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The Best Podcasts of 2025 (So Far)
Including a series that is as gorgeous as it is painful.
For our purposes, I’m still going to try and square the difference by considering the whole pot, and because I’m governed by my own tastes and historical experience with podcasts as primarily an audio-first medium, you’ll find that I will be fairly audio-oriented when I curate this list. I have a lot of time for Ian Coss and his team of collaborators at WGBH after 2023’s The Big Dig, where they took a major boondoggle, an uber-expensive highway project in Boston long-decried as the poster-child for government bloat that actually turned out to be highly successful, and used it to tell a bigger story about the politics of American infrastructure. Last year, the Lithuanian radio producers Rūta Dambravaitė and Inga Janiulytė-Temporin created this 50-minute piece for LRT, their country’s national broadcaster, that recounts the story of Vitalius and Albinas, a same-sex couple who had to pass themselves off as father and son for decades.
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