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Health & Fitness

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

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Walk the Pod - a daily show designed to accompany you on your lunchtime walk - has just released its 300th episode. It's hosted by comedian Rachel Wheeley.

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True Crime

Official website: https://nymag.com/podcasts

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The first investigative series podcast from New York magazine, Cover Story is released today. Produced with the Vox Media Podcast Network, the first season, Power Trip, uncovers the truth behind the psychedelic revolution.

Comedy

Official website: https://shows.acast.com/john-grants-beautiful-creatures

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New from singer-songwriter John Grant comes John Grant’s Beautiful Creatures, a production with Storyglass. John talks to guests including Hollywood actor Paul Rudd and musicians Kristin Hersh and Linda Thompson, about the complexities, cruelties and meaningful distractions that life has to offer, from traffic, to a shared fear of 70’s CBS horror movies, living out your art with intensity, and the idea of home.

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News

Official website: https://voiceworks.ai/sound-business-podcast

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Voiceworks: Sound Business has our Editor, James Cridland, as their guest this episode. James sits down with host Jim Salveson to discuss the current value in the podcast market, how Spotify is disrupting the landscape and make some bold predictions as to what might change in the industry over the next 2 to 3 years.

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Business

Official website: https://anchor.fm/never-stand-still

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From PayPal's President and CEO Dan Schulman, Never Stand Still is back for a new season, exploring some of the guiding principles he's learned in martial arts and interviewing world-class CEOs, creators, and changemakers about how those philosophies apply to their lives. Designer Tory Burch is first up, on leading with purpose. From Endeavor Audio, it's produced by Courtney Kocak.

© Never Stand Still with Dan Schulman

Health & Fitness

Official website: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0b5l9wc

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The Rachel Bland new podcast award from BBC Radio 5 Live has been awarded this year to You're Not My Mum: The Stepmum's Side. Katie Harrison said "I didn’t realise quite how difficult and lonely my stepmothering journey would be, it is fraught with a series of complex emotions and relationships." It's the second recipient of the award, named after a newsreader and presenter of the station who died of cancer in 2018.

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Arts

Official website: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/gotbooks

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Got Books? Conversations with Booksellers & Bookmakers has started a new season - a podcast with a mix of booksellers and people who make books come to life. From Scotland to Berlin, Senegal to Toronto, you'll learn why bookshops are all such special places. The truly international podcast is produced by two Romanians in London and Berlin.

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True Crime

Official website: http://www.facebook.com/leonardpodcast

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LEONARD: Political Prisoner has won the 2021 Human Rights Audio Documentary Award from Duke University. The podcast revisits the facts and irregularities of the case against Peltier, who has spent the last 44 years in federal prison; the audio series and related supporting documents will be preserved on campus at the Rubinstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library. "You had listed the award previously in a Podnews newsletter, which is how we discovered it and applied," says the host, Rory Owen Delaney.

© 2026 LEONARD: Political Prisoner

News

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In Podland News, James Cridland and Sam Sethi interview Lisa Laporte from TwIT, and Franco Solerio from podcast app Castamatic: as well as wondering what Spotify's new relationship with Netflix is all about.

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Society & Culture

Official website: https://themodernwest.org/

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It's Native American History Month in the US, and The Modern West is taking a look at medicine in a three-part series. Shall Furnish Medicine takes a look at how tribes have dealt with covid-19 - in some cases, better than local governments. The full season is available now, with Indigenous guests Savannah Maher and Taylar Stagner and hosted by Melodie Edwards.

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