Listening Room
We don’t use a reading list, rather, the playlist below includes many of our favorite podcasts.
| Podcast | Description | Style |
|---|---|---|
| Praxis and Pedagogy | Philosophy Pedagogy Praxis (practice) |
Education |
| Terry Greene’s Getting Air | Terry Greene as he and his guests get some air time to discuss technology-enabled and open learning practices in Post-Secondary Education | Education |
| How I Built This | Guy Raz dives into the stories behind some of the world’s best known companies | Economics |
| Dear Sugar | “Dear Sugars” is here, speaking straight into your ears. Hosted by the original “Sugars,” Cheryl Strayed and Steve Almond, the podcast fields all your questions — no matter how deep or dark — and offers radical empathy in return. | Social Issues |
| Secret Feminist Agenda | Secret Feminist Agenda is a weekly podcast about the insidious, nefarious, insurgent, and mundane ways we enact our feminism in our daily lives. Hosted by academic and podcaster Hannah McGregor. | Social Issues |
| Sleepover with Sook-Yin Lee | Sleepover takes us inside an unusual social encounter, where three complete strangers agree to meet in different places—from a highrise condo to an island yurt—for an evening, night, and morning together. | True Stories |
| Revisionist History | Revisionist History is Malcolm Gladwell’s journey through the overlooked and the misunderstood. Every episode re-examines something from the past — an event, a person, an idea, even a song — and asks whether we got it right the first time. Because sometimes the past deserves a second chance. | History |
| Disgraceland | ||
| Finding Cleo | True Crime | |
| The Current (CBC) | ||
| Dolly Parton’s America | ||
| No Place Like Home | Climate Change | |
| The Village | Gender Issues | |
| Gender Reveal | Gender Issues | |
| Metis In Space | Pop Culture | |
| We Can Do Hard Things | ||
| On Being with Krista Tippett | Self Improvement | |
| Hear to Slay | Black Feminisim | |
| How To Save A Planet | Climate Change | |
| Spooked | Storytelling | |
| Lore | Storytelling | |
| Haunted Canada | True Life Stories | |
| Hardcore History | History | |
| The History of Byzantium | History | |
| Byzantium and Friends | History | |
| Rogue History | History | |
| The Daily | News | |
| Political Gabfest | Politics | |
| On The Media | Social Issues | |
| Vox Conversations | Social Issues | |
| This American Life” | Social Issues | |
| Conversations With Tyler | Social Issues | |
| The Ezra Klein Show | Social Issues | |
| Hidden Brain | Social Issues | |
| 99% Invisible | Social Issues | |
| Stuff the British Stole | History | |
| You’re Wrong About | Social Issues | |
| Death, Sex & Money | Social Issues | |
| Ear Hustle | Life in Prison | True Stories |
| Ten Percent Happier | Social Issues | |
| Criminal | True Crime | |
| Everything is Alive | Interviews with Inanimate Objects | Storytelling |
| Pop Culture Happy Hour | Pop Culture | |
| Home Cooking | Cooking | |
| Transom | ||
| The Documentary (BBC) | Social Issues | |
| Death in the Afternoon | All Things Death | Social Issues |
| The Big Story | Canadian News, Culture and Issues | Social Issues |
| Quick Question | Pop Culture | |
| Just Sustainability | Social Issues | |
| Philosophy Bites | Social Issues | |
| Oh Witch Please! | Harry Potter | Pop Culture |
| Friendshipping | a feel-good advice newsletter about making friends | Social Issues |
| Radiolab | ||
| Serial | True Crime | |
| Life Jolt | CBC Woman in Prison | True Stories |
| framework radio | Field Recordings and Sound Experiments | Experimental |
| This Land | custody battle over Native children | Social Issues |
| Louder Than a Riot | Rhyme and punishment go hand in hand in America. Louder Than A Riot reveals the interconnected rise of hip-hop and mass incarceration. | Social Issues |
| The Contrafabulists | Social Issues | |
| Being Present with a Microphone | ||
| Cultivating Place | Nature | |
| Outside/In | Nature | |
| Ologies | Comedic Science | Social Issues |
| S-Town | ||
| Walking | Jon Mooallem’s Walking podcast | Experimental |
| thebeerists | Deep dive into craft beer | Pop Culture |
| Hello From The Magic Tavern | Ongoing tale of an earth man in fantasy world. Created by terrific Chicago improv actors | Pop Culture |
| Science VS | Science VS… | Social Issues |
| Think Like an Economist | Economics | |
| EconTalk | Economics | |
| Inquiring Minds | Social Issues | |
| HBR Idea Cast | Economics | |
| LSE Public | Economics | |
| The Drive | Social Issues | |
| SVPod | Sports | |
| Throughline | History | |
| Ludic Pedagogy | Teaching and Learning | |
| The Experiment | Social Issues | |
| Business Wars | Economics | |
| Planet Money | Economics | |
| American History Tellers | History | |
| Scientology: Fair Game | True Crime | |
| Somebody Knows Something | CBC | True Crime |
| Canadaland | Social Issues | |
| TED Talks Daily | Social Issues | |
| Cool Canadian History | History | |
| Stuff You Should Know | Social Issues | |
| The Worst Idea of All Time | Two New Zealanders watch the same film every week for a year | Pop Culture |
| SModcast | Kevin Smith and Friends | Pop Culture |
| Our Debut Album | Pop Culture | |
| Personal Best | CBC | Self Improvement |
| Mystery Show | Starlees solves a mystery | |
| Song Exploder | Deep dive into one song by the artist | Pop Culture |
| Office Ladies | Jenna Fischer and Angela Kinsey talk about their time on the office | Pop Culture |
| My Favorite Murder | True Crime | |
| Canadaland Short Cuts | ||
| Unerased | Deportation of Adoptees | Social Issues |
| American Queer | Social Issues | |
| Stuff You Missed in History Class | History | |
| The Art of Asking Everything | Social Issues | |
| Kameo | Interviews with Kamloopsians by Nevin Webster | True Stories |
| Ongoing History of New Music | History of Music | History |
| Bear Brook | True Crime | |
| Sacred Scandal | True Crime | |
| Bechdel Cast | Portrayal of Woman in Movies | Pop Culture |
| Rumble | Michale Moore | Social Issues |
| Smartless | Jason Batemen, Sean Hayes, Wil Arnett with new guest every week. | Pop Culture |
| Welcome to Our Show | Breakdown of the sitcom New Girl by the cast | Pop Culture |
| Beyond the X’s and O’s | Sports | |
| Andraste’s Gadfly | Graduate of Podcast Master Class |
