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Podcast : The World in Time / Lapham’s Quarterly (LS 48 · TOP 1% what is this? ) Episode : Mary Beard on the Classics Pub date : 2026-05-22 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization “Fifth-century Athens still lingers even for us, and it’s a mythical golden age,” says Mary Beard on this week’s episode of The World in Time. “And we imagine tha...

Podcast : Hit That Perfect Beat - The London Records Story (LS 39 · TOP 2% what is this? ) Episode : Hit That Perfect Beat: The London Records Story | Episode 1 - A New Era Pub date : 2026-05-06 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Before the hits, before the headlines, there was chaos, instinct… and a gamble. Welcome to the birth of Lon...

Podcast : SuperHuman (LS 38 · TOP 2% what is this? ) Episode : The “Steroid Olympics” Pub date : 2026-05-05 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization When the Enhanced Games got announced a lot of people thought it was a joke. An Olympic style event where the athletes can take any kind of performance enhancing drugs they want? Sounded like an...

Podcast : 99% Invisible (LS 83 · TOP 0.01% what is this? ) Episode : 100 Objects #1: The Century Safe Pub date : 2026-05-19 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization In 1876, Americans filled an iron safe with objects meant to tell their story — to be opened a century later. Roman Mars and historian Jill Lepore trace its long wait, from Recon...

Podcast : Planet Money (LS 83 · TOP 0.01% what is this? ) Episode : How to make a BOOK into a bestseller Pub date : 2026-05-02 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization In the world of commercial publishing, there are few crowning achievements more coveted than a place on the New York Times Best Seller List. But how does a book actually end u...

Podcast : The Current (LS 61 · TOP 0.1% what is this? ) Episode : The early "voice notes" that give us a window into the past Pub date : 2026-05-14 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Princeton professor Thomas Levin has collected the world's only collection of 'voice letters' -- small records that could be recorded on-the-spot in the 1...

Podcast : Sticky Notes: The Classical Music Podcast (LS 63 · TOP 0.1% what is this? ) Episode : Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 2 Pub date : 2026-01-08 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization We humans seem to love comeback stories, and there is no comeback quite as compelling in the classical music world as Rachmaninoff's Second Piano Conc...

Podcast : What Happens Next in 6 Minutes (LS 39 · TOP 2% what is this? ) Episode : Closing Small Colleges Pub date : 2026-04-21 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Our first speaker is Geoff Baird who is a very close family friend. Geoff recently co-wrote a book entitled The Signal Solution: How Smart Colleges Stop Chasing Applications...

Podcast : Big Lives (LS 41 · TOP 1.5% what is this? ) Episode : Sir David Attenborough: The Voice of the Natural World Turns 100 Pub date : 2026-04-27 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Sir David Attenborough turns 100 this year—and no one has done more to shape how humanity sees our planet. But for years, there was one issue he...

Podcast : Word For Word with Sophia Smith Galer (LS 26 · TOP 10% what is this? ) Episode : The languages that shaped Hind Hassan Pub date : 2026-03-24 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Speaking Iraqi Arabic opened doors in the field - while her Hull accent raised eyebrows in the newsroom. In this episode of Word For Word , multi-Emmy...

Podcast : Grimm, Grimmer, Grimmest (LS 70 · TOP 0.05% what is this? ) Episode : The Secret Language Pub date : 2025-11-06 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization When a little brother feels left out of his sisters’ secret game, it sets off a magical adventure full of mystery, bravery, and the power of family. On a scale of Grimm, Grimmer Gr...

Podcast : Jacob Reed and Me (LS 43 · TOP 1% what is this? ) Episode : The Head Case Pub date : 2026-03-11 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization When Jacob discovers another Jacob Reed who suffered a traumatic brain injury the exact same summer he did, the eerie parallels hit too close to home. Is it fate, coincidence, or something strange...

Podcast : The Binge Cases: U R NEXT (LS 66 · TOP 0.05% what is this? ) Episode : My Mother’s Lies | 1. The Hero Housewife Who Solved A Murder Pub date : 2026-04-01 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Citizen sleuth Susan Galbreath’s reputation is called into question when a British production company gets a hold of her investigation int...

Podcast : How To! with Mike Pesca (LS 61 · TOP 0.1% what is this? ) Episode : How To Solve a Mystery Pub date : 2026-04-14 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Brett has spent her career in foreign policy — shaping strategy, advising governments, moving pieces on a board whose outcomes she may never live to fully see. It's meaningful wor...

Podcast : Freakonomics Radio (LS 83 · TOP 0.01% what is this? ) Episode : 670. Beeconomics 101 Pub date : 2026-04-10 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization How do beekeepers make a living? Why is there so much honey fraud? And why did billions of bees suddenly disappear? To find out, guest host Steve Levitt activates his hive mind.   SOURC...

Podcast : China Books Podcast (LS 32 · TOP 5% what is this? ) Episode : Confucius and Women, with Erin Cline Pub date : 2026-04-07 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Misogyny and patriarchy are a later misreading of The Analects, argues the author of a new translation of the Confucian classic. The China Books Podcast is a companion of...

Podcast : Everything Is Fake (LS 46 · TOP 1% what is this? ) Episode : 4. The Lance Armstrong Defence Pub date : 2026-04-01 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization In the early 2000s, a young man in New Jersey was writing thousands of fake university essays for paying students. Around the same time, financial analysts in New York were ratin...

Podcast : Safe to Drink (LS 45 · TOP 1% what is this? ) Episode : 1: You don’t know about this? Pub date : 2026-01-29 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization A New Hampshire town finds out its water has been contaminated by a “forever chemical.” The source appears to be the nearby Saint-Gobain plant. Officials say the potential health effec...

Podcast : No Tags (LS 41 · TOP 1.5% what is this? ) Episode : 65: The indies fight back! Damon Krukowski on the value of sound Pub date : 2026-04-01 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization We all know what sound is, but are we any good at describing it? This week’s guest is a musician, writer and one of independent music’s wisest observers....

Podcast : Close Readings (LS 45 · TOP 1% what is this? ) Episode : Who’s afraid of realism? Three stories by Anton Chekhov Pub date : 2026-03-30 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization ‘Instead of sheets – dirty tablecloths.’ The notebooks of Anton Chekhov are full of enigmatic observations such as this, the unexplained details that suggest...

Podcast : Explain It to Me (LS 72 · TOP 0.05% what is this? ) Episode : Your accent… explained Pub date : 2026-03-29 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization How you talk reveals where you’re from and who you’d like to be. This episode was produced by Ariana Aspuru, edited by Jenny Lawton, fact-checked by Melissa Hirsch, engineered by Patric...

Podcast : The Best Is Yet To Come... (LS 36 · TOP 2.5% what is this? ) Episode : How To Have Fun Pub date : 2026-03-16 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization What did Myra Hindley think of Mary Queen of Scots? How is learning how to have fun just as important as hard work? Why was it so important to bring a woman's perspective to history?...

Podcast : Screw this…Let’s try something else (LS 42 · TOP 1.5% what is this? ) Episode : Let’s all get started: 5 steps to action | with Jon Alexander Pub date : 2026-02-23 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization In our final part of this series, we focus entirely on you, the listener, with an episode dedicated to how to translate the insp...

Podcast : Smarty Pants (LS 43 · TOP 1% what is this? ) Episode : Shotgun Ornithology Pub date : 2026-03-20 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Songbirds are disappearing at an alarming rate, with some species teetering on the verge of extinction, barely clinging to their endangered habitats. Birders, not to mention scientists, are sound...

Podcast : Real Vikings (LS 48 · TOP 0.5% what is this? ) Episode : 1. Murder on Chesil Beach Pub date : 2026-03-10 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization The Vikings are here. A cold-blooded murder in seaside Dorset marks the beginning of the Viking Age in the British Isles. Scandinavian warriors with no fear of death set sail across the N...