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!
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
Accolades
What People Are Saying
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“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
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“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
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“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
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“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