What are you listening to? Podcast version.

[Matt8500]

Interested to see if that works. You’ll have to convert the files as apple uses AAC not MP3, not sure if you can do in iTunes?

[crazyp]

Dipping my toes into fictional story podcasts. Marvel came up with a great idea - take a fan favourite hero, in this case Wolverine and give him a podcast. Wolverine: The Long Night is the result and it is utterly superb. Great detective story, amazing sound design and proper immersion. I highly recommend it and looking forward to cracking on with the follow up season.

The site below has some great ideas on the story theme I think Homecoming next. But will see what takes my fancy!

https://medium.com/the-mission/25-be...s-1019c46d6dc1

[jammie*dodger]

Video gaming:

The veteran gamers
The Xone bros
The video game podcast

Warhammer:
Lords and heroes
The independent characters
Life after the cover save


For anyone on android not sure how to listen I use the app podcast addict. Allows me to search for subjects of interest and keeps the podcasts al sorted. Also auto deletes after I have listened to save space.

[bitt3n]

for crime criminal podcast

https://thisiscriminal.com/

[tobywatches]

Started The Apology Line by Wondery yesterday and it was so good I thought I'd resurrect this thread.

A true story about an artist in the US who created an answer machine service for people to anonymously explain things they've done and talk about how they feel about them. As you can imagine, it all gets pretty dark. As told by the artist's wife. Some of you may remember it although it was when I was a very young kid so news to me. Amazing archive audio is used and it's well put together as I find most Wondery stuff is. 2nd ep came out today. Get on it!

[mickylall]

Two incredibly funny podcasts,

The Socially Distant Sports Bar
2 sports mad comedians and a journalist discuss clips, books and documentaries. In reality there's very little sports chat as they just wander off onto other topics

Chart Music
Music journalists pick an episode of Top Of The Pops and rip it to bits
Sounds crap but it's genuinely laugh out loud funny

[Mr Curta]

[magirus]

Attention Engineer.
Out to Lunch with Jay Rayner.
Four Thought.
Brian and Roger.
The Anthropocene Reviewed.

[bigvic]

The two that I have stuck with are totally different to eachother:

Hunting Ghislaine with John Sweeney and Quickly Kevin a funny look at 90s football.

[johnboy9876]

An update from me, a year on. my top 10 podcasts:

1. We Have Ways of Making you Talk - Brilliant WWII Podcast
2. Rugby Union Weekly - Rugby Podcast Ugo Monye is without doubt the best rugby pundit out there
3. 13 minutes to the Moon - Excellent Pod on the moon landing in 1969 hosted by kevin Fong
4. Chasing Cosby - All about Bill Cosy and his crimes
5. Where is George Gibney - Superb crime story
6. Adam Buxton Podcast - Good Interviews and humour
7. The Harrowing - Fictional Story, really well acted
8. Grand Casino - A good Hollywood based fake movie crime
9. Catching Melanie's Killer - UK Crime story
10. What a Flanker - I'm not a big James Haskell fan, but listen to the episode with Joe Mahler. Very thought provoking for anyone that has struggled mentally through lockdown


I'm always looking for recommendations, so please keep them coming


John

[Middo]

Uncle snoops army radio.

[Tokyo Tokei]

Some great ones mentioned here. The various classic BBC comedy podcasts seem to have expertly hit every quota other than "comedy" recently for me. I am sure the fault lies with this listener.

In the meantime, some other things I have found, not all of them comedic nor recent, but maybe interesting for some:

All Rather Mysterious - Classic mysteries of the past expertly "solved" by three detectives using the "key of fact". Hosted by John Rain of Smershpod acclaim

Needle Mythology - Pete Paphides talks about beautiful records, usually but not always with the people who made them

Backlisted - Old books re-evaluated by middle-aged publishing bores. It's worse, and better, than that sounds

Cabin Fever - What happens when three people in lockdown have nothing to say. It's an audio version of a empty pub

Clive James A Point of View - Old, sometimes contentious, but a reminder of what thoughtful radio once was.

Like most of us, James was always trying to make sense of the world. Unlike most of us, he could write well, be it about Dallas or Dante, movies or mortality. “The childish urge to understand everything doesn’t necessarily fade when the time approaches for you to do the most adult thing of all: vanish”. Ten minute episodes, worth twenty minutes of your time. Unlike most podcasts, which are the opposite.

[The_Perfect_Sandwich]

60 Songs that Explain the 90s.

Nostalgic, interesting, and the host is very funny and sharp. I believe it’s on Spotify only.

[JasonM]

100 objects that changed the world- Narrated and hosted by the curator of the British museum, BBC Sounds - Fascinating stuff, thoroughly recommended.

[Wolfie]

Listened to a lot of ‘The rest is history’

Dominic Sandbrook and Tom Holland are excellent

[number2]

Paul Temple mysteries BBC R4+ from 1956

[wildheart]

We have way's of making you talk - Just superb
The Rick Shiels golf Show - If your a golf addict its a must
Stories from the Open - Another golfers must!
That Peter Crouch Podcast - Brilliant so funny

[farquare]

2. Rugby Union Weekly - Rugby Podcast Ugo Monye is without doubt the best rugby pundit out there


John

Ugo isn't even close to that good in my opinion. Whilst I listen to it, it's my least favourite rugby offering.

Honours have to go to Ben Keyser from the French rugby podcast for me.

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[ralphy]

If you want something quite dark but fascinating try Caliphate. Amazing detail about Islamic State by an American journalist who follows them round Syria.

Impossible to describe. Just listen.

By all means listen, but also be aware of this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Huzaifa_al-Kanadi

R

[ralphy]

100 objects that changed the world- Narrated and hosted by the curator of the British museum, BBC Sounds - Fascinating stuff, thoroughly recommended.

I've been enjoying these broadcasts on R4.

R

[bubi]

Grumpy old geeks - what went wrong on the internet and who's to blame
Is my favourite.
I like thechy sciency listens

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[JasonM]

I've been enjoying these broadcasts on R4.

R

Its so good, Ive stared from the beginning again.

[bobocat]

‘The rest is history’. Apart from music, lately, I have been listening to a lot to various podcasts that are useful for me as part of my university studies. On the website https://graduateway.com/essay-exampl...cter-analysis/ I recently read some interesting articles about literary characters and their analysis and decided to listen to literary podcasts.

[drmarkf]

I don’t think these have been mentioned: a varied list…

Smith and Sniff.
The Grey NATO (about a lot more than just watches)
Mark Steel’s in Town
The Skeptics Guide to the Universe
The Rest is Politics.
Twenty Thousand Hertz

[Highroller]

You’re dead to me is fab! So entertaining and interesting. They have a BBC historian with a subject matter expert and a comedian. They discuss a topic in detail for about 45 minutes and it has never failed to impress!

[magirus]

Full Disclosure, hosted by James O’Brien.

[cyrusir]

Might not be everyone’s cup of tea but smartless with Jason Bateman and will Arnett is funny and if you are Irish the THL podcast is a must listen. Against the rules with Michael Lewis also very good.

[Wolfie]

‘The rest is history’

Listened to every episode…. It’s fantastic

[hansblix2001]

A couple of good ones:

Lazarus Heist - about the North Korean hack on Sony and more, very interesting.
Exit Scam - about Gerald Cotten and the Quadriga crypto scam.
The Mysterious Mr. Epstein - self-explanatory.

[JasonM]

How to invent a country- BBC sounds, really interesting, Germany, Italy, America, The Netherlands. It was amazing to me how recently Europe was so fragmented and how they all came together.

[Mr Curta]

[JasonM]

^ I love their Friday 5live show, very funny guys.

[PickleB]

Three episodes on BBC Sounds from Tuesday...From Socrates to Social Media, Rory Stewart explores the strange human phenomenon of arguing and why it matters so deeply to our lives: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00199xw.

[johnboy9876]

Here's a few that I am listening to right now

Wolf & Owl - Romesh Ranganathan and tome Davies, very funny
The Rewatchables - US based Pod taking a good old film each week and talking about it
The Adam Buxton Podcast - Funny Interviews with Adam Buxton
The Rugby Pod - Andy Goode and Jim Hamilton
Films To Be Buried With - Brett Goldstein asks celebrities about films in their lives through a series of funny questions
California City - Interesting true crime story about fraudulant land sales in the US


As an aside, does anyone use a good app to store and organise their podcasts? I can't seem to be able to do it very well on the Apple App


Thanks
John

[magirus]

As an aside, does anyone use a good app to store and organise their podcasts? I can't seem to be able to do it very well on the Apple App


Thanks
John

Overcast.

[Linc]

Current list.



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[tobywatches]

If you like footy listen to BBC Sounds’’ Moment of Truth. Incredible fly-on-the-wall doc about the final 3 months of the season with the Oxford and Rotherham managers. It’s absolutely sensational.


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[paw3001]

Infinite Monkey Cage - Brian Cox and Ince Funny and you learn stuff!

Friday Night Comedy - R4 stuff

13 Minutes to The Moon - Documentaries on Apollo 11 Landings and Apollo 13

Battersea Poltergeist - Documentary and reenactment - a bit silly but interesting.

Desert Island Discs - selected episodes

Earthsea if you can find it

Anasi Boys

All the above on/from BBC Sounds

[threescoops]

A few from me, hopefully mostly avoiding mentioning several already covered that I listen to.

99% Invisible - design, architecture and the built environment with tangents in all directions.

Gastropod - food: the history and science behind it.

I Spy - tales from spies.

Criminal - mentioned already, but excellent. Crime stories from modern to historical.

The Allusionist - fun with words, discussion of language. The swearing episode(s) are - of course - extra amusing.

Flash Forward - imagining what the future would be like if some unlikely/impossible event occurred

War on the Rocks - security, defence and foreign policy discussions.

A few older/fixed run productions:

Serial
S-Town aka Shit-town, also from Serial Productions.

[Wimm]

For those that are interested the Lazarus Heist is back with a new series on BBC sounds.

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[magirus]

The latest series of The Skewer is as excellent as the previous 7.

[barty9]

Anything goes - James English
Today in focus - The Guardian
UK True Crime
Secrets and Spies
Big Fish with Spencer Matthews
Paul McKennas positivity podcast
Darknet Diaries
New Conspiracist
The Missing
Mark Thomas KEYwords

[Wimm]

Citizen of Nowhere - Deliso Chaponda

Hilarious, entertaining and educational.

[Idc0001]

We have ways - the best Second World War podcast James Holland and al Murray

Smith n sniff - Johnny smith and Richard porter

What most people think - Geoff norcott

Collecting cars - Chris Harris & co

These are my weekly podcasts

[johnboy9876]

A few to update what I'm listening to now:

The Rest is Entertainent - Richard Osman and the Brilliant Marina Hyde

Flats & Shanks - 2 former Rugby Union pros, BBQ'ing, funny stories and a bit of Rugby too

BBC Rugby Union Weekly

Full Disclosure with James O'Brien

[Wimm]

The Gatekeepers on BBC Sounds.

Eye opening stuff.

[Wolfie]

Sideways and life changing on beeb player

Matthew Syed is so listenable and his podcasts always make you think / reflect

Life changing has some amazing stories…. 25 mins slips by

[Richie]

99% Invisible, at the moment

[Essexman]

Health Oddity - health and fitness.
The Dan John podcast - Health and fitness.
Catching the kingpins - The Encrochat hack. Really good insight to how the police across Europe hacked a criminal phone network and caught out OCGs.
Strange stories UK - UK crime stories. Worth going back through and finding the 3 or 4 podcasts on the Essex boys case for a very detailed overview.
The Matt Walker podcast - All about sleep.

[bubi]

My latest addition is "better offline"
A brit living in the usa explaining how the tech industry is fkd up and other stuff.


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