New & Notable podcasts: week of November 2

Podcasts worth your time right now, new or old, picked by Rex editors. Four new seasons and series under way this week, and two older investigations for election week.

6 titles

1. METRO with Sarah Koenig (2026), Serial Productions & The New York Times
   Sarah Koenig (Serial) turns to New York City and its people, from a brawl in the diamond district to a fight for control of the city's biggest political party.
2. Bear Brook (2025), NHPR
   In the third season, Jason Moon investigates why the wife of Jay Hickey, a New Hampshire Christmas tree farmer with dementia, never reported him missing when he vanished.
3. The Big Dig (2026), GBH News
   Ian Coss follows Mitt Romney, Ted Kennedy and the Massachusetts statehouse to the 2006 health care law that became the template for the national fight in 2009.
4. Over My Dead Body (2026), Audible Original
   Mitch Moxley follows Vanessa Motta, a Hollywood stuntwoman turned New Orleans injury lawyer, and her disbarred boyfriend into an elaborate accident fraud scheme that leads to murder.
5. Slow Burn (2025), Slate Podcasts
   Leon Neyfakh relives Watergate as it felt at the time, through the people caught up in it, from Martha Mitchell to the senators deciding whether to break with Nixon.
6. Floodlines (2025), The Atlantic
   Atlantic writer Vann R. Newkirk II returns to New Orleans to hear from the people who lived through Hurricane Katrina and the flood, and the myths that grew up around them.