Podcasts to expand your mind

Every weekday, TED Talks Daily brings you the latest talks in audio. Join host and journalist Elise Hu for thought-provoking ideas on every subject imaginable.

Discover the hidden side of everything with Stephen J. Dubner. Freakonomics Radio tells you things you always thought you knew and things you never thought you wanted to know.

Science Vs is your team of friendly fact checkers that blow up your firmly held opinions and replace them with science. Wondering whether you should drink detox teas...

Flash Forward is a podcast about the future. Each episode we take on a possible future scenario — everything from the existence of artificial wombs, to what would happen if space pirates..

HBR Idea Cast is a weekly podcast produced by the Harvard Business Review which features the leading thinkers in business and management.

In Hidden Brain, Shankar Vedantam uses science and storytelling to reveal the unconscious patterns that drive human behaviour.

The TED Radio Hour is a narrative journey through fascinating ideas, astonishing inventions, and fresh approaches to old problems.

Invisibilia—Latin for invisible things—fuses narrative storytelling with science that will make you see your own life differently.

A lot of Radio New Zealand's programming is available as a podcast. Including Red Line, Crimes NZ, Our Changing World, The Detail, Generation COVID, Ake Ake Ake, and Eyewitness.

Radiolab is an investigation told through sounds and stories, and centred around one big idea. In the Radiolab world, information sounds like music and science and culture collide.

No such thing as a fish is a weekly podcast series produced and presented by the researchers behind the BBC Two panel game QI. In it each of the researchers present their favourite fact that they have come across.

Build for Tomorrow is a show about the crazy, curious things from history that shaped us, and how we can shape the future. Each episode is deeply researched, fast-paced, funny, and aims to answer big questions.

In More or Less: Behind the Statistics, Tim Harford and the More or Less team try to make sense of the statistics which surround us. From BBC Radio 4

You Are Not So Smart is a show about psychology that celebrates science and self delusion, e.g. reasoning, biases, judgments, and decision-making.

The Infinite Monkey Cage is a witty, irreverent look at the world through scientists' eyes. With Brian Cox and Robin Ince.