Staff Picks

Category: Podcasts

Find your new favorite reads with this collection of top titles curated by our expert librarians.

Gloria

Tilted: A Lean In Podcast

Tilted explores topics at the intersection of gender and culture – and brings you conversations with people pushing for change.

Gloria

Brenda and Ana Sheila

A Latinx empowerment program with discussions on politics, culture, and how to keep your calma with well-being practices and self-love.

Alice

Armchair Expert

We will celebrate, above all, the challenges and setbacks that ultimately lead to growth and betterment. People are vulnerable and honest about their struggles and shortcomings.

Maggie

Nice White Parents

Chana Joffe-Walt.

If you want to understand what’s wrong with our public schools, you have to look at what is arguably the most powerful force in shaping them: white parents.

Maggie

OH NO Ross and Carrie

Ross Blocher; Carrie Poppy

The hosts personally investigate claims about spirituality, fringe science, religion, and the paranormal, then discuss their findings on the show.

Maggie

American Scandal

Every scandal begins with a lie. But the truth will come out. And then comes the fallout and the outrage.

Maggie

Death, Sex & Money

Anna Sale explores the big questions and hard choices that are often left out of polite conversation.

Maggie

This is a show about the power that politics and policy have in shaping our lives. Host Trymaine Lee digs into the systems and institutions that perpetuate inequality in this country and shares the st

Maggie

Pádraig Ó Tuama

Immerse yourself in a single poem, guided by Pádraig Ó Tuama. Short and unhurried; contemplative and energizing.

Sarah

DNF is a podcast about failure in life and running. It's about unfinished business, and the unglamorous work of picking yourself up, dusting yourself off, and moving on.

The popular "Serial" podcast relied in part on Baltimore courtroom audio from the trial of Adnan Syed to help raise questions about and bring attention to his case.

Erin

You're Wrong About

Michael Hobbes & Sarah Marshall

Mike and Sarah are journalists obsessed with the past. Every week they reconsider a person or event that's been miscast in the public imagination.

Teresa

Hosted by Terry Gross, the show features intimate conversations with today's biggest luminaries. Fresh Air is a weekday magazine of contemporary arts and issues

Teresa

The Hidden Brain helps curious people understand the world – and themselves. Using science and storytelling.

Teresa

These original interviews, inspire us to learn more about the world, our communities, and most importantly, ourselves.

Teresa

How I Built This

How I Built This weaves a narrative journey about innovators, entrepreneurs and idealists—and the movements they built.

Amy

Wow in the World

Mindy Thomas and Guy Raz guide curious kids and their grown-ups on a journey into the wonders of the world around them.

Amy

Freakonomics Radio

Stephen J. Dubner

Freakonomics Radio tells you things you always thought you knew (but didn’t) and things you never thought you wanted to know (but do) — from the economics of sleep to how to become great at just about

Amy

An Arm and a Leg

A show about the cost of health care that’s more entertaining, empowering, and occasionally useful than enraging, and terrifying and depressing.

Laura

The Secret History of the Future

Slate and Stevenson

The Economist’s Tom Standage and Slate’s Seth Stevenson examine the historical precedents that can transform our understanding of modern technology, predicting how it might evolve and highlighting pit

Laura, Maggie and Erin

Investigating a strange world. https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab

- Laura, Maggie and Erin

Maggie and Laura

Dramatic tales, killer beats and the edgiest new talent in storytelling come together for a weekly radio hour hosted by Glynn Washington.

- Maggie and Laura

Alice and Maggie

Moth stories are true, as remembered by the storyteller and always told live. Listen to the latest episode of The Moth Radio Hour. https://themoth.org/podcast

- Alice and Maggie

Maggie

Only Human is a show about health that we all can relate to. Because every body has a story.

A podcast about the internet’ that is actually an unfailingly original exploration of modern life and how to survive it. https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all

- Maggie and Jill

Gloria

On Being Krista Tippet

What does it mean to be human? How do we want to live? And who will we be to each other? https://onbeing.org/series/podcast/

Gloria

An audio series on how slavery has transformed America, connecting past and present through the oldest form of storytelling.

Gloria

Join us every week as we go back in time to understand the present. https://www.npr.org/podcasts/510333/throughline

Gloria and Maggie

This reflect the universal experiences of being human, from the bravest moments to the most brokenhearted. https://brenebrown.com/podcast/introducing-unlocking-us/

- Gloria and Maggie

Gloria

What's CODE SWITCH? It's the fearless conversations about race that you've been waiting for! https://www.npr.org/podcasts/510312/codeswitch