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Soundside

Get to know the PNW and each other.

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Seattle Now

Seattle Now is KUOW's flagship daily news podcast. Seattle Now brings you quick headlines, smart analysis, and award-winning local news. New episodes every weekday morning and afternoon. Start and end your day with Seattle Now, from KUOW and the NPR Network.

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KUOW

Week In Review

Host Bill Radke and guests make sense of the week's news. New episode every Friday.

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KUOW

Control F

Control F is a podcast about data — hard, fuzzy, surprising, and sometimes unreliable data — and all the ways it influences our daily lives. In each episode, we dig deep on a topic and search through research, algorithms, and assumptions to bring you insights on how stuff works. In a world ruled by numbers, Control F reads between the (spreadsheet) lines to find the bigger story.

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KUOW All Things Considered

Get the latest breaking news and updates on developing stories from around our region and nation with local host Kim Malcolm.

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KUOW Morning Edition

Catch up on the latest stories and analysis from right here in your neighborhood and around the nation with local host Angela King.

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KUOW Newscast

Live from KUOW in Seattle ... listen to our latest local news update. Refreshed hourly on weekdays between 6 AM and 6 PM, with NPR news updates on weekends.

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KUOW

Spectacular Specimens

A podcast for curious kids (and adults) about a collection of spectacular specimens and the stories they can tell us about life on Earth.

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KUOW

Seattle Eats with Tan Vinh

Seattle is a buffet of great food... if you know where to look. Seattle Times journalist Tan Vinh invites listeners to the area's hottest restaurants, road-side food stalls and everywhere in between to find the best meals in the city and to meet the people who make them sing. New episodes every Thursday. Thank you to the supporters of KUOW, you help make this show possible! If you want to help out, go to https://www.kuow.org/donate/seattleeatsnotes  Seattle Eats is a production of The Seattle Times and KUOW, part of the NPR Network  

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KUOW

Sound Politics

A podcast about the candidates, policies, and perspectives shaping the Pacific Northwest. Produced by KUOW in Seattle.   There’s a lot to wade through when it comes to Washington State politics. The drama, the facts, the money, and the movers and shakers. In Sound Politics KUOW host Libby Denkmann and politics reporter Scott Greenstone go beyond the ballot to guide you through what’s happening in local politics, why it matters, and how you can use your vote to make a difference.   New episodes every week.   Thank you to the supporters of KUOW, you help make this show possible! If you want to help out, go to kuow.org/donate/soundpoliticsnotes. Sound Politics is a production of KUOW in Seattle, a proud member of the NPR Network. Our editor is Catharine Smith. Our producers are Noel Gasca and Sarah Leibovitz. Our hosts are Libby Denkmann and Scott Greenstone.

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Lost Patients

Lost Patients is a six-part podcast examining the difficulties of treating serious mental illness through the lens of Seattle's past, present and future.

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Booming

Booming is a weekly podcast about the economic forces shaping our lives here in the Pacific Northwest. The Seattle area's been home to many booms over the years. It’s brought jobs, people, and wealth to the region, but also real growing pains that people here feel every day. In Booming, KUOW economy reporters Joshua McNichols and Monica Nickelsburg help listeners make sense of our ever-changing economy. We'll dig into what people are seeing or feeling and unpack the story behind it.

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KUOW

The Wild with Chris Morgan

The Wild with Chris Morgan brings stories from the natural world right to your ears in a beautifully immersive way. You’ll feel like you are right there with Chris in wild places all over the world, alongside wildlife ecologists, researchers and colorful characters on the front line.

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KUOW

Meet Me Here

Meet Me Here is your podcast guide to the most exciting arts and culture events in Seattle. In each episode, we’re fighting the freeze and meeting you around the region for art shows, concerts, author talks, geeky get-togethers, and more. There’s a lot to do in this region, so let’s make some plans and go experience it together.

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A Braver Way

Done with the divisiveness in our politics and ready to do something about it? Host Monica Guzman is joined by guests from across the political spectrum to unearth tools, insights, and messy real life stories that can guide you over the divide in your everyday life.

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An Arm and a Leg

An Arm and a Leg is a podcast about why health care costs so freaking much and what we can (maybe) do about it.

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Let the Kids Dance!

Let the Kids Dance! is a seven-part series documenting the rise and fall of Seattle's Teen Dance Ordinance — a local law that for nearly two decades made it illegal for young people to attend concerts. 

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Ghost Herd

A true story of family, fraud, land and power in the American West. Ghost Herd is a joint production of KUOW and Northwest Public Broadcasting, both members of the NPR Network. 

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RadioActive

Stories produced by students participating in our youth media program. Learn more about the intensive, fun and free introductory radio journalism workshops we offer throughout the year.

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NPR

All Things Considered

Hear KUOW and NPR award-winning hosts and reporters from around the globe present some of the nation's best reporting of the day's events, interviews, analysis and reviews.

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CBC

As It Happens

CBC's As It Happens international newsmagazine covers major stories from around the world and Canada, providing US listeners with a unique perspective on the day's news.

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WNYC Radio

Freakonomics

Host Stephen Dubner has surprising conversations that explore the riddles of everyday life and the weird wrinkles of human nature — from cheating and crime to parenting and sports.

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WHYY

Fresh Air

Fresh Air with Terry Gross, the Peabody Award-winning weekday magazine of contemporary arts and issues, is one of public radio's most popular programs.

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Here & Now

Here & Now reflects the fluid world of news as it’s happening in the middle of the day, with timely, smart and in-depth news, interviews and conversation.

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NPR

Hidden Brain

A conversation about life's unseen patterns.

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NPR

Latino USA

NPR’s only national Latino news and cultural weekly radio program.

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American Public Media

Marketplace

In-depth focus on the latest business news both nationally and internationally, the global economy, and wider events linked to the financial markets.

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NPR

Morning Edition

Every weekday for over three decades, Morning Edition has taken listeners around the country and the world with two hours of multi-faceted stories and commentaries that inform, challenge and occasionally amuse.

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NPR

On Point

On Point was born in the immediate aftermath of the attacks of 9/11, when the country was looking for answers and impatient with old certitudes. We still carry that urgency today: to test, challenge and probe.

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On The Media

Tackling sticky issues with a frankness and transparency, On The Media is a chronicle of social change, one that uses media as a lens to look at who we are and how we see ourselves.

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Radiolab

Investigating a strange world.

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WNYC Radio

Snap Judgment

Snap Judgment (storytelling, with a BEAT) mixes real stories with killer beats to produce cinematic, dramatic, kick-ass radio.

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WBEZ Chicago

Sound Opinions

Whether you're an expert or just a casual fan, Sound Opinions is your source for smart and engaging music criticism and conversation.

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TED Radio Hour

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

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The New Yorker Radio Hour

Profiles, storytelling and insightful conversations.

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This American Life

This American Life is a weekly public radio program and podcast. Each week we choose a theme and put together different kinds of stories on that theme.

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Today, Explained

Today, Explained is Vox’s award-winning daily news explainer show. Every weekday, hosts Noel King and Sean Rameswaram take on one essential news story that defines our moment, and bring listeners the context they need to understand it.

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Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!

Each week you can test your knowledge against some of the best and brightest in the news and entertainment world while figuring out what's real news and what's made up.

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NPR

Weekend Edition Saturday

Saturday mornings are made for Weekend Edition Saturday, the program wraps up the week's news and offers a mix of analysis and features on a wide range of topics, including arts, sports, entertainment, and human interest stories.

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Weekend Edition Sunday

Weekend Edition Sunday features interviews with newsmakers, artists, scientists, politicians, musicians, writers, theologians and historians.