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Designed to help you discover what to listen to next, host Richard Scott hunts out the best podcasts from New Zealand and around the world.

Episode Date
The Podcast Hour for Saturday 3rd August 2019
Aug 03, 2019
'The Soundtrack Show': the music in our favourite films
Aug 03, 2019
'This Paranormal Life': otherwordly laughs
Aug 03, 2019
'Reply All': tech mysteries
Aug 03, 2019
Chance encounters: 'All The Best'
Aug 03, 2019
The Podcast Hour for Saturday 27th July 2019
Jul 27, 2019
Pink for girls? 'Every Little Thing'
Jul 27, 2019
Celebrating life's simple pleasures: 'The Pleasures of Brecht'
Jul 27, 2019
Having fun with self help: 'Personal Best'
Jul 27, 2019
'When We Got To The Seventh': a quirky fiction show
Jul 27, 2019
The Podcast Hour for Saturday 20th July 2019
Jul 20, 2019
Designing a dream city: Nice Try!
Jul 20, 2019
Word nerd? Try 'Something Rhymes with Purple'
Jul 20, 2019
'The Cut on Tuesdays': Family money
Jul 20, 2019
'Paradise': The unsolved murder of 2 British backpackers
Jul 20, 2019
The Podcast Hour for Saturday 13th July 2019
Jul 13, 2019
Digital downsizing? The 'Outside' podcast
Jul 13, 2019
Classical music mysteries: 'Case Notes'
Jul 13, 2019
'Judge John Hodgman': litigating domestic squabbles
Jul 13, 2019
Visiting a threatened Hawaiian ecosystem: 'Offshore'
Jul 13, 2019
The Podcast Hour for Saturday 6th July 2019
Jul 06, 2019
Reviewing every Black film ever: 'The Micheaux Mission'
Jul 06, 2019
Screen time struggles: 'Parental As Anything'
Jul 06, 2019
'Extremities': taking you to the world's most isolated places
Jul 06, 2019
True crime parody: 'This Sounds Serious'
Jul 06, 2019
The Podcast Hour for Saturday 29 June 2019
Jun 29, 2019
Sharing stories beyond the book shelves: 'Borrowed'
Jun 29, 2019
'True Crime New Zealand': DIY show scales NZ's podcast charts
Jun 29, 2019
Improvising interviews: 'Inside The Comedian'
Jun 29, 2019
'The Shrink Next Door': meet the neighbours
Jun 29, 2019
The Podcast Hour for Saturday 22 June 2019
Jun 22, 2019
Music, creation, fandom: 'I Only Listen To The Mountain Goats'
Jun 22, 2019
'The Beautiful Brain': head injuries and sport
Jun 22, 2019
Learning from animals: '30 Animals That Made Us Smarter'
Jun 22, 2019
'Revisionist History': challenging conventional wisdom
Jun 22, 2019
The Podcast Hour for Saturday 15 June 2019
Jun 15, 2019
Army rations: The Intersection's 'War and Peas'
Jun 15, 2019
Escalating obsession: 'People Movers'
Jun 15, 2019
Parole insights: 'Supervision'
Jun 15, 2019
'Long Distance': tiki (bar) tour
Jun 15, 2019
A podcast about love, grief and hope
Jun 15, 2019
The Podcast Hour for Saturday 8 June 2019
Jun 08, 2019
Unknown pleasures: 'Here Be Monsters'
Jun 08, 2019
Brexitcast: Behind-the-scenes Brexit
Jun 08, 2019
Word games: 'A Way With Words'
Jun 08, 2019
'Adrift': overthinkers unite!
Jun 08, 2019
The Podcast Hour for Saturday 1 June 2019
Jun 01, 2019
'Words To That Effect': a brainy look at some big ideas
Jun 01, 2019
'Conversations With People Who Hate Me'
Jun 01, 2019
New life for old books: 'Backlisted'
Jun 01, 2019
'George's Podcast' is one you'll want to hear
Jun 01, 2019
The Podcast Hour for Saturday 25 May 2019
May 25, 2019
A perfect son? 'Nancy'
May 25, 2019
'The Untold': taking listeners inside life-changing stories
May 25, 2019
'The Document': meeting a murderer
May 25, 2019
The Podcast Hour for Saturday 18 May 2019
May 18, 2019
Autism insights: 'The Parenting Spectrum'
May 18, 2019
Nothing but the truth? 'Running from COPS'
May 18, 2019
Arty party: 'Studio 360' on life as an opera extra
May 18, 2019
'13 Minutes to the Moon': the moon landing reconsidered
May 18, 2019
The Podcast Hour for Saturday 11 May 2019
May 11, 2019
Homeless in Googleville: 'The Intersection'
May 11, 2019
Toxic tech? 'A Job For The Boys'
May 11, 2019
'Science Vs': the search for scientific consensus
May 11, 2019
The Podcast Hour for Saturday 4 May 2019
May 04, 2019
Waxing lyrical: 'Broken Record'
May 04, 2019
'The Food Chain': Product placement
May 04, 2019
'Kerning Cultures': audio rich stories from the Middle East
May 04, 2019
A powerful history of Whiteness and race: 'Scene on Radio'
May 04, 2019
The Podcast Hour for Saturday 27 April 2019
Apr 27, 2019
Crushing work meetings: 'The Pineapple Project'
Apr 27, 2019
Movie Reviews in 20 Qs: film chat from a Mount Maunganui garage
Apr 27, 2019
Maron milestone: 'WTF' hits 1000 episodes!
Apr 27, 2019
Inspiring figures: 'Great Lives'
Apr 27, 2019
The Podcast Hour for Saturday 20 April 2019
Apr 20, 2019
'NB': life beyond the binary
Apr 20, 2019
Reffing the refs? 'Against The Rules with Michael Lewis'
Apr 20, 2019
'Wild Dunedin': Otago animals
Apr 20, 2019
A world without power: 'Blackout'
Apr 20, 2019
The Podcast Hour for Saturday 13 April 2019
Apr 13, 2019
Dream dishes in an imaginary restaurant: 'Off Menu'
Apr 13, 2019
'Out of the Blocks': stories from a gritty city
Apr 13, 2019
Going into a downward spiral: 'Short Cuts'
Apr 13, 2019
Switched On Pop: going deep on pop
Apr 05, 2019
TL;DR? How tech's changing the way we read
Apr 05, 2019
Getting to grips with language: 'The Allusionist'
Apr 05, 2019
The Podcast Hour for Saturday 6 April 2019
Apr 05, 2019
DIY diplomacy: Spacebridge
Mar 29, 2019
The Case of Charles Dexter Ward
Mar 29, 2019
Chat 10 Looks 3: broadcast banter
Mar 29, 2019
Stories in Sound: 'Twenty Thousand Hertz'
Mar 29, 2019
The Podcast Hour for Saturday 30 March 2019
Mar 29, 2019
Conan O'Brien Needs A Friend: Jeff Goldblum
Mar 15, 2019
Paris podcast: Paname
Mar 15, 2019
Walking, no talking
Mar 15, 2019
David Walliams' Marvellous Musical Podcast
Mar 15, 2019
Container ship crew combat loneliness with karaoke
Mar 15, 2019
The Podcast Hour for Saturday 16 March 2019 (radio broadcast 23.3.19)
Mar 15, 2019
'Over My Dead Body': a picture perfect relationship goes South
Mar 08, 2019
Sweeping The World: A hidden history of brushes and brushing
Mar 08, 2019
'Podcast From The Past': a postcard podcast
Mar 08, 2019
Was Melody Rules 'The Worst Sitcom Ever Made'?!
Mar 08, 2019
The Podcast Hour for Saturday 9 March 2019
Mar 08, 2019
E-scooter safety concerns: 'Post Reports'
Mar 01, 2019
Tracking a serial conman: 'Who The Hell is Hamish?'
Mar 01, 2019
A boxer's murder conviction overturned: 'The Hurricane Tapes'
Mar 01, 2019
'David Tennant Does A Podcast with...Olivia Colman'
Mar 01, 2019
The Podcast Hour for Saturday 2 March 2019
Mar 01, 2019
NEON: the history behind popular culture
Feb 22, 2019
Conviction: true crime with a colourful private eye
Feb 22, 2019
Finding Drago: the search for a mysterious writer
Feb 22, 2019
So where ARE the aliens? New BBC podcast looks at what we know for sure
Feb 22, 2019
The Podcast Hour for Saturday 23 February 2019
Feb 22, 2019
Proof: When celery was in vogue
Feb 15, 2019
BBQ history: The Sporkful
Feb 15, 2019
From politics to pleasure: The Food Programme
Feb 15, 2019
Burger battles: Business Wars
Feb 15, 2019
Whatever Happened to Pizza at McDonald's?
Feb 15, 2019
The Podcast Hour for Saturday 16 February 2019
Feb 15, 2019
Shedunnit: detective mysteries
Feb 08, 2019
Quake safe? Surviving The Big One
Feb 08, 2019
Imaginary Advice: blending fact and fiction
Feb 08, 2019
Self help Sixties style: The Complete Woman
Feb 08, 2019
The Podcast Hour for Saturday 9 February 2019
Feb 08, 2019
'Reveal': the "alt right" moves into comics
Feb 01, 2019
'Ladies, We Need To Talk': is it OK to settle for average?
Feb 01, 2019
Taking the local global: 'Multi Story'
Feb 01, 2019
'Planet Money': The Land of Duty Free
Feb 01, 2019
The Podcast Hour for Saturday 2 February 2019
Feb 01, 2019
The Last Days of August: what caused a porn star's death?
Jan 25, 2019
Inside Health: the BBC podcast taking a close look at medical advice
Jan 25, 2019
Tai Asks Why: the 11-year old pondering life's big questions
Jan 25, 2019
Hunting for Bigfoot: Wild Thing
Jan 25, 2019
The Podcast Hour for Saturday 26 January 2019
Jan 25, 2019
Space archaeology: SAPIENS
Dec 21, 2018
Sound Opinions: Diss tracks
Dec 21, 2018
Bomb On Board: who bombed a Canadian airliner?
Dec 21, 2018
The Nightmare Before Christmas!
Dec 21, 2018
The Podcast Hour for Saturday 22 December 2018
Dec 21, 2018
A powerful account of mental illness: No Feeling Is Final
Dec 14, 2018
Freakonomics Radio: How could open-plan offices be less terrible?
Dec 14, 2018
The mysterious death of a high-ranking Nazi: The Ratline
Dec 14, 2018
Unspooled: dissecting the top 100 films ever made
Dec 14, 2018
The Podcast Hour for Saturday 15 December 2018
Dec 14, 2018
'Eating Fried Chicken in the Shower': headspace and happiness
Dec 07, 2018
'Front Burner': serving up daily news
Dec 07, 2018
Girl power: 'Fierce Girls'
Dec 07, 2018
'Simple Pleasures': famous foodies
Dec 07, 2018
Everyday people face up to grievances and regrets in the podcast Heavyweight
Dec 07, 2018
The Podcast Hour for Saturday 8th December 2018
Dec 07, 2018
Casefile: true crime with a mysterious host
Nov 30, 2018
Human/Ordinary: In The Neighbourhood
Nov 30, 2018
Listening to the city: To The Best of Our Knowledge
Nov 30, 2018
Ghosts in the Machine: how our ears can deceive us
Nov 30, 2018
The Podcast Hour for Saturday 1 December 2018
Nov 30, 2018
Parental Guidance Recommended: parenting tips from famous Aussies
Nov 23, 2018
On robots and remembering: This Is Love
Nov 23, 2018
Instant noodles: BBC podcast tells their untold story
Nov 23, 2018
Headlong, Surviving Y2K: remembering the millennium hysteria of 1999
Nov 23, 2018
The Podcast Hour for Saturday 24 November 2018
Nov 23, 2018
A light-hearted look at self improvement: The Self Renovators
Nov 16, 2018
People doing unpopular things: How Do You Sleep At Night?
Nov 16, 2018
Building empathy: A Mile In My Shoes
Nov 16, 2018
Colourful slices of California life: Welcome to LA
Nov 16, 2018
The Podcast Hour for Saturday 17 November 2018
Nov 16, 2018
Love + Radio: artfully crafted first-person stories without studio banter
Nov 09, 2018
Food pod: 'Hoovering'
Nov 09, 2018
'Endless Thread': Reddit stories
Nov 09, 2018
Listening in on couples' counselling: 'Where Should We Begin?'
Nov 09, 2018
The Podcast Hour for Saturday 10 November 2018
Nov 09, 2018
The Dream: From 'the plane game' to pyramid schemes
Nov 02, 2018
Interviews with lots of laughs: 'Fortunately...with Fi and Jane'
Nov 02, 2018
Black Sheep: controversial characters from New Zealand history
Nov 02, 2018
The Daily: delivering the news to your ears
Nov 02, 2018
The Podcast Hour for Saturday 3 November 2018
Nov 02, 2018
Improvising stories: The Bear Pack
Oct 26, 2018
Dirt Church Radio: trail running nirvana
Oct 26, 2018
Household Name: how the US President made us eat more pizza
Oct 26, 2018
Stripy love letter: Out Of Line
Oct 26, 2018
The Podcast Hour for Saturday 27 October 2018
Oct 26, 2018
Radio Atlas: international podcasts with English subtitles
Oct 19, 2018
Loving letters: Dispatch to A Friend
Oct 19, 2018
Globetrotting romance? Stories I Tell On Dates
Oct 19, 2018
Soul Music: the story behind Leonard Cohen's 'Hallelujah'
Oct 19, 2018
The Podcast Hour for Saturday 20 October 2018
Oct 19, 2018
Zig Zag: demystifying Blockchain
Oct 12, 2018
Little Tiny: small things that changed the course of history
Oct 12, 2018
The Modern Mann: veteran podcaster Olly Mann
Oct 12, 2018
Bubble: a sci fi comedy
Oct 12, 2018
The Podcast Hour for Saturday 13th October 2018
Oct 12, 2018
Floral audio: Branch Out
Oct 05, 2018
American Scandal: sporting cheats
Oct 05, 2018
Meat: a podcast about flesh and body image
Oct 05, 2018
Articles of Interest: Children's clothing
Oct 05, 2018
The Podcast Hour for Saturday 6 October 2018
Oct 05, 2018
The world's biggest art theft: Last Seen
Sep 29, 2018
A murder mystery? Death In Ice Valley
Sep 29, 2018
The Teenage Taxidermist
Sep 29, 2018
Serial season 3: judging US justice
Sep 29, 2018
The Podcast Hour for Saturday 29 September 2018
Sep 29, 2018
The Realness: how a blood disease shaped hip hop history
Sep 22, 2018
Generation X: Beyond Kate
Sep 22, 2018
How tech is shaping our lives: The Digital Human
Sep 22, 2018
Where Are You Going? Meeting strangers in 11 cities
Sep 22, 2018
The Podcast Hour for Saturday 22 September 2018
Sep 22, 2018
Ghibliotheque: reviewing the works of Studio Ghibli
Sep 15, 2018
Stories of the night: Nocturne
Sep 15, 2018
Tāringa: a funny, bilingual podcast about 'all things Te Ao Māori'
Sep 15, 2018
What Are The Odds? A radio documentary about coincidence
Sep 15, 2018
The Podcast Hour for Saturday 15 September 2018
Sep 15, 2018
Have you ever seen a dead body? The Dead Bodies podcast
Sep 08, 2018
The Foreign Desk: global news stories
Sep 08, 2018
Country music history: Cocaine & Rhinestones
Sep 08, 2018
Everything is Alive: talking soap, chatty lamp posts
Sep 08, 2018
The Podcast Hour for Saturday 8 September 2018
Sep 08, 2018
Ologies: science with a sense of humour
Sep 01, 2018
Dissecting comedy classics: Rule of Three
Sep 01, 2018
Swipe Left Swipe Left!: a podcast about looking for love
Sep 01, 2018
Criminal: the podcast exploring crime and humanity
Sep 01, 2018
The Podcast Hour for Saturday 1 September 2018
Sep 01, 2018
Everyone Else: capturing chance encounters in a podcast
Aug 25, 2018
Unearthing hidden histories: The Kitchen Sisters
Aug 25, 2018
Lost Notes: the strange tale of 'Louie, Louie'
Aug 25, 2018
The Podcast Hour for Saturday 25 August 2018
Aug 25, 2018
Celebrity revelations over a home-cooked dinner: Table Manners
Aug 18, 2018
Cracking a cold case? The Teacher's Pet
Aug 18, 2018
An Unexpected Kitchen: The George Foreman Grill
Aug 18, 2018
Caliphate: reporting on Islamic State
Aug 18, 2018
The Podcast Hour for Saturday 18 August 2018
Aug 18, 2018
Slow Burn: impeaching Bill Clinton
Aug 11, 2018
Mic Drop: teens take the microphone
Aug 11, 2018
Sleep With Me: the podcast that lulls you to sleep with inconsequential talk
Aug 11, 2018
A Very Fatal Murder: A Very Funny Parody
Aug 11, 2018
The Podcast Hour for Saturday 11 August 2018
Aug 11, 2018
Inside Jaws: filming a movie classic
Aug 04, 2018
Crazy/Genius: should we go to Mars?
Aug 04, 2018
The Habitat: six volunteers simulate a Mars mission in an isolation dome
Aug 04, 2018
The Podcast Hour for Saturday 4 August 2018
Aug 04, 2018
NPR's Hidden Brain: Baby Talk
Jul 28, 2018
The Tip Off: behind breaking news
Jul 28, 2018
Disgraceland: the death of Mr Wonderful
Jul 28, 2018
The Lip: extraordinary tales from ordinary Kiwis
Jul 28, 2018
The Podcast Hour for Saturday 28 July 2018
Jul 28, 2018
How skyscrapers work: Stuff You Should Know
Jul 21, 2018
Griefcast: comedians share tales of bereavement and loss
Jul 21, 2018
The Boring Talks: on sneezes and ice cream vans
Jul 21, 2018
An open and shut case? The RFK Tapes
Jul 21, 2018
The Podcast Hour for Saturday 21 July 2018
Jul 21, 2018
The Beef And Dairy Network: Meat matters
Jul 14, 2018
Decoder Ring: The laugh track
Jul 14, 2018
Ear Hustle: a prison podcast
Jul 14, 2018
The Podcast Hour for Saturday 14 July 2018
Jul 14, 2018