This is the year I converted to podcasts. True crime, comedy, music, and … Victorian literature? Cold cases. Investigative reporting. Pop culture.
There’s a lot of great stuff out there, so much that I’ve experienced something like listener’s guilt, that feeling that you’re not keeping up with your current pods, not discovering all the great new ones before your friends. There’s probably a cool word for this in German but if you’re a pod nerd like me you surely recognize the feeling.
So I listened, almost exclusively on solo travels in my car, and these are the podcasts that stick in my mind as the best of 2018. They’re not in any particular order (so the numbers don’t imply ranking), but the first one here is the absolute best thing I heard all year. After that, shuffle ’em to your own heart’s delight.
1. In The Dark: In the second season of the Peabody Award-winning podcast, reporter Madeleine Baran and her team moved to Winona, Mississippi to…
