45 Best The Conversation Podcasts
The Conversation Podcasts
Here are 45 Best The Conversation Podcasts worth listening to in 2026.
Export Contact List1. Politics with Michelle Grattan
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Website Apple Spotify
The Conversation's Chief Political Correspondent Michelle Grattan talks politics with politicians and experts, from Capital Hill.
Ranking #89 in Apple Charts (AU)
Hosts The Conversation, Michelle Grattan
Producer/Network The Conversation
Email ****@theconversation.edu.au
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Apple Rating 4.8/5Apple Reviews 303Facebook 130.8KTwitter 137.5KInstagram 57.8K Avg Length 28 min Format Medium form Since May 2018 Get Email Contact Get access to full database of 2.7M podcastsCreate podcast lists, export in spreadsheet or CSV file with email contacts and start your podcast outreach in minutes.Sign Up for Free with Email Continue with Google
2. The Conversation Weekly
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Website Apple Spotify
A show for curious minds, from The Conversation. Each week, host Gemma Ware speaks to an academic expert about a topic in the news to understand how we got here.
Ranking #90 in Apple Charts (AU)
Host Gemma Ware
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Email ****@theconversation.com
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Apple Rating 4.7/5Apple Reviews 226Facebook 130.8KTwitter 137.5KInstagram 57.8K Avg Length 23 min Format Medium form Get Email Contact
3. Below the Line
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Website Apple Spotify YouTube
From polls to party spin to policies, 'Below the Line' is a 2022 limited edition podcast breaking free of party, media and populist lines. Brought to you by La Trobe University and The Conversation, our host Jon Faine dusts off his microphone and joins political scientists Anika Gauja, Simon Jackman and Andrea Carson to cut through the election noise. Regularly joined by journalists, activists and politicians in new episodes twice a week, we'll unpack the election issues that matter to you. Produced by Courtney Carthy and Benjamin Clark.MORE Ranking #61 in Apple Charts (AU)
Hosts Jon Faine, Anika Gauja, Andrea Carson, Simon Jackman
Producer/Network The Conversation
Email ****@sydney.edu.au
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Apple Rating 5/5Apple Reviews 75Facebook 403KTwitter 180.1K Avg Length 33 min Format Medium form Get Email Contact
4. Speaking with...
Website Apple YouTube
Ideas and analysis from the sharpest minds in the academic and research world.
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Email ****@theconversation.com
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Apple Rating 5/5Apple Reviews 37Facebook 403KTwitter 180.1KInstagram 104.9K Get Email Contact
5. To the moon and beyond
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Marking 50 years since the first moon landing, To the moon and beyond is a five-part podcast series from The Conversation. Through interviews with academic experts around the world from space scientists to historians, lawyers, futurists and a former astronaut science journalist Miriam Frankel and space scientist Martin Archer explore the past 50 years of space exploration and what the 50 years ahead have in store.MORE Producer/Network The Conversation
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Apple Rating 3.6/5Apple Reviews 37 Avg Length 29 min Format Medium form Get Email Contact
6. Scam Factories | The Conversation Documentaries
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Apple Spotify
The Conversation Documentaries (formerly The Anthill) is podcast from The Conversation UK. Our documentary series cover everything from science to the environment, politics, culture and economics. We unearth new stories from the world of academia and talk to experts to shed light on some of the big questions of today. The Conversation is a not-for-profit independent media organisation and our journalists work with academics to help share their research knowledge with as many people as possible.MORE Email ****@theconversation.com
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Apple Rating 4.7/5Apple Reviews 215Facebook 130.8KTwitter 137.5KInstagram 57.8K Avg Length 25 min Format Medium form Get Email Contact
7. SuarAkademia
Latest Episode Video
Website Apple Spotify YouTube
Suar Akademia adalah podcast ngobrol seru yang menghadirkan akademisi dan peneliti untuk menjelaskan dan mengomentari isu terkini, dipandu oleh para editor The Conversation Indonesia (TCID).
Producer/Network The Conversation
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Facebook 58.4KTwitter 72.2KInstagram 71.9K Avg Length 41 min Format Long form Get Email Contact
8. Don't Call Me Resilient
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Website Apple Spotify YouTube
Host Vinita Srivastava dives into conversations with experts and real people to make sense of the news, from an anti-racist perspective. From The Conversation Canada.
Host Vinita Srivastava
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Apple Rating 4.7/5Apple Reviews 149Facebook 130.8KTwitter 137.5KInstagram 57.8K Avg Length 28 min Format Medium form Get Email Contact
9. In Depth, Out Loud
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Welcome to In Depth Out Loud, a selection of long form stories written by academic experts for The Conversation in the UK. Each episode brings you the audio version of a different story across a wide range of subjects, from science, to politics, health, culture and business.MORE Producer/Network The Conversation
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Apple Rating 4.6/5Apple Reviews 32Facebook 130.8KTwitter 137.5KInstagram 57.8K Avg Length 26 min Format Medium form Get Email Contact
10. Pasha - from The Conversation Africa
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Website Apple Spotify
Welcome to Pasha, The Conversation Africa's brand new podcast. In the spirit of The Conversation, Pasha which means to inform in Swahili will be bringing you some of the best and brightest research from academics across the continent. After nearly four years of publishing expert research, we're thrilled to be bringing our own brand of smart journalism to a new audio format. Each episode will collect stories and commentary on a given theme.MORE Producer/Network The Conversation
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Apple Rating 5/5Apple Reviews 5Facebook 130.8KTwitter 137.5KInstagram 57.8K Avg Length 14 min Format Short form Since Sep 2012 Get Email Contact
11. Trust Me, I'm An Expert
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Apple
The Conversation's editors bring you the most insightful, fascinating, surprising analysis and stories from the academic world. We're asking the experts to bust the myths, explain the science and put the news headlines into context. Join us as we take a deep dive into the big ideas driving our world.MORE Producer/Network The Conversation
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Apple Rating 4.5/5Apple Reviews 129 Avg Length 26 min Format Medium form Get Email Contact
12. Sains Sekitar Kita
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Apple Spotify YouTube
Sains punya peranan—dan penjelasan—dalam hampir setiap hal di hidup kita. Dengarkan Sains Sekitar Kita dan tambah wawasan Anda mengenai sains, mulai dari soal perubahan iklim hingga apa yang terjadi saat kita jatuh cinta.Diproduksi bersama KBR.MORE Producer/Network The Conversation
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Apple Rating 5/5Apple Reviews 2 Avg Length 21 min Format Medium form Get Email Contact
13. Essays On Air
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Join us as we read aloud fascinating, meticulously researched essays penned by academics who are experts in their fields.
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Apple Rating 5/5Apple Reviews 34 Avg Length 18 min Format Short form Get Email Contact
14. Fear and Wonder
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Website Apple Spotify
The sixth report from the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is a vast and terrifying analysis of humanity's impact on the conditions for life on Earth. It took hundreds of climate experts from all over the world four years to write, drawing on decades of prior knowledge. They're advising humanity on what it'll take for our civilisations to survive.Who are those scientists? What do they actually do? And what do they care about?Host and IPCC lead author Dr Joelle Gergis, and her friend, journalist Michael Green, guide listeners through the report via the experts who wrote it...MORE Hosts Dr Joelle Gergis, Michael Green
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Email ****@michaelbgreen.com.au
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Apple Rating 5/5Apple Reviews 91Twitter 6.5K Avg Length 39 min Format Medium form Get Email Contact
15. The Conversation
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Skylar, Jason, Sean, Kyle, and friends talk about random stuff going on in the world
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Apple Rating 5/5Apple Reviews 1 Avg Length 79 min Format Long form Get Email Contact
16. Change Agents
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Apple
Change Agents is about the art of change and the people who make it happen. It focuses on real and recent case studies where often ordinary people have brought about profound social, political, cultural and political change. It celebrates their success and challenges them to explain how they did it and the obstacles they overcame along the way. Change Agents is a collaboration between The Conversation and the Swinburne Business School and Swinburne University's Department of Media and Communication.MORE Producer/Network The Conversation
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Apple Rating 2/5Apple Reviews 6 Avg Length 35 min Format Medium form Get Email Contact
17. Secrets de Terrain
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Website Apple Spotify
De quoi sont faites les recherches en sciences humaines et tout particulièrement en anthropologie ? Qu'est ce que le terrain ethnographique ? Comment l'aborde-t-on ? Le 'terrain' pour les chercheurs en sciences sociales, c'est le lieu de l'enquête. Mais il constitue surtout des morceaux de vie partagée: il est fait de rencontres, de souvenirs qu'on ne raconte pas forcément dans sa thèse ou ses articles, d'hésitations, de ratés, de belles surprises. A travers Secrets de Terrain, des chercheuses et chercheurs vous plongent dans leurs enquêtes...MORE Producer/Network The Conversation
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Apple Reviews 8Facebook 67KTwitter 38.5KInstagram 30.2K Avg Length 27 min Format Medium form Get Email Contact
18. L'arbre et la pomme
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Coproduite et réalisée chaque mois avec Moustic the Audio Agency, cette émission à trois voix donne la parole à trois chercheurs spécialistes d'un thème.
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Apple Reviews 2 Avg Length 52 min Format Long form Get Email Contact
19. The Convo L&E
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Podcast by The Conversation
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Apple Rating 5/5Apple Reviews 2 Avg Length 38 min Format Medium form Get Email Contact
20. The Conversation
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We are The Johnson Family and this is The Conversation where we talk about life, family, and ministry!
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Apple Rating 5/5Apple Reviews 7 Avg Length 37 min Format Medium form Get Email Contact
21. Race to the White House
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Apple
Race to the White House covers everything you need to know about the 2016 US elections and dives deep into the people, policy and political manoeuvres that will decide who becomes the 45th President of the United States of America. Each week, Brendon O'Connor, Tom Switzer and Emma Lancaster will dissect the news of the week and the issues that matter. As the clock ticks down to November 8, they will be joined by experts in US politics, history and culture to look at how this high-stakes race between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump will impact America, Australia and the rest of the world...MORE Producer/Network The Conversation
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Apple Reviews 1 Avg Length 35 min Format Medium form Get Email Contact
22. The Conversation
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Hello! I am happy you found me. My name is Chris and I love to talk about anything and everything. Wouldnt you know it..some people actually find me entertaining. I appreciate you joining The Conversation.MORE Producer/Network The Conversation
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23. Great Mysteries of Physics
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Host Miriam Frankel delves into some of the great mysteries still puzzling the world's top physicists in this new series from The Conversation. This podcast will take you on a mind-blowing journey from the smallest to the largest conundrums, exploring curled-up dimensions, consciousness and parallel universes on the way.MORE Host Miriam Frankel
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Apple Rating 5/5Apple Reviews 252 Avg Length 33 min Format Medium form Get Email Contact
24. Media Files
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Media Files is produced by a team of journalist/academics who have spent decades working in and reporting on the media industry. They're passionate about sharing their understanding of the media landscape, especially how media policy, commercial manoeuvres and digital disruption are affecting the kinds of media and journalism we consume. The media is evolving rapidly, as new platforms and trends come and go. As old media empires collapse, new ones are forming. But the need to protect diversity, public interest journalism and public broadcasting has, arguably, never been greater...MORE Producer/Network The Conversation
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Apple Reviews 15 Avg Length 32 min Format Medium form Get Email Contact
25. In Extenso
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In extenso, le podcast de The Conversation qui donne la parole à la recherche. Hébergé par Acast. Visitez acast.com/privacy pour plus d'informations.
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Apple Reviews 16 Avg Length 22 min Format Medium form Get Email Contact
26. Les mots de la science
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Website Apple Spotify
Un podcast pour décrypter les mots de la recherche et mieux comprendre l'époque. Hébergé par Acast. Visitez acast.com/privacy pour plus d'informations.
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Apple Reviews 8 Avg Length 22 min Format Medium form Get Email Contact
27. Election Weekly from The Conversation UK
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Two academic experts join The Conversation's politics editor, Laura Hood to discuss the key election issues. We'll of course be talking about Brexit, but we also want to get to grips with the kinds of issues you'd normally expect to hear about in an election, like the state of the economy and what each party has to say about immigration, the NHS and schools. We'll keep you updated on who's ahead in the polls. And we'll also cut through the spin of what's dominating the headlines.MORE Producer/Network The Conversation
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28. Le temps dans tous ses états
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L'année 2020 a vu notre planète s'arrêter, notre présent, bouleversé. Et si c'était le moment de réfléchir à nos futurs ?Un podcast pour réfléchir à la notion de temps grâce aux scientifiques du CEA, entre philosophie, biologie, physique et même science-fiction. Hébergé par Acast. Visitez acast.com/privacy pour plus d'informations.MORE Producer/Network The Conversation
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Apple Reviews 5 Avg Length 16 min Format Short form Get Email Contact
29. Retour sur...
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L'actualité vue par les expert·e·s de The Conversation France. Hébergé par Acast. Visitez acast.com/privacy pour plus d'informations.
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30. Les couleurs du racisme
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Pour approfondir le thème du mois et mieux comprendre son ancrage dans les mentalités, un.e chercheur.se lit puis décrypte un extrait d'œuvre de fiction/d'œuvre littéraire. On commence en octobre, par le racisme 'bienveillant'. Hébergé par Acast. Visitez acast.com/privacy pour plus d'informations.MORE Producer/Network The Conversation
Email ****@theconversation.fr
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Apple Reviews 5 Avg Length 16 min Format Short form Get Email Contact
31. The Conversation's Curious Kids
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Kids ask the coolest questions! And on The Conversation's Curious Kids, we get the brainiest people we can to answer them! Every week, a curious kid joins host Eloise to ask the world's top researchers their burning question whether it's about space, dinosaurs, trees or even why their dog is just sooooo cute.A podcast from The Conversation, the independent website that brings you news straight from scientists and scholars, in partnership with Fun Kids.Email your questions to ****@theconversation...MORE Producer/Network The Conversation
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Apple Rating 3.7/5Apple Reviews 24 Avg Length 15 min Format Short form Get Email Contact
32. Je ne veux pas travailler...
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Cet été, les journalistes de The Conversation France s'accordent un instant de détente à l'ombre de la philosophie. Dans cette série en 5 épisodes d'une dizaine de minutes, plongez dans la réflexion sur la notion de repos et sa place dans nos sociétés modernes.Chaque semaine, des philosophes vous offrent un éclairage rafraîchissant et vous invitent à considérer les idées de bonheur, de travail, d'ennui ou encore de liberté sous un angle nouveau.Installez-vous confortablement dans votre hamac ou sur votre serviette et ouvrez grand vos oreilles. Hébergé par Acast...MORE Producer/Network The Conversation
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33. LET'S CHAT
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Hey grab a glass of wine ???? sit down And hit play. ?? ? Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jennys-tutorial/support
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34. The Conversation
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Welcome to the The Conversation! We're here talking about what the people are talking about and what they are afraid to talk about.
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Apple Rating 5/5Apple Reviews 3 Avg Length 13 min Format Short form Get Email Contact
35. Business Briefing
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The Conversation editors, Jenni Henderson and Josh Nicholas, delve into a new topic every week, unearthing the latest business and economic analysis from our best academics.
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36. Objets Cultes
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« Objets inanimés, avez-vous donc une âme ? » demandait le poète. S'ils ont une âme, il s'agit bien de la nôtre. C'est ce que démontrait le sémiologue Roland Barthes dans ses « Mythologies », publiées en 1957. L'intellectuel y étudiait les objets et les rites populaires qui révélaient l'esprit d'une époque et les affects collectifs du pays. Aujourd'hui, les objets et les usages ont changé, mais ils nous informent toujours autant sur nos obsessions collectives. De la trottinette à la doudoune en passant par le Spritz, les emojis, ou les écouteurs.....MORE Producer/Network The Conversation
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Avg Length 11 min Format Short form Get Email Contact
37. Conversation express
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Chaque semaine, la rédaction de The Conversation va à la rencontre d'un spécialiste pour éclairer une question d'actualité.
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Apple Reviews 3 Avg Length 9 min Format Bite size Get Email Contact
38. La preuve par trois
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Plongez au cœur d'un sujet avec les experts de The Conversation qui déclinent trois aspects d'une question d'actualité en trois épisodes, à écouter à la suite ou séparément ! Hébergé par Acast. Visitez acast.com/privacy pour plus d'informations.MORE Producer/Network The Conversation
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Apple Reviews 4 Avg Length 4 min Format Bite size Get Email Contact
39. The Conversation with David and Michael
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Welcome to The Conversation with David and Michael! My name's David, and his name is Michael and The Conversation begins right now!—The Conversation With David and Michael is a weekly podcast, where the hosts, David and Michael discuss whatever is on their minds. Frequent topics range from Philosophy, Life, Politics, Humor, Current Discussion, and Hot Topics from the past week since their latest podcast...MORE Producer/Network The Conversation
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40. The Conversation
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Conversations with my mom and aunt
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41. The Conversation
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Helping us get to know our people more.
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The Conversation shows hosts and producers
| Podcaster Name | Role | Podcast Link | Gender | Twitter Handle | Location | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Conversation | Host | theconversation.com/uk/podcasts/politics-with-michelle-grattan | ||||
| Michelle Grattan | Host | theconversation.com/uk/podcasts/politics-with-michelle-grattan | Female | @michellegrattan | Canberra, ACT, Australia | |
| Gemma Ware | Host | play.acast.com/s/the-conversation-weekly | Female | @waresgemma | London, United Kingdom | |
| Jon Faine | Co Host | theconversation.com/au/podcasts/below-the-line | Male | @fainejon | Melbourne, VIC, Australia | |
| Anika Gauja | Co Host | theconversation.com/au/podcasts/below-the-line | Female | @anika_gauja | Sydney, NSW, Australia | |
| Andrea Carson | Co Host | theconversation.com/au/podcasts/below-the-line | Female | @andrea_carson | VIC, Australia | |
| Simon Jackman | Co Host | theconversation.com/au/podcasts/below-the-line | Male | @simonjackman | Sydney, NSW, Australia | |
| Vinita Srivastava | Host | dont-call-me-resilient.simplecast.com | Female | @writevinita | Canada | |
| Dr Joelle Gergis | Co Host | shows.acast.com/fear-and-wonder-stories-from-un-climate-experts/episodes | Female | @joellegergis | Australia | |
| Michael Green | Co Host | shows.acast.com/fear-and-wonder-stories-from-un-climate-experts/episodes | Male | @michaelbgreen | Australia | |
| Miriam Frankel | Host | Female | @miriamfrankel | London, United Kingdom | ||
| Ayaan Paruthi | podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ayaan-paruthi |