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Best podcasts of 2024

Episode Summary

Hard hitting investigations, historical reconsiderations, whodunnits, and a bit of hysteria - there was something for everyone in our top ten lists. We’ll reveal the best podcasts of 2024.

Episode Notes

2024 was an exceptionally strong year for podcasts. There were multiple investigative series, fascinating retrospectives of the history you thought you knew, and even some light-hearted fare that was quirky and entertaining. But which titles truly stood out?  Here are our top ten selections for 2024.

Lara Bricker:

1. In the Dark season 3
2. Stolen: Trouble in Sweetwater
3. Beyond All Repair
4. Hysterical
5. Hush
6. The Runaway Princesses
7. On Our Watch: New Folsom
8. Cover Up: The Anthrax Threat
9. Murder on Music Row
10. Varnamtown

Toby Ball:

1. In the Dark season 3
2. Murder on Music Row
3. On Our Watch: New Folsom
4. Stolen: Trouble in Sweetwater
5. Fallen Angels
6. Slow Burn: Gays against Briggs
7. Radical
8. Hysterical
9. The Vanishing Point
10. The Man Who Calculated Death

Kevin Flynn:

1. Beyond All Repair
2. Hysterical
3. Murder in Boston 
4. In the Dark season 3
5. Murder on Music Row
6. Hush
7. Varnamtown
8. Backfired: The Vaping Wars
9. Fallen Angels
10. Broomgate: A Curling Scandal

Rebecca Lavoie:

1. Beyond All Repair  
2. In the Dark season 3  
3. Hysterical  
4. Murder in Boston
5. Stolen: Trouble in Sweetwater  
6. On Our Watch: New Folsom  
7. Hush  
8. Broomgate: A Curling Scandal  
9. The Man Who Calculated Death  
10. Backfired: The Vaping Wars