The Longest Shortest Time is an award-winning podcast about the surprises and absurdities of raising other humans—and being raised by them. You don’t need to be a parent to listen!

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Produced in partnership with Stitcher

  • 2 Webby Awards

  • 2 Third Coast International Audio Festival Awards

  • Best 50 Podcasts 2015, The Atlantic

  • Best 50 Podcasts 2017, TIME

  • Featured in The New Yorker’s Talk of the Town

  • New York Festivals World’s Best Radio Award

  • Academy of Podcasters Award

  • Reach Out and Read of Greater New York, Impact Award

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What People Are Saying

  • “I love Hillary Frank’s The Longest Shortest Time. I’m not a mother, and I’m never gonna be a mother. But that podcast is so good.”

    Terry Gross, Fresh Air

  • “As a parent, I know how hard it is to find storytelling about being a parent that doesn’t suck. That treats the person on the other end—conceivably a person with a kid—as not a stupid idiot that just wants simple, dumb, wrong advice. This is a podcast that avoids all those traps, and tells stories that are complicated and interesting and moving.”

    Jad Abumrad, Radiolab

  • “I love babies and I love being a mother, but I can safely say I hate treacly or cutesy stories about babies and motherhood. I hate them. This podcast is a revelation, because Hillary’s stories are smart, inventive and unafraid.”

    Sarah Koenig, Serial

  • “Hillary Frank is fulfilling a desperate need by telling stories that matter about parenting in a way that I have just never heard before.”

    Roman Mars, 99% Invisible

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