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Here are the best podcast series of 2018, according to a superlistener who listened to at least 2600 episodes this year. You can read my full post / description here: https://wp.me/p6KLiT-1xc

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Created December 26, 2018

Updated October 22, 2023

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  1. Hard Hitting Reporting

  2. In The Dark

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    In the Dark, hosted by Madeleine Baran, is an award-winning investigative-journalism podcast that started in 2016. Its first season looked at the mysterious abduction of Jacob Wetterling in rural Minnesota and the lack of accountability that sh
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  3. Someone Knows Something

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    Angel Carlick was a vibrant youth worker, nicknamed ‘Happy-Go-Lucky’ by her loved ones. She had plans after graduation to become legal guardian of her brother and work to support struggling youth at her local resource centre. But just days befo
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  4. Missing & Murdered: Finding Cleo

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    Where is Cleo? Taken by child welfare workers in the 1970’s and adopted in the U.S., the young Cree girl’s family believes she was raped and murdered while hitchhiking back home to Saskatchewan. CBC news investigative reporter Connie Walker joi
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  5. Reveal

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    Reveal’s investigations will inspire, infuriate and inform you. Host Al Letson and an award-winning team of reporters deliver gripping stories about caregivers, advocates for the unhoused, immigrant families, warehouse workers and formerly inca
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  6. The Assassination

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    The award-winning inside story. An investigation into the death of Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto. Includes interviews with those accused of her murder.
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  7. Last Seen

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    Season 4: "Postmortem" is about the stolen bodies of Harvard and the gray market for human remains. Find out what happened at Harvard Medical School: how body parts were stolen and sold across the country. Who did this and why?
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  8. The Dream

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    From Little Everywhere and Pushkin Industries, and hosted by Jane Marie, comes the third season of The Dream. Past seasons of this award-winning investigative podcast looked at pyramid schemes and the world of wellness. This season we're gettin
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  9. All the Feels

  10. Terrible, Thanks For Asking

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    Subscribe within Apple Podcasts for ad-free listening, bonus episodes, and access to our full archive.For all those perks and more, including a supportive community of Terrible listeners, mail surprises and live sessions with our team, join u
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  11. This is Love

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    Love is more than you think.From the creators of Criminal. New episodes twice a month.Part of the Vox Media Podcast Network.
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  12. No Feeling Is Final

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    Usually when we talk about suicide we say those four magic words: "just ask for help". But Honor Eastly knows it’s not that simple. At times heartbreaking, and desperate – but also darkly funny, and charming, No Feeling Is Final is a story of d
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  13. Alone: A Love Story

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    Alone: A Love Story is an award-winning memoir by Michelle Parise. With candour and humour, Michelle delves into the deepest, darkest aspects of her divorce and her new life as a part-time parent, part-time partier.
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  14. Making the World a Better Place

  15. Scene on Radio

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    Scene on Radio is a two-time Peabody-nominated podcast that dares to ask big, hard questions about who we are—really—and how we got this way. Previous series include Seeing White (Season 2), looking at the roots and meaning of white supremacy; 
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  16. Other Men Need Help

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    Welcome to Other Men Need Help - an award-winning podcast playfully looking at how men present themselves to the world, and what's underneath. Hosted by Mark Pagán.
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  17. Ladies, We Need To Talk

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    Sex, heath, relationships: frank, funny, furious. Join host Yumi Stynes as she rips open the sealed section on life.Ladies, We Need to Talk goes deep on the personal stuff that's hard to talk about, even with your closest mates.From the won
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  18. Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller

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    COMING THIS MARCH, 2023! From the creator of Inflection Point: a five-part Women’s History Month mini-series, featuring inspiration and advice for a feminist future from trailblazers making change right now!  Grab a copy of our new book based o
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  19. Bodies

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    Each episode of this documentary series begins with a medical mystery. Sometimes the sickness is in the body, and sometimes the sickness is in the system. Once you peel back the layers, more questions emerge. Created by Allison Behringer and su
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  20. Learning While Laughing

  21. The Allusionist

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    Adventures in language with Helen Zaltzman. TheAllusionist.org
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  22. Varmints!

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    The Varmints! podcast is an education/comedy podcast that’s all about animals! Every week a bunch of nerds a do a whole bunch of reading to bring you a mix of science, education, pop culture and comedy about all things that creep, crawl, slithe
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  23. Ologies with Alie Ward

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    Volcanoes. Trees. Drunk butterflies. Mars missions. Slug sex. Death. Beauty standards. Anxiety busters. Beer science. Bee drama. Take away a pocket full of science knowledge and charming, bizarre stories about what fuels these professional -olo
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  24. Pure Entertainment

  25. The Sugar Baby Confessionals

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    Each season we tackle a new story. The Sugar Baby Confessionals is a true story unfolding over two years. What if your best friend – your best, married friend – embraced the sugar baby lifestyle – not by necessity, but by choice? Sara-Mae Tuson
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  26. Welcome to LA

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    Los Angeles is a city carved out of the desert — a conjured image of paradise. Award-winning journalist David Weinberg returns with stories of people who learn what lies beyond the dream.
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  27. #CreativeAF Divine Flow Radio

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    Divine Flow Radio is the home of Sheba CreativeAF a divine messenger and righteous PR Girl located in Houston, TX. You might hear conversations about business and branding and you might hear something spiritual, either way it's going to be a vi
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  28. PLAYLIST

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    PLAYLIST brings together some of your favorite podcasters to curate and review a playlist. Each week is a new theme, with a new roundtable of curators.
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  29. Audio Fiction

  30. Exeter

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    A veteran detective (Jeanne Tripplehorn) must face the errors of a past case when the woman she convicted of murder is exonerated after 10 years in prison. Our heroine struggles to keep the trust of her department as a series of grisly murders
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  31. Everything is Alive

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    Everything is Alive is an unscripted interview show in which all the subjects are inanimate objects. In each episode, a different thing tells us its life story--and everything it says is true.
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  32. 600 Second Saga

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    Escape the world every week – listen now for 10 minutes of sci-fi and fantasy. Every kind of science fiction and fantasy from epic fantasy, space opera, hilarious aliens, surreal moments, time travel romances, political espionage, and so much m
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  33. My Dad Wrote A Porno

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    Imagine if your Dad wrote a dirty book. Most people would try to ignore it and pretend it had never happened - but not Jamie Morton. Instead, he's decided to read it to the world in this award-winning comedy podcast. With the help of his friend
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  34. Staying in the Loop, or "What the Hell is Going on in This Insane World?"

  35. Still Processing

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    Wesley Morris and J Wortham are working it out in this weekly show about culture in the broadest sense. That means television, film, books, music — but also the culture of work, dating, the internet and how those all fit together.Listen to th
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  36. Today, Explained

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    Today, Explained is Vox's daily news explainer podcast. Hosts Sean Rameswaram and Noel King will guide you through the most important stories of the day.Part of the Vox Media Podcast Network.
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  37. Latino USA

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    Latino USA offers insight into the lived experiences of Latino communities and is a window on the current and merging cultural, political and social ideas impacting Latinos and the nation.
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  38. Reply All

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    "'A podcast about the internet' that is actually an unfailingly original exploration of modern life and how to survive it." - The Guardian. Hosted by Alex Goldman and Emmanuel Dzotsi from Gimlet.
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  39. Storytelling Excellence

  40. Nocturne

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    A sound-rich storytelling show that explores the night, the landscape of the unseen, and how thoughts, feelings and behaviors transform in the dark. Topics range wildly, encompassing a unique and surprising exploration into the darkness.Epis
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  41. Carruth

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    The "miracle" began Nov. 16, 1999, when Cherica Adams was shot four times in Charlotte, N.C. A hitman tried to murder Adams, the girlfriend of NFL star Rae Carruth, and their unborn son, Chancellor Lee. But the hitman failed. Now, a year-long i
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  42. How to Be a Girl

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    How to Be a Girl is an audio podcast I produce about life with my six-year-old transgender daughter. It stars the two of us -- a single mom and a six-year-old "girl with a penis" -- as we attempt together to sort out just what it means to be a
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  43. 30 for 30 Podcasts

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    Original audio documentaries from the makers of the acclaimed 30 for 30 film series, featuring stories from the world of sports and beyond. 30 for 30 offers captivating storytelling for sports fans and general interest listeners alike, going be
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  44. Criminal

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    Criminal is the first of its kind. A show about people who’ve done wrong, been wronged, or gotten caught somewhere in the middle. Hosted by Phoebe Judge. Named a Best Podcast of 2023 by the New York Times. Part of the Vox Media Podcast Network.
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  45. Rumble Strip

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    Good conversation that takes its time, hosted by Erica Heilman.
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  46. Gladiator: Aaron Hernandez and Football Inc.

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    Football star Aaron Hernandez went from the bright lights of the Super Bowl to a convicted murderer in a few years. The Boston Globe’s Spotlight Team, best known for its investigation of the sexual abuse scandal inside the Catholic Church, take
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  47. HumaNature

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    HumaNature explores where humans and our habitat meet. You'll hear real stories about human experiences in nature. Along the way, we’ll meet people whose encounters help us reflect on our own place in the natural world.
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  48. Neighbors

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    A show about what connects with Jakob Lewis.Neighbors is a production of Great Feeling Studios www.greatfeelingstudios.comJoin “The Neighborhood” on Patreon.
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  49. The Leap

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    From a doctor’s controversial LSD treatments to a mother’s high-risk efforts to recover her abducted child to a punk rock pioneer’s radical career reinvention, these are stories of people making dramatic, risky changes—and the big and small dec
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  50. The Promise

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    A Peabody Award-winning series from Nashville Public Radio about inequality and the people trying to rise above it, with host and reporter Meribah Knight. In Season 1 of The Promise, we told the story of Nashville's largest public housing compl
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  51. Creative Geniuses

  52. Radiotopia Presents: Shocking, Heartbreaking, Transformative

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    What really happens when stories about people’s lives are collected, edited, and consumed? Radiotopia Presents: Shocking, Heartbreaking,Transformative is a four-part non-fiction series created by Jess Shane, about the nuts and bolts of document
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  53. Love Me

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    Love Me is a CBC original podcast about the messiness of human relationships.
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  54. Dear Young Rocker

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    Dear Young Rocker is a scripted non-fiction storytelling and audio memoir podcast featuring stories from women and trans musicians. In seasons 1 and 2, host/creator Chelsea Ursin tells her own story of finding an outlet for anxiety and her plac
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  55. Here Be Monsters

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    An independent podcast about fear, beauty and the unknown. Since 2012. Hosted by Jeff Emtman and others.
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  56. Interviewers Who Ask the Best Questions

  57. How To Be Amazing with Michael Ian Black

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    In this in-depth interview show, Black takes listeners into the minds of some of today’s most fascinating celebrities and newsmakers to discuss the process of how they became, well, amazing. Brought to you by PRX.
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  58. Latina to Latina

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    In this interview series, host Alicia Menendez talks to remarkable Latinas about making it, faking it, and everything in between. In often-hilarious and always-revealing episodes, Alicia and her guests take on the challenges of existing, and th
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  59. Sooo Many White Guys

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    Phoebe Robinson is tired of being the token black woman in an ocean of white dude comedians. So in this podcast, Phoebe’s calling the shots. She’ll host intimate, funny and super honest conversations with musicians, actors, writers and comedian
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