January 23, 2025

500 Top Podcasts from the Past Five Years

It’s been a little while since we added podcasts to our LearnOutLoud.com Podcast Directory. So we recently did a deep dive into the major podcast directories of iTunes and Spotify and picked out 500 top podcasts from the past five years to add to our directory.

We’re changing up our strategy somewhat with our podcast directory. In the past, we’ve allowed submissions to our podcast directory and pretty much added anything that was educational. But the sheer amount of podcasts out there is overwhelming with estimates of between 3 and 4 million podcasts to choose from worldwide. So instead of trying to add everything under the sun to our podcast directory, we’ve decided to hone in on the very best podcasts out there. These include podcasts that are highly rated, most-rated, and also many hidden gems we’ve discovered that we thought were worth highlighting. Our focus is always on the best podcasts that you can learn from! We currently feature over 5,000 of the best podcasts available which you can browse here:

Browse Over 5,000 Podcasts in the LearnOutLoud.com Podcast Directory

Sort by Recently Added, and you’ll see the latest podcasts we added. We’ve removed some of the podcasts that have been deleted or podfaded (produced only a few episodes and then disappeared from existence), and we’ve added over 500 more that have risen to prominence in the past five years. In this blog post, we’ll highlight some of the best podcasts we’ve added in each of our main 16 categories. So let’s get into it:

Top Arts & Entertainment Podcasts from the Past Five Years:

A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs Podcast

The Plot Thickens Podcast from Turner Classic Movies

The Movies That Made Me Podcast Hosted by Joe Dante and Josh Olson

You’ll Hear It: Jazz Explained Podcast

Aria Code Podcast from The Metropolitan Opera

Classical Breakdown Podcast

The Art Angle Podcast

Top Biography Podcasts from the Past Five Years:

The James Baldwin 100 Podcast

Bruce Lee Podcast Hosted by Daughter Shannon Lee

Celebrity Memoir Book Club Podcast

Dolly Parton’s America Podcast

Catholic Saints Podcast

The Wonder of Stevie Podcast

Founders Podcast

The Hurricane Tapes – BBC Podcast

Real Dictators Podcast

Top Business Podcasts from the Past Five Years:

Business Movers Podcast

Afford Anything Podcast

Invest Like the Best Podcast

Coaching Real Leaders Podcast from the Harvard Business Review

Do This, Not That: Marketing Tips Podcast

The Side Hustle Show Podcast

BiggerPockets Real Estate Podcast

Top Education & Professional Podcasts from the Past Five Years:

How to Be Awesome at Your Job Podcast

What It’s Like To Be Career Podcast Hosted by Dan Heath

Exam Study Expert Podcast

Those Who Can’t Teach Anymore Podcast

Fiction Writing Made Easy Podcast

Straight A Nursing Podcast

Top History Podcasts from the Past Five Years:

American History Hit Podcast

History That Doesn’t Suck Podcast

NPR: Throughline Podcast

The Ancients Podcast

The Civil War & Reconstruction Podcast

The History of WWII Podcast

The History of England Podcast

The History of China Podcast

The History of the Twentieth Century Podcast

Top Languages Podcasts from the Past Five Years:

ChinesePod – Beginner Podcast

Learning English Grammar – BBC Podcast

Duolingo French Podcast

Learn Italian with Joy of Languages Podcast

LearnCraft Spanish Podcast

Lingthusiasm Podcast

Top Literature Podcasts from the Past Five Years:

Let’s Talk About Myths, Baby Podcast

ABC News: The Book Case Podcast

Shakespeare For All Podcast

National Review’s Great Books Podcast

The History of Literature Podcast

Storytime for Grownups Podcast

Poetry Unbound Podcast

Top Philosophy Podcasts from the Past Five Years:

Practical Stoicism Podcast

Lives Well Lived Podcast Hosted by Peter Singer & Kasia de Lazari Radek

Closer To Truth Podcast

Life Examined Podcast

The Gray Area Podcast

Top Politics Podcasts from the Past Five Years:

Political Theory 101 Podcast

The Foreign Affairs Interview Podcast

The Bulwark Podcast

Fast Politics Podcast

Hoover Institution: Goodfellows Podcast

BBC Newscast Podcast

Top Religion & Spirituality Podcasts from the Past Five Years:

The Way Out Is In Podcast

Jesus Calling Podcast

Wild at Heart Podcast Hosted by John Eldredge

Ask N.T. Wright Anything Podcast

The Stories of Mahabharata Podcast

Unpacking Israeli History Podcast

The C.S. Lewis Podcast Hosted by Alister McGrath

Conspirituality Podcast

Turning to the Mystics Podcast Hosted by James Finley

Through the ESV Bible in a Year Podcast

Top Science Podcasts from the Past Five Years:

NASA’s Curious Universe Podcast

NPR: Short Wave Podcast

The Science of Everything Podcast

Ologies with Alie Ward Podcast

Why This Universe Podcast

A Brief History of Mathematics – BBC Podcast

Into the Impossible Podcast Hosted by Brian Keating

Top Self Development Podcasts from the Past Five Years:

The Daily Motivation Podcast Hosted by Lewis Howes

The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck Podcast Hosted by Mark Manson

You Can Heal Your Life Podcast Produced by Hay House

We Can Do Hard Things Podcast

ZOE Science & Nutrition Podcast

Feel Better, Live More Podcast Hosted by Rangan Chatterjee

Calm Parenting Podcast

Jed McKenna Nonduality Podcast

Michael Singer Podcast Produced by Sounds True

Top Social Sciences Podcasts from the Past Five Years:

Altered States Podcast

Choiceology Podcast

The Psychology Podcast

Your Brain On: The Neuroscience of Everything Podcast

Therapist Uncensored Podcast

Top Sports & Hobbies Podcasts from the Past Five Years:

The Ringer NBA Show Podcast

Talkin’ Baseball MLB Podcast

Gastropod Podcast

The Athletic Football Show Podcast

The Joe Gardener Show Podcast

Shaped by Dog Podcast

Top Technology Podcasts from the Past Five Years:

AI For Humans Podcast

Endless Thread Podcast

Search Engine Podcast

Your Undivided Attention Podcast

Kim Komando Daily Tech Update Podcast

Better Offline Podcast

Top Travel Podcasts from the Past Five Years:

Join Us in France Travel Podcast

Untold Italy Travel Podcast

The Atlas Obscura Podcast

You Be Trippin Podcast Hosted by Ari Shaffir

So there you have it. Some of the top podcasts you can learn from in many categories from the past five years. We’ll be adding many more to come, so stay tuned!

December 13, 2024

Watch Carl Sagan, David Attenborough, and Richard Dawkins in the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures on YouTube

The Royal Institution of Great Britain was founded in 1799, and in 1825, began its annual Royal Institution Christmas Lectures for scientific education. Every year since then, a leading scientist has delivered a series of lectures. Since 1936, these Christmas Lectures have been broadcast on TV, making them the oldest science television series. The Royal Institution now has an archive of these lectures going back to the 1960s, with videos you can watch on their website of most of these Christmas Lectures:

Watch the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures Archive

To celebrate 200 years of these lectures, The Royal Institution YouTube Channel, has uploaded three of their most popular Christmas Lecture series onto YouTube from astronomer Carl Sagan, naturalist Sir David Attenborough, and evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins. We’ve added these three Christmas Lecture series to our site and have written up some reviews of them.

David Attenborough: Christmas Lectures on The Language of Animals (1973)

Sir David Attenborough is known for the nature documentaries he has written and narrated for the BBC from the 1950s to the present day (as of this writing he’s still alive at age 98!). In 1973, he gave this series of Christmas Lectures for the Royal Institution on The Language of Animals. Presented before an audience of children, Attenborough brings out many animals in his lectures to demonstrate the variety of ways in which these animals communicate. In the opening lecture, he conveys ways in which animals portray threats, usually to other creatures that want to eat them. Sometimes the animals communicate real threats, and sometimes they are “bluffing”, or communicating a threat even if they aren’t dangerous. In later lectures he explains how animals communicate attraction, young animals communicate with their parents, and then asks the question of if humans can effectively communicate with animals and vice versa. Lecture four called “Simple Signs and Complicated Communications” was lost from the archives, but the other five lectures are available to watch now on YouTube. These are enjoyable lectures on animal communication that are accessible to young and old alike.

Carl Sagan: Christmas Lectures on The Planets (1977)

Planetary scientist and science communicator Carl Sagan gave this series of six lectures on the planets in 1977, predating his popular 1980 PBS series Cosmos: A Personal Voyage by a few years. Using many visual aids, Sagan takes a look at the planets in our Solar System and their relation to the rest of the universe. He starts with a lecture on planet Earth, relating it to the other planets and analyzing it with photos from space. He emphasizes how close you have to get to really see evidence of life on Earth. In subsequent lectures, he explores the possibility of life in outer space, with a focus on the history of Mars and some of the discoveries that were being made there with unmanned space probes. In the final lecture, Sagan looks at the likelihood of billions of planets beyond our Solar System. While no extra-solar planets had been found by the late 1970s, in the past 20 years over 450 extra-solar planets have been discovered, while the possibility of life on them is yet to be known.

Richard Dawkins: Christmas Lectures on Growing Up in the Universe (1991)

Evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins has written popular science books such as The Selfish Gene (1976), The Blind Watchmaker (1986), and The God Delusion (2006). In 1991, he delivered a series of Christmas Lectures for the Royal Institution on Growing Up in the Universe. His first lecture, entitled “Waking Up in the Universe”, gives us a sense of the vastness and complexity of life on Earth. He tries in many ways to convey the long expanses of time that evolution has taken to arrive at the present moment of life and how lucky we are to have been born as humans in this moment. He stresses the importance of science in conveying the wonder and meaning of life as greater than any supernatural explanation. In the next four lectures, he confronts the problem of design, the improbability of evolutionary success, whether life was made for our benefit, and how human brains have developed a sense of purpose in the Universe. In lecture four, author Douglas Adams shows up to read a relevant passage from his novel The Restaurant at the End of the Universe.

Enjoy these scientific Christmas Lectures and many more on the Royal Institution website:

Watch the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures Archive

November 27, 2024

Watch 20 Oscar-Winning Feature Film Documentaries for Free Online

Starting in 1942, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences began bestowing the award for Best Documentary Feature Film. In recent years, many of these excellent feature-length documentaries have become available legally for free on YouTube and free movie sites like Tubi. From the war propaganda films of World War II to the contemporary political and social issue documentaries that often win today, you’ll get a wide variety of documentaries from film history in this list. So here, in chronological order, are twenty Oscar-winning feature film documentaries available to watch for free online. We’ve written reviews of many of them below and will write more reviews here as we watch them all!

1. Prelude to War (1942)

Watch this historic first documentary in Frank Capra’s Why We Fight series produced by the US Department of War from 1942 to 1945. The 50-minute film is an effective piece of war propaganda directed by Capra that was initially meant to be shown to American soldiers to explain why we were heading to war. President Franklin Roosevelt liked the film so much that he pushed for it to be viewed publicly, and it was eventually seen by over 50 million Americans.

In the film, Capra uses propaganda footage from the Axis powers of Germany, Italy, and Japan, and re-contextualizes it to contrast it with the American way of life. Capra had watched Leni Riefenstahl’s Triumph of the Will (1935) and wanted to make a counterpart to that piece of Nazi propaganda. He sets the stage for the film by contrasting the world of freedom and the world of slavery. Using animations drawn by Walt Disney Productions, he shows maps of the spreading of fascism in Europe and Asia. And he shows the leaders Benito Mussolini, Adolf Hitler, and Hirohito in a villainous light.

The documentary does show Americans arguing for isolationism which was popular at the time, but the movie argues that totalitarian militarism was spreading fast and would soon reach American shores if not countered. In the end, the movie quotes Army Chief of Staff George Marshall: “The victory of the democracies can only be complete with the utter defeat of the war machines of Germany and Japan”. This documentary was the very first film to win the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Film.

2. The True Glory (1945)

This Oscar-winning documentary features amazing footage from the U.S. Office of War Information and the British Ministry of Information in the final year of World War II. General Dwight D. Eisenhower introduces the film which features narration of the words of soldiers and others who contributed to the war effort. The documentary footage begins with the Normandy landings on D-Day of June 6, 1944, all the way through the battles in France and Germany up to the fall of Berlin and the German unconditional surrender on May 8, 1945. Along the way, dramatized voices from the Allied Forces chime in with accompanying combat footage from land, sea, and air.

While it’s not a comprehensive history lesson of the final year of the war, it certainly leaves an impression of what the last year of World War II was like in the European theatre of combat. From the beaches of Normandy to the concentration camps in Germany, you’ll see the triumphs and horrors of this major 20th-century conflict, restored in high definition by the U.S. National Archives. The direction of the film is attributed to British director Carol Reed, with many other significant contributors, utilizing footage from over 1,000 cameramen.

3. Kon-Tiki (1951)

Watch the harrowing journey of Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl and his crew of five men as they travel from Peru to the Polynesian Islands on a raft named “Kon-Tiki” made out of balsa logs. Heyerdahl hypothesized that South Americans could have reached Polynesia during pre-Columbian times, and he set out on a crazy journey to prove his point. At first, the documentary might make you seasick from the shaky camera work as the Kon-Tiki sails across the Pacific Ocean. But you’ll soon settle in and witness this survival tale as the men battle off sharks and whales and deal with other treacherous elements that seek to end their voyage. In the end, they do arrive on a Polynesian island after 101 days and 4,300 miles. While Heyerdahl admits this doesn’t prove South Americans made this voyage, he nevertheless showed that it was possible. Thor Heyerdahl wrote the narration of the film which is read by an English narrator. The footage is black and white 16mm and the transfer isn’t great in this version on Tubi, but it still makes for a compelling watch in this Oscar-winning documentary from 1951.

4. Albert Schweitzer (1957)

This documentary on the life of Albert Schweitzer uses archival footage to detail the life and work of the beloved philosopher, doctor, and humanitarian. Starting with Schweitzer’s upbringing, the viewer gains direct insight into what motivated him, including an early love of nature, animals, and the searching way he went from being a musician, to preaching, to teaching, until he decided upon a life of service in equatorial Africa. In addition, this program offers priceless footage of Schweitzer’s daily work habits, and follows him on a return trip he made later in life to the village where he grew up. This film won the Oscar for Best Documentary Feature.

5. Sky Above and Mud Beneath (1961)

Sky Above and Mud Beneath follows a grueling 7-month journey of a Franco-Dutch expedition led by Pierre-Dominique Gaisseau into what was at the time Dutch New Guinea. The film is part ethnographic and part exploration as they encounter tribes along the way. The encounters with cannibals, headhunters, and Pygmies present the more interesting aspects of film, as the filmmakers capture many ceremonies and rituals of the various tribes. The exploration part of this documentary is more ridiculous as the explorers complain of the horrid conditions and are air-dropped rescue supplies frequently. Nevertheless, the filmmakers capture some gorgeous places along their thousand-mile journey. The film has no dialogue and only narration. William Peacock narrates the English version of this film with a script by director Pierre-Dominique Gaisseau. The movie won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature in 1961.

6. Marjoe (1972)

7. The Man Who Skied Down Everest (1975)

Watch this impressive documentary on Yuichiro Miura’s attempt to become the first person to ski down Mount Everest on May 6, 1970. Most of the movie covers the large crew’s ascent up Everest starting in Kathmandu, Nepal until they reach the summit. The film is shot on 35mm CinemaScope providing some gorgeous views as they climb the mountain. The audio narration consists of excerpts of Yuichiro Miura’s insightful diary during the climb and is narrated by Douglas Rain (who interestingly enough provided the voice of the HAL 9000 computer in 2001: A Space Odyssey). The expedition takes a dark turn when six Sherpas died after a glacier collapse. The rest of the voyage up is a brutal, existential survival story and we won’t spoil the ending, but it is riveting. This movie won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Film in 1975.

8. Scared Straight! (1978)

9. From Mao to Mozart: Isaac Stern in China (1980)

10. Genocide (1981)

11. Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt (1989)

12. The Panama Deception (1992)

13. The Long Way Home (1997)

14. Murder on a Sunday Morning (2001)

15. Bowling for Columbine (2002)

16. Born Into Brothels (2004)

17. Taxi to the Dark Side (2007)

18. Undefeated (2011)

19. Citizenfour (2014)

In this chilling and paranoia-inducing documentary, director Laura Poitras follows around whistleblower Edward Snowden as he exposes the current methods the NSA is spying on people around the globe. At first Snowden’s paranoia seems a bit ridiculous, but all involved including journalist Glenn Greenwald are rapidly engulfed in a web of global surveillance, as the United States seeks to bring Snowden back to the U.S. for violating the Espionage Act of 1917 and other counts. It’s a fascinating and frightening tale that is sure to get you thinking about how your digital life is being monitored. The film won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature at the 2015 Oscars.

20. 20 Days in Mariupol (2023)

Watch this brutal documentary on the invasion of Mariupol, Ukraine, by Russian forces in 2022. The documentary was directed by Ukrainian journalist Mstyslav Chernov and produced by the Associated Press and PBS Frontline, which is offering the documentary for free on their YouTube channel. The footage Chernov captures is the ground-level reality of the siege of Mariupol over the first 20 days of the invasion. It features the killing of civilians, the bombing of hospitals, and other war crimes carried out by Russian forces. Chernov presents the thoughts and emotions of the people of Mariupol as the invasion is carried out and all the chaos and suffering that ensues. It is bleak and essential viewing of the realities of a war that has killed thousands of Ukrainians.

And you can check out over 1,500 Free Documentaries in our LearnOutLoud.com Free Documentaries Collection!

October 28, 2024

Watch Book Talks on These 10 YouTube Channels

When a book is released from a major book publisher, it is still quite common for the author to go on tour, talking about their book at literary events. The author will often give a talk on their book at bookstores, libraries, or other venues and do a book signing. The author may also go on TV shows, radio shows, or podcasts to promote their book. These book talks can be in the form of readings, lectures, or interviews and often include a Q&A from the audience at the end of the talk.

Since the ascent of YouTube for easily distributing long-form videos, these book talks have become increasingly popular on many YouTube channels in the past 15 years. When a new book comes out that may interest you, watching or listening to a book talk on YouTube is a great way to learn about the book and see if it’s something you might want to purchase as a full book or audiobook. With the best authors, these book talks are well-prepared and can provide a lot of the main ideas from a book.

On LearnOutLoud.com, we’ve been featuring these book talks for over 15 years now, as they are such a great way to learn. We’re subscribed to dozens of YouTube channels that regularly feature book talks and we’ve added and reviewed hundreds of these book talks on our site with authors talking about their most popular books. In this blog post, we’ll highlight 10 of the best YouTube channels for watching book talks. If we’ve added these channels as publishers on our website, we’ll link to those as well.

1. Talks at Google YouTube Channel – Since Google owns YouTube, it is no surprise that they were pioneers in featuring talks from authors delivered at their many Google offices around the world. Since 2006 their speaker series has been going on with authors and leading thinkers giving talks on all sorts of topics. To date, they feature over 5,000 talks on their YouTube channel, which has over 2 million subscribers. On LearnOutLoud.com, we’ve tried to pick out some of their most popular talks to feature on our site and we currently showcase about 600 Google Talks on our site, many with reviews of the talk:

600 of the Best Talks at Google on LearnOutLoud.com

2. Politics and Prose YouTube Channel – Politics and Prose is one of the top independent bookstores in the country located in Washington, D.C. For the past 12 years, they’ve featured high-quality video recordings of talks by authors about their books recorded at their bookstore. Because of where they’re located and their name, you might have guessed that a lot of the authors that speak there talk about books related to politics. But their talks cover a whole lot more than that. With over 3,000 videos on their YouTube channel and over 200K subscribers, they’re one of the top destinations on YouTube for book talks. We’ve added about 100 of these book talks to our site covering many of their most popular talks:

100 Politics and Prose Bookstore Events Videos on LearnOutLoud.com

3. University of California Television (UCTV) YouTube Channel – The University of California Television channel on YouTube is vast with over 10,000 videos and 1 million subscribers. They’ve been broadcasting on YouTube since 2007, with talks delivered at many University of California campuses. Many of these talks are from UC faculty covering research in the areas of science, tech, and health. But they also feature talks from authors often talking about books they’ve written. We’ve added over 250 of their best videos to our site which you can browse here:

Over 250 of the Best University of California Television Talks on LearnOutLoud.com

4. The 92nd Street Y YouTube Channel – The 92nd Street Y in New York City has been a cultural and community center for 150 years! They’ve been recording their talks there even long before YouTube existed. Their YouTube channel features over 3,500 videos with over 350K subscribers. Their talks are often done in conversation format, and for their book talks sometimes feature readings from the books. Some of their historic talks go back decades and feature audio recordings of authors. We’ve gone through their whole channel and featured over 100 of their best talks on LearnOutLoud:

Over 100 92nd Street Y Talks on LearnOutLoud.com

5. GBH Forum Network YouTube Channel – WGBH is Boston’s primary PBS television station. They’ve been recording book talks around the Boston area for over a decade now and posting them to their YouTube channel. Their channel has over 4,000 videos with over 100K subscribers. Learn from authors of all sorts of books on their YouTube channel. We feature over 200 of their best talks on our website:

Over 200 of the Best WGBH Forum Network Talks on LearnOutLoud.com

6. The Commonwealth Club of California YouTube Channel – This public affairs forum features many authors discussing their books on their YouTube channel. Their YouTube channel has over 2,500 videos with over 200K subscribers. Many of their talks are politically related, but they cover other categories including science, religion, technology, and much more. We feature over 50 of their best talks on our site:

Over 50 of The Commonwealth Club of California’s Best Videos on LearnOutLoud.com

7. Library of Congress YouTube Channel – The Library of Congress has a ton of videos on their YouTube channel from historical films to musical performances to talks of all kinds. Many of their talks are authors talking about their books. A lot to explore here!

8. Author Events from the Free Library of Philadelphia – The Free Library of Philadelphia has offered over 900 book talks on its YouTube channel over the past 6 years. These public events are often done in the form of interviews.

9. Barnes & Noble YouTube Channel – The Barnes & Noble YouTube Channel features a lot of content, but more recently a lot of book talks. Many of these are interviews conducted on Zoom which isn’t ideal, but some of them are book talks delivered at one of Barnes & Noble’s 600 bookstores nationwide.

10. BookTV YouTube Channel – And we must mention C-SPAN’s BookTV. They feature a YouTube channel with over 5,000 clips of their book talks dating back decades since C-SPAN has been around for a long time. Unfortunately, they don’t post full book talks on their YouTube channel. To watch their full book talks, you’ll need to go to their website at www.c-span.org/bookTv. On the website, they have an astounding 21,000 book talks to choose from dating back to the 1990s. We feature over 300 of the best Book TV Interviews on our site:

Over 300 of the Best Book TV Interviews on LearnOutLoud.com

And these channels are just scratching the surface of the book talks that are on YouTube. Search about any major book from the past 15 years and you’re likely to find a book talk about it on YouTube from some channel. A great way to learn!

September 18, 2024

7 Free Motivational Talks by Author Leo Buscaglia

Leo Buscaglia was a University of Southern California professor who taught a popular course called Love 1A. The popularity of his course and of his book Love, led to a series of motivational talks that he delivered on public television in the 1980s and 1990s. Recently seven of these talks have become available through the PBS KVIE YouTube Channel. While his books are great, maybe the best way to experience Buscaglia is through his dynamic talks. Start watching one of the talks below, and you might just find yourself watching them all!

1. The Art of Being Fully Human

In this one-hour talk called “The Art of Being Fully Human”, Buscaglia provides advice on living life to the fullest. His speaking style is infectious as he tells many tales about his life and others who have embraced a the art of being fully human. Frustrated with academic teachings that teach us about everything except how to love and live life, Buscaglia created his own method of teaching to personally reach his students. The talk is full of many truths that connect us as humans and that can motivate us to being more human to ourselves and others.

2. A Time to Live

Author and professor Leo Buscaglia gives his unique take on time management as he encourages his audience to act now on the things most important in life. He briefly breaks down the amount of time we do major activities in our lifetime such as working, eating, sleeping, watching TV, and even going to the bathroom. Through humorous anecdotes and quotes, Buscaglia invites us to take action on the important things in life and not waste it. He encourages us to take time for learning, for joy, for silence, for giving, and for love. He closes by asking, “If not now, when?” Enjoy this uplifting talk on the importance of time from Dr. Leo Buscaglia.

3. Loving Relationships

In this wonderful talk from Leo Buscaglia, he provides advice on all of the relationships in our lives. Starting with marriage and romantic relationships, he urges individuals to reach out and not build a wall around ourselves, waiting for the perfect person. Buscaglia outlines some of the key factors that lead to successful relationships. Expanding from our romantic relationships, he suggests ways to make deeper connections with everyone we know. An enormous advocate of hugging, Buscaglia points to the importance of physical contact for being fully alive. In a society full of loneliness, he passionately preaches that our connection and love for other people is one of the most important aspects of our lives.

4. Speaking of Love

In this talk from Leo Buscaglia, he shares the many ways we can express love in our lives. He tells stories of not just romantic love, but love for everyone and everything. From loving the elderly to loving food to loving nature, Buscaglia shares his passionate love for life. He is able to bring love to almost everything he does from waiting in airports to driving. He may change your perspective on loving what we otherwise might feel is mundane, bringing out the magic in our lives and ourselves. Tap into your own human potential by expanding your capacity to love!

5. A Love Class

This video differs from Leo Buscaglia’s other PBS specials in that he sits down and talks with a small group instead of delivering a talk before a large audience. The focus of the wide-ranging discussion is relationships. They talk about the challenges of starting relationships and keeping them growing. Buscaglia provides many insights to the points raised by the small group and you get a sense of what Buscaglia’s famous love class was all about.

6. Born For Love

At the age of 70, Leo Buscaglia delivered this talk on love throughout one’s lifetime. From the outset of the talk, he reminds us that love is a verb and you have to go out and get it! He tells tales of love from throughout his life from his first kiss to going to his homeland in Italy and the familial love he experienced there. Buscaglia talks about the high divorce rate in America and some of the reasons he thinks that exists. Throughout the talk he shares his love of connecting with all people from children to the elderly, and how he loves to bring a positive and joyous attitude to negative situations.

7. Stories of Christmas Love

Get in the Christmas spirit with Leo Buscaglia as he shares many stories from Christmastime in this talk. From his Christmas playing Santa Claus to a Christmas he spent in the hospital, Buscaglia brings joy to all his holiday gatherings. He acknowledges while we get caught up in shopping for gifts, we often lose sight of the story of Christmas and the love Jesus shared for everyone. He also wants us to create wonderful Christmas memories that we can look back on later in life. And he encourages us to give ourselves the gift of a new birth each year at Christmas and to begin life anew no matter what our age.

Enjoy these wonderful talks from the Leo Buscaglia Collection available to watch for free on YouTube for the first time!

And if you want to hear more of Buscaglia, check out our LearnOutLoud Author Page devoted to him:

Leo Buscaglia Love Talks and Audio Books on LearnOutLoud.com