Overheard at National Geographic Podcast Returns for Season 7

 National Geographic has launched its trailer premiere for season 7 of Overheard at National Geographic Podcast, which officially kicks off on Tuesday, August 3. Hosted by Peter Gwin, Editor at Large at National Geographic, and co-host Amy Briggs, Executive Editor of National Geographic History magazine, the podcast invites listeners with real life adventurers on an audio escapade of discovery beyond the magazine to “inspire the explorer in everyone.”

“People think of the name National Geographic, and they think it's, oh, it's about mapping or, you know, land formations and stuff, but it's not that. It's about the planet we live on. It's about the galaxy that we’re in. It's about the creatures that inhabit it and all the stories that we want to tell about them,” said Amy Gwin, Executive Editor of National Geographic History magazine.

“And that’s what our explorers do, our journalists and all the people that contribute...you know, the endeavor is to get into the weeds of our planet and beyond, and show you what’s there. The collection of people that you get to work with and meet have this characteristic just like endless curiosity,” said Peter Gwin, Editor at Large at National Geographic.

 Over an eight-week season, co-Host Peter Gwin, Editor at Large at NG, and Amy Briggs, Executive Editor at NG History, put on their masks and dive into the curiously delightful conversations they’ve overheard at National Geographic’s headquarters, Zooms, Slack chats, texts, closet recordings sessions and all. Along the way, listeners will be introduced to explorers, photographers and scientists, who’ll share their engaging experiences from the field as we follow them to the edges of our big, bizarre, and beautiful world.
 

In this season,Overheard continues to bring curiosity front and center.  Exploring the superpowers of sharks. Building shade for warming cities. Remapping the solar system. Investigating illegal cheetah trafficking. Join us for curiously delightful conversations, overheard at National Geographic headquarters, as we take listeners on the front lines of discovery. 

The people at National Geographic can be proud of what they've accomplished with the Overheard podcast. First, the organization is predominately known for the visual -- whether in its magazine or in TV documentaries. The podcast takes on an incredible degree of difficulty by embedding that same sense of wonder in the audio as listeners would for the visual. 

Second, the podcast does not accept mediocrity in its narrative storytelling. Exploring the superpowers of sharks. Building shade for warming cities. Remapping the solar system. Investigating illegal cheetah trafficking. These stories spark the embers of our curiosity.

Finally, too often the podcast is the "dollar store" media format that enables these legacy companies to proudly state that they have a podcast. Not so with National Geographic. Overheard is a podcast that has attracted top-level support from the company ( Whitney Johnson, Vice President and Director of Visuals and Immersive Experiences), highly skilled hosts like Peter Gwin and Amy Briggs, and a content development process that is more than a century old.

Check out the Overheard trailer here.