VitalMTB
Hookit
Desert Island Discs
Soul Music

Wittertainment (aka Kermode & Mayo’s Film Review Show)
Marathon Talk
IMTalk

(Whispers quietly) Lance Armstrong’s ‘The Forward’ & ‘Stages’.

The Grade Cricketer (you’ll need to wait a month until the Australian test cricket season begins).
The 3 Domestiques (listen to the back catalogue, new ones start when the road season begins)

RHLSTP […RHLSTP]
The Archers
Kermode and Mayo
99% Invisible
The West Wing Weekly
The Bugle
Tiny Desk Concerts
Song Exploder

Adam Buxton’s ramble chat. Some good guests on here.

The Life Scientific

The Infinite Monkey Cage

The News Quiz with Miles Jupp.

All sounds very high brow I know, but in truth, they help me to nod off.

Hip Hop Saved My Life
The Memory Palace
The Bike Show Podcast from Resonance FM
Some of Tim Ferris interviews are good

This Paranormal Life is brilliant. Really funny , and constantly way off topic and sarcastic.

west wing weekly

Ed milliband’s new one, reasons to be cheerful is quite good.

99% invisible
More or less
No such thing as a fish
Desert island discs
In our time
Science in action
Twenty thousand hertz
Motor Sport Podcast
HD – NASA’s JPL

Add the downtime podcast to the list of mtb related ones, i’d put that in 2nd place behind vital.

Inside Science
Life Scientific (genuinely fascinating to hear the varied paths people took)
In our time (Melyvn Bragg finding out about anything!)
Naked Scientist
No such thing as a fish
Friday Night Comedy R4

The Cycling Podcast is always enjoyable.
Danny Baker Show for the pure joy he finds in listeners’ stories.
Speed Metal Cycling Podcast is on good form lately.
BBC ones not already mentioned – The Media Show, All in the mind, The bottom line, Scotland Outdoors.
Freakonomics is usually quite interesting and well-produced.

^some of the above^

plus

Radio Rectangle
Futility Closet
Revisionist History
old episodes of Robin and Josie’s Utter Shambles
Snap Judgement
The Allusionist

All sounds very high brow I know, but in truth, they help me to nod off.

for that you need

Wireless Nights

Flats and Shanks (rugby podcast)

Science of ultra.

Some more Radio 4 ones:

The Curious Cases of Rutherford and Fry
The Museum of Curiosity
The Horne Section

Rhod Gilbert’s Best Bits

Very, very funny

Beats In Space

Scroobius Pip is always quality and Athletico Mince (Bob Mortimer) is very funny

Running commentary

In addition to some of those above I’ll add,

Greg Proops Smartest Man in the World.
Marc Maron WTF.
Fighting Talk.
Fresh Air
Blues Kitchen
NPR All Songs Considered.
5 live sports specials.

+1 for scroobius pip

Another 99pi addict here.
Also:
This American Life
Radio Diaries
The Memory Palace
Answer Me This
RadioLab
Serial/S-Town

Do the right thing
Adam Buxton
Pappys Flatshare Slamdown
Kermode and Mayo
Ear Hustle
RHLSTP …. (RHLSTP)
Bugle
Distraction Pieces
Inside the Comedian
Ted Talks
Comedians Comedian

My recommendations are pretty comedy heavy

Answer Me This!
The Allergies Podcast
They Walk Among Us
The Comedian’s Comedian
Hip Hop Saved My Life
The Allusionist
The Modern Mann
World Service Documentaries

Podcasts are great….
More or Less (BBC)
Elements (BBC World Service)
All in the Mind (Australian version)
Exponent (sort of niche tech linked to Stratechery blog)
Coverville (for the occasional gems among the dross)
Hardcore History (Dan Carlin)
Common Sense (Dan Carlin ‘current affairs’)
War College (interesting stuff about global conflicts)
You are not so smart (up to date psychology and sociology)
LSE public lectures and events (skip a few, but every now and again there’s a really good one)
Heart Wisdom (Jack Kornfield)

how did this get made?

comedy bang bang

marc maron’s WTF

turned out a punk

athletico mince

spontaneation with paul f tompkins

Velonews and fast talk are both good, fast talk can get quite geeky if you’re interested in bike training, tech etc.

I hate the cycling podcast with a passion – just so dull and the tour/vuelta coverage was woeful, basically just reading out the key moments with no analysis, commentary or insight.

Currently only kermode and mayo at the moment but I think I’ll be looking at a few more after reading this thread.

Bookmarked, cheers.

Love podcasts, some great ones up there, and some I’ll check out.

To add to the list, 50 things that made the modern economy (bbc world service)

LTACY

JRE
Some Tim Ferris
Infinite monkey cage
Rapha podcast
Hardcore history
Radiolab
Revisionist history
The bike show podcast
The guardian long read
Bicycle touring pro
Freaknomics radio

Can’t believe we’ve got this far without mentioning ‘My Dad Wrote A Porno’

Had to pull the car over the other week as I was laughing so hard I was becoming a danger to myself and others.

I’m also a treacherous enemy of the people so the Remainiacs cast is essential listening.

Just bookmarking this so I can check some of these out.

The Moth

In our time
No such thing as a fish
Friday Night Comedy R4
Answer Me This
BBC Comedy of the Week
Behind the Stats
Richard Herring’s Leicester Square Theatre Podcast (RHLSTP)
Philosopher’s Arms
BBC Drama of the Week
The Infinite Monkey Cage
Stuff You Should Know
The Complete Guide to Everything

Hardcore histories. Can really pass the miles in the car.

Mayo’s confessions.
All the Tim Harford things
Economist week ahead is amusing listened to a week later when you can see how dismally wrong their predictions were.
Archers of course 🙂
Various science progs by BBC and guardian.

It’s basically radio catch-up for long car journeys for me.

Nobodys mentioned my dad wrote a porno because it’s rubbish. Three idiots shouting and screeching whilst one reads out some rubbish their dad supposedly concocted.