Podcasts
For over two decades, Golda Arthur has been at the helm of award-winning audio storytelling, from the rigor of daily news at the BBC and Vox to engrossing narrative podcasts about technology, social innovation, classical music, and more.
Overlooked: a podcast about ovarian cancer
In September 2023, Golda wrote and produced a personal story: about her mother’s experience with ovarian cancer. In 10 episodes, this narratively-driven series told the story of a 5 year journey with this overlooked cancer, by featuring audio diaries and conversations.
To learn more about the show, go to: https://overlookedpod.com/
“This pod is incredible. The narrator explains complex aspects to cancer and its treatment directly while taking me on an emotional journey that is real and stretches beyond the stereotype to bring me into the story.”
The Wise Unknown
As Producer, Golda created, produced and launched this show about wisdom with host and writer, Courtney Martin.
The show launched in October 2023, with 7 episodes, each featuring conversations about the nature of wisdom.
More about the show:
Some of the country’s favorite actors, activists, and authors introduce listeners to the “wisest person no one has ever heard of” who they credit with being critical to their success in life. Host Courtney E. Martin–think Krista Tippett meets Studs Terkel–then elicits the life lessons, palpable delights, and funny stories of these ‘wise unknowns’.
For Project Brazen
The Closer
The concept for The Closer was developed and built out by Golda, who is now Showrunner for the podcast. The first season of The Closer launched in February 2023, and continues as a weekly conversation show, as well as a narrative/ seasonal podcast.
The Closer features the inside stories of the deals that changed how we live.
Hell or High Water
As Managing Producer, Golda led a team at Vox Media to produce this deeply-reported documentary series on disaster in 6 different locations in the US. The series was produced in partnership with Audible Originals.
Disaster is a daily reality for more and more of us, at once ordinary and shattering. This series goes beyond crisis coverage to explore the deeper questions: When disaster hits, what forces determine who stays, who goes, and what we do with what’s left?
for Miller Theatre at Columbia University
Mission: Commission
As Showrunner, Golda shaped the performing arts organization’s concept into a rich and compelling podcast, crafting interviews and audio diary elements from three very different composers into a cohesive arc.
Demystifying the process of how classical music gets made, with three composers as they create vibrant new works of music.
“Mission: Commission is breaking new ground.” - New York Times
for MIT Technology Review
Curious Coincidence
As Executive Producer, Golda brought to life a series on a challenging but compelling story that has arguably touched everyone on the planet - Covid-19, and where it came from. The podcast made complex scientific details understandable for the rest of us, and focused on the human stories at the center of search for the origins of the pandemic.
A podcast about the search for the origins of Covid-19.
“…smart, warm, direct and clear on a topic we all need to better understand, not only to heal from the past 2 years but also to be informed for the future.” —Apple Podcasts 5-star review
for the Skoll Foundation in partnership with Aspen Ideas
Rethinking Possible
As Executive Producer, Golda collaborated with a diverse team from two unique organizations and found shared objectives to create a 10-episode podcast with a singular message. Under Golda’s expert guidance, the show’s first-time hosts confidently took on controversial and sensitive topics, including racial inequality and poverty, that are deeply relevant to the modern world.
A podcast about social innovators tackling the world’s biggest problems.
“These thoughtful, insightful conversations leave me feeling inspired, hopeful, and more motivated to look at solutions in my own community.” —Apple Podcasts 5-star review
for Vox Media
Land of the Giants
As Senior Producer and Co-Writer, Golda was part of the founding team that created this multi-year podcast that shares critical insights about major tech companies. Season 1 presented a definitive account of Amazon’s beginnings and how they came to have an outsized impact on our lives.
Examining how the biggest tech companies rose to power, and what they're doing with that power.
“I love it when a podcast takes me on a journey of understanding something I didn’t understand well (or at all) before.” —Apple Podcasts 5-star review
for Vox Media
Today, Explained
As Supervising Producer of Vox’s flagship daily news show, Golda oversaw a team of 5 to produce award-winning shows under extraordinary deadline pressure. Produced the show during a particularly charged time for news — Fall 2020 — and successfully launched special series including The Trump Years and You, Me, and COVID-19.
Vox's daily explainer podcast, guiding listeners through the most important stories at the end of each day.
Winner of a People’s Choice Podcast Award for News & Politics
for Vox Media & International Rescue Comittee
Displaced
As Senior Producer, Golda brought together teams from two different organizations to make a podcast about the world of displacement for a niche NGO audience.
A weekly podcast with leading humanitarians, foreign policy makers, and innovators to understand how they think about and tackle global crises.
“Great podcast grappling with solutions to some of the biggest and scariest situations people will ever find themselves in.” —Apple Podcasts 5-star review
for Marketplace & Tech Insider
Codebreaker
As Senior Producer, Golda ensured that every episode was of exceptionally high quality on this award-winning narrative podcast. Codebreaker created a lens for tech journalism that is now common, presenting modern technology alongside its real life implications.
Codebreaker is a podcast that dares to ask – and answer – the fundamental questions about technology that consume us every day.
Winner of 2017 People’s Choice Webby Award
BBC World Service Newshour
As Producer, then Editor, and later Reporter, Golda worked on this award-winning radio program over the span of 12 years, creating newsmaking interviews and stories for an audience of 150 million listeners worldwide. Work included overseeing breaking news coverage under pressure covering elections, revolutions, invasions and even assassinations.
Interviews, news and analysis of the day’s global events.
Winner of a Silver SONY Radio Academy Award -
Breaking News Award, the assassination of Benazir Bhutto