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Whole episode — drag to move the selection
Selection — drag the handles to trim
Loading audio
Exactly what's on screen — filters and all.
What you get: one row per episode — show, title, date, length,
encore flag, tags and re-air dates, plus links to the episode page, the
original transcript, our transcript, and the audio.
Not included: transcript text itself. A single episode runs to
~49,000 characters and a spreadsheet cell tops out at 50,000 — the links
keep it readable instead of silently cut off.
Click any example to run it.
Words are matched together, and the word you're still typing is matched as a prefix — so results narrow as you go, before you've finished a name.
Use an operator, quote, bracket or * and the
query runs exactly as written.
AND and OR work toodescription_textFilters combine with whatever you've searched. All clears a row; Reset clears everything at once.
Most episodes now include a full transcript, so search reaches the audio itself — not just the show notes. When a result matched something spoken, it's marked Heard in this episode and the excerpt is the actual line.
When your words were spoken aloud, the timestamps under a result show exactly where. Click one and the episode starts playing from that second — no scrubbing.
Click a timestamp to start playing, then press the scissors at the right-hand end of the player. That opens the audio editor on what you're listening to — the passage you clicked if you're still inside it, otherwise wherever you've scrubbed to.
The clip is copied straight out of the original file without re-encoding, so it is identical in quality to the broadcast, not a second-generation copy. Cuts land within a fortieth of a second of the mark.
Two waveforms. The top one is the whole episode — click anywhere on it to move the selection there. The bottom one is the selection close up, and it's where the work gets done.
An edit is judged by ear, not by eye, so there are four ways to listen:
Moves a cut point to the nearest gap between words. A cut through the middle of a syllable sounds broken; one that lands in the pause sounds deliberate. It only searches a second and a half either way, so it tidies a mark rather than moving it somewhere else.
It needs the waveform, so it stays greyed out until the audio has finished loading.
An MP3 named for where it came from — show, date, title
and timecode, like
LHPH_2026-02-12_Striking-At-Kings_4330-4353.mp3 — so a
clip sitting in a folder in six months still explains itself. The same
details are written into the file's tags.
The download button shows the size before you commit to it. All of this happens in your browser; the audio comes straight from the podcast host.
The address bar always reflects what you're looking at, so any search can be copied and sent to someone — filters, sort order and all. A link can also point at a single moment, opening the editor on it.
The names under each episode are people, bands, museums and books the producers linked in the show notes — a hand-curated index, not guesswork. Click one to see every episode tagged with it.
A gold line under an episode means the same programme aired more than once — as an encore, or on both shows. That's the quick answer to "have we run this already?"