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Podcast : Search Engine (LS 69 · TOP 0.05% what is this? ) Episode : Why is the pool at Buckingham Palace a secret? Pub date : 2024-12-27 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization An investigation into a mysterious room. A room that the most famous family in England apparently does not want you to see. Support the show at searchengi...

Podcast : Radiolab (LS 85 · TOP 0.01% what is this? ) Episode : A Little Pompeiian Fish Sauce Goes a Long Way Pub date : 2024-09-20 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Today we follow a sleuth who has spent over a decade working to solve an epic mystery hiding in plain historical sight: did anyone survive the eruption of Mount Vesuvius...

Podcast : Illuminated (LS 34 · TOP 3% what is this? ) Episode : The Shipping Forecast: A Haven Pub date : 2024-12-28 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization It's the most intimate moment of the Radio 4 schedule: The late-night Shipping Forecast, a prelude to the close-down of the station, read every night at 00:48. But who is really listeni...

Podcast : The Journal. (LS 70 · TOP 0.05% what is this? ) Episode : The Missing Minister: The Vanishing of Qin Gang Pub date : 2024-12-30 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Last year, China’s foreign minister, Qin Gang, suddenly disappeared. Qin was a rising star in Chinese politics and a protegé of China’s strongman leader, Xi Jinping...

Podcast : Myths and Legends (LS 79 · TOP 0.01% what is this? ) Episode : 398: Nordic Christmas: In the Bleak Mid-winter Pub date : 2024-12-18 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization 🌲Trolls, zombies, and evil housecats🌲 It must be Christmas in the Nordic countries. Today, a young officer is stuck in the city after being in a brief coma. A...

Podcast : Shadow World (LS 46 · TOP 1% what is this? ) Episode : The Willpower Detectives: 1. The Doorstep Stranger Pub date : 2024-12-09 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Concerned neighbours ask Sue Mitchell for help in finding out how one man has taken control of the finances of scores of vulnerable people. This is the hidden scand...

Podcast : Sherlock Holmes Short Stories (LS 58 · TOP 0.5% what is this? ) Episode : The Adventure of the Speckled Band: Part One Pub date : 2024-12-12 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization April, 1883. A terrified young woman named Helen Stoner arrives at 221B Baker Street seeking Sherlock Holmes's help. Two years prior, her twin sister d...

Podcast : Statecraft (LS 37 · TOP 2.5% what is this? ) Episode : How to Build a Flying Ebola Hospital Pub date : 2024-11-27 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization I’ve been trying to get a conversation with today’s interviewee, Eric Van Gieson, PhD , since March. Van Gieson is a remarkable character, with a crazy CV: more than 25 years of...

Podcast : Peaceful Exit (LS 35 · TOP 3% what is this? ) Episode : Curb Appeal: Finding Home After Loss with Rev. Steven Tomlinson Pub date : 2024-12-03 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Steven Tomlinson, Episcopal priest, playwright, and former economist, shares his personal journey through grief and healing after the sudden loss of h...

Podcast : Family Lore (LS 66 · TOP 0.05% what is this? ) Episode : Cement City: Episode 1 | I’ll Die Here Pub date : 2024-09-18 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Jeanne Marie and Erin wander off the highway into Donora, Pa, a dying town with a dark secret. They decide to buy a house. A solid concrete house. In a neighborhood called Ce...

Podcast : Search Engine (LS 69 · TOP 0.05% what is this? ) Episode : Who buys luggage at the airport luggage store? Pub date : 2024-12-06 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization If ever there was a place where every person inside was guaranteed to already have luggage, it would be inside an airport. And yet ... the airport luggage stores pe...

Podcast : Hit Parade | Music History and Music Trivia (LS 64 · TOP 0.05% what is this? ) Episode : Say a Little Prayer Edition Part 1 Pub date : 2024-11-15 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization You know her honorific: Queen of Soul. And heavy is the head that wears the crown. In her lifetime, Aretha Franklin didn’t just want to be revered...

Podcast : Festival of Dangerous Ideas (LS 35 · TOP 3% what is this? ) Episode : Contagious Realities (2024) - Alice Dawkins, Natasha Mitchell, Sandersan Onie, Jean Twenge & Sonny Jane Wise Pub date : 2024-11-06 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization The increase in mental health and neurodivergent diagnoses in recent years indicates that w...

Podcast : Smarty Pants (LS 43 · TOP 1% what is this? ) Episode : Overconsumed Pub date : 2024-11-29 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization In his previous book,  Junkyard Planet , journalist Adam Minter went around the world to see what happened to American recyclables such as cardboard, shredded cars, and Christmas lights around the...

Podcast : The Man Who Calculated Death (LS 51 · TOP 0.5% what is this? ) Episode : The Last Request: 1 Pub date : 2025-03-18 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Suzanne and Stephanie Rico dig through their deceased mother's office searching for clues to their dark legacy--a flying bomb built in World War II by a brilliant Nazi grandfath...

Podcast : The Allusionist (LS 69 · TOP 0.05% what is this? ) Episode : 204. Lexicat, part 1 Pub date : 2024-11-24 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Elsie the cat has a set of 120 buttons programmed with words. She uses them to lie, swear, apologise, express grief and frustration and love to her human, the author Mary Robinette Kowal,...

Podcast : Wonder Cabinet (LS 58 · TOP 0.5% what is this? ) Episode : Playing with Words Pub date : 2024-11-09 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Sometime in the last couple of years, America’s collective morning routine shifted. We used to start the day with coffee. Now it’s coffee and Wordle. Or Spelling Bee. Or both, plus the crosswo...

Podcast : Philosopher's Zone (LS 56 · TOP 0.5% what is this? ) Episode : Sense, sensibility and the authentic self Pub date : 2024-11-27 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Authenticity, vulnerability and empathy are all positive character traits - but is there something in the modern ritual performance of these traits that can actually...

Podcast : 16 Sunsets (LS 48 · TOP 1% what is this? ) Episode : Secret War Pub date : 2024-11-21 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization A space shuttle stands on the pad, seething in the darkness, ready to go. Its mission is high speed espionage. Launching into the night sky, it heads north toward the pole, lining up over the Soviet Union.&...

Podcast : Hyperfixed (LS 56 · TOP 0.5% what is this? ) Episode : Eva Needs to Measure Pub date : 2024-09-19 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization This week: Eva lives in the UK, loves to bake, and frequently tries to bake American recipes. But Americans measure by volume and everyone else measures by weight — and converting those measurem...

Podcast : The Politics Show (LS 58 · TOP 0.5% what is this? ) Episode : Autobahn at 50: How Kraftwerk defined modern music Pub date : 2024-11-25 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization 50 years ago this month the German band Kraftwerk released Autobahn – an album that not only marked a dramatic departure in their sound, but went on to...

Podcast : Savor (LS 59 · TOP 0.1% what is this? ) Episode : Going Off on Stroganoff Pub date : 2024-11-15 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization This savory, creamy, starchy dish can be made in all sorts of ways, and it has a tangle of historical ties to match. Anney and Lauren dig into the history and cultures behind stroganoff. See omnys...

Podcast : What It's Like To Be... with Dan Heath (LS 54 · TOP 0.5% what is this? ) Episode : A London Cabbie Pub date : 2024-10-08 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Outsmarting drunks, competing with ride-share apps, and discovering that some of your passengers were Spice Girls with Jamie Owens, a London cabbie. How much does it cost...

Podcast : Hidden Brain (LS 84 · TOP 0.01% what is this? ) Episode : Emotions 2.0: What's Better than Being Happy? Pub date : 2024-11-11 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Many of us go to great lengths to be happy. But is our singular focus on feeling good actually making us miserable? This week, psychologist Jordi Quoidbach explores w...

Podcast : Entanglements, by Undark (LS 32 · TOP 5% what is this? ) Episode : Risky Science and Public Consent Pub date : 2024-11-18 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization This week on Entanglements: Should citizens decide on risky science? Our hosts talk to an Oxford political scientist and a former law and ethics professor about how democ...