Current Events Podcasts

The Talks at Google podcast - where great minds meet. Talks at Google brings the world’s most influential thinkers, creators, makers, and doers all to one place.

Long before podcasts or even the Internet, as we know it, host Terry Gross has been conducting interviews with notable figures in the world of the arts and entertainment, journalism, politics, and current affairs.

One of the best things to listen to on audio is a debate. The full rhetoric comes through in the speakers, making it very exciting to listen to.

The BBC Global News Podcast is a daily news podcast that covers many top stories from around the world in about 30 minutes. The episodes are twice a day on weekdays and once a day on weekends.

Each year, TED hosts some of the world's most fascinating people: Trusted voices and convention-breaking mavericks, icons and geniuses.

CBC's Ideas Podcast is a well produced one-hour public radio show that covers a specific idea in contemporary culture or intellectual history.

The PBS Frontline series are some of the best documentaries available on public television, but it's often difficult to carve out time to sit down and watch them. Now Frontline has released over 100 of their documentaries as audio podcasts and they actually work really well as just audio.

A two-hour comedy/quiz/interview show heard on public radio stations across the country.

In this popular daily podcast from The New York Times, host Michael Barbaro covers one of the day's top news stories with journalists' interviews about this story and audio clips of the news events spliced in.

Intelligence Squared is the world’s leading forum for debate and intelligent discussion.