New Podcasts - trailers for new and noteworthy shows (archive)

Education

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Research That Matters is a new nine-part series by Torrens University Australia - featuring researchers who are working to solve complex global problems and to propel innovation - from health solutions, to workplace culture, to virtual reality and artificial intelligence. It's produced by Written & Recorded.

Comedy

Official website: http://thisistheread.com/

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The Read has joined Patreon, we're told: hosted by American comedians Kid Fury and Crissle West and based in New York City, members of their Patreon will have special access to bonus audio segments, priority notice on live events, monthly Live Q&A Video Chats with Kid Fury & Crissle, and more.

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Society & Culture

Official website: https://seventeen-conversations-with-my-teenage-self.simplecast.com

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New from Paradiso Media, Seventeen features Laura Leigh Abby's diary from when she was 17; an era before social media and smartphones, an an era with inherent and often unwitting misogyny. The show explores how a generation of would-be feminists were influenced by the mixed signals of pop culture, and launches today.

© 2022

Fiction

Official website: https://www.eartheclipsed.com

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Earth Eclipsed is an 8-episode sci-fi adventure series that has won several awards, including 5 Lovie Awards and has been an official selection of the 2021 Tribeca Festival. An 'exciting and thought-provoking ride that unravels a thrilling mystery and launches audiences into a universe unseen before', it's available in full now.

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TV & Film

Official website: https://art19.com/shows/the-mess-around

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Welcome to Our Show is a rewatch podcast of New Girl, hosted by the show’s stars Zooey Deschanel, Hannah Simone and Lamorne Morris. It's available every Monday, and launched Jan 24. The trio will rewatch the Emmy-nominated series to reveal never-before-told stories, their favorite memories from creating the show and divulge moments and scenes left on the cutting room floor; it's an iHeartRadio production.

© 2025 Lamorne Morris and Hannah Simone

Society & Culture

Official website: https://trojan-horse.simplecast.com

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From the team that brought you S-Town and Serial, The Trojan Horse Affair launches today - S-Town's Brian Reed and journalist Hamza Syed investigate a mystery at the heart of a scandal that rocked Britain. Has an entire country been duped?

Society & Culture

Official website: https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/experiment

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In a new season, The Experiment focuses on spam - not unwanted email, but the meat thing in a can. The show is produced by The Atlantic and WNYC Studios, and starts - a little unexpectedly - in the Philippines.

© The Atlantic and WNYC Studios

Technology

Official website: https://www.eff.org/how-to-fix-the-internet-podcast

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Today, podcasts are a part of life—but the entire medium was nearly strangled in its infancy by a patent troll. How to Fix the Internet has and his producer Brendan McDonald tell never-before-shared details of the battle to save podcasting. From EFF, the podcast also discusses what we can do in the future to protect innovation and fix the broken patent system, so that no one will be under threat from trolls. (Podnews's Editor is a member of EFF).

Arts

Official website: https://www.20k.org

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The sound of your own name is quite a personal thing. In today's Twenty Thousand Hertz, Dallas Taylor meets Dallas Taylor, Dallas Taylor, Dallas Taylor, Dallas Taylor and Dallas Taylor. One Dallas Taylor is a former lead singer of a heavy metal band; but not Dallas Taylor, who makes podcasts about sound.

Comedy

Official website: https://www.byronkennedycomedy.com

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Hot Chicken and Cage-Free Conversation is new from comedian Byron Kennedy. Never knowing what direction that conversation might take or how badly that “hot chicken” might burn, we're promised that we're in for an entertaining ride.

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