The Pod Files - Saturday 20 September 2025

 

The ‘casts -

(Notes spoken to Siri, and edited later if I remember

(Changed tactic now where starred dialogue denotes quoting from the show’s own notes

Cold War Conversations - 2 September 2018: *My father was the leader of the Soviet Union Part 1 - In part 1 of this interview we talk about Professor Khrushchev's early years, his relationship with his father, his father's rise to power, the 1956 Hungarian Uprising as well the first international visits accompanying his father to the UK, East Germany and the USA.

Cold War Conversations - 7 September 2018: *My father was the leader of the Soviet Union Part 2 - This is part 2 of my conversation with Professor Sergei Khrushchev the son of Nikita Khrushchev who led the Soviet Union 1953 to 1964.

Composers Datebook - 20 September 2025: Sibelius passes

Podnews Daily - 18 September 2025: *Big increase in podcast listening in Canada - Almost 20% more listening in the last year

Merriam Webster’s Word of the Day - 20 September 2025: enmity

Daily Comedy News - 20 September 2025: *Muppets, SNL, Fallon, and a Side of Monty Gastroenteritis - It's a Saturday palate cleanser on Daily Comedy News as Johnny Mac dives into the Muppets' big 50th anniversary special, previews SNL's first three hosts of season 51, and breaks down Jimmy Fallon's Ford-filled late-night experiment. Plus: Gianmarco Soresi's new special, Eric Idle's health scare, and why even Charlie Kirk would want that South Park episode to air.

StarDate - 19 September 2025: Listening to Mars

Sounds Profitable - 18 September • Ep 660 • 5 min left

Podcasting is Maturing, Canada's

Audience Growth, & More

The Stupid History Minute - 20 September 2025: The Super Friends 

DASH - Season 1 Episode 5: 3 August 2021: *Dash Season 1: The Case of the Mysterious Zita Makara Chapter 5 - Dash chases a lead to some surprising revelations. [other than the intro and outro, the episode is incredibly quiet.] 

Birdnote Daily - 27 Feb 2023: *Northern Saw-whet Owl - A Bird with a Lot to Say - For such a small owl, the Northern Saw-whet has a lot to say. And a lot of ways to say it. / Males weigh about as much as an American Robin. And they send out at least 11 different calls, including "toot-toot-toot" advertising calls, from late January through May. The rate of calling is partly determined by the nighttime temperature. And perhaps to keep other Saw-whets out of a food-rich territory, males may toot more frequently when their favorite prey, white-footed mice and deer mice, are plentiful.

Into The Podverse - 18 August 2025: *Check Edgar on Why He's Still Single: Turning Dating Misadventures into Podcast Gold - What if your dating life became your podcast? / That's exactly what Check Edgar did with Why Am I Still Single, a solo show blending comedy, confession, and raw honesty. In this episode of Into the Podverse with Tony Doe, Edgar opens up about how his romantic misadventures inspired one of Nigeria's most relatable podcasts.

New Podcasts - 16 September 2025: *Big Emotions: Kids Listen Mashups About Feelings - Big Emotions: Kids Listen Mashups is a 7-part audio adventure where creators from the Kids Listen community come together to explore feelings in all their shapes and sizes. Each episode pairs two related emotions, sharing original clips and reflections to help kids (and grownups!) understand, name, and navigate their feelings.

Add to Playlist - 4 March 2022: *Gillian Moore and Bogdan Văcărescu with ragas and folk tales - Cerys Matthews and Jeffrey Boakye are joined this week by Gillian Moore, Director of Music at London's Southbank Centre, and Romanian concert violinist Bogdan Văcrescu, to add the next five tracks to the playlist. / The studio guests serve up their usual eclectic mix, and from Mumbai we hear from one of the great voices of a classical Indian music tradition. / Presenters Cerys Matthews and Jeffrey Boakye Producer Jerome Weatherald / The five tracks in this week's playlist: Infernal Dance from The Firebird Suite by Igor Stravinsky, The Sea and Sinbad's Ship: Scheherazade by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Toxic by Britney Spears, Raga Madhuvanti by Hariprasad Chaurasia, and You're the Voice by John Farnham. 

BirdNote Daily - 28 Feb 2023: *Dreading the Terns - In June of 2022, Adé Ben-Salahuddin worked as a volunteer research assistant on a tiny island off the coast of Maine at a Common Tern breeding colony. / Every once in a while, the colony would suddenly go dead silent as all the adult terns took flight and dove over the rocky cliffs, returning soon afterward. This strange behavior is called a "dread," and sometimes occurs without a predator nearby.

It remains unclear why terns do it.

The Afternoon Tune - 8 September 2025: *THE ROSES - MOVIE REVIEW. Hello, Tune Squad! On this episode of The Afternoon Tune, the crew reviews The Roses, starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Olivia Colman. An adaptation of the classic novel War of the Roses, this film explores love, conflict, and the unraveling of a marriage.

New Podcasts - 17 September 2025: *In Deeply Driven this week, the podcast studies Kent Taylor and his Texas Roadhouse Dream - made reality by, outworking everyone, putting people before profits, and proving that "crazy" ideas, like cutting ties off in the office and treating employees like family, can build a billion-dollar brand.

Podnews Weekly Review - 19 September 2025: *Greg Glenday Reveals How Acast is Betting on Creator-First Podcasting - Al content companies defending their output as "art" despite widespread criticism from industry experts / YouTube announcing dynamically inserted sponsorship messages and Al-enabled features like speech-to-song / Greg Glenday, Acast CEO, revealing they've paid over $500 million to creators while maintaining a creator-first philosophy / Acast expanding globally with strong growth in international markets like Singapore, Mexico, and throughout Asia / ListenNotes removing over 29,000 podcast shows from its database since December as part of quality control efforts / The need for transparency in Al-generated content versus human-created podcasts / Apple Podcasts introducing new features in iOs 26 including enhanced dialogue and per-show playback speeds / Pocket Casts launching expensive advertising options at $5,000 per week for carousel ads / Various podcast apps adding support for Podcasting 2.0 features like creator-led recommendations and instant notifications. 

New Podcasts - 17 September 2025: *On 5 Daily Trivia Questions today, a themed episode about the career of Robert Redford.

7 Good Minutes - 20 July 2025: Why Self-Awareness is the Key to Living Your Best Life

BirdNote Daily - 1 Mar 2023: *Black-billed Magpie - The Black-billed Magpie is a familiar sight throughout much of the West. The magpie's bulky nest is a rough sphere of sticks nearly three feet across, with entrance ports on the sides. Take a field trip with your local Audubon and see what you can see!

New Podcasts - 19 September 2025: *Tech Tomorrow - The hit podcast is back with a bold new season, a new name, and a new host. Tech Tomorrow, formerly known as Data Today, is now fronted by David Elliman — Zühlke's Chief of Software Engineering. This season dives straight into the biggest questions in Al, data, and emerging technology - from agentic systems and open data to the rapid scale-up of breakthrough tools, Tech Tomorrow explores the innovations reshaping industries, societies, and the way we live and work.

7 Good Minutes - 20 July 2025: 7 Good Minutes: Extra - The journey to your best life begins not with...

Womanica - 23 March 2021: Lydia Pinkham

New Podcasts - 19 September 2025: *Giving Done Right - The new season of Giving Done Right arrives alongside changes in US federal policy and funding that profoundly impact both the domestic nonprofit and civil society sector as well as international aid. It has never been more urgent that donors act decisively, urgently, and wisely. This season, hosts Grace Nicolette and Phil Buchanan talk to leaders and experts across the philanthropic and nonprofit domain to shed light on the rapidly shifting landscape of need and the crucial but complex role of charitable giving in filling critical gaps.

Podnews Daily - 19 September 2025: *Episode 4,000 for Adam Carolla - His first episode came out in February 2009

Daily Life Pro Tips - 17 September 2025

Sounds Profitable - 19 September 2025: Canada's Growing Podcast Scene, Reframing Short-Form Clips, & More

New Podcasts - 19 September 2025: *Vanished: What Happened To Vanessa tells the story of Fort Hood soldier Vanessa Guillen, who was brutally murdered in 2020. / When Vanessa's family pressured the military for answers, the search for their beloved sister and daughter ignited a movement, and sparked a reckoning. Who was Vanessa Guillen? How did this strong 20-year-old soldier suddenly go missing on a military base? And why did she inspire an international movement?

TED Health - 28 June 2022: *We can make COVID-19 the last pandemic - Building a pandemic-free future won't be easy, but Bill Gates believes that we have the tools and strategies to make it possible --now we just have to fund them. In this forward-looking talk, he proposes a multi-specialty Global Epidemic Response and Mobilization (GERM) team that would detect potential outbreaks and stop them from becoming pandemics. By investing in disease monitoring, research and development as well as improved health systems, Gates believes we can "create a world where everyone has a chance to live a healthy and productive life --a life free from the fear of the next COVID-19." Join our host Shoshana after the talk as she delves into why it feels like the latest science is always changing - and why that's exactly what it's supposed to do. 

Simpsons Declassified with Nancy Cartwright - 16 September 2025: *Introducing Simpsons Declassified with Nancy Cartwright - Simpsons fans -THE VAULT IS OPEN! / I'm Nancy Cartwright, the voice of Bart Simpson for 35+ years, and I'm finally taking you inside Springfield. Simpsons Declassified is your all-access pass to the world's most iconic, animated series. / Each week, we crack open wild predictions, eerie coincidences and fan conspiracies and stories from 36 seasons (that's 800+ episodes!) behind-the-scenes with writers, directors, the cast and celebrity superfans, PLUS...Simpsons-themed games - play along and test your Springfield IQ. / Hear exclusive stories from our guests who were there. Perhaps some scenes that almost never aired, the jokes that died, the ones that lived and the moments that still shock me at the mic. / Produced and showrun by Monica Gil-Rodriguez. From Audacy Podcasts and CRE84U Entertainment.

7 Minutes For Yourself - 21 Apr 2024: Curating the Ideal Self-Care Ritual

What Are We Even Doing? with Kyle MacLachlan - 10 September 2025: *Introducing: What Are We Even Doing? with Kyle MacLachlan - Join award-winning actor and social media madman Kyle MacLachlan on "What Are We Even Doing," where he sits down with Millennial and Gen Z actors, musicians, artists, and content creators to share stories about the entertainment industry past, present, and future. Kyle and his guests will talk shop, compare notes on life, and generally be weird together. In a good way. / Their conversations will resonate with listeners of any age whose interests lie in television & film, music, art, or pop culture.

Science Quickly - 3 Nov 2014: *Button Battery Coating Lessens Risk If Swallowed - Thousands of small children swallow tiny batteries each year. A new battery coating could protect kids from internal burns and still allow the batteries to work. Cynthia Graber reports. 

BirdNote Daily - 2 Mar 2023: *Diving Birds Are Dense - While many birds have hollow bones that make flying a breeze, diving birds are built differently. The bones of divers such as Common Loons are denser than those of songbirds and other expert fliers. With a lightweight skeleton, they'd be too buoyant to dive and chase fish. Instead, loons can kick their powerful legs and webbed feet to swim 200 feet or more underwater!

Arsenic Culture - season 4 episode 140: 17 September 2025: *Are Food and Drink Pairings Real or BS? -  Ever been told your bourbon has to go with steak, or that wine magically pairs with cheese? Is there real science behind food and drink pairings, or is it just pretentious BS? / In this episode of Arsenic Culture, Matt, Jason, and Drew dig into the culture of pairings: from restaurants selling "perfect matches" to the sensory science (taste, smell, texture) that might actually make it legit. Plus, their favorite (and strangest) pairings, like bourbon and Oreos.