Sex and relationships are intimate — and sometimes intimidating to talk about. In this award-winning show, host Anita Rao guides us on an exploration of our brains and bodies that touches down in taboo territory.
Embodied won an Ambie Award in March 2024 for Best Wellness & Relationships Podcast! In 2020, Mashable named us as one of the best sex, erotica, dating and relationship podcasts. Embodied has won two Edward R. Murrow Regional Awards for best podcast (in 2021 & 2022). The podcast has also won three National Headliner Awards for Best Information Podcast: first place in 2023; second place in 2022; and third place in 2021. In the summer of 2022, NPR's Codeswitch featured us on their Summer Road Trip Playlist!
Embodied is distributed nationally by PRX. If you are interested in airing this program on your station, contact PRX Station Services for more information: station-services@prx.org.
Listen to this program on WUNC on Fridays at 1 p.m., Saturdays at 6 a.m. and Mondays at 9 p.m. — or wherever you get your podcasts.
Embodied can also be heard on:
- Oregon Public Radio (OPB) Fridays at 7 p.m.
- South Carolina Public Radio Fridays at 11 p.m.
- Blue Ridge Public Radio on Sundays at 8 p.m.
- Houston Public Media's News 88.7 on Sundays at 8 p.m.
- WBUR on Sundays at 9 p.m.
- Connecticut Public Radio on Sundays at 9 p.m.
- Little Rock Public Radio on Sundays at 11 p.m.
- Radio Free Palmer in Sutton, Alaska on Tuesdays at 9 a.m.
- KJZZ on Wednesdays at 9 p.m.
Our theme music is by Quilla (Anna Luisa Daigneault).
Embodied won an Ambie Award in March 2024 for Best Wellness & Relationships Podcast!
Read Anita's piece on the origin story of the Embodied series in The Huffington Post!
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