5 Podcast Picks from Tribeca Festival 2026

I am so proud of our pilot episode — it's a speculative sci-fi thriller podcast that drops you right aboard Dolos Project Station 769 with crewmates David and Sarah, and their AI companion SAI.

We enter a dark world. David and Sarah have recently witnessed the nuclear annihilation of all mankind on earth, and are grappling with the aftermath. Their rations are low, their stakes are high, and by the end of the episode, a mystery aboard the station begins to unfold.

I'll be honest, the trailer alone for Cultivate Being stopped me in my tracks. I listened in awe to this first episode of Amelia Chiarenza's stunning, honest, vulnerable, joyful and heartbreaking exploration of mortality and grief.

After losing both of her parents and a dear friend in her early 40's, Amelia began to get to know her loved ones in a whole new way through the people who knew them, starting with her parent's friend, Marie.

Paul Solotaroff is a legendary investigative journalist. His work has exposed corrupt members of the justice system, freed wrongfully imprisoned people across the country, and more.

In this episode, Paul focuses on a new story that does both.

A note that this episode deals with very disturbing subject matter. Please take care when listening.

This series looks at a 100 different objects that might capture the history and culture of the United States, and collaborates with other audio makers to help tell their stories.

This episode features a safe — a time capsule created in 1876 and opened 100 years later — and examines how skilled (or perhaps unskilled) human beings are at telling their own stories and preserving the important things from their own history.

In this episode, we meet Becca, an actor in a summer Shakespeare theater company, who briefly believes her friend Talia is out on a date with David Lee Roth from Van Halen.

The story is told by both present day Becca and through flashbacks and brilliant moments of music and sound design. It uses the form of audio fiction in a fantastically unique way. It's a great listen.