About Ben Bradford

Podcast creator, host, and reporter Ben Bradford develops hit, award-winning audio productions, most notably the narrative political history series Landslide and the Audible Original Of The People. 

Lauded by The New Yorker for “sound-rich storytelling and terrific archival audio,” awarded gold medals by the Signal Awards and the New York Festival, Landslide was one of the most-listened-to new podcasts of the year — a gripping, suspenseful story and a complex exploration of the political decisions that shaped America’s modern parties and polarization. The Los Angeles Times hailed its spiritual predecessor, Of The People — about the 1972 campaign of George McGovern — as “compelling,” with storytelling “political junkies will relish.” 

Bradford also produces freelance audio projects, which in the past have included for the Washington Post, Rolex, state tourism boards, ten31 media’s The Promote Podcast, and documentaries.

Prior to his work in podcasting, Bradford began his journalism career in public radio. He won a national Edward R. Murrow award as a reporter at WFAE in North Carolina, then covered California politics from Sacramento at Capital Public Radio, before joining Marketplace, the nation’s most popular business program. Additional awards include from the Public Media Journalists Association and multiple regional Edward R. Murrow awards in both North Carolina and California. His reporting has also appeared on the BBC and Bloomberg Radio, in TIME and Talking Points Memo, and in newspapers around the country.

Before working in journalism, Bradford was bartender, caterer, press secretary for a member of Congress, and — for a time — possibly the smallest bouncer in Los Angeles.