History & Culture Podcasts
9 podcasts in this category
Browse the best history and culture podcasts covering ancient civilizations, world wars, language evolution, cultural movements, and everything in between. From academic experts to engaging storytellers, these podcasts bring the past to life.
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Fall of Civilizations
A podcast that explores the collapse of the world's most impressive civilizations. Atmospheric and deeply narrative storytelling that makes forgotten history come alive.
Behind the Bastards
Robert Evans tells you everything you don't know about the very worst humans in history. Deep historical research into history's worst people, delivered with dark humor.
Cautionary Tales
Tim Harford tells stories of awful errors, tragic catastrophes and hilarious fiascos to show we can all learn from them.
Criminal
Criminal is an award-winning podcast about crime. Stories of people who’ve done wrong, been wronged, or gotten caught somewhere in the middle.
Radiolab
A show about curiosity where sound-rich storytelling meets deep scientific and philosophical inquiry. Unmatched production quality and 'cinematic' audio storytelling.
Revisionist History
Malcolm Gladwell goes back and reinterprets something from the past—an event, a person, an idea—something overlooked and misunderstood.
Revolutions
A podcast series examining the great political revolutions that have shaped our world. The most comprehensive and narrative-driven account of the world's most important political upheavals.
The Rest is History
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.
Throughline
NPR takes you on a journey through history to understand the present. Connects current events to their deep historical roots with NPR-level storytelling.