad, This Land Radio and KGOU's student-produced show Assignment: Radio. This is their time slot.

United States

Biography in Sound first aired on Winston Churchill’s 80th birthday, November 30, 1954. This first show was created as a single-broadcast radio biography of Churchill. Joseph O

Gospel music historian Bob Marovich explores the vibrant history of black gospel music through vintage recordings and conversations with the genre's legends and pioneers.

Programme in which the presenters join notable and interesting people on a walk through the countryside

Bob is an Emmy and Telly award-winning producer with 20 years experience producing series and documentaries for television and radio. Program aired on Saturdays 6am - 9am

Winston-Salem, NC

Exploring history, news and culture, Soundprint is one of the longest running public radio documentary series.

Revealing investigations. Fascinating characters. Stories with impact. CNN Presents features long-form, investigative reports and documentaries. Nods to documentary film festivals.

Host Arun Rath takes listeners behind-the-scenes of PBS's award-winning public affairs series FRONTLINE, with producer interviews, sneak previews of upcoming reports, and timely discussions with today's top newsmakers.

CBC Radio Specials get their second shot at fame in this podcast of amazing series, documentaries and features.

These are the stories of the 99%. It is a chance for those who feel that the American economic and political system is no longer addressing their needs to air their grievances.

Stillwater, OK

Janie’s Daughters is a podcastumentary that follows the adventures and antics of five women of color in different stages of life, as they navigate the daily challenges of marriage, career, sex, family, faith, and everything in between. We’re...

United States

Two hours of music and stories from one of Canada’s musical legends. Randy Bachman has provided a veritable soundtrack to the last thirty years of popular music. Now he's come to CBC Radio to play his favourite songs and tell stories from his life on...

Ronan Kelly tells stories using sounds and words gathered with his inquisitive microphone.

This American Life

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Radio For People With Imagination!

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Beijing, China

Kukerpillid - Pole sul tarvis teada...

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Italy

Beijing, China