awe podcasts
The vast and the sublime. The ones that make you feel small in the best way. Every show links to its kindred spirits. Find one you love, then follow the thread.
Dolly Parton's America
WNYC Studios & OSM Audio · Music History
Nine chapters on Dolly Parton as the great American unifier.
StarTalk Radio
Neil deGrasse Tyson · Science
Neil deGrasse Tyson takes the cosmos personally, with comics riding shotgun.
Unexplainable
Vox · Life Sciences
A show about everything science can't explain yet, told with wonder.
Daniel and Jorge Explain the Universe
iHeartPodcasts · Natural Sciences
A physicist and a cartoonist explain the universe like best friends at a whiteboard.
Ologies with Alie Ward
Alie Ward · Science
A different -ology every week, taught by a scientist who loves it madly.
Radiolab
WNYC Studios · Natural Sciences
Science storytelling that turns a question you never asked into an hour you can't stop replaying.
Song Exploder
Hrishikesh Hirway · Music
Musicians take apart one song and show you where the magic lives.
The Ancients
History Hit · History
The ancient world brought close, one expert conversation at a time.
Dan Carlin's Hardcore History
Dan Carlin · History
Five-hour history epics that hit like feature films. Start with the fall of anything.
Dissect
The Ringer · Music
One classic album dissected line by line, a season at a time.
Fall of Civilizations Podcast
Fall of Civilizations Podcast · History
Feature-length elegies for collapsed civilizations, gorgeous and devastating.
On Being with Krista Tippett
On Being Studios · Society & Culture
Krista Tippett's slow, luminous conversations about what it means to be human.
Sean Carroll's Mindscape
Sean Carroll · Physics
A physicist's long, patient conversations at the edge of what we know.
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