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History of English podcast. Many many episodes covering pretty much all of Indo-European history.
First Europeans, celts, Greeks, Romans, Germanic tribes and how all of this has influenced the English language.
I've started to listen to it less now that I'm listening about Ethel someone or other. Still interesting, mind.
Gossip mongers. Stories of people's local legends. Such as the guy who blew himself up at a petrol station by inserting the airline.
NickJB - What's the KLF podcast called ? It comes up with a few n my I Phone.
BBC puts out brilliant content. All been mentioned above but I’ve loved 13 Minutes to the moon, Missing Crypto Queen, Tunnel 29 and Fake heiress. I also listen to Scotland Outdoors and You’re Dead to Me.
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If you really want something a bit different, but incredibly interesting, try BBC’s
Tara and George - Series exploring the lives of two people in their late 40s who sleep rough in London's Spitalfields
It was originally on R4 i think and I’d be interested to know what others think of it.
Just to add a couple that I don't think have been mentioned:
Science Rules! Bill Nye's podcast about various science things.
Skeptics guide to the universe. Another largely science based one where the panel discuss topical developments.
Talk nerdy. Podcast of one of the above podcasts panel members where she interviews people, usually scientists of some sort.
My dad wrote a porno. A guy's dad wrote a porno book. There guy and friends read and comment on it, the book is pretty bad so it's pretty funny.
Little bump, anyone found anything interesting recently? Ideally not BBC content as Aunty won't let me download them to my Garmin watch from Spotify (a known issue).
Personally, despite having no kids, Lockdown Parenting Hell with Josh Widdicombe and Rob Beckett is very good indeed.
Also, 13 Seconds to the Moon is about the Apollo programme and is INCREDIBLE, series 1 is on Apollo 11, series 2 on Apollo 13 is even better.
Infinite Monkey Cage.
I listen to it when walking the dog and kid myself that I understand it...
The Stubborn Light of Things - zen nature stuff
Fortunately... with Fi and Jane - v funny
The Fighter Pilot Podcast. Very American-military-aviation-centric, but quite enlightening listening to them telling tales of derring-do and their training. Just don't mention friendly-fire incidents, although to be honest I've stopped listening to this since listening to the excellent 'On the Ground' about the death of Matty Hull - although this is on BBC Sounds, so of no help!
If you find a way to work around your BBC issue, then The Missing Cryptoqueen is interesting. Real life documentary which is still regularly being updated about what basically what appears to be a sham cryptocurrency in which people have invested millions and the lady who was the face of it appears to have done a runner with everyone's money. You don't need an interest in crypto currency to listen to it. It is more exposing of confidence tricksters, pyramid schemes and organised crime. I found it very interesting.
I've also recently got in to 'St Elwick's Neighbourhood Association Newsletter Podcast'.
The premise is that it is a neighborhood community newsletter that has been forced to go online. Full of silly local news, bumbling interviews and curtain twitching from a made up middle England community somewhere near Exeter. Put together by the comedian Mike Wozniak, but has a bit of an Armando Iannucci feel to it.
The Bike Show by Jack Thurston. General cycling but tilted towards touring.
Space brothers -Bmx and beyond. Interviews with main mid and old school legends.
Downtime podcast - DH/ enduro
If you like a bit of WW2 history, try We Have Ways of Making You Talk.
Al Murray and James Holland talk about all aspects of WW2 history and have some great guests on as well.
Louis theroux grounded, don't listen to Miriam Margolyes episode when your 13 year old daughter is in the car though, don't ask me how I know this.
Very good.
Cognitive Dissonance is good, American atheist/skeptics talking in a very un-PC way about US politics and the religious right etc
I've scanned the historic posts and can't see it mentioned, but a shout of the George the poet BBC sounds as well, sorry.
I listen to bugger all in the way of podcasts as I can't work out where and when to listen to them, but I've found some time for most of this so far.
If you have a passing interest in Rugby, then The Good, The Bad and The Rugby is hilarious.
If you can get past the initial opinion of James Haskell, then his podcast with his wife Chloe Madley is absolutely hilairous - if a little low brow at times.
If you like politics:
- Pod Save America - for everything domestic in the US - Obamas old team present, and are hilarious and very insightful
- Pod Save the World - Ben Rhodes and Tommy Vietor discuss everything foreign affairs with often special guests we all know and love - again, funny, illuminating. Ben's story about walking in on the Queen having a poo was hilarious.
- Reasons to be cheerful - with Ed Milliband. My opinion of Ed is very different now I've listened to these. A very very clever man.
Technology:
- Land of the Giants
-- Series 1; all about Amazon as a business - the good, and more often than not, the bad.
-- Series 2; Netflix. I literally had no idea how bad they were as a business to work for.
Might have more, but mainly these.
I listen to bugger all in the way of podcasts as I can’t work out where and when to listen to them, but I’ve found some time for most of this so far.
I listen when working or driving long distances if I am organised. For apps mainly SoundCloud, player FM and BBC sounds mainly. I don't subscribe to anything so mainly listen online but do download BBC and can download the rest but requires some technical knowledge of you are being naughty.
Gossipmongers.
My mrs. always wakes up and asks what I'm laughing at in bed when I'm supposed to be asleep.
I love 13 Minutes To The Moon, the BBC Sounds series (plural) about the Apollo 11 and Apollo 13 missions - possibly the best podcasts I've ever listened to.
I really enjoy The Rule Of Three podcast where two comedy writers interview a comedian or writer each week about their favourite piece of comedy. The concept sounds a bit dry but it's actually a brilliant insight into comedy writing and it's usually very funny.
I've found both series of The Dream fascinating - a US podcast investigating, in the first series, the dodgy world of Multi Level Marketing (pyramid schemes) and how they basically became legal, and in the second series the crazy "wellness" industry and how Americans' obsession with freedom has been used to deregulate and endanger lives while selling snake oil.
Chasin the Racin, good motorbike racing banter.
Scroobius Pip - great conversations.
Watts occuring - G & Luke Rowe talking cycling.
There are some belters on BBC Sounds. Especially the true crimes stuff. They go really in-depth with it all
The Waco David Koresh documentary 'End of Days' is absolutely fascinating
The guy who was the main man on Channel 4's Hunted on tracking a criminal down Manhunt: Finding Kevin Parle
Paradise about a young British couple killed in Belize in the 70's and finding their murderer decades later
And then on a completely different tangent, the second summer of love and the birth of the acid house scene. Belting soundtrack too
History of the world in 100 objects was dry but fascinating
You're dead to me is a lot more light-hearted
BBC.CO.UK Mysterious cases of Rutherford & fry
Inside science is a more serious one
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b036f7w2/episodes/downloads
More or less on the BBC is fantastic.
Examining the statistics used in the news from an objective standpoint. You really feel like you have actually got the true story or angle after listening
It's episodes on testing numbers in the UK, especially around the 100,000 number, both correct and create the news headlines.
I'm going to betray a little irish bias here but West Cork on Amazon Audible is worth doing the free trial for. Very like Serial from this American Life.
The Nobody Zone - untold story of the guy who might be UK's biggest ever serial killer
The Sun King - about Murdoch narrated by David Dimbelby is really good again on Amazon Audible
Finally - Stories of our Times by the Times newspaper investigative team excellent. Not every episode but one or two each week.
+ 10000 for gossip mongers, though anyone have an idea why Poppy left?
Here’s a list of podcasts in my library, some I listen to every week, others just as and when there’s a guest I like
No balls
The last post
Stumped
RHLSTP
The good the bad and the rugby
Off menu
Brian Blessed’s bedtime stories
The Bugle
Out to lunch
TMS
Gossip mongers
Smith and Sniff
No such thing as a fish
Jason fox wild tales
Overland archive (bikepacking)
Tailenders (tailendersoftheworlduniteandtakeover! Go well!)
common sense tells me you google them, play them on your phone, and then bluetooth to car stereo. seems a bit of a faff tho so not sure
It serpently is a blimmin faff. I remember when all you had to do was select AM/FM/LW then turn a dial until the wee-woo-hiss-squarble noises became English people talking and/or music and then you stopped turning. The only other thing you needed to do was show up at the right moment or else you’d miss it.
Nowadays its tooth this and pods that, droids vs Samsomething or is it Apples? Casting? Give ne a break. ‘Casting’ is when you send your bait out on a line. Or is that some clever euphemism those internet people used to describe baiting listeners with all these new types of talking words?
And that’s before the actual talky-stuff happens. Which seems these days to be all about cryptocancelconspiracies or ‘dark intellect’ or some other made up stuff to sound ‘new’ 😕
That all said, I did finally happen across a podradio channel named ‘Sasquatch Chronicles’. I subscribed and at first found it to be an ideal cure for insomnia. Gravelly Mostly American voices talking about ‘logging trails’ and reminiscing about:
I lived in a rural area in Pennsylvania. I remember going down this road and I had this bike and the chain would always come off. I looked down at my chain and had a feeling I was being watched I looked up and saw this thing watching me...
The Bugle is my own favourite. Very funny. Truly awful puns.
I also like We Are History for a lighthearted look at some of the less well known bits of history.
The Interplanetary Podcast is good if you have an interest in space.
Plubing the Death Star can also be good fun, but depends on the subject.
Pod bible podcast is a good place to hear about other podcasts - it’s where I heard about gossipmongers which is simply wonderful in a horrific way
For Your Reconsideration is a cracking little films podcast. More about Total Recall than any Oscar winning stuff.
This American Life for brilliant storytelling and journalism. So many podcasts sound like it because they copy it.
More Or Less for a statistics and fact based approach to the headlines.
Missed Apex Podcast. About F1 and on first impressions the host is quite annoying but it's a decent listen and is worth sticking with.
Guardian Football. Just very good. They keep it fresh by rotating good journos in to supplement Rushden and Glendenning as the presenting side.
Football Clichés. A different angle on football diving into a second layer of analysis of the analysis and language of it all.
I find it hard to listen to a post John Oliver Bugle, but it's ok ish. Just not the same. Nish is OK but they need a heavy hitting satirist to fill the hole - it's just a lot of easy anti Tory or Brexit swipes.
Just discovered Wilko Johnson's podcast. First episode is great - he's talking to Norman Watt-Roy. Just two 70 year old legends talking about music - it's fantastic. Available on Spotify -
I find it hard to listen to a post John Oliver Bugle, but it’s ok ish
He guested on an episode a few weeks ago, that was good.
Which podcast app are people using? I'm totally new to podcasts & recently downloaded Podbean on to my Ipad. I haven't done a lot of searching but up to now I'm struggling to find much of interest.
Can't find any Brian Blessed stuff for instance.
If you’re into music then Ive really been enjoying the 6 music Marc Riley and Rob young A-z of music podcasts. So far psych, punk and David Bowie
ooh i caught a couple of the punk ones and thought itd be great to hear the lot. where do i find them and how do i listen to them? deezer on my phone? internet? (never listened to any podcasts yet)
cheers
I listen to a few already mentioned these are just some others that I've also enjoyed;
via Spotify (& others)
Do The Right Thing
The Horne Section Podcast
My Time Capsule
The one on the Chernobyl mini series (as Ben is there now)
via Sounds
The Unbelievable Truth
Evil Genius
The News Quiz - new host Zaltsman has been good
I use Pocket Casts on Android.
Didn't see them mentioned yet so:
Behind the Bastards - looking closely at assorted awful people from history.
Revisionist History - All kinds of fascinating stuff examined closely
The Blindboy Podcast - General rambling, some short stories. I find it really relaxing.
Quite old now but the first few series of My Dad Wrote A Porno are excellent.
Desert island dicks is a good one to listen too
Some rugby ones that havent been mentioned:
The Rugby Pod (not serious)
Eggchasers (Serious)
Rugby Union Weekly (Serious)
Also reccommend The Inquiry (BBC, short format, one topic with four 'experts')
Oh and the chernobyl podcast was brilliant too, but watch the series its based on first!
Dan Snow History Hits, some absolute shite and some absolute gems, think historical podcast lottery.
For rugby fans add ruck it with Kieran bracken, the earlier ones with Nick easter were better. Some good guests and funny stories.
Jake Humphreys hi performance
Fearne cotton happy place
Don't tell me the score
I usually search for peoples names, they seem to be tagged on various pods so you find something new. Works on doublepod app anyway.
Cheers, top suggestions
just giving this thread a gentle bump as it occurred to me that i regularly dig out the "boxsets" thread to see what the STW massif have been watching - would be good if this provided similar for the ears.
following the excellent TiRed talks to STW towers,
i also had a listen to the QAnon one, warning: advert heavy
this afternoon the VR exercise "being the president of the US Govt with 300 ICBMs incoming"
THEGUARDIAN.COM at the other end of the spectrum listen out for anything new by Doug Stanhope
https://www.dougstanhope.com/
and his buddy and sometime co-host Chad Shank, who you can join for a beer on the porch...
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1230963743
East Coast Listening Post
A spoof of a NPR style podcast really but very good fun - well observed down to the presenter-read adverts that are only slightly less plausible then the stuff most podcasters have to read out for money
