PODCAST

The Audio Browser

The Browser / Listen Notes

A curated playlist of podcasts by The Browser.

podcasting

All Episodes

00:28:38

Civility, trash talking and more sociable cities

The Audio Browser ·

2025/06/18

Podcast: Future Tense (LS 53 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: Civility, trash talking and more sociable citiesPub date: 2025-03-20Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationIt certainly feels like a very shouty world. But have we really reached a new low point in civility? And, if so, where to from here?We examine what civility really entails and how it can help foster cooperation but also lead to the submission of minorities.And did you know

en-us

00:32:42

Adapt or Design

The Audio Browser ·

2025/06/17

Podcast: 99% Invisible (LS 83 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)Episode: Adapt or DesignPub date: 2025-06-03Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationA debilitating injury forces 99PI's Kurt Kohlstedt to confront new everyday challenges and seek out accessible design solutions for one-handed living.The full set of Adapt or Design articles can be found at 99pi.org/adapt.Adapt or DesignSubscribe to SiriusXM Podcasts+ to listen to new episodes of 99%

en-us

00:13:38

Episode 1: Early One Morning

The Audio Browser ·

2025/06/12

Podcast: Assume Nothing (LS 42 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)Episode: Episode 1: Early One MorningPub date: 2025-04-19Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationThe story of two journalists who investigated an unsolved mass murder in Northern Ireland.Six men were shot dead by Loyalist paramilitaries in the Height’s Bar, Loughinisland on the 18th June 1994. No one has ever been charged or convicted. Episode 1 – Early One MorningInvestigative

en-us

00:47:51

Killed by a Traffic Engineer

The Audio Browser ·

2025/06/06

Podcast: The War on Cars (LS 56 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: Killed by a Traffic EngineerPub date: 2024-06-25Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationBecause it has the word “engineering” right in there, the field of traffic engineering is something most people assume is governed by science and rational rules. But a new book, written by a traffic engineer himself, argues that is not the case at all. In Killed by a Traffic Engineer:

en-us

00:32:42

The Echo in the Machine

The Audio Browser ·

2025/06/06

Podcast: Radiolab (LS 85 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)Episode: The Echo in the MachinePub date: 2025-05-23Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationToday you can convert speech to text with the click of a button. Youtube does it for all our videos. Our phones will do it in real time. It’s frictionless. And yet, if it weren’t for an unlikely crew of protesters and office workers, it might still be impossible. This week, the story of our attempts to

en-us

00:16:47

National Parks Week: Talk a Walk, Find A New Species

The Audio Browser ·

2025/06/05

Podcast: The Atlas Obscura Podcast (LS 61 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)Episode: National Parks Week: Talk a Walk, Find A New SpeciesPub date: 2025-06-02Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationIn March of 2024, a park ranger and volunteer were taking their regular walk together around Big Bend National Park. They came across a teeny tiny fuzzy little plant with unusual ribbon-like flowers bursting out of the center – something neither of them had

en-us

01:18:19

Substack: Chris Best and Hamish McKenzie

The Audio Browser ·

2025/06/03

Podcast: How I Built This with Guy Raz (LS 83 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)Episode: Substack: Chris Best and Hamish McKenziePub date: 2025-05-12Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationSubstack was founded to create an escape vehicle for writers: Chris Best and Hamish McKenzie imagined a world where writers didn’t have to rely on legacy publications or corporate advertisers, but could instead create a more direct and meaningful relationship with

en-us

00:37:17

The New Rules of Subculture

The Audio Browser ·

2025/06/02

Podcast: The Art Angle (LS 50 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: The New Rules of SubculturePub date: 2025-05-22Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationThere is nothing that Artnet’s Art Critic Ben Davis likes better than finding a name for a phenomenon that’s all around him, but that he doesn’t have a name for yet. The writer and theorist Nadia Asparouhova has a new book out that offered exactly this. It’s called Antimemetics: Why Some Ideas

en-us

01:06:19

S2 E5: What the Evidence Shows - The Problem We All...

The Audio Browser ·

2025/05/30

Podcast: Phonograph (LS 32 · TOP 5% what is this?)Episode: S2 E5: What the Evidence Shows - The Problem We All Live WithPub date: 2025-01-16Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationRob and Britta discuss a ten year old story from This American Life called "The Problem We All Live With" produced by Chana Joffe-Walt and reported by Nikole Hannah-Jones. It's an example of the kind of documentary journalism we need more than ever, in a world where

en-us

00:42:35

Georgian wallpaper and an enduring fashion trend

The Audio Browser ·

2025/05/29

Podcast: The English Heritage Podcast (LS 50 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: Georgian wallpaper and an enduring fashion trendPub date: 2025-04-24Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationWhen Wrest Park’s Jemima, Marchioness Grey, was widowed, she unleashed her purse strings to install lavish Chinese art across the Bedfordshire estate: perfect for taking tea with friends. You can get lost in the intricate birds, plants and people featured in

en-us

01:16:22

Coyotes! with Lulu Miller

The Audio Browser ·

2025/05/28

Podcast: You're Wrong About (LS 80 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)Episode: Coyotes! with Lulu MillerPub date: 2025-05-24Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationWho is out there behind the howling midnight parties in the distance? For generations we have coexisted in varying degrees of rivalry, conflict, and admiration with the North American canine known as the coyote. From pre-colonization to our modern backyards, through the wild west and the

en-us

00:28:34

Ctrl, Ctrl, Ctrl

The Audio Browser ·

2025/05/23

Podcast: Understood: Who Broke the Internet? (LS 50 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: Ctrl, Ctrl, CtrlPub date: 2025-05-12Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationIn 1998, the United States Congress tried to tame the wild internet with a new law: the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. But buried in its fine print was a provision that would end up giving tech giants ultimate legal protection and control, and stop innovators from fixing what's

en-us

00:40:50

Episode 1: The Warrior

The Audio Browser ·

2025/05/22

Podcast: Deep Cover (LS 65 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)Episode: Episode 1: The WarriorPub date: 2025-05-12Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationA mysterious handwritten letter arrives from Sarah Cavanaugh. In it, she asks: What do you think of my crime? Get early, ad-free access to more episodes of Deep Cover: The Truth About Sarah by subscribing to Pushkin+ on Apple Podcasts or Pushkin.fm. Access ad-free episodes, exclusive binges, full

en-us

01:02:25

Katja Hoyer on East Germany Then and Now

The Audio Browser ·

2025/05/22

Podcast: The Good Fight (LS 59 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: Katja Hoyer on East Germany Then and NowPub date: 2025-05-21Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationKatja Hoyer is a visiting Research Fellow at King's College London and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, and is the author of Blood and Iron: The Rise and Fall of the German Empire, 1871–1918 and Beyond the Wall: East Germany 1949-1990.In this week’s conversation, Yascha

en-us

00:47:51

The Yellow Dwarf

The Audio Browser ·

2025/05/21

Podcast: The Three Ravens Podcast (LS 43 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)Episode: The Yellow DwarfPub date: 2025-05-08Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationIn the fourth episode of our "Fairy Book Project," Martin tells The Yellow Dwarf - a picaresque adventure about fire-breathing basilisks, how mermaids champion the course of true love, and the dangers of indulging children...If you are unfamiliar with the Lang Fairy Tales, these seminal

en-us

00:50:09

Daniel Swift: The Making of William Shakespeare

The Audio Browser ·

2025/05/19

Podcast: The Book Club (LS 49 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: Daniel Swift: The Making of William ShakespearePub date: 2025-05-07Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationMy guest in this week’s Book Club podcast is Daniel Swift. Daniel’s new book, The Dream Factory: London’s First Playhouse and the Making of William Shakespeare, tells the fascinating story of a theatrical innovation that transformed Elizabethan drama – and set the stage, as

en-us

00:43:35

The Spy Who Dressed the Queen | The Man with the...

The Audio Browser ·

2025/05/16

Podcast: The Spy Who (LS 55 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: The Spy Who Dressed the Queen | The Man with the Missing Finger | 1Pub date: 2025-04-22Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationBritish fashion designer Hardy Amies applies for a second job as a spymaster as World War 2 begins. Before long, he's sending his men directly into the dangers of Nazi-occupied Belgium, and his guilt threatens to overtake him. Who is the man with the missing

en-us

01:11:44

The Image of Her by Simone de Beauvoir

The Audio Browser ·

2025/05/15

Podcast: Backlisted (LS 59 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: The Image of Her by Simone de BeauvoirPub date: 2025-05-12Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationTo discuss The Image of Her (1966) by Simone de Beauvoir we are joined by writer and translator Lauren Elkin, whose previous books include Flâneuse: Women Walk the City, Scaffolding and Art Monsters: Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art. Best known as the author of The Second Sex, Beauvoir was

en-us

01:16:50

Rock Paper Scissors (Entry 1079.1CH2613)

The Audio Browser ·

2025/05/14

Podcast: Omnibus (LS 62 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)Episode: Rock Paper Scissors (Entry 1079.1CH2613)Pub date: 2025-05-01Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationIn which an ancient Chinese game of intransitive balance changes the world as both a children's pastime and a decision-making method, and John has the candy tastes of a pioneer child. Certificate #23611.The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Omnibus, which is the property

en-us

00:29:33

The Baron Hotel

The Audio Browser ·

2025/05/13

Podcast: Uncovering Roots (LS 30 · TOP 5% what is this?)Episode: The Baron HotelPub date: 2025-04-21Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationSend us a textUncovering Roots returns with the first episode of its new season, beginning in Aleppo, at the doors of one of the most iconic hotels in the Middle East.The Baron Hotel once hosted kings, spies, archaeologists, and refugees. It was a grand hotel at the crossroads of empire, war, and survival

en-us

894 results

The Audio Browser

All Episodes

Similar Podcasts

وجوه من الـظل

Medi1 Podcast

radiofreeredoubt

Radio Miraya

Radio Miraya

The Ben Davis & Kelly K Show

The Ben Davis & Kelly K Show

docandersen