Screening of candidates
Only guests who fit one of the 6 roles of the Atrium spec are kept. This page covers every guest of the POC podcasts, all countries together: screening comes first, and the country of origin is looked up afterwards, only for the selected experts.
Guests identified28,551
Excluded19,870
Selected8,681Of which 2,556 English-speaking world, 4,579 European Union, 1,546 other or unknown country
Selected by role
AcademicNamed position at a university or research institution4,334Think tankNamed position at a think tank or public policy institute730Former officialHeld a position in a public authority: ministry, regulator, central bank, parliament531LawyerPractices law, in a firm, in-house or at the bar251Economist or consultantEconomist, analyst or adviser, in a firm or independent865CommentatorAnalyzes current affairs or ideas for the general public: columnist, essayist1,970
Why the others are excluded
People
7 people
| Person | Decision | Role or reason | Why | Podcasts | Appearances |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rainer Weiss Physicist | Excluded | Deceased | Décès en 2025. Introduced as physicist discussing LIGO and gravitational waves; Wikidata: American physicist at MIT (1932 to 2025), episodes predate death. | 2 | 2 |
| Lars Ericson Wolke Historian | Excluded | Deceased | Décès en 2026. Introduced as historian and professor; Wikidata: Swedish historian at Abo Akademi, whose 2026 death does not precede the 2025 episodes. | 1 | 8 |
| Goffredo Fofi Writer | Excluded | Deceased | Décès en 2025. Introduced as writer in interviews on literature, theatre and cinema; Wikidata: Italian writer, critic and journalist, still alive in 2024. | 1 | 5 |
| Carolyn Shoemaker Mount Palomar Observatory | Excluded | Deceased | Décès en 2021. Subject of an astronomy episode on the Shoemakers and Levy at Palomar; Wikidata: American astronomer (died 2021), a historical subject. | 1 | 1 |
| Czesław Miłosz | Excluded | Deceased | Décès en 2004. Very well known Nobel poet (101 Wikipedias) named in an episode on Polish literature; he is the subject, not a speaker. | 1 | 1 |
| Thomas Puccio | Excluded | Deceased | Décès en 2012. Episode retells the Claus von Bülow trial and features him as a historical figure; Wikidata: American lawyer who died in 2012. | 1 | 1 |
| Wangari Maathai Nobel Peace Prize laureate | Excluded | Deceased | Décès en 2011. Named as Nobel Peace laureate from Kenya in a radio episode, as a historical subject; Wikidata: Kenyan environmentalist, Nobel Peace Prize 2004. | 1 | 1 |