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How to Get Booked on Hidden Brain
Hidden Brain is a science podcast with 695 episodes. Your strongest route into Hidden Brain starts with evidence from its feed and the contact path this show publishes.
Hidden Brain is not affiliated with Let's Make A Podcast. We cannot book its guests.
What Hidden Brain is about
Why do I feel stuck? How can I become more creative? What can I do to improve my relationships? If you’ve ever asked yourself these questions, you’re not alone. On Hidden Brain, we help you understand your own mind, and the minds of the people around you. (We're routinely rated the #1 science podcast in the United States.) Hosted by veteran science journalist Shankar Vedantam.
In the show’s own words, from its public feed.
- Publishes
- weekly
- Latest episode
- Aug 17, 2026
- Catalogue
- 695 episodes
Recent episodes
Listen to a few of these before you pitch, then reference one by name.
- How to Be A Better Partner
- How Feelings Make Us Smarter
- Making the Most of Your Mistakes
- You Are Not Ordinary
- How to Combat Pain
Episode list read from the show’s public RSS feed on 2026-08-23.
3 show-specific steps to pitch Hidden Brain
- 1
Listen before you pitch
Start with the latest episode of Hidden Brain, which publishes weekly, currently “How to Be A Better Partner”. Listen for how the host frames the conversation, then make your angle fit Hidden Brain.
- 2
Send it to the address Hidden Brain publishes
Hidden Brain's feed publishes a contact address. We do not print Hidden Brain's address on public pages. A free account opens a pre-addressed draft for Hidden Brain in your mail app; we never send it. Hidden Brain also publishes a contact page on its own site, at siriusxm.com. That one is public, so you can use it right now with no account at all. Get the address for Hidden Brain. Open the Hidden Brain contact page.
- 3
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 Hidden Brain and the exact topic you would bring to an episode. See our pitch template, or write it now, prefilled for Hidden Brain, then grade the draft against Hidden Brain.
Pitch basics: read the complete guide. Hidden Brain is listed from Apple Podcasts (iTunes Search API), public directory data; its host can manage it below.
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