The way homelessness has exploded in California over the last decade, you’d think there was no system in place to address it. But there is one – it just wasn’t designed to help everyone. Katie Mingle’s According to Need is a documentary podcast in 5 chapters from 99% Invisible that asks: what are we doing to get people into housing?
Podcast Categories: Documentary
Crypto Secrets and Conspiracy Theories
Extensive research and opinions on cryptocurrency secrets and conspiracy theories. Who created Bitcoin, Crypto Scams, YouTubers, Governments, Time Travel, Illuminati, and more…
Heretics | Andrew Gold
Journalist Andrew Gold talks to everyone from cult defectors and politicians to mainstream celebrities – people who’ve challenged the expected script and lived with the consequences.
Guests include Robbie Williams, Rob Schneider, Frankie Muniz, Katie Price, Evan Rachel Wood, Paul Gascogine, Chris Packham, Chris Williamson, David Baddiel, Richard Dawkins, Bonnie Blue, and former UK Prime Minister Liz Truss.
Collapse: Disaster in Surfside
In the middle of the night on June 24, 2021, a 12-story section of the Champlain Towers South condominium complex roared to the ground, killing 98 people in Surfside, Florida.
Collapse: Disaster in Surfside is a 12-part investigative and narrative reporting project featuring the Pulitzer-Prize-winning coverage of the Miami Herald in collaboration with Treefort Media.
We’re talking with survivors, witnesses, experts, first responders, and journalists, to get the whole story of Surfside. How the building went up, and why it went down. We’re piecing together 911 calls, police body camera recordings, surveillance footage, and forensic engineers digging deep into the evidence to find the truth.
What went wrong? Who’s going to be held accountable? Could something like Surfside happen again? We’re looking for answers.
And we’re meeting the people who called it home. We’re getting the stories of the lives lived and lost there.
All this and more through the reporting of the Miami Herald, its partners, and host Paul Beban.
The Comeback
2022 Webby Award Nominee, Podcast – Documentary
Sylvester Stallone brings you The Comeback: an immersive, cinematic documentary series about meteoric success, devastating falls and inspirational comebacks – all told by the people who lived them.
Presented by Imperative Entertainment and produced by Honora & Balboa Productions in Association with 30WEST.
The Comeback is Executive Produced Sylvester Stallone, presented by Imperative Entertainment, and created, written, and edited by Giles Andrew and Elliott Watson of Honora Productions. Executive Producers are Sylvester Stallone and Braden Aftergood of Balboa Productions, Jason Hoch of Imperative Entertainment, and Trevor Groth of 30WEST.
Careless | Tortoise Investigates
The home of investigative podcasts from Tortoise, from Sweet Bobby to Lucky Boy. Listen to the latest original series from Tortoise, including We call her Emma and The Mandelson files.
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Reporter – Chloe Hadjimatheou
Producer – Gary Marshall
Sound design – Karla Patella
Podcast artwork – Lola Williams & Eliza Bourner
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The Long Time Academy
Life is short. Time is long. Right now so many of us are burnt out and overwhelmed: by the pandemic; by the uncertainty of the future; and by huge challenges like climate change, systemic racism, and inequality. The Long Time Academy is an immersive and entertaining new podcast that steps into this space with one clear message: changing the way we choose to engage with time can be life-changing, both when it comes to the problems we’re facing day to day, and to the huge threats we’re facing as a species. Hosted by co-founder of The Long Time Project, Ella Saltmarshe, The Long Time Academy hopes to give listeners a sense of spaciousness, awe and passion to become good ancestors.
A Show About Animals
Many of us dream about talking to other animals – but what if we already can? A deep dive into Koko the Gorilla, one of the most hotly contested stories in American science – and what it all says about us humans. From VICE World News.
The Prince Mixtape
On each episode of The Prince Mixtape, we’ll meet people who knew Prince, worked with him, or simply loved him from afar.
Host Nichole Perkins will dig deep into key moments of his life, like when his sexually liberated lyrics gave birth to the Parental Advisory Sticker, when he fought to own his masters, and when he rocked that infamous, delicious booty cut-out pantsuit.
The Agent
2022 Webby Award Honoree, Podcast Documentary Limited Series and Specials.
The Agent is the remarkable true story of Jack Barsky, the longest-surviving known member of the KGB illegals program operated during the height of the Cold War. Barsky hid in plain sight in America for 10 years, all the while leading dual lives on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean. On one fateful day, he was confronted with an impossible choice.
The Agent is a production of Imperative Entertainment in association with Windjoy and is created, written, produced and edited by Jason Hoch. Narration by Alden Ehrenreich. Executive Producers are Jason Hoch, Jack Barsky and Alden Ehrenreich. Original score by Jasha Klebe. Sound engineering and additional editing by Shaine Freeman.
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