Podcasts in English
Browse our library of podcasts in English to learn English the natural way. Tap any word while listening in the Clue app for an instant translation — no more pausing to look things up in a dictionary.
125 podcasts
The Dope Black Therapist
Blaise Harris
Mental Health
NASA's Curious Universe
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
Science
Love Marry Kill
Tina and Rich
True Crime
The Fried Egg Golf Podcast
Fried Egg Golf
Golf
NFL: Good Morning Football
iHeartPodcasts and NFL
Football
Hysterical
Audible | Pineapple Street Studios
Documentary
everybody has a secret
Shameless Media
Philosophy
The Imperfects
Hugh van Cuylenburg, Ryan Shelton & Josh van Cuylenburg
Mental Health
Toni and Ryan
Toni Lodge and Ryan Jon
Comedy
Wednesdays
JamPot Productions
Relationships
The Girls Bathroom
Sophia & Cinzia
Relationships
Good Bad Billionaire
BBC World Service
Entrepreneurship
BigDeal
Codie Sanchez
Entrepreneurship
Dodge Woodall Network
Dodge Woodall
Entrepreneurship
The Jefferson Fisher Podcast
Civility Media
Self-Improvement
The Rich Roll Podcast
Rich Roll
Self-Improvement
Begin Again with Davina McCall
Begin Again
Self-Improvement
Private Parts
Spirit Studios
Personal Journals
Sisters of Defiance
Anita Rani
Personal Journals
Great Company with Jamie Laing
Jampot Productions
Personal Journals
kill switch
Kaleidoscope
Technology
The AI Daily Brief: Artificial Intelligence News and Analysis
Nathaniel Whittemore
Technology
Acquired
Ben Gilbert and David Rosenthal
Technology
Blended
Kate Ferdinand
Kids & Family
The Marvyn Harrison Podcast
Marvyn Harrison
Business
We Don't Have Time For This
Gemma Peanut & Kate Reeves
Kids & Family
Motherkind
Zoe Blaskey
Parenting
Made by Mammas: The Podcast
Audio Always
Parenting
Autism Dadcast
Gaz and Andrew
Parenting
Happy Mum
Giovanna Fletcher
Parenting
The Wellness Scoop
The Wellness Scoop
Mental Health
Sliced Bread
BBC Radio 4
Health & Fitness
UNTAPPED with Spencer Matthews
High Performance
Fitness
The Athletic FC Podcast
The Athletic
Sports
Football Weekly
The Guardian
Soccer
The Rest Is Football
Goalhanger
Soccer
The Mid•Point with Gabby Logan
Gabby Logan
Mental Health
Complex with Kimberley Wilson
BBC Sounds
Mental Health
Happy Place
Fearne Cotton
Mental Health
Economics In Ten
Economics In Ten
Social Sciences
Boring History for Sleep
Velvet
Social Sciences
Expert Intelligence with Paul Estes
Paul Estes
Marketing
Founders
David Senra
Entrepreneurship
Why Are You More Successful Than Me? with Richard Bacon
Richard Bacon
Entrepreneurship
Lex Fridman Podcast
Lex Fridman
Technology
Easy Money: The Charles Ponzi Story
Apple TV / AT WILL MEDIA
History
Pluribus: The Official Podcast
Apple TV
TV & Film
Hooked
Apple TV / Campside Media
Society & Culture
Project Unabom
Apple TV+ / Pineapple Street Studios
Society & Culture
Under Cover of Knight
Apple TV / Spoke Media
True Crime
Adrift
Apple TV / Blanchard House
Documentary
The Opinions
The New York Times Opinion
News
The Headlines
The New York Times
Daily News
Up First from NPR
NPR
Daily News
Apple News In Conversation
Apple News
News Commentary
Apple News Today
Apple News
Daily News
Dr. Death
Audible
True Crime
SmartLess
Jason Bateman, Sean Hayes, Will Arnett
Comedy
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Wondery
Sports
Scamanda
Lionsgate Sound
True Crime
Wiser Than Me with Julia Louis-Dreyfus
Lemonada Media
Comedy
Dateline NBC
NBC News
True Crime
Kill List
Audible | Novel
True Crime
The Spy Who
Audible
History
Foundling | Tortoise Investigates
The Observer
Documentary
Miss Me?
BBC Sounds
Personal Journals
RedHanded
RedHanded
True Crime
Scamtown
Apple TV / FunMeter
True Crime
Unicorn Girl
Apple TV / Seven Hills
True Crime
Extrasensory
Apple TV / Blanchard House
True Crime
The Rest Is Classified
Goalhanger
History
Strangers on a Bench
Tom Rosenthal
Documentary
The Telepathy Tapes
Ky Dickens
Documentary
What's My Age Again?
Bauer Media
Comedy
Stalked
BBC Sounds
True Crime
The Rest Is Politics
Goalhanger
Politics
The Mel Robbins Podcast
Mel Robbins
Self-Improvement
The Rest Is Entertainment
Goalhanger
TV & Film
Mother Tongue
Mother Tongue
Kids & Family
Giggly Squad
Hannah Berner & Paige DeSorbo
Comedy
Blood and Water
ABC News
True Crime
Aspire with Emma Grede
Emma Grede | Audacy
Entrepreneurship
TED Talks Daily
TED
Society & Culture
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
DOAC
Business
Meet Me at the Museum
Art Fund
Visual Arts
Modern Wisdom
Chris Williamson
Society & Culture
Think Fast Talk Smart: Communication Techniques
Matt Abrahams, Think Fast Talk Smart
Careers
The History Bureau
BBC
History
Do you really know?
Bababam
Education
Galaxy Brains
Galaxy Digital Research
Investing
Ask Penguin
Penguin Books UK
Books
Sara & Cariad's Weirdos Book Club
Plosive
Books
The Interview
The New York Times
Society & Culture
Interview Boss
Interview Boss
Careers
Hidden Brain
Hidden Brain, Shankar Vedantam
Social Sciences
Inklings Book Club
Jack Edwards
Books
The Louis Theroux Podcast
Spotify Studios
Society & Culture
Short History Of...
NOISER
History
For The Girls
Victoria Perciballi
Self-Improvement
Homing
Matt Gibberd
Design
Design Matters with Debbie Millman
Design Matters Media
Design
The Zane Lowe Interview Series
Apple Music
Music Interviews
British Accent AUDIO Tip – How to say the last 's'
Alison Pitman
Language Learning
Call Her Daddy
Alex Cooper
Comedy
The Therapy Crouch
Tall or Nothing
Comedy
Feel Better, Live More with Dr Rangan Chatterjee
Dr Rangan Chatterjee: GP & Author
Alternative Health
Olivia's House with Olivia Attwood
Platform Media
Society & Culture
The Joe Rogan Experience
Joe Rogan
Comedy
The Book Club
Goalhanger
Books
The Rest Is History
Goalhanger
History
The Daily
The New York Times
Daily News
Sherlock Holmes Short Stories
NOISER
Drama
Discovery
BBC World Service
Science
Changes with Annie Macmanus
Annie Macmanus
Society & Culture
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
iHeartPodcasts
Mental Health
Origin Story with David McIntosh Jr
David McIntosh Jr
How To
Land of the Giants
Vulture
Business
Luke's ENGLISH Podcast - Learn British English with Luke Thompson
Luke Thompson
Language Learning
The Athletic Football Show: A show about the NFL
The Athletic
Football
The New Yorker Radio Hour
WNYC Studios and The New Yorker
Politics
The Intelligence from The Economist
The Economist
Daily News
Locarno Meets
Locarno Film Festival
TV & Film
6 Minute English
BBC Radio
Language Learning
Unexplainable
Vox
Life Sciences
Today, Explained
Vox
Daily NewsPodcasts are the most underused tool in English learning. They give you hours of natural, unscripted speech from people who actually live in the language — interviewers, comedians, journalists, scientists. The catch is that every podcast moves at native speed, and most apps leave you guessing what a word means.
Clue fixes that. Open any episode, get a word-for-word transcript that scrolls in time with the audio, and tap any unknown word to see exactly what it means in your language. Nothing pauses. Nothing buffers. The whole dictionary lives on your phone — 27,000 English headwords, ten target languages, zero internet required.
Why podcasts beat textbooks
Textbooks teach you the language teachers think you should learn. Podcasts teach you the language people actually use. The difference is enormous: filler words, half-finished sentences, idioms that nobody bothers to write down, the way a host laughs through a sentence and still gets the point across. This is the English you need if you want to function with native speakers.
Listening to podcasts is also the only practical way to log thousands of hours of input without burning out. You can listen on the train, at the gym, while cooking. Reading a textbook for that long is impossible; listening to a great show feels like entertainment.
How tap-to-translate works in Clue
Every podcast in the Clue library comes with a synchronized transcript. As the audio plays, the current sentence highlights so your eye stays on the right line. When you hit a word you don't know, tap it: a small card slides up showing the headword, the part of speech, and the translation that fits the sentence — not a generic dictionary dump, but the meaning that actually matches the context.
Behind the scenes, Clue ships a 27,000-word English dictionary on-device. There is no network call, so the lookup is instant even on a plane or in the subway. Save the word and it joins your personal vocabulary list, ready for review later.
Bring any podcast — even ones without transcripts
Most learner apps lock you into their tiny library. Clue has none of that — paste a link to any RSS feed and the show is yours. If the episode has no transcript, Clue runs an on-device Whisper model to transcribe it for you. The audio never leaves your phone, and you don't pay per minute.
That means your favorite niche show — about cycling, about cooking, about ancient history — becomes a learning tool the same evening you discover it. The library you build is your library, not somebody else's.
A practice loop that actually sticks
Listening alone is half the battle. Words you tap go into a flashcard deck: short multiple-choice quizzes built from the exact sentences you heard them in. Recall happens in context, which is the only kind of recall that survives outside the app.
Over a few weeks the loop is: listen to an episode, tap unknown words, run a five-minute quiz the next morning. Vocabulary you actually heard a person say sticks two to three times faster than vocabulary you memorized in isolation.
Built for serious learners
Clue is not a streak app. There are no cartoon owls, no daily push notifications guilt-tripping you back. The product is designed for people whose English already works at conversational level and who want to move toward fluent, idiomatic, native-speed comprehension. If that's you, you will probably stop opening Duolingo within a week.
Start with one episode tonight
Pick a show you would actually listen to in your native language, open it inside Clue, and tap the first word you don't know. That single moment — hearing a real sentence and immediately understanding the missing piece — is what makes immersion-based learning work. Everything else is repetition.
FAQ
Do I need internet to use Clue with podcasts?
Only the first time, to download the episode and the transcript. After that, playback, lookups, and saved-word practice all work offline. The 27,000-word dictionary is bundled inside the app.
Which podcasts can I listen to?
Any podcast you follow. Paste its RSS feed inside Clue and it shows up in your library, ready to play with a tap-to-translate transcript.
What if a podcast has no transcript?
Clue transcribes it on your device using Whisper. The audio never leaves your phone, transcription is free, and the result is fully tap-to-translate just like a native transcript.
Which native languages are supported?
Russian, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, Polish, Ukrainian, and Turkish. Pick yours during onboarding.
Is Clue free?
Yes — Clue is completely free to download and use. No subscription, no paywalls, no limits on lookups, content, or transcription.
