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November 1, 2026
David Whyte — Seeking Language Large Enough
On Being · David Whyte · 51 min
The poet David Whyte on courage, heartbreak and finding language large enough for a real life.
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October 31, 2026
Mortality: The Moth Radio Hour
The Moth · Storytellers from The Moth · 51 min
True stories told live about mortality — tender, funny and unafraid, with no lesson pressed on you.
89
October 30, 2026
Episode 334: Patrick Radden Keefe
Longform · Patrick Radden Keefe · 63 min
One of the great nonfiction writers on obsession, reporting patiently and how a story finally reveals its shape.
88
October 29, 2026
Origins of Constantinople
The Ancients · Tristan Hughes · 59 min
How a modest Greek colony on the Bosphorus became the city that held an empire together for a thousand years.
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October 28, 2026
Zombies, Trolleys, and Galileo's Balls
Very Bad Wizards · Tamler Sommers & David Pizarro · 79 min
A philosopher and a psychologist argue, joyfully, about zombies, trolley problems and what thought experiments really test.
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October 27, 2026
#2 Gregor
Heavyweight · Gregor · 45 min
Jonathan Goldstein helps a man get back the CDs a famous friend borrowed decades ago — funny, aching, and secretly about being seen.
85
October 19, 2026
Cosmic Queries: Space Junk
StarTalk · Moriba Jah · 55 min
Astrodynamicist Moriba Jah on the crowded sky above us and caring for space as a shared environment.
84
October 18, 2026
The New Science of Cancer
Making Sense · · 1 hr 21 min
A careful, deep conversation about what we now understand about cancer, and what that changes.
83
October 17, 2026
Where Have The Insects Gone?
Science Vs · Jessica Ware · 46 min
An entomologist on what is really happening to insects, separating alarm from evidence. Sobering but clear.
82
October 16, 2026
Professor Dame Pamela Shaw
Desert Island Discs · Pamela Shaw · 52 min
A leading motor neurone disease researcher on decades of work, hope and the music that carried her.
81
October 15, 2026
The Invention of an Epidemic
Revisionist History · · 49 min
Malcolm Gladwell on how an idea becomes a crisis, and what that says about how we decide what is true.
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October 14, 2026
Can AI Be Built in Service of Life? A Conversation with Krista Tippett
Your Undivided Attention · Krista Tippett · 54 min
Krista Tippett on wisdom, attention and what technology should serve. A rare tech conversation that slows down.
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