And let’s just say Defenders have interesting tastes in podcasts.
Another Not Guilty
The forbidden stories of the criminal justice system told by its' unsung heroes, the public defenders, with a little humor, drama, and passion for justice.
Curious Nashville
In Curious Nashville, we answer your questions about the city and region. Submit yours at curious.wpln.org. Listeners decide which question we should investigate and answer next.
Armchair Expert
Celebrates the messiness of being human.
Ear Hustle
The daily realities of life inside prison shared by those living it, and stories from the outside, post-incarceration.
Songexploder
A podcast where musicians take apart their songs, and piece by piece, tell the story of how they were made.
The Read
Join Kid Fury and Crissle for their weekly podcast covering hip-hop and pop culture's most trying stars. Throwing shade and spilling tea with a flippant and humorous attitude, no star is safe from Fury and Crissle unless their name is Beyoncé.
The Last Archive
A show about how we know what we know and why it seems, lately, as if we don't know anything at all.
Broken Record
Liner notes for the digital age.
Nice White Parents
From the makers of Serial and The New York Times: "Nice White Parents" looks at the 60-year relationship between white parents and the public school down the block.
The Promise
WPLN's Meribah Knight hosts an immersive series about inequity in Nashville and the people trying to rise above it.
1619
In August of 1619, a ship carrying more than 20 enslaved Africans arrived in the English colony of Virginia, America was not yet America, but this was the moment it began.
Art and Labor
Art & Labor chronicles the stories of social justice organizing within the arts.
Radio Cachimbona
A podcast by one Salvi-Taurean Cachimbona growing, healing, and storytelling in Southern Arizona.
The Box of Oddities
Kat & Jethro Gilligan Toth bring their irreverent brand of humor and unique chemistry to an exploration of the strange, the bizarre, and the unexpected.
Serial
Serial is an investigative journalism podcast hosted by Sarah Koenig: season 1
Slow Burn
A Slate-produced historic podcast
S-Town
John despised his Alabama town and deciding to do something about it.
The Daily
NYTimes
The Who We Are Project
It is time to correct the American narrative on our history of racism.
Everything is Alive
Interviews with inanimate objects as if they were alive. Very funny.
Stand up with Pete Dominick
We will talk about issues that matter to you, your health, the health of your family, community, country and planet. And we will laugh while we do it.
Criminal
Stories of people who’ve done wrong, been wronged, or gotten caught somewhere in the middle.
5-4 Pod
A podcast where we dissect and analyze the Supreme Court cases that have ground our liberties to the bone, like the cartilage in a veteran NBA player's knees.
Justice in America
A podcast for everyone interested in criminal justice reform— from those new to the system to experts who want to know more.
Sawbones
Weird medical history
Minority Korner
Pop culture and politics through a BIPOC and LGBTQ lens
Gravy
From the Southern Foodways Alliance, Gravy is a podcast that showcases the narratives of the people and regions that have helped shaped Southern food culture. (Hint: It’s not all biscuits and gravy.)
Making Sense with Sam Harris
Harris covers a wide range of topics—neuroscience, moral philosophy, religion, meditation practice, human violence, rationality—but generally focus on how a growing understanding of ourselves and the world is changing our sense of how we should live.
Revisionist History
Malcolm Gladwell’s journey through the overlooked and the misunderstood. Every episode re-examines something from the past — an event, a person, an idea, even a song — and asks whether we got it right the first time. Because sometimes the past deserves a second chance.
Joe Rogan Experience
The official podcast of comedian Joe Rogan.
TED Radio Hour
Life's biggest questions, explored.
Dr. Death
We’re at our most vulnerable when we go to our doctors. We trust the person at the other end of that scalpel. We trust the hospital. We trust the system.
Pod Save the People
Activism, social justice, culture, politics
Harry Potter and the Sacred Text
Reading fiction doesn’t help us escape the world, it helps us live in it.
Learn how to tackle your Parenting Challenges
Difficult kids, parenting challenged- check this list
Snap Judgement
Checking your judgement, musical brand of storytelling dares listeners to see the world through the eyes of another.
Racist Sandwich
Food and the ways we consume, create, and interpret food can be political. From discussions about racism in food photography to interviews with chefs of color, podcast hosts Stephanie Kuo and Juan Diego Ramirez hash out a diverse range of topics with humor, grace and little pretension.
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