Podcasts that feel like
Criminal
Vox Media Podcast Network · True Crime · 497 episodes
True crime told quiet and precise, more curious than lurid.
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This American Life · Society & Culture
Story craft first, subject second
The difference: Not only crime
The original: true stories about ordinary Americans, told perfectly for decades.
Casefile Presents · True Crime
Restraint as a style
The difference: Heavier cases
Anonymous, meticulous true crime with zero banter and total focus.
Swindled · True Crime
Crime told cool and precise
The difference: Corporate
White-collar crime told deadpan by a concerned citizen. Corporate villainy, perfectly seasoned.
Ear Hustle & Radiotopia · Documentary
The humans inside the system
The difference: First person
Life inside prison, told by the people living it.
The New Yorker · True Crime
Where crime meets accountability
The difference: Investigative seasons
Investigative reporting that has actually reopened cases, one season at a time.
Snap Judgment and PRX · Performing Arts
Narrative audio with pulse
The difference: All genres
Cinematic true stories with a musical pulse and a storyteller's swagger.
Pushkin Industries · History
shares that restrained, unsettling feel
Elegant little disaster stories about how smart people get things terribly wrong.
PodcastOne · True Crime
shares that restrained, cerebral feel
Two prosecutors re-try famous cases with actual courtroom rigor.
The Verge · Business
shares that restrained, cerebral feel
Nilay Patel asks executives the hard questions about how their companies actually work.
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