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How to Get Booked on Big Brains
Big Brains is a science podcast hosted by University of Chicago Podcast Network with 222 episodes. Your strongest route into Big Brains starts with evidence from its feed and the contact path this show publishes.
Big Brains is not affiliated with Let's Make A Podcast. We cannot book its guests.
What Big Brains is about
Big Brains explores the groundbreaking research and discoveries that are changing our world. In each episode, we talk to leading experts and unpack their work in straightforward terms. Interesting conversations that cover a gamut of topics from how music affects our brains to what happens after we die.
In the show’s own words, from its public feed.
- Publishes
- a couple of times a month
- Latest episode
- Aug 20, 2026
- Catalogue
- 222 episodes
Recent episodes
Listen to a few of these before you pitch, then reference one by name.
- Why The Key to Treating Cancer May Be In Your Gut, with Thomas Gajewski
- The Little-Known Secrets To A Good Life, with Shigehiro Oishi
- How to Use Nature to Restore Your Focus, with Marc Berman
- How to Raise Kids in the Age of AI, with Dana Suskind
- What Our Trash Problem Says About Our Culture, with Sarah Newman
Episode list read from the show’s public RSS feed on 2026-08-23.
3 show-specific steps to pitch Big Brains
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Listen before you pitch
Start with the latest episode of Big Brains, which publishes a couple of times a month, currently “Why The Key to Treating Cancer May Be In Your Gut, with Thomas Gajewski”. Listen for how the host frames the conversation, then make your angle fit Big Brains.
- 2
Send it to the address Big Brains publishes
Big Brains's feed publishes a contact address. We do not print Big Brains's address on public pages. A free account opens a pre-addressed draft for Big Brains in your mail app; we never send it. Get the address for Big Brains.
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Lead with a specific, relevant angle
Hosts want a researcher or communicator who can make a complex finding clear and vivid. Open with one sentence on why you fit Big Brains and the exact topic you would bring to an episode. See our pitch template, or write it now, prefilled for Big Brains, then grade the draft against Big Brains.
Pitch basics: read the complete guide. Big Brains is listed from Apple Podcasts (iTunes Search API), public directory data; its host can manage it below.
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