Podcasts that feel like
This American Life
This American Life · Society & Culture · 514 episodes
The original: true stories about ordinary Americans, told perfectly for decades.
If This American Life hit the spot, these will too
The Moth · Performing Arts
True personal stories that land like short fiction
The difference: Live stage, no production
True stories told live on stage, no notes, all heart.
Snap Judgment and PRX · Performing Arts
Themed true stories with swagger and score
The difference: Punchier, more musical
Cinematic true stories with a musical pulse and a storyteller's swagger.
Pushkin Industries · Personal Journals
One person's unresolved moment, gently reopened
The difference: Funnier, more intimate
Jonathan Goldstein helps people revisit the moment their life forked, gently and hilariously.
The New York Times · Society & Culture
Personal essays about the heart, beautifully read
The difference: Love stories only
The Times' beloved essays about love, read aloud and lived further.
Ear Hustle & Radiotopia · Documentary
Everyday life inside prison, told with humanity
The difference: One world, deeper
Life inside prison, told by the people living it.
NPR · Personal Journals
Ideas about human behavior wrapped in narrative
The difference: More science, more sound design
The invisible forces that shape human behavior, told like fables.
Nate DiMeo · History
shares that tender, wistful feel
Tiny, gorgeous history miniatures that will wreck you in six minutes.
Esther Perel Global Media · Society & Culture
shares that tender feel
Real couples therapy sessions with Esther Perel. You will hear your own relationship.
Audacy · Comedy Interviews
shares that wistful, warm feel
Carvey and Spade swap SNL lore with the people who lived it.
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