Best Humanitities Podcasts (2025)

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Bruno Lévêque (San Francisco) : Réussir dans la tech américaine tout en gardant son humanité - French Expat, un podcast de French Morning par Anne-Fleur Andrle

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Un mini-AVC à 32 ans. C’est comme ça que Bruno Lévêque a réalisé qu’il fonçait droit dans le mur… alors qu’il avait tout réussi : PrestaShop, 300 000 boutiques, Miami, San Francisco, la vie rêvée. Dans cet épisode, il raconte comment tout a basculé : quitter le bling de Miami pour la Bay Area, boire 1 000 cafés avec ses clients, et surtout, ce mail…

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[INÉDIT] Les rescapés de l’impossible : Mouro Prosperi, le trekkeur prisonnier du désert - Les Fabuleux Destins

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Bienvenue dans Les Fabuleux Destins, le podcast qui vous fait découvrir des histoires vraies et étonnantes. Cette semaine, partez à la rencontre de quatre récits de survie hors du commun : l’histoire de Mauro Prosperi, trekkeur pris au piège dans le désert lors d’une course de l’impossible ; Juliane Koepcke, jeune fille échouée au cœur de l’Amazoni…

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The Wiggles, Red Nose Day and baby Bernadette - Conversations

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Musician Paul Field on grieving the death of his baby girl, Bernadette, and how she inspired his family band, The Wiggles, to bring joy into the lives of millions of children. CW: This episode of Conversations discusses the death of a child. Paul Field was on tour in Queensland with his band, the Cockroaches, when he received a call that would alte…

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Trumps plan voor Gaza: genocide verpakken als vrede - De Correspondent

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Rosan Smits in gesprek met Rinke Verkerk | Geen zelfbeschikking voor Palestijnen, Israël behoudt controle over grenzen, lucht en zee, en de plegers van de genocide gaan vrijuit: Trump verpakt onderwerping als vrede. Verschillende media nemen deze framing klakkeloos over. En de Palestijnen? Aan hen heeft niemand iets gevraagd. Opname: Tom Ruijg Audi…

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Portugueses no Mundo - programa

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A Inês Meireles e o Diogo Fernandes partiram em busca de novos desafios, ela está em Barcelona e ele em Paris. Contam à Alice Vilaça como é viver lá fora, o que aprenderam, o que perderam e também o que ganharam.

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An academic, a writer and a thinker - this is the story of Hamza Alavi #78years78heroes - The Pakistan Experience

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An academic, a writer and a thinker - this is the story of Hamza Alavi

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Farolillos | Más churros y menos benedictinos - El Faro

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Elena Sánchez analiza en sus 'Farolillos' la evolución de los desayunos desde los 80 hasta ahora. De los churros y el café en vaso de caña a los huevos benedictinos con semillas de chía y aguacate.

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Darius Braun, Autor und Vortragsredner, "Ich kann richtig viel bewegen, auf dieser Welt." - Blaue Couch

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Mit 15 hatte er einen tennisballgroßen Gehirntumor und eine Lebenserwartung von nur noch einer Woche. Nach einer OP konnte er weder laufen, noch sprechen und kämpfte sich mühselig zurück. Aufgeben war für ihn nie eine Option, im Gegenteil: Heute inspiriert er Menschen mit seiner Geschichte.

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Lizki - Musik-Interviews

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In einer Welt, die zunehmend aus den Fugen zu geraten scheint, setzt die Berliner Musikerin Lizki auf musikalische Selbstermächtigung: Ihr neues Album "Losing Grip In A Chaotic World" verwandelt Unsicherheit in glitzernden Electro-Pop. Zwischen Selbstzweifeln und Hoffnung erzählt sie von der Kraft des Loslassens – und davon, wie man der Angst mit B…

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Within the Trenches Ep 622

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Ep 622 features Jennifer, a 911 professional and Coordinator out of Texas. Sponsored by INdigital - Facebook | LinkedIn | Twitter | Web Episode topics – Jennifer’s first ever experience at a national public safety conference and her takeaways The value of networking, vendor halls, and unexpected wellness moments (like puppy therapy!) Transitioning …

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Megaloh, Rapper: Kung-Fu in Wort und Tat - Eins zu Eins. Der Talk

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Megaloh - vom Moabiter Underground in die Top 10 der deutschen Charts. Zwischen harter Lagerarbeit und großen Bühnen wurde aus Leidenschaft Erfolg. Authentisch, kraftvoll, und immer mit Haltung Rap mit Tiefgang und Story.

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22 & Struggling (is it just me??) - Thanks For Asking

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Even if you have not been 22 with an abusive ex-boyfriend, broke, homesick, and friendless in a new city, you have, at one point or another, felt like today’s texter – certain that you are alone and forever lost in uncontrollable chaos. Nora’s here to remind you that we are not the worst thing that happened to us. We are not our mistakes. We are in…

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The Best of RISK! #33 - RISK!

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Our 33rd compilation of some of our favorite recent stories shared on the RISK! podcast, guest-host by Cyndi Freeman. 🎤Live Story: Hope Under the Sky (excerpt) by LP Nguyen SYNOPSIS: In 1975, the North won Vietnam’s civil war, and LP's dad, high ranking in the Southern Army, was imprisoned. The children lost everything, hunted for food, swam to sch…

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"Man ist nicht der Erbe seiner Eltern, sondern der Pächter seiner Kinder" | Reinhard Kaiser-Mühlecker, Schriftsteller - hr2 Doppelkopf

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Wer kennt schon noch das bäurische Milieu, wer weiß schon noch wie es in den Köpfen von Landwirten aussieht, egal ob Männer oder Frauen? Und wer kann das aus einer Sicht von innen vermitteln? Reinhard Kaiser-Mühlecker kann das. Der österreichische Schriftsteller ist Landwirtssohn und mittlerweile Inhaber des elterlichen Bauernhofs in der Nähe der S…

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лыжи, Пекин, Китай: Евгений Косолапов - Laowaicast - подкаст про Китай

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Хотя на дворе еще бабье лето, с Евгением мы обсудили то, что интересует всех лыжников: Где кататься в Китае лучше всего для профессионалов и для любителей Какое оборудование надо везти самому, а какое брать на месте Космически ли футуристичная инфраструктура Что делать апре-ски В чем особенности Пекина как лыжной столицы Есть ли лыжня в Шанхае и юж…

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Vlog - Clifton Urban Forest - The Pakistan Experience

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Vlog - Clifton Urban Forest

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452: Peyton McNabb—Enough of This Crap! - The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe

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Mike sits down with former high school volleyballer Peyton McNabb, who was knocked unconscious by a spike to the face, delivered by a male competing on the girls’ team, and woke up in the middle of a national controversy. What followed wasn’t just a concussion and long-term neurological damage. It was a brutal, firsthand lesson in biology, politics…

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WASBAND - Beautiful Stories From Anonymous People

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This call starts at Burning Man but quickly opens up into a far more complicated conversation about grief, abuse, healing, and the long work of rebuilding. But the playa stays in the mix throughout, a touchstone for how this caller has tried to redefine life along the way. And, of course, we make a stop at the Orgy Dome. Sign up for Beautiful/Anony…

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Inside Man: A Jailer Turns Informant - Crimes of the Times

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James Sexton thinks Operation Pandora’s Box is behind him. When he reports a superior officer for misconduct, he is branded a snitch and treated as a pariah. Ostracized and scared, he does what he once thought unthinkable: he begins feeding information about the Sheriff’s Department to the FBI, and tells a grand jury about the scheme to hide Anthon…

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How One Man Overcame His Autism - Honestly with Bari Weiss

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Leland Vittert is one of America’s most recognizable television correspondents. You’ll know his face from years of frontline reporting in places like Egypt, Libya, Israel, and Ukraine. You may have followed his tumultuous exit from Fox News in 2021, after clashing with the network over its coverage of Donald Trump—and then his redemption arc, becom…

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America’s Caregiving Crisis: A Conversation with Ai-jen Poo - Everything Happens with Kate Bowler

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What happens when love isn’t enough to hold up a broken system? Ai-jen Poo—award-winning organizer and executive director of the National Domestic Workers Alliance—joins Kate Bowler to talk about caregiving in America. Who provides it. Who’s left out. And why we need a system that treats care as the sacred, shared labor that it is. Together they ex…

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Chasing Chi, Part One: The Engineer | FBI - True Spies: Espionage | Investigation | Crime | Murder | Detective | Politics

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By 2004, FBI Special Agent Jim Gaylord has seen a lot of counterintelligence operations go right. But he's also seen plenty go wrong, especially when it comes to the People's Republic of China. But now, he has a chance to take down one of China's most prolific collectors of US military tech - and he's determined to take it. In Part One, Jim sets ou…

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The Big Burn | The Driest Summer | 1 - Against The Odds

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In the summer of 1910, a severe drought turned Idaho’s Coeur d’Alene National Forest into a tinderbox. Spot fires cropped up around the mining towns of Wallace and Avery and it was the job of forest rangers like Ed Pulaski to put them out. But when a massive windstorm swept through in August, those smaller fires converged into the largest megablaze…

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La niña de hielo - Radio Ambulante

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A fines de 1977, Néstor Delgado, Juana Benítez y sus dos hijos se preparaban en Buenos Aires para una gran hazaña: ser parte de las primeras familias que vivirían en la Antártida. Pero poco antes de partir, Juana recibió una noticia inesperada que pondría en riesgo todos los planes. En nuestro sitio web puedes encontrar una transcripción del episod…

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TQ47: What's your favorite memory of your father? - What Was That Like - True Stories. Real People.

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Every other Tuesday, we grab a past question fromthe Facebook group, then Meredith and Scott answer it and read some of theanswers given by other listeners. The question for this episode: What's your favorite memory of your father? Links for this episode: Could AI Blackmail You? Meredith For Real episode https://open.spotify.com/episode/7DQJmHWDjtH…

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Why Job Hunting Feels So Grim Lately, Especially for Gen Z - Death, Sex & Money

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This week, Anna learns about how frustrating it is to apply for jobs these days, especially for early-career folks, even those with college degrees. First, Jeopardy champion Brendan Liaw talks about what it was like to list his job as “stay-at-home son” on national television. Then Slate writer Nitish Pahwa explains why talented people like Brendan…

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Extra(ordinary) Tales - Part One - All The Best

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This week, some beef, friendship, and strange run-ins with some humans and creatures. Magpie by Millie Jones In this story, a stroll through suburban Mudgee turns into an encounter with the swooping monarchs of the blue gums. Here’s your ultimate how-to-survive-magpies manual. Tip: If you cross paths with a magpie, skip the two-hands-above-your-hea…

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The Pee Covered Episode - Distractible

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The boys are finally back together again in Ohio, ready to let their streams of consciousness flow out in person. And from the looks of their streams, one of the guys is definitely allergic to Skyline, and another has a severe foot injury. Get set up quick and connect to their fast speeds.Learn more at uber.com/onourway Learn more about your ad cho…

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Horses of Fire, Daughters of Bronze (with AD Rhine) - Ancient History Fangirl

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⁠⁠Help keep our podcast going by contributing to our Patreon! AD Rhine is the pen name of the authors Ashlee Cowles and Danielle Stinsen, who have been friends and creative partners for over 25 years. Their novels Horses of Fire and Daughters of Bronze follow the Trojan War saga. They are our kind of nerds—so naturally we had to interview them. The…

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The Moth Radio Hour: Relative Silence

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In this episode, the truths we keep from our family, and the lies we tell for them. Sibling mayhem, multigenerational secrets, and a surprise while watching CBS. This hour is hosted by Jay Allison of Atlantic Public Media, producer of The Moth Radio Hour. Anagha Mahajan finds a creative solution to stay out of the summer heat. Okeoma Erojikwe is st…

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Seit dem 19. September 2025 gibt es musikalisch keinen Grund mehr, sich über graue Wolken zu beklagen: Die vier studierten Musiker aus Lübeck präsentieren auf ihrem dritten Werk "Kein schlechtes Wetter" klangvolle Momentaufnahmen zwischen Melancholie und Hoffnung. Mit feinem Gitarrenspiel, atmosphärischen Synthies und der markanten Stimme von Jonas…