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24 alternatives to The Podcast History of our World

4000 years of history in an entertaining format.

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. The Podcast History of our World launched in 2016; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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The Story Behind▲5
A short-form, narrative history podcast
2017 · its alternatives →
2BI
BBC “In Our Time”, categorised by Dewey Decimal, heavy lifting by GPT▲688
I'm a big fan of the BBC podcast In Our Time -- and (like most people) I've been playing with the OpenAI APIs. In Our Time has almost 1,000 episodes on everything from Cleopatra to the evolution of teeth to plasma physics, all still available, so it's my starting point to learn about most topics. But it's not well organised. So here are the episodes sorted by library code. It's fun to explore. Web scraping is usually pretty tedious, but I found that I could send the minimised HTML to GPT-3 and get (almost) perfect JSON back: the prompt includes the Typescript definition. At the same time I…
2023 · genmon.github.io · its alternatives →
3
Parasocial▲204
Listening to podcasts should be a joy. So let's get started.
24d ago · parasocial.fm · its alternatives →
4
Inside Podcasting▲126
Curating the resurgence of the spoken word
2017 · its alternatives →
5
Planet Money▲153
A podcast covering the global economy
2014 · its alternatives →
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Hardcore History▲158
Dan Carlin's Hardcore History podcast
2014 · its alternatives →
7
Serial Podcast▲177
From This American Life, follow 1 story over a whole season
2014 · its alternatives →
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Internet History Podcast #124- Founder of ReadWriteWeb, Richard MacManus▲56
Building a blog empire from New Zealand.
2016 · its alternatives →
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Tung▲96
A social podcast player
2016 · its alternatives →
10
The Podglomerate▲70
A hybrid podcast network and production house
2017 · its alternatives →
11
Longform Podcast▲78
A weekly conversation with a non-fiction writer or editor.
2014 · its alternatives →
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We built an open source app to visualize data from Serial Podcast▲22
2015 · anylytics.io · its alternatives →
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The Podcast Universe▲111
Visualization of podcast networks
2015 · its alternatives →
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a16z - A podcast about podcasts▲140
Discussing podcast discovery & community w/ PH & Roman Mars
2015 · its alternatives →
153H
30+ hours of curated interviews and podcasts▲29
2017 · fs4s.net · its alternatives →
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Remarks▲128
Discuss a podcast while you listen
2016 · its alternatives →
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3W6 – Rollenspiele und Superhelden▲60
A Biweekly German Podcast About RPGs and Storytelling
2016 · its alternatives →
18
Intelligence Squared▲74
A podcast of Oxford-style debates on complex topics
2015 · its alternatives →
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Internet History Podcast - CompuServe Founder Jeff Wilkins▲53
Founder of CompuServe Jeff Wilkins
2016 · its alternatives →
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The Probe #1: The Teaser▲65
Satirical take on popular magazine-style news podcasts
2016 · its alternatives →
21
With her - Ep 1: "Hi, Hillary"▲101
The first episode of Hillary Clinton's podcast series
2016 · its alternatives →
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Internet History Podcast #119 - The History of Slate With Julia Turner and Jacob Weisberg▲52
Celebrating 20 years of the pioneering digital publication
2016 · its alternatives →
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Talking Code – Technical podcast for nontechnical people▲45
2015 · talkingcode.com · its alternatives →
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Revisionist History Podcast by Malcolm Gladwell: Ep 10▲62
The Satire Paradox
2016 · its alternatives →

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