I’m drowning out the ghastly office radio with Al Murray and James Holland's “We have ways of making you talk” WW2 historical stuff.
What are you listening to?
I'm quite enjoying "the Crime Agents", "Strong Message Here" and "The Rest is Entertainment" at the moment
My regular listens are:
The Rest is History
Elis and John
3 Bean Salad
The Grade Cricketer
What Did You do Yesterday?
Running Commentary
13 Minutes to the Moon (series 1 and 2 being better than 3)
Occasional listens to The Rest is Football, The Rest is Entertainment and Lets Be Havin' You
Not a factual podcast, more of an online e-book really, but Sherlock &Co is quite entertaining. It's a reworking of the stories but brought up-to-date with Dr. Watson trying to create a true crime podcast. They're really quite funny.
If you're into history stuff there's the obvious The Rest Is History and also one which has started quite.recently, Journey Through Time with David Olusoga and Sarah Churchwell which I am enjoying at the moment
Another new one that can be a bit mind-blowing occasionally, but still a good listen, is The Rest Is Science with the lovely Professor Hannah Fry and Michael Stevens. The first episode on gravity fried my brain at times but was still fascinating.
Parenting Hell with Josh Widdecombe & Rob Beckett
The Two Matts
Oh God, What Now?
F1 Nation
F1:Chequered Flag
The Race F1 Podcast
The Late Braking F1 Podcast
Feel Better, Live More (Dr Rangan Chatterjee)
Infinite Monkey Cage
No Such Thing as a Fish
Skeptic's Guide to the Universe
My Dad Wrote a P0rn0
I like the various “ The Rest Is……” podcasts and find Bob Mortimers Athletico mince raises a smile. Might not be suitable for work but “my dad wrote a porno” can be funny, I do have a soft spot for Alice Levine though.
I have far too many on rotation but the top few are:
Elis & John (and Dave) - light entertainment for those of us on email (hi @lunge!)
Danny Wallace's Important Broadcast - if you are a citizen of the Kingdom of Lovely this will float your boat
That's Absurd, Please Elaborate - American science show that is a probably a bit of an acquired taste
The Bugle - political and sporting satire
Realms Unknown - sci-fi and fantasy review show from The Bugle team
Atlas Obscura - short dives into strange and curious places around the world.
Sad Oligarch - Tales of people who have met untimely endings at the hands of Putin and Co.
News Agents USA - As stuff about UK politics is too depressing...
Inside Trumps Head - Michael Wolff and Joanna Coles pick apart Mr Presidents mindset.
Behind the Bast**rds - Biographies of the worst people in history.
Inside Trumps Head - Michael Wolff and Joanna Coles pick apart Mr Presidents mindset.
that one's certainly fertile ground
Adjacent to the OP's WW2 podcast interest 'The Rest is Classified' maybe
I'm not a huge podcast listener tbh, but 2 that have accompanied me on hundreds of miles walking (as I guess has some relevance to me and my circumstances) are: The Hilarious World of Depression, and its follow-up series: Depresh Mode
Not all the content is relevant, though mostly fascinating. It's completely US centric, but I can listen to it for hours and have done so.
Some good suggestions above.
I'll add:
Evil Genius - comedians rates famous/successful people with some questionable pasts
Good Bad Billionaire - a bit dry compared to above but looks into various billionaires, where they started from and how they made their fortunes. (Arms dealers and drug dealers are more interesting than global business titans...)
Mark Steele's In Town - comedian tours around various UK towns and slags the town off in front of a local audience. (R4 series)
Photography podcasts:
The Photowalk
Fujicast
F-stop, collaborate and listen
Not photography:
About a girl
Newsagents
Mark Steele's In Town - comedian tours around various UK towns and slags the town off in front of a local audience. (R4 series)
Oh yes, I've just started relistening to these from the very beginning and they really are both interesting and very funny.
Don't know about the OP but there are some suggestions here that are really piquing my interest.
I think I may be coming a podcast addict and it's all Mssrs Murray and Holland's fault.
To get away from 6 music bringing me doom and politics on the half hour I switched to podcasts whilst driving a few years and just wanting laughs and interesting long form chats rather than anything specific.
I do like desert island discs however which while still radio does come in a podcast version.
Mark Steel's show is very good as well.
Big fan of Adam Buxton and Richard Herring's shows always interesting guests and conversations. Herring goes back to some people once a year and they always have something new, Bob Mortimer and Tim Key are well worth starting with.
top tier for me (walking dog/ riding to work)
- Elis & John (double retro oner, live listener, massive Robins apologist - he is on incredible.form since kicking the bottle)
- The rest is entertainment
- Parenting Hell (prefer the non guest eps)
- We buy records
- Mark Steele in Town
- Rockontours dependent on guest
Second tier
- The rest of 'The Rest is's'
- Off menu
- RHLSTP
- oh god what now
- Newsagents/ USA
- Americast
- Pod save America/ Pod save the UK
- British scandal (great for your Alice Levine fix @andy4d)
- What did you do yesterday
- Talk 90s to me
- Smartless
- Down the Dog
- Beef and Dairy
- Chart music
Fall asleep to:
- Bugle
- Wolf and owl
- What the **** is going on
- My mate bought a toaster
- Help I sexted my boss
- Cautionary tales
- Revisionist history
- Best idea yet
- Luke and Pete
Mine:
The Disciplined Investor
Wake up to money
Friday night comedy
IC Money Podcast
The Freak Zone on Radio 6
Michael Bradley on radio 6
Beat Surrender podcast on Nova Radio NE.
The ‘Terrible Lizards’ podcast and having a toddler have meant the last couple of years has got me back into being really interested in dinosaurs for the first time since the last millennium. Learned some biology along the way. Would recommend if you abandoned a childhood love of dinosaurs years back. Anything else I’d pick has already gone on the list.
Fall asleep to:
maybe look up old episodes of Jarvis Cocker's 'Wireless Nights'
Also the 'Sleeping Forecast' can be nice
Wolf and owl is brilliant. I read romesh ranganathans book and found it funny so started on his pod, it's brilliant.
Rob brydon
Fuelling around, Jason plato and Dave vitty
If you like cars, then I can recommend the CREAM TDC podcast.
Big fan of Adam Buxton and Richard Herring's shows always interesting guests and conversations. Herring goes back to some people once a year and they always have something new, Bob Mortimer and Tim Key are well worth starting with.
These are my favourites.
Also, No such thing as a fish - good for pub quiz question collecting.
Oh, Things the British Stole is good too.
No Such Thing As A Fish..... QI elves trivia.
In The News This Week.... From the writers of Have I Got News For You.
The Ancients.
The Europeans
Beef and Dairy Network
Fall of Civilizations (good if you want something to fall asleep to)
Russell Howard's Five Brilliant Things
This is a favourite of mine, a bit like an American version of In our time, but with a mixture of cerebral and "trashy" topics.
https://stuffyoushouldknow.com/
Smith and Sniff. If you're into Sade, Fish from Marillion, and occasionally cars, then you'll love it.
What platforms/apps are you using for these?
I've listened to a few of the Song Exploder ones (and a few were in a Netflix series).
I stopped when whatever app it was I was using previously on my mobile threw up random text/error files with every system update.
Off to check out some of the above.
Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford
Real Survival Stories
Another shout for WHWOMYT.
Three Bean Salad - For me it's just the funniest most enjoyable podcast ever. I even subscribed to their patreon for more stuff and I've never done that before.
It can be quite dangerous though, I was crying with laughter on the motorway at Henry Paker's Led Zeppelin impression and it was hard to stay in my lane.
Elis & John (double retro oner, live listener, massive Robins apologist - he is on incredible form since kicking the bottle)
I always knew you were a good egg @sc-xc. Add I could not agree more. Robins is insanely good at the moment.
I'm delighted that John is doing well having kicked the booze, but Elis is the one who makes me howl with laughter. The perfectly timed and weighted little barbs when John's on a roll have me in stitches.
Did either of you see the live show this year? I thoroughly enjoyed myself. Around the room in 18 Daves was a particular highlight.
Countrystride - a lovely gentle podcast mostly about the Lake District and Cumbria. One of the contributors, Mark Richards, does some lovely drawings and has published some Wainwright style books but with better maps!
What platforms/apps are you using for these?
I'm using Antenna Pod (Android only?)
It's mostly ok but for some strange reason, it doesn't seem to allow podcasts to be queued in chronological order within podcast. Its fine for when I'm walking the dog but not particularly slick when I'm driving as it doesn't always play the next episode and I can't control via voice controls....
If anyone has better recommendations, I'm all ears.
I tried Podcast Addict a couple of years ago but it was stupidly complicated (geeks only) whereas YouTube Music didn't have enough features when I last tried it...
Did either of you see the live show this year? I thoroughly enjoyed myself. Around the room in 18 Daves was a particular highlight.
@sboardman, I did, in Birmingham. The entire audience singing Cymru Connection was the highlight for me.
I really enjoy Empire, Anita Anand and William Dalrymple tracing the history of, well, empires. There's tons of them and they both sound like they have so much fun making it. Great stuff. 🙂
Duplipost. 🙁
I really enjoy Empire.
Yes me too particularly enjoyed the recent series on Gaza. Empire as a whole has cost me a fortune on books from their reading list though
Not a big listener to podcasts really as I tend to either listen to the radio or music. But, of the few I do listen to it's:
F1:Chequered flag
The history of rock in 500 songs (full of interesting and fascinating facts behind the songs)
Darknet Diaries
Because I don't listen very often I tend to just use the Podcasts app on the iPhone
If you like history try Betwixt The Sheets with Kate Lister, a bit saucy, funny and informative. He's retired now but Marc Maron has about 1700 podcasts so you should be able to find someone you like and they're good deep dive interviews. You could start with the Obama ones for example. I also love the Bugle and Here Comes The Guillotine with Frankie Boyle, Christopher MacArthur Boyd and Susie McCabe is very funny depending on your humour. It's all subjective though, I had to stop listening to Empire as it felt like they wanted to talk mostly about themselves before ending in irritating hysterical cackling. And William Dalrymple is a bit of a creep.
Another WHW listener. I like the new format of doing series rather than the general chats.
Occasionally stray onto Rest is football and various motorsport (over the limit)/motogp (oxleybom) ones.
Another for Elis and John, annoyed didn't see the most recent tour...
Will also mention, I listen to Elis and John via BBC Sounds, not podcast but some good radio stations to be listened to on catch up, I catch up with introducing rock and the indie show each week via Sounds.