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Really good podcasts
TobyD:
A few things on BBC sounds to start:
Sailing into History: truly incredible documentary about Robin Knox-Johnson sailing single handed around the world in the sixties.
Beyond Today: often a great listen on a huge range of topics.
Political thinking: Nick Robinson's podcast, he interviews prominent political figures and makes them seem human, even the ones you really disagree with.
moose:
BBC, In Our Time - you feel like a genius whilst listening, and forget it all almost immediately.
This American Life is occasionally excellent. I listen to Pod Save America for US politics - very partisan by ripe with 'insider' comment.
Anything on the Ringer podcast network for US pop culture and sport.
For football fans who like a bit of discursive chat, The Set Piece Menu. For football fans with a taste for analytics, The Double Pivot (by Michael 'xG' Caley), and Statsbomb. For just general love of the game, The Totally Football Show (James Richardson, ex of Gollazo), and the Guardian Football Weekly.
Danny:
Very Bad Wizards: informal, sometime irreverent science/philosophy chat
The Blindboy Podcast: one man in a room type craic
The British History Podcast: wonkish one man in a room stuff, but loads of episodes, and pretty good at times.
S-Town: very NPR, but the central character is a gem.
Caliphate: disjointed, but quite good.
Radiolab: evergreen, consistently good.
Jon Ronson's The Butterfly Effect and Last Days of August. Amazing stuff on the pr0n industry.
Joe Rogan: guest dependent. Sometimes great, sometimes tosh.
Malcolm Gladwell's Revisionist History: really like these.
Love + Radio: absolutely peerless IMO. Frequently very NSFW. Some episodes miss the mark, but more often they're amazing.
TobyD:
--- Quote from: moose on March 17, 2019, 11:09:01 pm ---BBC, In Our Time - you feel like a genius whilst listening, and forget it all almost immediately.
--- End quote ---
I love in our time, many of the episodes demand concentration though!
SEDur:
+1 one for Very Bad Wizards!
No Such Thing As A Fish can be fun sometimes: QI in a podcast
Theres a cool one called 'Song Exploder', which is where artists come in and deconstruct one of their own songs.
Some episodes of 'Art + Music + Technology' are interesting as there are interviews with a range of electronic synthesis people, but the interviewer sounds stoned 100% of the time.
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