I listen to a ton of podcasts so can't list them all but I've tried to whittle it down to my top ten.
1) Criminal - Interesting crimes throughout history.
2) The Allustionist - breaking down the meaning and origin of the English language.
3) Snap judgement - storytelling with a beat, super engaging shows with cool stories.
4) Hello Internet - two interesting guys having a chat about random stuff very entertaining.
5) Undisclosed - quite a heavy podcast following / trying to solve wrongly convicted prisoners.
6) Crimetown - a true story of an American towns criminal corruption (mafia, wiseguys etc)in the 60s-80s, amazing story and beautifully produced.
7) Startup - podcast about starting a company it includes the listener in the tough conversations reall shows the ups and downs etc. ( Espically season 1)
8) Planet money - economics made interesting, been a go to podcast for years
9) This American Life - great story telling always a easy go to for a drive.
10) Death sex and money - title says it all really well produced story telling about the things people avoid talking about
11) Painkiller already - 3 american blokes chatting about different topics, their lives, interviewing guests, trying to solve world problems in immature ways etc.
12) How I built this - how some of the biggest businesses in the world made it. I would highly recommend the patigonia episode. Great story!
13) we're alive - zombie audiodrama with a full cast, sound effects and super engaging story!
TWiT (This week in Tech - Leo Laporte has the best radio voice ever)
Adam Buxton
Book Shambles
Scroobious Pip / Distraction Pieces
Maybe Joe Rogan if its someone I like enough to listen to for 3 hours! (Henry Rollins was the last one I dug out)
Sam Harris
Any questions
Moneybox
Assorted R4 podcasts
What's happened to the iPhone podcast app since the update? It's garbage
Anyhow here's a few of my favourites
Untold; The Daniel Morgan Murder - unbelievable true tale of a murder in the 80's and how it's still be covered up today, bent cops, underworld gangsters and even the Fake Sheik is in there.Fantastic
Elis James and John Robins. Podcast of their Radiox show, funniest podcast by a country mile
Quickly Kevin Will He Score. Josh Widdicombe's 90's football show, great guests and very funny
True Crime Garage. Mainly American true crime
Bill Burr's Monday Morning Podcast, excellent American stand up rambles on about stuff that annoys him
Joe Rogan Experience, very good but depends on the guests so I just pick and chose which ones to listen to
Frank Skinner Show, podcast of his excellent radio show
In The Dark, great true crime pod about a 27 year old unsolved abduction case
Luke and Pete Show, 2 very funny blokes waffling on about interesting subjects
I forgot one I’ve really been enjoying lately:
Smersh Pod
A non-Bond nerd series of presenter + a guest talking through the James Bond films in order
Jocko podcast
Joe rogan
Dan Carlin (hardcore history and common sense)
bookmarking for later review, ta.
Stuff you should know
infinite monkey cage
No others at the mo...
DrP
For the climbers Grimmer's jamcrack podcast is a must - very entertaining interviews with legends like John Redhead, john Allen etc.
