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Best News & Politics
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BBC Global News
The best stories, interviews and on the spot reporting from around the world including highlights from Newshour, Newsday and World Briefing. Up to 30 minutes compiled twice a day from the 24 hour News coverage from the BBC World Service.
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Best Music Commentary
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NPR: All Songs Considered
Host Bob Boilen spins new music from emerging bands and musical icons.
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Best Educational & Learning
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HowStuffWorks: Stuff You Should Know
Why do leaves change colors in the fall? How did vampires become such a prominent piece of modern culture? Join Josh and Chuck as they explore the Stuff You Should Know about everything from Autumn to the undead in this podcast from HowStuffWorks.com.
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Best Episode of the Year
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WTF with Marc Maron Podcast 8/23/12
Comedian Marc Maron is tackling the most complex philosophical question of our day - WTF? He'll get to the bottom of it with help from comedian friends, celebrity guests and the voices in his own head.
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Best Comedy
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The Nerdist
Nerdy nerdness comedy podcast w/ Chris Hardwick, Jonah Ray & Matt Mira.
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Best Album Art
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Good Job, Brain!
Part quiz show, part offbeat news, and all awesome. We here are nuts about trivia and pub quiz! And we are darn sure there are people out there who share our unusual obsession. Play along and laugh along as Karen, Colin, Dana, and Chris school each other on some of the weirdest and most interesting facts about our funny little world.Do you relish beating your friends at Trivial Pursuit? Do you blab out the answers at the gym when Jeopardy! is on? And don't you just loathe badly worded questions? Gggrraahhh!Then this podcast, fellow trivia nut, is the ultimate mental nutrition for your very big brain. So eat up!
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Best Food & Cooking
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Go Fork Yourself
Chef, author, and host of Travel Channel's "Bizarre Foods," Andrew Zimmern chats with fellow food fanatic and traveler Molly Mogren. Every week Andrew and Molly (you might know her as @in2bizarrefoods) will chat about what is going on in the world of food and travel. Catch up on what Andrew and Molly are up to, hear their takes on the latest food and travel news, and get recommendations for what to check out the next time you're on the road.
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Best Science
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Skeptoid: Critical Analysis of Pop Phenomena
Skeptoid is a weekly science podcast dedicated to furthering knowledge by blasting away the widespread pseudosciences that infect popular culture, and replacing them with way cooler reality. Each weekly episode focuses on a single phenomenon — an urban legend, a paranormal claim, alternative therapy, or something just plain stupid — that you've heard of, and that you probably believe in. Skeptoid attempts to expose the folly of belief in non-evidence based phenomena, and more importantly, explains the factual scientific reality. From the sublime to the startling, no topic is sacred, politically incorrect though that may be.
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Best Sports Commentary
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The Dave Dameshek Football Program
Dave Dameshek sets his gaze on the NFL landscape to analyze, celebrate and - when necessary - offer improvements to America’s true national pastime from a true fan’s perspective. From his previous broadcasting stops on ESPN Radio, the Adam Carolla Radio Show and the 'Daves of Thunder' podcast, to his written work on 'Jimmy Kimmel Live', 'The Man Show' and NFL.com, Dave always agrees with what he’s got to say. Dave is joined each week by NFL.com's Adam Rank for some much-needed hooey and applesauce. On this podcast, nothing is off-limits... Except some stuff.
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Best Health & Lifestyle
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Savage Lovecast
Dan Savage, America's only advice columnist, answers your sex questions on the Internets. To record a question for Dan to be answered in a later podcast, call 206-201-2720.
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Best Business & Finance
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Freakonomics Radio
In their books "Freakonomics" and "SuperFreakonomics," Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner explore "the hidden side of everything," with stories about cheating schoolteachers, self-dealing real-estate agents, and crack-selling mama’s boys. The Freakonomics Radio podcast, hosted by Dubner, carries on that tradition with weekly episodes. Prepare to be enlightened, engaged, perhaps enraged, and definitely surprised.
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Best New Show
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Mohr Stories
Join your host Jay Mohr and a rotating cast of his hilarious friends as they regale you with tales and conversation covering every topic imaginable. You haven't heard the half of it until you've heard... Mohr Stories.
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Best Games & Hobbies
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NPR: Wait Wait…Don't Tell
NPR's weekly current events quiz. Have a laugh and test your news knowledge while figuring out what's real and what we've made up.
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Best Film & TV
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Smodcast: Hollywood Babble-On
There's no business like HO business.
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Best Tech
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This Week in Tech
Your first podcast of the week is the last word in tech. Join Leo Laporte, Patrick Norton, Kevin Rose, John C. Dvorak, and other tech luminaries in a roundtable discussion of the latest trends in digital technology. Winner of the 2005 People's Choice Podcast Award for best overall podcast and Best Technology Podcast. Released every Sunday at midnight Pacific.
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Best Social Commentary
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Penn's Sunday School
Penn's Sunday School: Join Penn Jillette and his co-host Michael Goudeau as they go off half cocked. They'll discuss the week's religious news and discuss deep theological questions with all of the insight and wisdom you'd expect from a carny talker and a ex-circus clown. It's a philosophical, fun house mirror maze. You'll laugh and smash into walls until your head hurts.
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Best Entertainment & Pop Culture
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Smodcast: Tell ‘Em Steve-Dave!
Walt Flanagan is a shopkeep of dubious repute. Bryan Johnson can be found wandering his parent's basement muttering. Here there be bickering!
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Best Overall Show
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This American Life
Official free, weekly podcast of the award-winning radio show "This American Life." First-person stories and short fiction pieces that are touching, funny, and surprising. Hosted by Ira Glass, from WBEZ Chicago Public Radio. In mp3 and updated Mondays.
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Most Original Journalism
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WNYC's Radiolab
Radiolab is a show about curiosity. Where sound illuminates ideas, and the boundaries blur between science, philosophy, and human experience.Radiolab is heard around the country on over 300 stations. Check your local station for airtimes.All press inquiries may be directed to Jennifer Houlihan at (646) 829-4497 or via email at jhoulihan@nypublicradio.org.Embed the Radiolab widget on your blog or website.Radiolab is supported, in part, by the National Science Foundation and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, enhancing public understanding of science and technology in the modern world. More information about Sloan at www.sloan.org.
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Most Original Show
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How to Do Everything
We're half advice show, half survival guide. We answer all your questions, from how to find a date, to how to find water in the desert.
