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Health & Fitness

Official website: https://www.loudspeaker.org/programs/hangover-liberation-society?ref=rss

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The Hangover Liberation Society is a show that explores the upside of sobriety, and why ditching alcohol is so much more than just liberating yourself from hangovers. Hosted by Adrienne van der Valk and Erin Ranta, the show is live on Thursdays on the Loudspeaker app, and available as a podcast shortly afterwards.

© 2026 Loudspeaker Studios

Fiction

Official website: http://www.meetcute.com

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Meet Cute Rom-Coms presents "Sidewalk Confidential," a new rom-com series where surly private-eye Liz (Jackie Cruz from Orange Is The New Black) and bold journalist Rachel team up against all odds, to catch a cheater in NYC. Will this unlikely duo discover more than just infidelity? Find out in this classic (and queer) two-hander; it's available now by subscription, and released on RSS during January.

© 2025 Meet Cute

Society & Culture

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

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Desperately Seeking Wisdom is a new podcast released yesterday, hosted by Craig Oliver, formerly UK Prime Minister David Cameron's Director of Politics and Communications, and a senior manager at BBC News. In his first episode, he talks to former BBC presenter George Alagiah, who was told in 2014 that he had bowel cancer.

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Music

Official website: https://www.kcrw.com/culture/shows/lost-notes?utm_source=KCRW&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=kcrw-show-rss

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It's all going on at KCRW tomorrow - forty years after Deirdre O'Donoghue debuted her show Bent Music, KCRW invites listeners and fans to tune in to hear that 1/2/82 episode as well as the entire run of the Bent By Nature podcast: the new, rave-reviewed podcast that documents Deirdre's musical life. You can hear Bent By Nature from noon tomorrow on Santa Monica's KCRW on 89.9, and then a rerun of the first show.

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TV & Film

Official website: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-the-soundtrack-show-29021108/

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Shared on Twitter by Clare Vaughan, The Soundtrack Show is a "joyous explainer of how film soundtracking works and the emotional impact of music in film, told in a fully sincere and warm manner The Soundtrack Show is lovely (listen from the start for a primer)"

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Society & Culture

Official website: https://findingnatasha.podbean.com

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Shared on Twitter by Adam Ure, Finding Natasha is "the tale of how Jake Warren tracks down his mother's longlost friend from a very different Soviet Russia. Very beautiful".

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Arts

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Shared on Twitter by Gyles Brandreth, Something Rhymes with Purple features co-host Susie Dent "introducing me to a new word to describe this limbo time between Christmas and the new year - the merrineum". (Isn't that the bit between your... and your... ?)

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Society & Culture

Official website: https://amazon.com/ninetwelve

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9/12 made it to the top of the Best of the Best Podcasts Of The Year list, as compiled by Podyssey. An Amazon Original, it asks what happened on 9/12 to alter our memory and our perspective forever?

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Society & Culture

Official website: https://www.wbur.org/podcasts/anythingforselena

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Anything For Selena made it to #2; a look at Mexican-American recording artist Selena Quintanilla, who not only popularized Tejano music to mainstream American audiences, but also helped put Latinos on the map and broke barriers of all kinds before she was murdered in 1995.

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Society & Culture

Official website: http://neonhum.com

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And Spectacle made it to #3 - an Unscripted History of Reality TV. Mariah Smith dissects the history of the genre one show at a time, revealing how it’s shaped our culture and how our culture shaped it.

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