The Casties are Quartz’s awards for the best podcasts of 2017. They put together a list of the best shows and individual episodes that aired in 2017 - whether the podcast itself was new or a veteran of the airwaves.
The winners of the 2017 Casties are:
Best business/economics episode: Podcast: Planet Money Episode “We’re Going to Space”
Best culture episode: Podcast: This American Life Episode: “We Are in the Future”
Best history episode: Podcast: Hardcore History Episode: “The Destroyer of Worlds”
Best interview episode: Podcast: Pod Save America Episode: “Obama’s Last Interview”
Best law & institutions episode: Podcast: More Perfect Episode: “Sex Appeal”
Best politics episode: Podcast: This American Life Episode: “White Haze”
Best science podcast: Podcast: Revisionist History Episode: “McDonald’s Broke My Heart”
Best sex episode: Podcast: My Dad Wrote a Porno Episode: “Vagina 101”
Best roundtable episode: Podcast: Still Processing Episode: “We Grieve Charlottesville”
Best sports episode: Podcast: The Bill Simmons Podcast Episode: “The Kevin Durant Interviews”
Best technology episode: Podcast: Reply All Episode: “Long Distance”
Best episode on the human condition: Podcast: Radiolab Episode: “Oliver Sacks: A Journey from Where to Where”
Best business/economics podcast: How I Built This
Best culture podcast: Binge Mode: Game of Thrones
Best history podcast: Mogul: The Life and Times of Chris Lighty
Best Interview podcast: Fresh Air
Best law & institutions podcast: Ear Hustle
Best politics: The Global Politico
Best science podcast: Invisibilia
Best sex podcast: Guys We F****d
Best sports podcast: The Poscast
Best storytelling podcast: S-Town
Best technology podcast: The Butterfly Effect
Best podcast on the human condition: The Hilarious World of Depression
The Casties also included three Grand Prize Winners. Visit Quartz to find out who those winners were, to learn more about each of podcasts / podcast episodes listed above, and to find links to them all.