30 Best WNYC Radio Station Podcasts

1. Freakonomics Radio

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Freakonomics Radio tells you things you always thought you knew (but did not) and things you never thought you wanted to know (but do), from the economics of sleep to how to become great at just about anything.MORE Producer/Network Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher
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Apple Rating 4.5/5 Frequency 1 ep/week Avg Length 56 min Get Email Contact Get Influential Podcasters ContactsGet access to 100k active Podcasters, Influencers in 1500 niche categories.Get targeted media contact list in your niche at your fingertips so you can focus on running your campaign.Email us the categories of Podcasters you want to reach out for your marketing campaign at anuj@feedspot.com Copy email. We'll share active Podcasters list with verified email contacts in an Excel or CSV format.Email us

2. Science Friday

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Covering the outer reaches of space to the tiniest microbes in our bodies, Science Friday is the source for entertaining and educational stories about science, technology, and other cool stuff.MORE Host Ira Flatow
Producer/Network Science Friday and WNYC Studios
Email ****@sciencefriday.com
Apple Rating 4.3/5Facebook 951.6KTwitter 746.2KInstagram 3.9K Frequency 5 ep/week Avg Length 21 min Since Feb 2017 Get Email Contact

3. On the Media | WNYC Studios

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The Peabody Award-winning On the Media podcast is your guide to examining how the media sausage is made. Hosts Brooke Gladstone and Bob Garfield examine threats to free speech and government transparency, cast a skeptical eye on media coverage of the week's big stories and unravel hidden political narratives in everything we read, watch and hear.MORE Hosts Brooke Gladstone, Micah Loewinger
Producer/Network WNYC Studios
Email ****@wnyc.org
Apple Rating 4.7/5Facebook 63.7KTwitter 79.7KInstagram 9.5K Frequency 3 ep/week Avg Length 39 min Since Feb 2020 Get Email Contact

4. Death, Sex & Money

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A podcast about the big questions and hard choices that are often left out of polite conversation. Host Anna Sale talks to celebrities and regular people about relationships, money, family, work and making it all count while we're here.MORE Host Anna Sale
Producer/Network Slate Podcasts
Email ****@slate.com
Apple Rating 4.6/5Facebook 22.6KTwitter 7.8KInstagram 6.9K Frequency 1 ep/week Avg Length 52 min Get Email Contact

5. Spooked

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Spooked features true-life supernatural stories, told firsthand by people who can barely believe it happened themselves. Be afraid. Created in the dark of night, by Snap Judgment and WNYC Studios. WNYC Studios is a listener-supported producer of other leading podcasts, including Radiolab.MORE Host Glynn Washington
Producer/Network Snap Judgment
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Apple Rating 4.6/5Facebook 22.6KTwitter 7.8KInstagram 6.9K Frequency 5 ep/month Avg Length 32 min Get Email Contact

6. SciShow Tangents

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SciShow Tangents is the lightly competitive knowledge showcase from the geniuses behind the YouTube series SciShow. Every Tuesday, join Hank Green, Ceri Riley, and Sam Schultz as they try to one-up and amaze each other with weird and funny scientific research... while not getting distracted. There will be tangents about video games, music, weird smells, surprisingly deep insights about life, and of course, poop, but it always comes back to the science.MORE Hosts Hank Green, Ceri Riley, Sam Schultz
Producer/Network Complexly
Email ****@scishow.com
Apple Rating 4.9/5Facebook 22.6KTwitter 7.8KInstagram 6.9K Frequency 2 ep/month Avg Length 64 min Get Email Contact

7. Radiolab

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Radiolab is one of the most beloved podcasts and public radio shows in the world. The show is known for its deep-dive journalism and innovative sound design. Created in 2002 by host Jad Abumrad, the program began as an exploration of scientific inquiry. Over the years it has evolved to become a platform for long-form journalism and storytelling. Radiolab is co-hosted by Lulu Miller and Latif Nasser.MORE Hosts Lulu Miller, Latif Nasser
Producer/Network Radiolab
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Apple Rating 4.9/5Facebook 395.8KTwitter 249.8KInstagram 6.9K Frequency 5 ep/month Avg Length 42 min Since Sep 2017 Get Email Contact

8. Dear Hank & John

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Hosts John and Hank Green (authors and YouTubers) offer both humorous and heartfelt advice about life's big and small questions. They bring their personal passions to each episode by sharing the week's news from Mars (the planet) and AFC Wimbledon (the third-tier English football club).MORE Hosts John Green, Hank Green
Producer/Network Complexly
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Apple Rating 4.9/5Facebook 22.6KTwitter 7.8KInstagram 6.9K Frequency 2 ep/month Avg Length 48 min Get Email Contact

9. Here's The Thing with Alec Baldwin

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Award-winning actor Alec Baldwin takes listeners into the lives of artists, policy makers and performers. Alec sidesteps the predictable by going inside the dressing rooms, apartments, and offices of people we want to understand better: Ira Glass, Lena Dunham, David Letterman, Barbara Streisand, Tom Yorke, Chris Rock and others. Hear what happens when an inveterate guest becomes a host.MORE Host Alec Baldwin
Producer/Network iHeartPodcasts
Apple Rating 4.3/5Facebook 22.6KTwitter 7.8KInstagram 6.9K Frequency 3 ep/month Avg Length 44 min Get Email Contact

10. Radiolab for Kids

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Kid-friendly stories curated by Radiolab. All in one bingeable spot!
Hosts Lulu Miller, Alan Goffinski, Latif Nasser, Jad Abumrad
Producer/Network WNYC
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Apple Rating 4.4/5Facebook 22.6KTwitter 7.8KInstagram 6.9K Frequency 2 ep/month Avg Length 27 min Get Email Contact

11. Brian Lehrer: A Daily Politics Podcast

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Daily thoughtful conversation about the latest news and politics.
Host Brian Lehrer
Producer/Network WNYC Studios
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Apple Rating 4.4/5Facebook 22.6KTwitter 7.8KInstagram 6.9K Frequency 4 ep/week Avg Length 25 min Get Email Contact

12. The New Yorker Radio Hour

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The New Yorker Radio Hour is a weekly program presented by the magazine's editor. Profiles, storytelling, and insightful conversations, hosted by David Remnick.
Host David Remnick
Producer/Network The New Yorker
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Facebook 119.2KTwitter 185.8KInstagram 6.9K Frequency 2 ep/week Avg Length 30 min Get Email Contact

13. The United States of Anxiety

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The United States of Anxiety is a show about the unfinished business of our history and its grip on our future. Each week, host Kai Wright invites listeners to gather for intimate conversations and deeply reported stories about the choices we have made as a society -- and the new choices we can imagine now. We are learning from our past, meeting our neighbours, and sharing the joy (and the work!) of living in a plural society.MORE Host Kai Wright
Producer/Network WNYC Studios
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Facebook 22.6KTwitter 7.8KInstagram 6.9K Frequency 2 ep/week Avg Length 44 min Since Sep 2016 Get Email Contact

14. Romeo y Julieta

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Director Saheem Ali continues his audio exploration of William Shakespeare's canon for The Public Theater in New York with a new production of ROMEO Y JULIETA, collaborating with playwright Ricardo Pérez Gonzzlez on an adaptation of noted scholar Alfredo Michel Modenessi's Spanish translation. Actor Lupita Nyong'o plays Julieta, with Juan Castano as her Romeo, in this bilingual Spanish and English production that will bring one of history's most famed lovers to your homes and phones in a stunning new audio play.MORE Host Saheem Ali
Producer/Network The Public Theater
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Apple Rating 4.5/5Facebook 22.6KTwitter 7.8KInstagram 6.9K Frequency 3 ep/day Avg Length 61 min Get Email Contact

15. Helga

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Artist, performer and host Helga Davis brings a soulful curiosity and love of people to the podcast Helga. In Season 3, she continues to draw the listener into her profound and intimate conversations with creative people, famous and lesser known. Musicians, visual artists, writers, and chefs join her to share the steps they've taken along their path. Where they started, where they are and where they're going next. These inspiring conversations expand our world and our imaginations as we explore what we think we know about each other.MORE Host Helga Davis
Producer/Network WNYC Studios and Brown Arts Institute
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Apple Rating 4.8/5Facebook 22.6KTwitter 7.8KInstagram 6.9K Frequency 11 ep/year Avg Length 51 min Get Email Contact

16. Sooo Many White Guys

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Phoebe Robinson is tired of being the token black woman in an ocean of white dude comedians. So in this podcast, Phoebe's calling the shots. She'll host intimate, funny and super honest conversations with musicians, actors, writers and comedians who are killing it in their fields AND who aren't white dudes! Stay tuned for the one token white guy (it's only fair), cameos by Phoebe's ball-busting executive producer Ilana Glazer, and a whole lot of hijinks.MORE Host Phoebe Robinson
Producer/Network WNYC Studios
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Apple Rating 4.3/5Facebook 22.6KTwitter 80.6KInstagram 6.9K Frequency 8 ep/year Avg Length 38 min Get Email Contact

17. Aria Code

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Aria Code is a podcast that pulls back the curtain on some of the most famous arias in opera history, with insight from the biggest voices of our time, including Plácido Domingo, Diana Damrau, Sondra Radvanovsky, and many others. Each episode dives into one aria, a feature for a single singer and explores how and why these brief musical moments have imprinted themselves in our collective consciousness and what it takes to stand on the Met stage and sing them.MORE Producer/Network WQXR & The Metropolitan Opera
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Apple Rating 4.8/5Facebook 22.6KTwitter 7.8KInstagram 6.9K Frequency 8 ep/year Avg Length 39 min Since Nov 2018 Get Email Contact

18. Trump Inc.

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WNYC Studios podcast talks about political reforms and policies in Trump's governance.
Hosts Andrea Bernstein, Ilya Marritz
Producer/Network WNYC Studios
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Apple Rating 4.6/5Facebook 22.6KTwitter 7.8KInstagram 6.9K Frequency 8 ep/year Avg Length 33 min Since Feb 2018 Get Email Contact

19. Politics with Amy Walter

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Every Friday, Amy Walter brings you the trends in politics long before the national media picks upon them. Known as one of the smartest and most trusted journalists in Washington, D.C., Amy Walter is respected by politicians and pundits on all sides of the aisle. Politics with Amy Walter is a co-production of PRI and WNYC Radio in collaboration with WGBH.MORE Host Amy Walter
Producer/Network WNYC and PRX
Email ****@wnyc.org
Apple Rating 4.6/5Facebook 22.6KTwitter 7.8KInstagram 6.9K Frequency 1 ep/week Avg Length 45 min Since Aug 2020 Get Email Contact

20. Nancy

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BFF Kathy Tu and Tobin Low are super queer, super fun and ready to take over your podcast feed. Join them for provocative stories and frank conversations about the LGBTQ experience today. Because everyone's a little bit gay. Stories and conversations about the queer experience today. Prepare to laugh and cry and laugh again.MORE Host Nancy
Producer/Network WNYC Studios
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Apple Rating 4.8/5Facebook 22.6KTwitter 7.8KInstagram 6.9K Frequency 2 ep/month Avg Length 32 min Get Email Contact

21. Come Through with Rebecca Carroll

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Come Through with Rebecca Carroll is a podcast that explores culture, race and identity against the backdrop of the 2020 election. The series will provide listeners with conversations with prominent thinkers, cultural critics, writers, artists, and politicians on topics like climate change, diversity and inclusion programs, immigration and more are prompted by our host's lifelong personal inquiry into what it means to form an identity as a black woman against the default American backdrop of mainstream whiteness and white supremacy.MORE Host Rebecca Carroll
Producer/Network WNYC
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Apple Rating 4.7/5Facebook 22.6KTwitter 7.8KInstagram 6.9K Frequency 3 ep/week Avg Length 32 min Get Email Contact

22. The Takeaway

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A fresh alternative in daily news featuring critical conversations, live reports from the field, and listener participation. The Takeaway provides a breadth and depth of world, national, and regional news coverage that is unprecedented in public media.MORE Host Farai Chideya
Producer/Network WNYC and PRX
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Apple Rating 4.3/5Facebook 22.6KTwitter 7.8KInstagram 6.9K Frequency 2 ep/day Avg Length 32 min Get Email Contact

23. Undiscovered

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A podcast about the left turns, missteps, and lucky breaks that make science happen.
Hosts Scifri Producer, Musician D
Producer/Network Science Friday and WNYC Studios
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Apple Rating 4.7/5Facebook 22.6KTwitter 7.8KInstagram 6.9K Frequency 4 ep/year Avg Length 24 min Get Email Contact

24. Science Diction

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What does the word 'meme' have to do with evolutionary biology? And why do we call it 'Spanish flu' when it was never Spanish? Science Diction is a podcast about words—and the science stories within them. If you like your language with a side of science, Science Diction has you covered. Brought to you by Science Friday and WNYC Studios.MORE Host Johanna Mayer
Producer/Network Science Friday and WNYC Studios
Email ****@sciencefriday.com
Apple Rating 4.7/5Facebook 22.6KTwitter 7.8KInstagram 6.9K Frequency 11 ep/year Avg Length 18 min Since Feb 2020 Get Email Contact

25. The Other Latif

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Radiolab reporter Latif Nasser always believed his name was uniquely his own. Until he makes a shocking discovery that he shares his name with another man: Detainee 244 at Guantanamo Bay. The U.S. government paints a terrifying picture of The Other Latif as Al-Qaeda's top explosives expert, and an advisor to Osama bin Laden. Nasser's lawyer claims that he was at the wrong place at the wrong time, and that he was never even in Al-Qaeda. This clash leads Radiolab's Latif into a years-long investigation, trying to uncover what this man actually did or didn't do.MORE Host Latif Nasser
Producer/Network Radiolab
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Facebook 22.6KTwitter 7.8KInstagram 6.9K Frequency 2 ep/month Avg Length 45 min Get Email Contact

26. The Experiment

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It's easy to forget that the United States started as an experiment: a government of the people, by the people, and for the people, with liberty and justice for all. That was the idea. On this weekly show, we check in on how that experiment is going. The Experiment: stories from an unfinished country. A new series from The Atlantic and WNYC Studios.MORE Host Sean Rameswaram
Producer/Network The Atlantic and WNYC Studios
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Facebook 22.6KTwitter 7.8KInstagram 6.9K Frequency 2 ep/month Avg Length 29 min Get Email Contact

27. The Orbiting Human Circus

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Discover a wondrously surreal world of magic, music, and mystery. This immersive, cinematic audio spectacle follows the adventures of a lonely, stage-struck janitor who is drawn into the larger-than-life universe of the Orbiting Human Circus, a fantastical, wildly popular radio show broadcast from the top of the Eiffel Tower.MORE Host John Cameron
Producer/Network WNYC Studios and Night Vale Presents
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Facebook 22.6KTwitter 7.8KInstagram 6.9K Frequency 8 ep/year Avg Length 24 min Video Podcast YouTube
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28. The Anthropocene Reviewed

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The Anthropocene is the current geological age, in which human activity has profoundly shaped the planet and its biodiversity. On The Anthropocene Reviewed, John Green reviews facets of the human-centered planet on a five-star scale.MORE Host John Green
Producer/Network Complexly, John Green
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Facebook 3.2KTwitter 14.8KInstagram 6.6K Frequency 11 ep/year Avg Length 24 min Since Jan 2018 Get Email Contact

29. 10 Things That Scare Me

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10 Things That Scare Me is a tiny podcast about our biggest fears. In each episode, one person talks. Alone in a room. It could be anyone. It could be you. It's someone driven by fears that keep them up at night, that define their lives, and inform their choices. This is a podcast about them, about you, about us, and the world we inhabit together.MORE Host Chris Thile
Producer/Network WNYC Studios
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Facebook 22.6KTwitter 7.8KInstagram 6.9K Frequency 3 ep/month Avg Length 8 min Get Email Contact