NPR Podcasts & Shows NPR's home to showcase all of the podcasts from the NPR family. You can listen to recent episodes of your favorite podcasts and subscribe using your app of choice. Looking for more great listens? Browse our entire catalogue by topic or, on each podcast's page, discover similar podcasts.

NPR Podcasts & Shows

New and Notable

Up First NPR hide caption

toggle caption

NPR

Primaries, Biden Visits Buffalo, Elon Musk Flips on Twitter

Results are in from primary elections in five states, including heated contests in North Carolina and Pennsylvania. And Elon Musk is expressing doubts about his $44 billion deal to buy Twitter. Shell-shocked residents of Buffalo, New York are reeling from the killings and still grappling with how to feel safe again, even after President Biden's visit during which he called for unity.

Primaries, Biden Visits Buffalo, Elon Musk Flips on Twitter

Listen · 13:05 13:05

Download
Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/1099036973/1099685519" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player">

Wanyu Zhang

Wanyu Zhang

Courtesy of Amelia Schmarzo

Buy now, pay dearly?

A wave of companies that allow customers to pay for items from their favorite stores in four interest-free installments has taken over the country. But is "buy now, pay later" lending too good to be true? | Subscribe to our weekly newsletter here.

Buy now, pay dearly?

Listen · 21:27 21:27

Download
Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/1097885472/1098930630" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player">
Transcript

NPR

NPR

Papaya or Papaw (Carica papaya), cut in cross-section, Caricaceae. Getty Images hide caption

toggle caption

Getty Images

The Importance Of The Vaginal Microbiome

Today on Short Wave, researcher Fatima Aysha Hussain talks to host Emily Kwong about how microbes in the vagina can impact health and how transplanting vaginal microbiomes from one vagina to another could help people managing bacterial vaginosis.

The Importance Of The Vaginal Microbiome

Listen · 14:21 14:21

Download
Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/1098769606/1098808080" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player">
Transcript

NPR

NPR

Bad Bunny performs onstage in Miami during "The Last Tour Of The World" on April 1, 2022. AFP via Getty Images hide caption

toggle caption

AFP via Getty Images

Bad Bunny unleashes a genre-smashing summer blockbuster

Bad Bunny is one of the world's biggest pop stars and a multimedia superstar. Now, the Puerto Rican singer is back with a new record called Un Verano Sin Ti, or A Summer Without You. It's a 23-song, double-length album that sprawls across many genres, including pop, trap, reggaeton and much more — and features musical guests galore.

Bad Bunny unleashes a genre-smashing summer blockbuster

Listen · 16:52 16:52

Download
Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/1098166279/1098220689" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player">
Transcript

NPR

from Pop Culture Happy Hour

TV & Film

NPR

from Pop Culture Happy Hour

TV & Film

Business & Self Improvement

Tips, tricks, and inspiration.

NPR

Planet Money

How money shapes the world.

Investing in mediocrity

Latest · 24:32 24:32

Download
Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/1100469606/1100507071" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player">
Transcript

NPR

Life Kit

Tools to help you get it together.

Grilling is easier than you think. Here's how to start

Latest · 21:02 21:02

Download
Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/1100686034/1100710856" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player">
Transcript

The Indicator NPR hide caption

toggle caption

NPR

The Indicator from Planet Money

Quick insights into work, business, and the economy.

Why women make great bosses

Latest · 9:50 9:50

Download
Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/1101064874/1101100128" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player">

NPR

Wisdom From The Top with Guy Raz

The secrets, regrets, and wins that define modern leadership.

GAP: Mickey Drexler

Latest · 59:15 59:15

Download
Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/1099335113/1099336521" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player">

Entertainment & Comedy

It's OK to laugh.

NPR

Pop Culture Happy Hour

Daily pop cultural commentary in high spirits.

In 'Men,' the men are definitely not alright

Latest · 25:09 25:09

Download
Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/1099506418/1100827331" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player">
Transcript

Kelly Manno

Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!

Have a laugh and test your news knowledge.

Mandy Moore

Latest · 48:28 48:28

Download
Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/1099627383/1100524826" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player">

The Best of Car Talk

America's funniest mechanics take calls from car owners.

#2242: Picking an Urban Safari Vehicle

Latest · 32:23 32:23

Download
Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/1099982020/1099982061" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player">

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

Your curated guide to brilliant creators.

Listen to this Episode

Latest · 36:31 36:31

Download
Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/1100876369/1100883079" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player">

Only A Game

Weekly sports for the serious fan and the steadfast avoider.

OAG Staff Picks: Peter Sagal, Tup Holmes, Leo Ferris And More

Latest · 48:39 48:39

Download
Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/917059093/917059122" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player">

NPR

What's Good with Stretch & Bobbito

Two New York legends get into the culture.

Robert Glasper On How To Get More Young People Into Jazz

50:33

Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/669722901/669859575" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player">
Transcript

Science & Technology

Discover something new.

NPR

Invisibilia

Stories that will make you see your own life differently.

Uncomfortable with power? Tell us about it!

Latest · 0:51 0:51

Download
Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/1084226201/1084291951" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player">

NPR

Short Wave

New discoveries and everyday mysteries in 10 minutes.

Why Abortion Access Is Important For A Healthy Community

Latest · 11:42 11:42

Download
Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/1100785583/1100891567" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player">
Transcript

NPR

TED Radio Hour

Tackling big questions with the world's greatest thinkers.

Repair, Repurpose, Reimagine

Latest · 50:17 50:17

Download
Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/1100015663/1100016244" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player">

New and Notable

Primaries, Biden Visits Buffalo, Elon Musk Flips on Twitter

Buy now, pay dearly?

The Importance Of The Vaginal Microbiome

Bad Bunny unleashes a genre-smashing summer blockbuster

Exclusives

Morning Edition

Weekend Edition Saturday

Weekend Edition Sunday

All Things Considered

News & Politics

State of Ukraine

A Ukrainian medic recorded footage of her time in Mariupol — then sent it to the AP

NPR News Now

NPR News: 05-24-2022 11PM EDT

Up First

BONUS: What We Learned From Georgia Voters

Consider This from NPR

What Could A Post-Roe Future Look Like? Poland Offers A Glimpse

1A

Are Robots The Solution To Understaffed Nursing Homes?

The NPR Politics Podcast

Voters With Disabilities Worry About Their Ability To Cast Ballots In Wisconsin

Here & Now

Why the ancient Stoic philosophy is making a comeback; How to sit better

Embedded

Capital Gazette: "All Of A Sudden... It's Different"

Business & Self Improvement

Planet Money

Investing in mediocrity

Life Kit

Grilling is easier than you think. Here's how to start

The Indicator from Planet Money

Why women make great bosses

Wisdom From The Top with Guy Raz

GAP: Mickey Drexler

Society & Culture

The Limits with Jay Williams

It's Been a Minute: Danyel Smith On Black Women Who Defined Pop In 'Shine Bright'

Code Switch

How Queens became segregated: Welcome to the northside

Throughline

Before Roe: The Physicians' Crusade

Fresh Air

Comic Sarah Silverman

It's Been a Minute

Phoebe Bridgers makes her lyrics specific for a reason

Rough Translation

Listen.

NPR's Book of the Day

The debate on reforming the Supreme Court in Eric Holder's 'Our Unfinished March'

Radio Ambulante

Mónica, la primera

On Our Watch

Update: Oscar Grant and the Attorney General

No Compromise

A One-Man Propaganda Band

StoryCorps

So They're Not Forgotten

White Lies

A Dangerous Kind Of Self-Delusion

Believed

Presenting Embedded: Capital Gazette

Entertainment & Comedy

Pop Culture Happy Hour

In 'Men,' the men are definitely not alright

Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!

Mandy Moore

The Best of Car Talk

#2242: Picking an Urban Safari Vehicle

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

Listen to this Episode

Only A Game

OAG Staff Picks: Peter Sagal, Tup Holmes, Leo Ferris And More

What's Good with Stretch & Bobbito

Robert Glasper On How To Get More Young People Into Jazz

Science & Technology

Invisibilia

Uncomfortable with power? Tell us about it!

Short Wave