 In 2019, Jetty was renamed Al Jazeera Podcasts.Jetty debuted with the podcast "Closer Than They Appear", a hybrid interview/narrative show hosted by writer Carvell Wallace.Other podcasts which will debut in 2018 include "The Game of Our Lives" which will use soccer to explain global economics and cultures, a podcast on freedom dubbed ("Freedom Stories, featuring Melissa Harris-Perry"), sex ("The Virgie Show") with Virgie Tovar, and global music ("Movement") with Meklit Hadero.