Leading artists, writers, thinkers discuss the ideas shaping our lives & links between past & present and new academic research.

Earshot presents documentaries about people, places, stories and ideas, in all their diversity.

Discover world history, culture and ideas with today’s leading experts

Extraordinary first person stories from around the world

Seriously is home to the world’s best audio documentaries and podcast recommendations, and host Vanessa Kisuule brings you two fascinating new episodes every week.

An hour of historical reporting told by the people who were there.

The past is never past. Every headline has a history. Join us every week as we go 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.

Everywhere around us are echoes of the past. Those echoes define the boundaries of states and countries, how we pray and how we fight. They determine what money we spend and how we earn it at work, what language we speak and how we raise our children. From Wondery, host Patrick Wyman, PhD (“Fall Of Rome”) helps us understand our world and how it got to be the way it is.

New research on how society works

Surprising stories from unusual places. With ideas too big for a single episode, The Compass presents mini-series about the environment and politics, culture and society.