80 Best Storytelling Podcasts

1. The Audio Long Read

The Audio Long Read podcast is a selection of the Guardian's long reads, giving you the opportunity to get on with your day while listening to some of the finest journalism the Guardian has to offer, including in-depth writing from around the world on immigration, crime, business, the arts and much more
Podcast theguardian.com
Email ****@theguardian.com
Apple Rating 4.6 / 5Facebook Followers 8.5MTwitter Followers 10.1MInstagram Followers 5.8M Frequency 3 episodes / week Avg Length 37 min Listen on Apple Spotify Play Get Email Contact Get Influential Podcasters ContactsGet access to 100k active Podcasters, Influencers in 1500 niche categories.Get targeted media contact list in your niche at your fingertips so you can focus on running your campaign.Email us the categories of Podcasters you want to reach out for your marketing campaign at anuj@feedspot.com Copy email. We'll share active Podcasters list with verified email contacts in an Excel or CSV format.Email us

2. Serial

Serial Productions makes narrative podcasts whose quality and innovation transformed the medium. 'Serial' began in 2014 as a spinoff of the public radio show 'This American Life.' In 2020, we joined the New York Times Company. Our shows have reached many millions of listeners and have won nearly every major journalism award for audio, including the first-ever Peabody Award given to a podcast.
Podcast podcasts.apple.com
Host Sarah Koenig
Email ****@serialpodcast.org
Apple Rating 4.5 / 5Facebook Followers 427.5KTwitter Followers 318.6KInstagram Followers 56.7K Frequency 9 episodes / quarter Avg Length 51 min Since Oct 2013 Listen on Spotify YouTube Play Get Email Contact

3. Beautiful Stories From Anonymous People

1 phone call. 1 hour. No names. No holds barred. That's the premise behind Beautiful Stories from Anonymous People, hosted by comedian Chris Gethard. Every week, Chris opens the phone line to one anonymous caller, and he can't hang up first, no matter what. From shocking confessions and family secrets to philosophical discussions and shameless self-promotion, anything can and will happen! Theme song by Shellshag.
Podcast podcasts.apple.com
Host Chris Gethard
Email ****@gmail.com
Apple Rating 4.8 / 5 Frequency 1 episode / week Avg Length 81 min Listen on YouTube Play Get Email Contact

4. Lore

The award-winning podcast (also a TV show & book series) about dark historical tales. Each episode explores the mysterious creatures, tragic events, and unusual places that fill the pages of history. Because sometimes the truth is more frightening than fiction.
Podcast lorepodcast.com
Host Aaron Mahnke
Email ****@lorepodcast.com
Apple Rating 4.6 / 5Facebook Followers 78.2KTwitter Followers 70.8KInstagram Followers 85.8K Frequency 1 episode / week Avg Length 27 min Listen on Apple Spotify YouTube Play Get Email Contact

5. Seriously...

Seriously is home to the world's best audio documentaries and podcast recommendations, and host Vanessa Kisuule brings you two fascinating new episodes every week.
Podcast bbc.co.uk
Host Vanessa Kisuule
Email ****@bbc.co.uk
Apple Rating 4.3 / 5Facebook Followers 61.2MTwitter Followers 34M Frequency 1 episode / week Avg Length 30 min Since Dec 2015 Listen on Apple Play Get Email Contact

6. Casefile True Crime

Fact is scarier than fiction. Subscribe to Casefile Premium to receive ad-free episodes released one week early, along with access to bonus Q&A's, our exclusive show 'Behind the Files', and more.
Podcast audioboom.com
Host Casey
Email ****@casefilepodcast.com
Apple Rating 4.7 / 5Facebook Followers 71.6KTwitter Followers 51KInstagram Followers 78.4K Frequency 1 episode / week Avg Length 57 min Since Jan 2016 Listen on Apple YouTube Play Get Email Contact

7. Revisionist History Podcast

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.
Podcast pushkin.fm
Host Malcolm Gladwell
Email ****@pushkin.fm
Apple Rating 4.7 / 5Facebook Followers 848.9KTwitter Followers 724.2KInstagram Followers 256.5K Frequency 2 episodes / week Avg Length 38 min Since May 2016 Listen on Apple YouTube Play Get Email Contact

8. RISK!

If you like The Moth, This American Life, or Snap Judgment, take a walk on the wilder side with RISK! Your colorful host Kevin Allison (of the legendary comedy group The State) helms this surprisingly uncensored show where people tell jaw-dropping true stories they never thought they'd dare to share in public. RISK! is hilarious, heart-wrenching, and remarkably real. Think you've heard it all? Fasten your seatbelt.
Podcast omny.fm
Host Kevin Allison
Email ****@risk-show.com
Apple Rating 4.6 / 5Facebook Followers 14.6KTwitter Followers 9.9K Frequency 2 episodes / week Avg Length 44 min Listen on Apple YouTube Play Get Email Contact

9. LeVar Burton Reads

The best short fiction, handpicked by the world's greatest storyteller. In every episode, host LeVar Burton (Reading Rainbow, Roots, Star Trek) invites you to take a break from your daily life, and dive into a great story. LeVar's narration blends with gorgeous soundscapes to bring stories by Neil Gaiman, Haruki Murakami, Octavia Butler, Ray Bradbury and more to life.
Podcast podcasts.apple.com
Host LeVar Burton
Email ****@gmail.com
Apple Rating 4.9 / 5Facebook Followers 18.4KTwitter Followers 1.9MInstagram Followers 389.2K Frequency 6 episodes / quarter Avg Length 43 min Listen on YouTube Play Get Email Contact

10. Longform

Interviews with writers, journalists, filmmakers, and podcasters about how they do their work. Hosted by Aaron Lammer, Max Linsky, and Evan Ratliff.
Podcast longform.org
Hosts Aaron Lammer, Max Linsky, Evan Ratliff
Email ****@longform.org
Apple Rating 4.6 / 5Facebook Followers 21.6KTwitter Followers 221.5K Frequency 6 episodes / month Avg Length 50 min Listen on Apple Play Get Email Contact

11. Better Call Daddy

Reena loves a story, and she's fascinated by the people behind them. She loves to bring stories to life. Her appetite for storytelling has taken her from the Jerry Springer Show to the legal drama of the courtroom. From influential players to reality stars, nothing is censored here. Reena interviews people whose stories haven't been told, at least not through her unique lens, and then gets daddy's advice afterward like a good daughter does.
Podcast bettercalldaddy.com
Host Reena Friedman Watts
Email ****@gmail.com
Apple Rating 5 / 5Facebook Followers 1.1KInstagram Followers 1.8K Frequency 1 episode / week Avg Length 58 min Listen on Apple YouTube Play Get Email Contact

12. Myths and Legends

Jason Weiser tells stories from myths, legends, and folklore that have shaped cultures throughout history. Some, like the stories of Aladdin, King Arthur, and Hercules are stories you think you know, but with surprising origins. Others are stories you might not have heard, but really should. All the stories are sourced from world folklore, but retold for modern ears. These are stories of wizards, knights, Vikings, dragons, princesses, and kings from the time when the world beyond the map was a dangerous and wonderful place.
Podcast mythpodcast.com
Hosts Carissa Weiser, Jason Weiser, Nextpod
Email ****@bardic.fm
Apple Rating 4.8 / 5Facebook Followers 15KTwitter Followers 18.1KInstagram Followers 10.5K Frequency 1 episode / week Avg Length 43 min Listen on Apple YouTube Play Get Email Contact

13. Selected Shorts

Our greatest actors transport us through the magic of fiction, one short story at a time. Sometimes funny. Always moving. Selected Shorts connects you to the world with a rich diversity of voices from literature, film, theater, and comedy.
Podcast symphonyspace.org
Email ****@symphonyspace.org
Apple Rating 4.4 / 5Facebook Followers 21.9KTwitter Followers 10.9KInstagram Followers 9.4K Frequency 1 episode / month Avg Length 49 min Since Jan 2021 Listen on Apple YouTube Play Get Email Contact

14. Here Be Tygers

Beyond the stories that we write to *sell*, there are three fundamental tales in work, play, and life that we *tell*: who you are (and what you create), why people come to you, and where you'll help them arrive. Hosted by a professional writer, strategist, and storytelling guide, Jarod Cerf, Here Be Tygers follows creatives and entrepreneurs alike, those who 'take life by the tale': as they reach out to their market, audience, or tribe; connect what they make to what we want out of life; and discover the trust, impact or legacy that provides.
Podcast podcasters.spotify.com
Host Jarod Cerf
Email ****@herebetygers.com
Apple Rating 5 / 5Twitter Followers 560 Frequency 1 episode / month Avg Length 61 min Since Feb 2018 Listen on Apple Play Get Email Contact

15. Documentary on One Podcast

Multi award winning documentaries from Ireland telling real life stories. With over 1,800 documentaries on offer, the Documentary On One Podcast has the largest archive of documentaries available in the world, dating as far back as 1954, right up to the present day. Winner of over 340 national and international awards. Latest podcast series, 'The Nobody Zone'. Immerse yourself in a world of sound, story and character.
Podcast play.acast.com
Email ****@rte.ie
Apple Rating 4.5 / 5Facebook Followers 29.9K Frequency 1 episode / week Avg Length 36 min Listen on Apple Play Get Email Contact

16. Stories Fables Ghostly Tales Podcast

650 Episodes of Advert free storytelling, three times a week! Supported by lovely listeners the Tale Teller brings you a mixed bag of horror, fantasy, sci-fi, custom remastered old time radio stories, folk tales, true crime, and plenty more from different fiction genre's. The Stories Fables Ghostly Tales Podcast has something for everyone.
Podcast storiesfablesghostlytales.com
Email ****@gmail.com
Apple Rating 4.7 / 5Facebook Followers 1.2KTwitter Followers 608Instagram Followers 651 Frequency 1 episode / week Avg Length 48 min Since Dec 2017 Listen on Apple YouTube Play Get Email Contact

17. Short Cuts

Short documentaries and adventures in sound presented by Josie Long.
Podcast bbc.co.uk
Host Josie Long
Email ****@bbc.co.uk
Apple Rating 4.8 / 5Facebook Followers 5.7MTwitter Followers 1.9MInstagram Followers 5.4M Frequency 2 episodes / month Avg Length 30 min Since Jun 2013 Listen on Apple Play Get Email Contact

18. Magic Island Storytelling Theatre

Storyteller & audio dramatist Marty Ross (BBC, Audible, Wireless Theatre, Big Finish, Kisses In The Dark podcast) presents and performs a series of magical, mysterious and sometimes creepy tales from the Scottish Isle of Arran, where he lives, in a series of shows that started life as presentations for his weekly show Winter's Tales on ArranSound radio. Listeners have requested the chance to listen to the stories over and above their twice weekly broadcasts. So here they are!
Podcast podcasters.spotify.com
Host Marty Ross
Apple Rating 5 / 5Twitter Followers 1.8K Frequency 1 episode / month Avg Length 42 min Since Feb 2021 Listen on Apple Play Get Email Contact

19. Modern Love

For 20 years, the Modern Love column has given New York Times readers a glimpse into the complicated love lives of real people. Since its start, the column has evolved into a TV show, three books and a podcast.Each week, host Anna Martin brings you stories and conversations about love in all its glorious permutations, dumb pitfalls and life-changing moments. New episodes every Wednesday.Listen to this podcast in New York Times Audio, our new iOS app for news subscribers. Download now at nytimes.com/audioapp
Podcast nytimes.com
Host Anna Martin
Email ****@nytimes.com
Apple Rating 4.3 / 5Facebook Followers 253.3KTwitter Followers 11.1KInstagram Followers 62.7K Frequency 8 episodes / quarter Avg Length 27 min Since Dec 2015 Listen on Apple YouTube Play Get Email Contact

20. The Write and Wrong Podcast

A podcast for writers, storytellers and creatives. Every episode we catch up with amazing guests from across the world of professional storytelling. Authors, agents, directors, game devs, editors, journalists, screenwriters and everything in between!
Podcast writeandwrong.co.uk
Host Jamie Greenwood
Email ****@gmail.com
Apple Rating 4.9 / 5Twitter Followers 853Instagram Followers 736 Frequency 1 episode / week Avg Length 34 min Listen on Apple YouTube Play Get Email Contact

21. Terrible, Thanks For Asking Podcast

You know how when someone asks 'How are you?' you just say 'Fine,' even if you're totally dying inside, so everyone can go about their day? 'Terrible, Thanks For Asking' is the opposite of that. Nora McInerny asks real people to share their complicated and honest feelings about how they really are. It's sometimes sad, sometimes funny, and often both. From American Public Media.
Podcast ttfa.org
Host Nora McInerny
Email ****@americanpublicmedia.org
Apple Rating 4.7 / 5Facebook Followers 44.7KTwitter Followers 15.8KInstagram Followers 72.8K Frequency 2 episodes / month Avg Length 38 min Since Nov 2016 Listen on Apple YouTube Play Get Email Contact

22. Conversations

Spend an hour in someone else's life. 'Conversations with Richard Fidler' draws you deeper into the life story of someone you may have heard about but never met.
Podcast abc.net.au
Host Richard Fidler
Email ****@your.abc.net.au
Facebook Followers 43.8KTwitter Followers 18.1K Frequency 1 episode / day Avg Length 50 min Listen on YouTube Play Get Email Contact

23. Dear Sugars

The universe has good news for the lost, lonely and heartsick. '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.
Podcast wbur.org
Hosts Cheryl Strayed, Steve Almond
Email ****@nytimes.com
Apple Rating 4.5 / 5Twitter Followers 8.9KInstagram Followers 36.2K Frequency 1 episode / month Avg Length 37 min Listen on Apple YouTube Play Get Email Contact

24. The Game On Glio Podcast

Game On Glio, a third-season media platform, tells the stories of those diagnosed with brain cancers like Glioblastoma. The show explores grief, loss, brain cancer education, and provides inspiration, hope, second chances. Guests include caregivers, scientists, therapists, patients, widows(ers), non-profits, personalities, and authors. The mission is to provide a voice to those in need, educate and advocate for brain cancers, and remind people that second chances exist. Host-- Shannon Traphagen.
Podcast thegameongliopodcast.com
Host Shannon Traphagen
Email ****@gmail.com
Apple Rating 4.9 / 5Facebook Followers 6.9KInstagram Followers 22.8K Frequency 1 episode / month Avg Length 59 min Listen on Apple Spotify YouTube Play Get Email Contact

25. Forward Into the Past

Narrating classic tales of suspense, mystery, Sci-Fi and fiction, J.C. Rede lends his voice to the past to bring these stories into the future. All of the stories featured in Forward Into the Past were originally written as featured stories in various Dime Novels, Story Papers and Magazines of the late 1890s to the early 1930s. In the mid to late 1930s, Dime Novels began to shift in tone, but still continued through the early 1950s. Most of the focus on this podcast will be from the early stages of the Dime Novel (1890-1930)
Podcast forwardintothepast.buzzsprout.com
Host J.C. Rede
Email ****@gmail.com
Apple Rating 5 / 5Facebook Followers 93Instagram Followers 118 Frequency 2 episodes / month Avg Length 33 min Listen on Apple Play Get Email Contact

26. The Moth Podcast

The Moth has presented thousands of true stories, told live and without notes, to standing-room-only crowds worldwide. Moth storytellers stand alone, under a spotlight, with only a microphone and a roomful of strangers. The storyteller and the audience embark on a high-wire act of shared experience which is both terrifying and exhilarating. Since 2008, the Moth Podcast features stories from our Mainstage, StorySLAM and Community programs.
Podcast themoth.org
Email ****@themoth.org
Facebook Followers 361.3KTwitter Followers 98.2KInstagram Followers 449.6K Frequency 2 episodes / week Avg Length 44 min Since Mar 2008 Listen on Apple YouTube Play Get Email Contact

27. Radio Diaries

First-person diaries, sound portraits, and hidden chapters of history from Peabody Award-winning producer Joe Richman and the Radio Diaries team. From teenagers to octogenarians, prisoners to prison guards, bra saleswomen to lighthouse keepers.
Podcast radiodiaries.org
Email ****@radiodiaries.org
Apple Rating 4.6 / 5Facebook Followers 12.4KTwitter Followers 12.2K Frequency 1 episode / month Avg Length 26 min Listen on Apple YouTube Play Get Email Contact

28. Welcome to Night Vale

Twice-monthly community updates for the small desert town of Night Vale, where every conspiracy theory is true. Turn on your radio and hide. Never listened before? It's an ongoing radio show. Start with the current episode, and you'll catch on in no time. Or, go right to Episode 1 if you wanna binge-listen.
Podcast play.prx.org
Email ****@welcometonightvale.com
Apple Rating 4.8 / 5Facebook Followers 341.4KTwitter Followers 351.7KInstagram Followers 96.6K Frequency 4 episodes / quarter Avg Length 25 min Since Jun 2012 Listen on Apple Spotify YouTube Play Get Email Contact

29. Future of StoryTelling

The Future of StoryTelling is a passionate community of people from the worlds of media, technology, and communications who explore how storytelling is evolving in the digital age. Each year we host a two-day summit in New York City that brings together top executives, world-renowned creatives, and cutting-edge technologists to have conversations about the changing landscape of media. During the course of the podcast, we will be releasing a series of conversations between FoST founder and director Charlie Melcher.
Podcast future-of-storytelling.simplecast.com
Email ****@futureofstorytelling.org
Apple Rating 3.9 / 5Facebook Followers 33.7KTwitter Followers 11.1KInstagram Followers 12.5K Frequency 1 episode / month Avg Length 36 min Listen on Apple YouTube Play Get Email Contact

30. Ear Hustle

Ear Hustle, from Radiotopia, brings you stories of life inside prison, shared and produced by those living it. The podcast is a partnership between Earlonne Woods and Antwan Williams, currently incarcerated at San Quentin State Prison, and Nigel Poor, a Bay Area artist. The team works in San Quentin's media lab to produce stories that are sometimes difficult, often funny, and always honest, offering a nuanced view of people living within the American prison system.
Podcast earhustlesq.com
Email ****@earhustlesq.com
Apple Rating 4.9 / 5Facebook Followers 29.1KTwitter Followers 21.7KInstagram Followers 71.9K Frequency 1 episode / day Since Mar 2017 Listen on Apple YouTube Get Email Contact