Sidedoor: A Podcast from the Smithsonian
With support from PRX
More than 157 million treasures fill the Smithsonian’s vaults, but where public view ends, Sidedoor begins. With the help of biologists, artists, historians, archaeologists, zookeepers, and astrophysicists, host Lizzie Peabody sneaks listeners through Smithsonian’s side door to discover stories that can’t be found anywhere else. Follow us at @SidedoorPod for updates and bonus content.
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Season 11
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07.23.2025
Shellshocked II: Turtle Thieves
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07.09.2025
Shellshocked I: Turtles vs. The World
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06.25.2025
Bloodsuckers!
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06.11.2025
The Giving Game
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05.28.2025
Space Jams
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05.14.2025
Zoo's Clues
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04.30.2025
Writing on the Wall
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04.16.2025
Cellphones Rock
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04.02.2025
The Art of the Fist
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03.19.2025
Asteroid Tag
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03.05.2025
Poison and Poisonability
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02.19.2025
Right Stuff, Wrong Sex
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02.05.2025
To Sweat Like Beyoncé
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01.22.2025
The Sex Lives of Giant Pandas
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01.08.2025
Everybody Pledge Now
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12.25.2024
Midnight Magic
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12.11.2024
The Whole Truth
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11.27.2024
Finding Cleopatra
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11.13.2024
Bitcoin Bank Heist
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10.30.2024
The Wide Awakes
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10.16.2024
The Devil’s Composer
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10.02.2024
Bankers in the Boudoir
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09.18.2024
Jim the Penman
Season 10
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06.19.2024
The Lost Woolly Dog
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06.05.2024
Cosmic Journey II: Voyage into the Abyss
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05.22.2024
Cosmic Journey I: "Stellar Buffoonery"
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05.08.2024
Cicadapalooza
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04.24.2024
The Birds and the Beans
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04.10.2024
Dude, Where’s my Carbon?
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03.27.2024
Monkeyin' Around on the Devil's Island
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03.13.2024
Face Value
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02.28.2024
Jeepers Leapers!
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02.14.2024
Til Death Do Us Part?
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01.31.2024
To Sidedoor, With Love
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01.17.2024
Tails of Bravery
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01.03.2024
The Milkmaid Spy
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12.20.2023
Auld Lang What?
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12.06.2023
Welcome Back, Otter
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11.22.2023
Wrinkled Radicals
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11.08.2023
Farewell Giant Pandas
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10.25.2023
Resurrected: Spooked at the Smithsonian
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10.11.2023
CSI: Southern Pacific
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09.27.2023
Cellphones Rock
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09.13.2023
The 'Gentle Anarchy' of the Muppets
Season 9
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07.31.2023
Special: People Eating People
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07.05.2023
The Toxic Book of Faces
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06.21.2023
Building a Movement
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06.07.2023
Recording the World
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05.24.2023
The Funk List
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05.10.2023
Get Off My Lawn
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04.26.2023
Bill Nye the Sidedoor Guy
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04.12.2023
Space Marathon
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03.29.2023
Monsoon Mood
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03.15.2023
Lights Out
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03.01.2023
The Phantom Violins
Season 8
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12.28.2022
The Monumental Imagination of Augusta Savage
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12.14.2022
A Very Merry Sidedoor
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11.30.2022
Lucy Hicks Anderson
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11.02.2022
Wronging the Wrights
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10.19.2022
Who Built the White House?
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10.05.2022
Spooked at the Smithsonian
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09.21.2022
Did Meat Make Us Human?
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09.07.2022
Love in the Time of Emoji
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08.24.2022
Dynamo Dot
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08.10.2022
Sumo Wrestlers vs. Firefighters
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07.27.2022
Culture in Crisis
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07.13.2022
Hubble Trouble
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06.29.2022
Get Off My Lawn
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06.15.2022
The Sex Lives of Giant Pandas
Season 7
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04.20.2022
The Hungerford Deed
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04.06.2022
The Many Inventions of Beatrice Kenner
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03.23.2022
Broad Stripes, Bright Stars, and White Lies
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03.09.2022
Take Who Out to the Ball Game?
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02.23.2022
Raven and the Box of Daylight
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02.09.2022
King's Speech
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01.26.2022
The Robot in the Mirror
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01.12.2022
The Fugitive Brewer
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12.29.2021
Edison's Demon Dolls
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12.15.2021
Chiura Obata's Glorious Struggle
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12.01.2021
Love in the Time of Emoji
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11.17.2021
Light of Freedom
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11.03.2021
King of the Herbs
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10.20.2021
Bloodsuckers!
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10.06.2021
Make Way for Elephants
Season 6
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08.18.2021
Bonus: Happy Birthday to Us
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07.14.2021
The Battle of Blair Mountain
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06.30.2021
Ode to Cicadas
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06.17.2021
The Goddess of Broadway
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06.02.2021
The Artist Critics Love to Hate
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05.26.2021
Confronting the Past
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05.19.2021
Best of the Rest III
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05.05.2021
On The Money
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04.28.2021
Bonus: The 1957 Pandemic That Wasn’t
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04.21.2021
Holding Out for a Herring
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04.07.2021
Hot Bird Summer
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03.10.2021
A Very Cold Case
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02.24.2021
Life is Hard, Let's Meditate!
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01.27.2021
Sing a Song of Protest
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01.13.2021
How Wonder Woman Got Her Groove Back
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12.16.2020
Edison's Demon Dolls
Season 5
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10.15.2020
The Gorilla Epidemic
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09.30.2020
Dress Coded
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09.16.2020
Appalachia Goes Beijing
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09.02.2020
The People's Insect
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08.19.2020
The Riverkeeper
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08.05.2020
Votes for Hawaiians
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07.22.2020
Apollo 12's Really Close Call
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07.08.2020
Take Who Out to the Ball Game?
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06.24.2020
Shredding Skateboarding's Glass Ceiling
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05.27.2020
Young Harriet
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05.13.2020
The People's Insect
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04.29.2020
Best of the Rest II
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04.15.2020
Birds, Birds, Birds!
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04.01.2020
The Milkmaid Spy
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03.18.2020
The Last Man Who Knew It All
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03.04.2020
Outer Space & Underwear
Season 4
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01.22.2020
Cars, Stars, and Rock ’n’ Roll
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01.08.2020
Ponzi's Scheme
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12.25.2019
The Worst Video Game Ever?
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12.11.2019
Finding Cleopatra
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11.27.2019
Adam Rippon's Olympic Mesh-capades
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11.13.2019
Apollo 12's Really Close Call
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10.30.2019
Dynamite!
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10.16.2019
This Episode Smells
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10.02.2019
The Dinosaur War
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09.18.2019
The Woman in the Frame
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09.04.2019
Field Trip!
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08.21.2019
Memory, Myths, & Miniatures
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08.07.2019
The Wild Orchid Mystery
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07.24.2019
Things You’d Never Tell Your Parents
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07.10.2019
Space Jocks & Moon Rocks
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06.26.2019
The Worst Video Game Ever?
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06.12.2019
The Dinosaur War
Season 3
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04.23.2019
Aloha, Y'all
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04.10.2019
Good as Gold
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04.01.2019
Abraham Lincoln: Prankster-in-Chief
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03.27.2019
The Feather Detective
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03.12.2019
Singing the Gender-Bending Blues
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02.27.2019
The Silence of the Frogs
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02.13.2019
Cheech Marin Gets Artsy
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01.29.2019
50 Shades of Gray Whales
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12.28.2018
Amelia Earhart's Revolutionary Flight Club
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12.12.2018
Inventor, Photographer ... Murderer
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11.28.2018
This Color Is Who I Am
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11.14.2018
That Brunch in the Forest
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10.31.2018
Seriously Seeking Sasquatch
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10.18.2018
Slavery, Freedom, & Grandma’s House
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10.03.2018
50 Shades of Gray Whales
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09.19.2018
A Right to the City
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09.05.2018
The World’s Deadliest Animal
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08.22.2018
The Mystery Bones of Witch Hill
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08.08.2018
The Curse of the Hope Diamond
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