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All in the Mind

All In The Mind is Radio National's weekly foray into the mental universe, the mind, brain and behaviour - everything from addiction to artificial intelligence. more

Book Review

Sam Tanenhaus, editor of The New York Times Book Review, discusses this week's issue. Visit an archive of previous Book Review Podcasts . more

CBC Radio: Search Engine

Search Engine is your open source to all the surprising and significant ways the Internet is transforming our world. Each week host Jesse Brown looks at politics and culture through the lens of the Net. It's radio that predicts the present. more

CBC Radio: Spark

Spark is your guide to the Next Big Thing. On-air and online, join Nora Young for a surprising and irreverent look at tech, trends, and fresh ideas. more

Free Library Podcast

The Free Library Podcast is an easy way to participate in the author events and lectures that take place at the Central Library. more

From Our Own Correspondent

Insight, wit and analysis as the BBC's foreign correspondents take a closer look at the stories behind the headlines. Presented by Kate Adie. Broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in the UK on Saturdays at 1130 BST and for about 25 weeks of the year, on Thursdays at 1102 BST. BBC World Service broadcasts on ... more

KCRW's Morning Becomes Eclectic

Morning Becomes Eclectic is committed to a music experience that celebrates innovation, creativity and diversity by combining progressive pop, world beat, jazz, African, reggae, classical and new music. Nic Harcourt?s Top Ten Albums of 2007 1) Jesca Hoop Kismet(Columbia) 2) Ting TingsDemos(Self-R... more

Late Night Live

Long Nights LNL podcast gives you the whole of Late Night Live from start to finish in a continuous mp3 file, as Phillip Adams invites you to eavesdrop on his conversations with the world's brilliant and controversial thinkers. more

Nature Podcast

Nature is a weekly international journal publishing the finest peer-reviewed research in all fields of science. The Nature Podcast is a free weekly audio show highlighting content from each issue, and interviews with the scientists creating the data. more

NPR: Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!

NPR's weekly current events quiz. Have a laugh and test your news knowledge while figuring out what's real and what we've made up. more

Science Times

David Corcoran, a science editor, explores the topics addressed in this week's Science Times. more

TEDTalks (audio)

Each year, the TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) conference hosts some of the world's most fascinating people: Trusted voices and convention-breaking mavericks, icons and geniuses. These podcasts (also available in audio format) capture the most extraordinary presentations delivered from t... more

The Book Show

The Book Show is ABC Radio National's home for the discussion of everything relating to the written word. This daily program will explore the many worlds in which we find readers and writers, publishers and booksellers, playwrights and lyricists, bloggers and journalists, book illustrators and ty... more

The Bugle (mp3) - Audio Newspaper For A Visua...

Based respectively in a penthouse turret in metropolitan New York and a small lair in South London, Oliver (The Daily Show, Political Animal) and Zaltzman (also Political Animal, The Now Show, Bremner, Bird & Fortune), with their combined height of 3.59 metres, will together canoe through the... more

The Science Show

RN's science flagship: your essential source of what's making news in the complex world of scientific research, scandal and discovery. The Science Show with Robyn Williams is one of the longest running programs on Australian radio. more

This American Life

Official free, weekly podcast of the award-winning radio show "This American Life." First-person stories and short fiction pieces that are touching, funny, and surprising. Hosted by Ira Glass, from WBEZ Chicago Public Radio. In mp3 and updated Mondays. more

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