Overheard at National Geographic

By National Geographic

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Mort
 Feb 6, 2023
Even when I suspect I won't enjoy the subject, I almost always enjoy a great deal. Love the music too. I digitally subscribed to NatGeo because of this podcast.


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Come dive into one of the curiously delightful conversations overheard at National Geographic’s headquarters, as we follow explorers, photographers, and scientists to the edges of our big, weird, beautiful world. Hosted by Peter Gwin and Amy Briggs.

Episode Date
Trapped in the icy waters of the Northwest Passage
Jul 11, 2023
Playback: Modern Lives, Ancient Caves
Jul 04, 2023
Playback: This Indigenous Practice Fights Fire with Fire
Jun 27, 2023
Playback: Rooting, from Into the Depths
Jun 20, 2023
Playback: Ancient Orchestra
Jun 13, 2023
Playback: A Skeptic's Guide to Loving Bats
Jun 06, 2023
How queer identity shapes Nat Geo Explorers
May 30, 2023
A Mexican Wolf Pup’s Journey into the Wild
May 23, 2023
Playback: Deep Inside the First Wilderness
May 16, 2023
She Sails the Seas Without Maps or Compasses
May 09, 2023
How Anne Frank’s Diary Survived
May 02, 2023
The Dark Reality Behind India’s Festival Elephants
Apr 25, 2023
What Will it Take to Save the Savanna Elephant?
Apr 18, 2023
The Woman Who Knows What Elephants Are Saying
Apr 11, 2023
Exploring Ramadan and Earthlike Exoplanets
Apr 04, 2023
From the Frontlines to the Shorelines
Mar 28, 2023
Can You Picture That? This Photographer Can and Does
Mar 21, 2023
Scenes from Nigeria's Baby Boom
Mar 14, 2023
What Women in China Want
Mar 07, 2023
The Soul of Music: Meklit Hadero tells stories of migration
Feb 28, 2023
The Soul of Music: Exploring Chief Xian's ancestral memory
Feb 21, 2023
The Soul of Music: Sampa The Great returns to her roots
Feb 14, 2023
The Soul of Music: Rhiannon Giddens excavates the past
Feb 07, 2023
Introducing: The Soul of Music
Feb 02, 2023
Unfolding the Future of Origami
Jan 31, 2023
What Happens After You Uncover Buried History?
Jan 24, 2023
The People and Tech That Power Nat Geo
Jan 17, 2023
Meet an Imagineer Who Built a Wish
Jan 10, 2023
How Sharks Devoured My Career
Jan 03, 2023
The Nurse Keeping Explorers Alive
Dec 27, 2022
What Science Tells Us About Living Longer
Dec 20, 2022
Presenting: ESPN's "Pink Card"
Dec 13, 2022
The People Behind the Photography
Dec 06, 2022
There’s a Bear in My Backyard
Nov 29, 2022
Playback: The Real-Life MacGyver in Nat Geo's Basement
Nov 22, 2022
Pictures of the Year
Nov 15, 2022
Who Inspired Wakanda's Warrior Women?
Nov 08, 2022
Wayfinding Through the Human Genome
Nov 01, 2022
Presenting: Greeking Out by National Geographic Kids
Oct 25, 2022
The Hole Where King Tut’s Heart Used to Be
Oct 18, 2022
Exploring Pristine Seas
Oct 11, 2022
What the Ice Gets, the Ice Keeps
Oct 04, 2022
What You Do Counts
Sep 27, 2022
Searching for a Butterfly in a Conflict Zone
Sep 20, 2022
A Man of the World
Sep 13, 2022
Inside the Epic World of Bertie Gregory
Sep 06, 2022
Playback: Why War Zones Need Science Too
Aug 30, 2022
The Problem With Superchickens
Aug 23, 2022
What It Takes to Keep America Beautiful
Aug 16, 2022
The Triumph and Tragedy of Indian Independence
Aug 09, 2022
Frank Drake’s Cosmic Road Map
Aug 02, 2022
Playback: Amelia Earhart Part II: The Lady’s Legacy
Jul 28, 2022
Harnessing the Power of Yellowstone’s Supervolcano
Jul 26, 2022
Stonehenge Has a Traffic Problem
Jul 19, 2022
Do Shark Stories Help Sharks?
Jul 12, 2022
How Black Climbers Are Closing the Adventure Gap
Jul 05, 2022
Playback: The Tree At the End of the World
Jun 28, 2022
She Shoots, She Scores: Title IX Turns 50
Jun 21, 2022
This Indigenous Practice Fights Fire with Fire
Jun 14, 2022
Sonic Postcards From the Appian Way
Jun 07, 2022
Restoring a Lost Sense of Touch
May 31, 2022
Where in the World Is Jessica Nabongo?
May 24, 2022
Bringing the Dead to Life
May 17, 2022
The Greening of Pittsburgh
May 10, 2022
Going Undercover to Save Manta Rays
May 03, 2022
Farming for the Planet
Apr 26, 2022
The Secret Life of Plants
Apr 19, 2022
Solving the Mystery of the Boiling River
Apr 12, 2022
Turning Old Cell Phones into Forest Guardians
Apr 05, 2022
Queens of the High Seas
Mar 29, 2022
First Ascent of a Sky Island
Mar 22, 2022
Nowruz and the Night Sky
Mar 15, 2022
Amelia Earhart Part II: The Lady’s Legacy
Mar 08, 2022
Amelia Earhart Part I: The Lady Vanishes
Mar 01, 2022
Playback: The Battle for the Soul of Artificial Intelligence
Feb 22, 2022
Summiting the World’s Most Dangerous Mountain
Feb 15, 2022
The Wonders of Urban Wildlife
Feb 08, 2022
The Price of Adventure
Feb 01, 2022
The Arctic Story Hunter
Jan 25, 2022
Resurrecting Notre-Dame de Paris
Jan 18, 2022
Capturing the Year in an Instant
Dec 14, 2021
Descendants of Cahokia
Dec 07, 2021
Kenya's Wildlife Warriors
Nov 30, 2021
The Gateway to Secret Underwater Worlds
Nov 23, 2021
Ancient Orchestra
Nov 16, 2021
When Family Secrets (And Soap Operas) Fuel Creativity
Nov 09, 2021
Modern Lives, Ancient Caves
Nov 02, 2021
A Skeptic's Guide to Loving Bats
Oct 26, 2021
Playback: If These Walls Could Talk
Oct 05, 2021
Playback: The Frozen Zoo
Sep 28, 2021
The Guerrilla Cyclists of Mexico City
Sep 21, 2021
Venturing into the Heart of Manila
Sep 14, 2021
Joel Sartore Wants to Save the Creepy-Crawlies
Sep 07, 2021
Portraits of Afghanistan Before the Fall
Aug 30, 2021
Lucy in the Sky With Asteroids
Aug 24, 2021
Cracking Down on Cheetah Traffickers
Aug 17, 2021
The Aztec: From Empire to AI
Aug 10, 2021
Cooling Cities By Throwing Shade
Aug 03, 2021
Dive Deeper: Season 7 of Overheard
Jul 27, 2021
Playback: The Glass Stratosphere
Jul 20, 2021
Bonus episode: The Surprising Superpowers of Sharks
Jul 13, 2021
Olympic Training During a Pandemic
Jun 22, 2021
The Next Generation's Champion of Chimps
Jun 15, 2021
The Real-Life MacGyver in Nat Geo’s Basement
Jun 08, 2021
Giraffes on a Boat
Jun 01, 2021
How Cicadas Become Flying Saltshakers of Death
May 25, 2021
A Reckoning in Tulsa
May 18, 2021
Camping on Sea Ice with Whale Hunters
May 11, 2021
The Battle for the Soul of Artificial Intelligence
May 04, 2021
Treat Your Brain: Season 6 of Overheard
Apr 27, 2021
Bonus episode: The Secret Culture of Killer Whales
Apr 13, 2021
The Secret of Musical Genius
Mar 23, 2021
Legends of Kingfishers, Otters, and Red-Tailed Hawks
Mar 16, 2021
The Real Amazons
Mar 09, 2021
Deep Inside the First Wilderness
Mar 02, 2021
Unraveling a Mapmaker’s Dangerous Decision
Feb 23, 2021
Why War Zones Need Science Too
Feb 16, 2021
Bonus Episode: In Conversation: Reframing Black History and Culture
Feb 12, 2021
Mars Gets Ready for Its Close-up
Feb 09, 2021
Searching for the Himalaya’s Ghost Cats
Feb 02, 2021
Overheard Season 5: Bigger. Weirder. Beautiful-er.
Jan 26, 2021
Bonus Episode: Bicycles, Better Angels, and Biden
Jan 21, 2021
A Traveling Circus and its Great Escape
Dec 15, 2020
An Accidental Case of the Blues
Dec 08, 2020
Introducing: Trafficked with Mariana van Zeller
Dec 03, 2020
The Trouble with America’s Captive Tigers
Dec 01, 2020
The Strange Tail of Spinosaurus
Nov 24, 2020
The Search for History’s Lost Slave Ships
Nov 17, 2020
Chasing the World’s Largest Tornado
Nov 10, 2020
Documenting Democracy
Nov 03, 2020
Can You Hear the Reggae in My Photographs?
Oct 27, 2020
Overheard Season 4
Oct 13, 2020
How I Learned to Love Zombie Parasites
Aug 04, 2020
The Failing of War Photography
Jul 28, 2020
The Canary of the Sea
Jul 21, 2020
A Spore of Hope
Jul 14, 2020
The Tree at the End of the World
Jul 07, 2020
The United States v. One Tyrannosaurus Bataar
Jun 30, 2020
The Unstoppable Wily Coyote
Jun 23, 2020
The Towers of Ladakh
Jun 16, 2020
Overheard Season 3
Jun 10, 2020
The Virus Hunter
Apr 28, 2020
The Frozen Zoo
Dec 10, 2019
If These Walls Could Talk
Nov 26, 2019
The Aquarius Project
Nov 19, 2019
March of the Beaver
Nov 12, 2019
Cave of the Jaguar God
Nov 05, 2019
The Hidden Cost of the Perfect Selfie
Oct 29, 2019
The Alien Underground
Oct 22, 2019
Digging Up Disaster
Oct 15, 2019
Overheard at National Geographic Season 2
Oct 02, 2019
Honeybee Chop Shop
Jul 30, 2019
The Glass Stratosphere
Jul 23, 2019
The Harem Conspiracy
Jul 16, 2019
The Zombie Mice of Marion Island
Jul 09, 2019
Scuba Diving in a Pyramid
Jul 02, 2019
Rats vs Humans: A Love Story
Jun 25, 2019
Evolution of a Little Liar
Jun 18, 2019
Humpback Hit Factory
Jun 11, 2019
Introducing Overheard from National Geographic
Jun 04, 2019