What's the single most compelling podcast episode you've ever listened to?
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Anonymous
| Looking for ideas, especially nonfiction-y stuff. Thanks! |
Anonymous
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I've listened to a lot of podcasts and the ones that come immediately to mind that I liked the most are as follows:
Ronan Farrow-Catch and Kill Criminal w/Phoebe Judge (Lots of episodes were great but I can't remember exactly which ones) Teacher's Pet Crazy story from Australia, not sure how available it is now because the main guy got charged as a result of the podcast reviving the story and it's in the courts now. |
Anonymous
| It's old, but I was so riveted by the first Season of Serial about Adnan Syad. |
Anonymous
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Hands down it's s-town for me. There's an episode close to the end that gotten me. It's only 6 or so episodes, so short.
But I will say the series came under some criticism for being, I don't know, exploitative of mental illness. I'll also just say it hit a number of my buttons and maybe I'm unique in that way - small town, southern, fitting in, mental illness, giftedness, loss. It was a very meaningful podcast to me. |
Anonymous
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https://www.artofmanliness.com/people/fatherhood/
This site has a number of great podcasts. I can’t remember the name of the one that brought me to tears, but the author was intervening a man about his father who himself grew olio fatherless. Very moving. |
Anonymous
| Gravity |
Anonymous
| One of my favorite is The Ghost of Bobby Dunbar by This American Life |
Anonymous
| I loved Fake Heiress - BBC. I think she got out of jail recently. |
Anonymous
nal I wouldn't say most compelling but I really liked the Criminal episode on the wolf (Wolf 10) paired with the This is Love episode on the wolf pack (episode 19). I can't always listen to Phoebe Judge due to her voice/vocal patterns but the story of those wolves was riveting. |
Anonymous
I absolutely agree about S-Town. Incredible story. I didn’t know anything about it and I ended up sobbing on the way home from work during one of the episodes I also was completely riveted by Cold, season 1 - Susan Powell. |
Anonymous
| The "You're Wrong About" episodes about Jessica Simpson. |
Anonymous
This was a good one! |
Anonymous
| Super soul conversations |
Anonymous
| S Town by a mile and I listen to a lot of podcasts. |
Anonymous
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The This American Life episode "Switched at Birth": https://www.thisamericanlife.org/360/switched-at-birth
Also TAL, Anatomy of Doubt which is the story that became the basis of the Netflix show Unbelievable. https://www.thisamericanlife.org/581/anatomy-of-doubt The first season of In the Dark about the abduction (and angled investigation) of an 11 year old in Minnesota in 1989. https://www.apmreports.org/episode/2016/09/07/in-the-dark-1 |