Got the usual suspects:

Any questions and answers
Moneybox
The bottom line
You and yours/friday night comedy/more or less

All R4

Any other interesting ones for an old fart?

Not directly related but Skeptics Guide To The Universe is very good – science/critical thinking etc

Have a look at the world service schedules – they have some great stuff with contributors from HK/china/India.

And for your playlist;

The Kinks – Sunny Afternoon

The Kinks – Sunny Afternoon

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Add The Economist audio to your podcast list. Sadly the FT have discontinued their podcast.

The BBC’s Analysis and The Bottom Line are good. As is Freakonomics.

Cheers

How about Thinking Allowed and not in your categories but you could also try The Spokesman as s cycling focused podcast.

Any of the Adam Curtis documentaries and the Mayfair Set in particular.

Linky to the relevant Youtube search results.

freakanomics, the bugle

Costing the Earth is great and so is In the Balance.

File on Four,
The Food Programme