Education Podcasts

An award-winning science podcast for kids (and curious adults) from American Public Media. Kid co-hosts make the learning feel peer-to-peer, not top-down.

Learn French in coffee-break-sized lessons from the Radio Lingua Network. The most structured and accessible long-form language learning path in audio.

Interviews and supplemental discussions from the master of long-form history. Provides expert insight and deeper context to the epic stories told in the main Carlin series.

True stories in easy-to-follow Spanish that help you improve your listening skills while learning about Latin American culture.

A short daily podcast about everything. Learn something new every day. A new topic, every single day, covering literally everything.

Slate's podcast that finds experts to solve your most difficult, unusual, and sometimes hilarious problems. Real-world problems solved by literal experts in a highly engaging and personal way.

Walk in the shoes of an unknown person and see if you can figure out who they are before the big reveal. A biography guessing game that keeps you hooked until the final reveal.

Chris Williamson interviews the world's best thinkers to help you understand yourself and the world around you. A bridge between high-performance self-help and rigorous scientific inquiry.

The researchers behind the BBC's QI share their favourite facts from the week. Curated by the QI research team, guaranteeing the highest quality of bizarre and verified facts.

Volcanoes. Trees. Drunk gophers. Mars missions. Slugs. Humorist and science correspondent Alie Ward asks smart people stupid questions.

A beginner-friendly, chronological look at the world's most influential philosophers and ideas. One of the most accessible and engaging ways to learn the entire history of Western and Eastern philosophy.

Making artificial intelligence practical, productive, and accessible for everyone. Focuses on the practical applications and ethical implications of AI, not just the hype.

Malcolm Gladwell goes back and reinterprets something from the past—an event, a person, an idea—something overlooked and misunderstood.

Tracy V. Wilson and Holly Frey dive into the lesser-known corners of history. Champions the overlooked and under-represented stories that mainstream history ignores.

If you've ever wanted to know about champagne, satanism, the Stonewall Uprising, chaos theory, LSD, El Nino, true crime and Rosa Parks, then look no further.

Each week, host Manoush Zomorodi explores a big idea through the lens of several TED Talks. Curated, thematic deep-dives that connect multiple TED speakers to explore a single big idea.

Every weekday, TED Talks Daily brings you the latest ideas on every subject imaginable. A-list experts across every possible field, delivered in short, powerful segments.

The Art Assignment is a weekly PBS Digital Studios production hosted by Sarah Urist Green. Interactive art history and practice that encourages listeners to create.

Daily audio devotions of Stoic wisdom, helping you live a better, more resilient life. Translates complex ancient philosophy into practical, daily action steps.

Mike Duncan's legendary, chronological podcast tracing the history of the Roman Empire from its founding to its fall. The definitive, complete history of Rome in audio, from Romulus to the end.

An hour-long interview program each week featuring artists, historians, and authors. Inteligent, serious, and deeply researched conversations with the world's top artists.

Historians Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook interrogate the past and explore how it shaped the world we live in today. World-class historical scholarship delivered with top-tier British wit and chemistry.

Organizational psychologist Adam Grant explores the science of making work not suck. Evidence-based workplace psychology from the world's most cited organizational thinker.