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We offer eight different podcasts including audio walking tours, radio shows, video clips, Rick's lecture series, and more! Podcasts are free and you do not need any special equipment, just a computer with speakers and a high speed Internet connection. If you want to take your podcasts on the road with you, transfer them to any MP3 player. Some people copy the shows to CDs to listen in their cars.

Rick Steves' Britain Audio ToursNEW! Rick Steves' Britain Audio Tours

Rick Steves' Britain Audio Tours encompass the most notable museums and historic sites in London, including tours of the British Museum, British Library and St. Paul's Cathedral, and walks of Westminster and the City of London. You can download these tours for free from either iTunes or this website. We recommend iTunes because it offers an enhanced version that comes with photos and easy-to-navigate chapter breaks. From our website, you'll get a single mp3 with fewer photos and no chapter breaks. Whichever format you choose, be sure to download the PDF maps that accompany each tour. Museums and sights change year to year, so make sure to get the latest edition of our guidebooks for the most up-to-date information.

           

Rick Steves' Italy Audio ToursRick Steves' Italy Audio Tours

Rick Steves Italy Audio Tours cover the top sights in Rome, Florence and Venice, include the Pantheon, St. Peter's Basilica, Roman Forum, Colosseum, Sistine Chapel, Renaissance Walk, Trastevere, Jewish Ghetto, Ostia Antica, Pompeii, Accademia & Michelangelo's David, Uffizi Gallery, Frari Church, Grand Canal, St. Mark's Square, and St. Mark's Basilica. Each tour includes a PDF companion map. Museums and sights change year to year, so make sure to get the latest edition of our guidebooks for the most up-to-date information.

           

Rick Steves' France Audio ToursRick Steves' France Audio Tours

Rick Steves' France Audio Tours provide history and art commentary while navigating through sprawling museums and historic sites. Rick's France audio tours are humorous, insightful, and a third less dry than the audioguides you rent in Europe. Tours included: The Louvre, The Orsay, Versailles Palace, and Historic Paris Walk. Museums and sights change year to year, so make sure to get the latest edition of our guidebooks for the most up-to-date information.

           

Rick Steves' Lecture SeriesRick Steves' Lecture Series

In addition to being the host of public television and radio travel programs and the author of over 30 travel books, Rick Steves is an active and charismatic lecturer. In the Rick Steves' Lecture Series, you'll travel with Rick across the United States as he speaks on topics ranging from European Travel Skills to Travel as a Political Act.

           

Travel with Rick Steves radio podcastTravel with Rick Steves

Rick's Public Radio show, "Travel with Rick Steves". Our entire archive of shows is available for download, plus new shows are added weekly.

           

Rick Steves' Europe Video podcastsRick Steves' Europe Video

Fans of Rick Steves' PBS television show can now enjoy free "travel bites" on demand, using iTunes software to download and view these files. These short clips — generally a few minutes long — cover some of Rick's favorite destinations.

           

Rick Steves' Iran PodcastRick Steves' Iran

Join Rick as he explores the most surprising and fascinating land he's ever visited: Iran. In Rick Steves' Iran you'll discover the splendid monuments of Iran's rich and glorious past, learn more about the 20th-century story of this perplexing nation, and experience Iranian life today in its historic capital and in a countryside village. Most important, you'll meet the people of this nation whose government so exasperates our own.

           

Rick Steves' European Christmas PodcastRick Steves' European Christmas

Rick Steves' European Christmas gives viewers a look at sacred, intimate family Christmas traditions. From England to Norway, Burgundy to Bavaria, Rome to the top of the Swiss Alps, locals brimming with holiday cheer celebrate Christmas in seven European countries, including a very memorable Christmas Eve Mass at St. Peter’s in Rome.