Research Guides: Podcasts: Podcasts

Accounting

TAPS
Associate Professor Albie Brooks exposes the research work of the University of Melbourne Accounting Department's staff and academic visitors, conveys innovations and developments in our teaching program, and provides commentary on issues of the day in accounting. Through this, TAPS reaches out to the broader academic community, industry, the profession and the wider community.

Architecture

99% Invisible
99% Invisible is about all the thought that goes into the things we don’t think about — the unnoticed architecture and design that shape our world.
Architecture is Political
A podcast where black and brown folks have a conversation about architecture.
Life of an Architect
Host Bob Borson uses the experiences acquired over a 25-year career to inform his podcast. It responds to the public’s curiosity and common misunderstanding about what architects do and how it is relevant to people’s lives, engaging a wide demographic of people in a meaningful way.
Talking Architecture and Design
Talking Architecture & Design is Australia’s first B2B architecture podcast that regularly talks about a range of issues that affect Australia’s architects, building designers and built environment professionals.
Theory of Architecture
Theory of Architecture is a series of in-depth conversations with architects and academics about architecture and the theories and philosophies behind it.
The Young Architect Podcast

Business/Economics

Bloomberg Benchmark
A weekly show that examines the inner workings of the global economy
Bloomburg's Masters in Business
Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz looks at the people and ideas that shape markets, investing and business.
How I built This
Dives into the stories behind some of the world's best known companies. Weaves a narrative journey about innovators, entrepreneurs and idealists—and the movements they built.
The Journal
Created by the Wall Street Journal. A daily podcast about money, business and power.
Planet Money
The economy explained. Imagine you could call up a friend and say, "Meet me at the bar and tell me what's going on with the economy." Now imagine that's actually a fun evening.
StartUp
A documentary series about entrepreneurial life.
We Crashed
Rise and fall of the company called We Work.
Without Fail
Candid conversations with people who have done hard things (primarily in business): what worked, what didn't and why.

Culinary Arts

Culinary Now Podcast
A food pod designed to dive deeper into the topics surrounding our industry.
Cooking with Custom Culinary
Whether you want to gain insights into the workings of the food industry, be inspired by our team of global culinarians, or take a dive deep into flavor, plant-forward cookery, operational effectiveness, or cooking techniques this is the perfect podcast for you.
History of Food
What makes us human? Humans are just animals who know how to cook. Come explore the story of humans and their civilizations through the lens of what they ate.

Computers/Information Systems

How to Code Well
Web development discussions and interviews from Peter Fisher. Covering JavaScript, Linux, Docker, PHP, Python, MYSQL, HTML and more
Learn to Code
Learn to Code is a podcast hosted by Chris Castiglione (OneMonth.com) based in Brooklyn, NY. Each week Chris interviews successful business founders, startups and programmers to ask them: How did you learn to code? What tips and tricks do you have for finding meaningful work?
Learn to Code with Me
The Learn to Code With Me podcast, created by Laurence Bradford, is for aspiring techies and self-taught coders looking to transition into the tech industry.

Education

The Bell
Students in their own voices looking at education in New York City where there are two school systems. One is for the affluent and well-connected. It promises elite opportunities for families able to sacrifice time and money to compete for them. The other primarily serves low-income students of color and offers them a fraction of the opportunities that their more affluent peers get.
Nice White Parents
If you want to understand what’s wrong with our public schools, you have to look at what is arguably the most powerful force in shaping them: white parents. A five-part series from Serial Productions, a New York Times Company.

Equity & Social Justice

Code Switch
Conversations about race hosted by journalists of color. Exploring how race impacts every part of society — from politics and pop culture to history, sports and everything in between.
Pod Save the People
An exploration of news, culture, social justice, and politics with a special focus on overlooked stories and topics that often impact people of color.
Through Line
The past is never past. Every headline has a history. This weekly podcast goes back in time to understand the present. These are stories you can feel and sounds you can see from the moments that shaped our world.

Fashion and Design

The Successful Fashion Designer
The Successful Fashion Designer is an "all secrets revealed" show by industry expert designer and educator Sew Heidi to help you gain the confidence, skills and insights to make it in a cutthroat market. The show covers topics such as breaking into the industry, getting promotions and raises, launching your own label and…

Film

The No Film School Podcast
A podcast about how to build a career in filmmaking.

Happiness

The Happiness Lab
Yale professor Dr. Laurie Santos will take you through the latest scientific research and share some surprising and inspiring stories that will forever alter the way you think about happiness. She's changed the lives of thousands of people through her class "Psychology and the Good Life."
Ten Percent Happier
In this podcast, the host explores happiness from all angles. Guests include legendary meditation teachers -- from the Dalai Lama to Western masters -- as well as scientists, and even the odd celebrity. But the show also ventures beyond meditation, bringing on leading researchers in areas such as social anxiety, bias, creativity, productivity, and relationships.

History

1619
An audio series on how slavery has transformed America, connecting past and present through the oldest form of storytelling.
More Perfect
Supreme Court decisions shape everything from marriage and money to public safety and sex. We know these are very important decisions we should all pay attention to – but they often feel untouchable and even unknowable. Radiolab's first ever spin-off series, More Perfect, connects you to the decisions made inside the court's hallowed halls, and explains what those rulings mean for "we the people" who exist far from the bench. More Perfect bypasses the wonkiness and tells stories behind some of the court's biggest rulings.
Revisionist History
A podcast from Malcolm Gladwell. The episodes in this podcast go back and reinterpret something from the past: an event, a person, an idea. Something overlooked. Something misunderstood.

News/Current Events

The Daily
Created by the New York Times the podcast reviews news relevant to the world each day. Sometimes it is an overview of news and sometimes it includes in-depth stories on specific subjects.
Into America
An MSNBC podcast. This is a show about the power that politics and policy have in shaping our lives. The host digs into the systems and institutions that perpetuate inequality in this country and shares the stories of Americans who are trying to create change. He’s joined by everyday people and the nation’s biggest thinkers, policy makers, artists and activists to make sense of this moment in American life.
It's Been A Minute
Each week, Sam Sanders interviews people in the culture who deserve your attention. Plus weekly wraps of the news with other journalists. Join Sam as he makes sense of the world through conversation.
The Journal
Created by the Wall Street Journal. A daily podcast about money, business and power.
Scene on Radio
A Peabody-nominated podcast that tells stories exploring human experience and American society. Produced and hosted by John Biewen, Scene on Radio comes from the Center for Documentary Studies (CDS) at Duke University and is distributed by PRX.
Up First
NPR's daily news podcast providing a review of the top news stories in about 10 minutes.

Psychology

The Hidden Brain
Using science and storytelling, Hidden Brain reveals the unconscious patterns that drive human behavior, and the biases that shape our choices.
Unlocking Us
Brené Brown, endowed Chair at The Graduate College of Social Work at the University of Houston, unpacks and explores the ideas, stories, experiences, books, films, and music that reflect the universal experiences of being human, from the bravest moments to the most brokenhearted.

Science

99% Invisible
99% Invisible is about all the thought that goes into the things we don’t think about — the unnoticed architecture and design that shape our world.
Chemistry for Your Life
A podcast helping you understand the chemistry of your everyday life.
Coronavirus: Fact vs Fiction
Dr. Sanjay Gupta provides the latest news about the coronavirus. He'll make sense of the headlines, speak with the experts and give you all the information you need to stay safe and healthy.
COVID-19 - The Osterholm Update
Relevant webinars and audio podcasts by subject matter experts. Each focuses on a specific area of interest within the topic of
Daniel and Jorge Explain the Universe
A fun-filled discussion of the big, mind-blowing, unanswered questions about the Universe. In each episode, Daniel Whiteson (a Physicist who works at CERN) and Jorge Cham (a popular online cartoonist) discuss some of the simple…
Everyday Chemistry
Science is everywhere, and learning about it should be fun. Have you ever stopped to think about how something works? This podcast is just about noticing - and explaining - the everyday experiences we all have using science.
Nature
Radio Lab
An exploration of science, philosophy, and ethics using innovative composition and sound design. Radiolab has expanded and evolved to become a platform for long-form journalism and storytelling. The show challenges its listeners’ preconceived notions about how the world works. Radiolab provokes, it moves, it delights, and it asks its audience to see the world around them anew.
Science Friday
Covering the outer reaches of space to the tiniest microbes in our bodies, Science Friday is the trusted source for news about science, technology, and other cool stuff.
Science Rules!
Bill Nye is on a mission to change the world — one voicemail at a time. Bill and science writer Corey S. Powell take your burning questions and put them to the world's leading experts on just about every topic in the universe.
Science VS
Science Vs is the show from Gimlet that finds out what’s fact, what’s not, and what’s somewhere in between. We do the hard work of sifting through all the science so you don't have to.
Skeptics Guide to the Universe
Star Talk
Stereo Chemistry
Stereo Chemistry is C&EN's podcast that delivers chemistry's frontiers to your ears. C&EN is the news magazine of the American Chemical Society.
WACKER - The Fascination of Chemistry
The audio magazine of WACKER shows the many exciting roles chemistry plays in everyday life. Each installment will give you interesting insights into how chemistry ensures perfectly functioning products in all areas of life.

Strong Storytelling

The Anthropocene Reviewed
The Anthropocene is the current geological age, in which human activity has profoundly shaped the planet and its biodiversity. On The Anthropocene Reviewed, #1 New York Times bestselling author John Green (The Fault in Our Stars, Turtles All the Way Down) reviews different facets of the human-centered planet on a five-star scale.
Decoder Ring
In each episode, host Willa Paskin takes a cultural question, object, or habit; examines its history; and tries to figure out what it means and why it matters.
Heavy Weight
The host goes back to a moment in a person's life that changed everything.
The Moth
The Moth is a non-profit group based in New York City dedicated to the art and craft of storytelling.
Mystery Show
This is a podcast with a short run, but great storytelling. The host works to solve a mystery in each episode.
NPR Selected Shorts
Your favorite actors bringing great stories to life.
Radio Lab
An exploration of science, philosophy, and ethics using innovative composition and sound design. Radiolab has expanded and evolved to become a platform for long-form journalism and storytelling. The show challenges its listeners’ preconceived notions about how the world works. Radiolab provokes, it moves, it delights, and it asks its audience to see the world around them anew.
Reply All
An exploration of the ways the internet influences culture and individual lives.
Risk!
Your colorful host Kevin Allison (of the legendary comedy group The State) helms this surprisingly uncensored show where people tell jaw-dropping true stories they never thought they'd dare to share in public. RISK! is hilarious, heart-wrenching and remarkably real.
S-Town
John despises his Alabama town and decides to do something about it. He asks a reporter to investigate the son of a wealthy family who’s allegedly been bragging that he got away with murder. But then someone else ends up dead, sparking a nasty feud, a hunt for hidden treasure, and an unearthing of the mysteries of one man’s life.
This American Life
The producers say: Our favorite sorts of stories have compelling people at the center of them, funny moments, big feelings, surprising plot twists, and interesting ideas. Like little movies for radio.

Writing

The Commonplace
A series of intimate and captivating interviews with poets and artists about quotidian objects, experiences or obsessions. The conversations explore the recipes, advice, lists, anecdotes, quotes, politics, phobias, spiritual practices, and other non-Literary forms of knowledge that are vital to an artist’s life and work.
Lighthouse Writers Workshop
A podcast that includes readings by authors from the Lighthouse Writers Workshop in Denver, Colorado.
LITerally
The truth behind the arduous and gritty world of the writer. From the Banyan Collective.
Longform Podcast
A weekly conversation with a non-fiction writer on how they tell stories.
Start Writing
Start writing is a craft-focused podcast dealing with the art of telling stories, we look at the structure of plots, scene, word choice, and all the details that go into writing great fiction.
The Writing Life
We make a podcast for anyone who writes. Every week we talk to writers about their writing journeys and techniques, from early career debuts to self-publishers and narrative designers.
Writing Roots
We're here to help authors, published or not, improve. Each episode focuses on a step in the process, whether it's actually writing or getting your book out into the world through self-publishing.

Definition

Podcast Defined: A digital audio file of speech, music, broadcast material, etc., made available on the internet for downloading to a computer or portable media player; a series of such files, new instalments of which can be received by subscribers automatically.

-From the OED

Where to Find Podcasts

Podcasts are most easily accessible on your smart phone, but most (if not all) podcasts also have websites where their episodes are loaded. Podcasts are usually free to access and URLs can easily be loaded into Canvas, sent via email, or sent as a text message.

Some common podcasts apps are:

iPhone and iPads have this podcast app automatically installed on iPhone/iPad devices. This app allows users to subscribe to podcasts through the app. It also allows users to search for podcasts by subject.

Spotify is an app that can be downloaded to any phone. Spotify is a podcast company that creates, collects, and makes podcasts accessible. Many of the podcasts on the Apple app are available through Spotify.

Sticher is an app that can be downloaded to any phone. Sticher is a podcast company that creates, collects, and makes podcasts accessible. Many of the podcasts on the Apple app are available through Spotify.

Google Podcasts is an app on Google devices. This app allows users to subscribe to podcasts through the app. It also allows users to search for podcasts by subject.