The Podcast Reader

This is the archive of past issues published by the founding team of The Podcast Reader. They generously offered to make their past issues freely available.

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  • EconTalk
    Christopher Hitchens The Real Power of Orwell
  • Conversations with Tyler
    Peter Thiel Stagnation, Success and the Problems with Social Convention
  • The Joe Walker Podcast (Jolly Swagman formerly)
    Frank Wilczek Physics: The Next Frontiers
  • The Joe Walker Podcast (Jolly Swagman formerly)
    Arlie Hochschild Scaling Empathy Walls
  • Conversations with Tyler
    Margaret Atwood Atwood: A History of Place

  Download Issue 01 (14 MB)
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  • The Joe Walker Podcast (Jolly Swagman formerly)
    Mark Cuban A Maverick Who Made It
  • Conversations with Tyler
    Karl Ove Knausgård Living Inside Munch's Scream
  • EconTalk
    Isabella Tree Rewilding
  • The Joe Walker Podcast (Jolly Swagman formerly)
    David Sloan Wilson Evolution of a Renegade
  • Conversations with Tyler
    Martina Navratilova On Shaping Herself

  Download Issue 02 (12 MB)
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  • EconTalk
    Rory Sutherland Think Again
  • Conversations with Tyler
    Shadi Bartsch Art, Politics and the Enduring Lessons of the Ancient World
  • The Joe Walker Podcast (Jolly Swagman formerly)
    William Dalrymple The Lessons of Afghanistan
  • Conversations with Tyler
    Daniel Kahneman Cutting Through the Noise
  • The Joe Walker Podcast (Jolly Swagman formerly)
    Eric Weinstein A Walk on the Intellectual Wild Side

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  • The Joe Walker Podcast (Jolly Swagman formerly)
    Graham Allison The Spectre of Havoc
  • Money Maze
    Nicolai Tangen Everyone Should Study Social Psychology
  • EconTalk
    Roya Hakakian A Beginner's Guide to America
  • The Good Life: Andrew Leigh in Conversation
    David Sinclair How Long Would You Like to Live?
  • Conversations with Tyler
    Malcolm Gladwell To Make the World Safe for Mediocrity

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  • Democracy Sausage with Mark Kenny
    Hugh White The Price of Primacy
  • The Joe Walker Podcast (Jolly Swagman formerly)
    Cheryl Misak A Forgotten Genius
  • Conversations with Tyler
    Patricia Fara On Newton, Scientific Progress and the Hidden Women of Science
  • The Greatest Music of All Time
    Safi Bahcall Good Teams Kill Great Ideas
  • Sean Carroll's Mindscape
    Elizabeth Anderson The Real Egalitarian
  • The Good Life: Andrew Leigh in Conversation
    Alain de Botton How to Live
  • Conversations with Tyler
    Sam Altman Founders, Community and the Hunt for Talent
  • The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish
    Bethany McLean Why good people turn bad
  • Hidden Forces
    Russel Napier The Asian Financial Crisis & the Birth of the Age of Debt

  Download Issue 05 (12 MB)
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  • The Good Life: Andrew Leigh in Conversation
    Cal Newport On Deep Work and The Curse of Email
  • That Trippi Show
    Nicholas Gruen Can Citizens Assemblies Save Democracy?
  • A Podcast of One's Own with Julia Gillard
    Sarah Gilbert On Designing a COVID Vaccine
  • The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish
    Marc Andreessen Society and Technology
  • Sean Carroll's Mindscape
    Kathryn Paige Harden On Genetics, Luck and Fairness
  • EconTalk
    Andrew Roberts Churchill and the Craft of Biography
  • Conversations
    Ben Crowe Meet Ash Barty’s mindset coach
  • Library of Mistakes
    Jared Bibler The Untold Story of the World’s Biggest Con
  • EconTalk
    Iain McGilchrist Rethinking the brain
  • Conversations with Tyler
    Ana Vidovic Prodigies, Performance and Perseverance

  Download Issue 06 (15 MB)
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  • EconTalk
    Tyler Cowen On Reading
  • A Podcast of One's Own with Julia Gillard
    Theresa May Walking the Tightrope
  • Conversations with Tyler
    Ray Dalio On Investing, Management and The Changing World Order
  • The Good Life: Andrew Leigh in Conversation
    Robert Putnam On Bowling Alone and Living Together
  • Sean Carroll's Mindscape
    Sylvia Earle On the Oceans, the Planet, and the People
  • Conversations
    Steve Killelea Measuring World Peace
  • EconTalk
    Luca Dellanna The power of immediate feedback
  • The Joe Walker Podcast (Jolly Swagman formerly)
    Avi Loeb Examining interstellar objects
  • Charter Cities Podcast
    Parag Khanna The future of human geography
  • The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish
    Ryan Holiday Stoicism: a philosophy for the world

  Download Issue 07 (16 MB)
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  • Conversations
    Merlin Sheldrake The Magic of Mushrooms
  • Sean Carroll's Mindscape
    Andrew Leigh On the Politics of Looming Disaster
  • A Podcast of One's Own with Julia Gillard
    Esther Duflo Closing the Gap
  • Library of Mistakes
    Helen Thompson Capital Flows, Democracy, History and Central Banks
  • Conversations with Tyler
    Roy Foster Ireland’s Many Unmade Futures
  • Presidents, Prime Ministers, Kings and Queens
    George Osborne Lyndon Johnson: The Eternal Questions
  • The Secrets of Statecraft
    Henry Kissinger A Masterclass in History
  • Money Maze
    Chris Hohn How capitalists can save the environment
  • Humans of Purpose
    Steve Davis Time is brain

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  • Capital Allocators
    Annie Duke The Power of Quitting
  • EconTalk
    William MacAskill What Do We Owe the Future?
  • The Good Life: Andrew Leigh in Conversation
    Jonathan Haidt The Dangers of Social Media
  • Conversations with Tyler
    Thomas Piketty The History of Inequality is a Political History
  • The Secrets of Statecraft
    Peter Robinson The Art of Presidential Speechwriting
  • Sean Carroll's Mindscape
    Chiara Mingarelli A Glimpse Into the Frontier of Astrophysics
  • The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish
    Laurie Santos The Pursuit of Happiness
  • The Joe Walker Podcast (Jolly Swagman formerly)
    Niall Ferguson On Death and Reading

  Download Issue 09 (12 MB)
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  • Money Maze
    Simon Sebag Montefiore World History is Family History
  • EconTalk
    Devon Zuegel How Argentinians Deal with Very High Inflation
  • In Good Company with Nicolai Tangen
    Amy Edmondson What is Psychological Safety?
  • The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish
    Andrew Huberman The Science of Self-Improvement: Sleep, Caffeine, Impulse Control, Breathing
  • Volts
    Doyne Farmer Why the Transition to Renewable Energy Will Cost a Lot Less Than You Think
  • Conversations with Tyler
    Katherine Rundell Words That Grab You by the Wrist
  • Sean Carroll's Mindscape
    Ed Yong How Animals Sense the World
  • Economics Explored
    Brad DeLong Slouching Towards Utopia
  • The Joe Walker Podcast (Jolly Swagman formerly)
    Steven Pinker On Myside Bias

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  • EconTalk
    Sam Harris On Meditation, Mindfulness and Morality
  • In Good Company with Nicolai Tangen
    Angela Duckworth On the Importance of Grit
  • Sean Carroll's Mindscape
    Raphaël Millière How Artificial Intelligence Thinks
  • Volts
    John O’Donnell Why Electrifying Industrial Heat is Such a Big Deal
  • Conversations with Tyler
    Yasheng Huang How China’s Economic and Political History Can Help Us Understand Its Future
  • Better Known
    Alan Rusbridger A Conversation for the Curious
  • Money Maze
    Huw van Steenis On the History and Causes of Banking Crisis
  • The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish
    Nathan Myhrvold On Technology, Climate Change and Geoengineering

  Download Issue 11 (12 MB)
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  • The Morgan Housel Podcast
    Morgan Housel The Art of Spending Money
  • The Joe Walker Podcast (Jolly Swagman formerly)
    Daniel Kahneman On Judgement, Biases and Intellectual Honesty
  • The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish
    Gina Poe The Science of Better Sleep
  • Conversations with Tyler
    Seth Godin On Marketing, Art and Meaning
  • Volts
    Holly Buck The Trouble with Net-Zero Carbon Emissions
  • EconTalk
    Patrick House and Itzhak Fried On the Brain’s Mysteries
  • EconTalk
    Lydia Dugdale On the Lost Art of Dying
  • Library of Mistakes
    Eric Monnet Monetary Policy without Interest Rates

  Download Issue 12 (14 MB)