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Going to be stuck on a ferry for 9 hrs this weekend and then I have a week at the mother in laws which due to the covid restrictions in Holland means I can’t even escape to the pub…so I need something to listen to whilst the wife is deep in conversation after a 2 year pandemic induced gap
Like science, literature and history.
..and bikes
The Lazarus Heist
13 Minutes To The Moon
The Bomb
There was a lengthy post on podcasts a while ago, which is where I got these from..!
Countrystride, very gentle, informative walks around, well, the country! Also the three “year in the life of a mountain” programmes available on BBC I player, combined they may give you some inner peace or, make you pine for hills!
Definitely 13 minutes to moon if you've not already done it, both series are excellent.
If you have an interest in WW2 then We Have Ways Of Making You Talk is good. No jingoism and really makes me think about how Britain's version of WW2 has been shaped to suit certain narratives.
You're Dead To Me is pretty good too.
Obvious, but Radio 4 ‘In Our Time’?
There’s years decades’ worth of them available. Around 50 mins per episode. Just found them on my (iOS) podcast app.
Adam Buxton
No such thing as a fish
Curious cases of Rutherford and Fry
Two trivia/science related ones I keep coming back to
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I’ll add to the votes for 13 minutes to the moon, and second ‘no such thing as a fish’.
I love ‘Curious cases of Rutherford & Fry’ too.
And ‘in our time’ is great.
Slightly more off the trend…
‘Twenty Thousand Hertz’ is good, all about sound design & audio things.
‘99 percent invisible’ is a long term favourite. Started off about architecture & design, branched out a bit, went via flags & vexillology and is now at anything-thoughtful-and-interesting. Highly recommended.
‘Strong songs’ is my current favourite and if feel bad if I didn’t spread the word. An in-depth look at a single song each week, usually about an hour. Has covered tracks from Frozen to Miles Davis, Radiohead to Muse, Rush to Bjork. I love it.
13mins was great (apart from the repetition)
I do listen to IOT every now again but Bragg annoys me and quite often the subject is just too esoteric for me
Didnt realise there was a thread already will check it out.
Some of my faves...
Behind the Bastards - background about horrible people in history, everything from Joe Stalin to John Harvey Kellogg.
Philosophise This - fun primer on philosophy, broadly chronological.
Revisionist History - weird and fascinating stories about all sorts of overlooked subjects
Off Menu - popular personalities pick their dream meal. Trashy but fun
My Dad Wrote a Porno - sort of self explanatory
This American Life - absolute ton of these, stories from American life (sounds trite, but it's well done) on a weekly theme. Often odd or interesting.
Try British Scandal - it’s a wondery podcast, a light touch on famous British scandal stories.
The Rest is History is very good Tom Holland, a classical historian and elder brother of James Holland (we have ways of making you talk - which I found too verbose) and Dominic Sandbrook who is a modern historian. The podcasts are lightly disciplined so whilst there is plenty of humour it doesn't become the main event and the subjects are covered well often with the most eminent of experts helping out.
An Australian one i like: Off Track
"Off Track combines the relaxing sounds of nature with awesome stories of wildlife and environmental science, all recorded in the outdoors."
Paul Sinha has done a fee entertaining ones. The Sinha Carta is good for history and general knowledge one wanders through many subjects.
For mountain bikes, I'm a big fan of Downtime. Also Making Up the Numbers is good.
In a similar vein to Adam Buxton - Brydon And... and Louis Theroux's podcasts are good.
We got a 3 month trial on audible for 99p. We listen to As Yet Untitled ,the Alan Davis programme off the telly.
I am currently much enjoying The Moth - live storytelling, completely random stories from one week to the next.
We Have Ways of Making You Talk
History Hit
Mariners Mirror
Before podcasts, there was radio, and the BBC Sounds App has a MASSIVE store of, genuinely, probably the finest radio content in the world (which they now call podcasts, cos they have to). For me there is absolutely no need to go anywhere else.
For me there is absolutely no need to go anywhere else.
There's loads of stuff on the BBC sounds app fo'shure, but you're missing out on loads on other content.
My recommendations
another vote for Behind the Bastards, and We Have Ways of Making You Talk.
Pinkbike is always fun and interesting, and for another History pod The History of England is well researched and scripted.
+1 13 Minutes to the Moon, it's fantastic.
And Downtime of course.
Been enjoying 'Stuff the British Stole'
Slow Burn is excellent
S-Town (from Serial creators)
The Fault Line (Dimbleby presented series on the build up to the Iraq War)
There’s loads of stuff on the BBC sounds app fo’shure, but you’re missing out on loads on other content.
I think you have to define 'missing out'. There's doubtless other stuff on other platforms that I'd enjoy, but there's more than enough stuff on Sounds that I think is excellent to fill the time I have available to listen to stuff.
It's like Netflix, Prime, Sky, AppleTV yadda yadda yadda. All have good stuff, sure, but we watch about an hour's worth of telly, maybe two at a push, a night, and we can easily fill that with quality stuff from iPlayer. Consequently we binned off all the 'premium' services.
(I'm not having a dig, BTW, it's just an observation on the plethora of media sources that are available, and the bamboozlement of choice, never mind FOMO, that can come with it)
Bizarre attitude (IMO)! One thing I love about podcasts is, [I]anyone[/I] can do one. Yes there are stacks of rubbish ones, but there are loads of hidden gems too even if many are amateurish and lack polish. Retro Ramble is one of my favourites - two brothers talking very enthusiastically (and at great length) about mainly 80s/90s movies. The early ones are virtually unlistenable due to the fact they had no idea what they were doing with their mics, etc. But good fun. Obviously you're not going to get any of this kind of content on the BBC app!For me there is absolutely no need to go anywhere else.
Same with some hobby ones I listen to - beer brewing, home automation, all kinds of different stuff. Podcasts are a great way of keeping up with current developments, hearing new ideas etc without having to constantly trawl the internet - it's not always about entertainment!
Not scienbce as such
History of The World In 100 Objects
Pinkbike podcast (best biking one imho)
Inside Science (BBC)
You're Dead To Me (history stuff)
Clinton Baptistes Paranormal Podcast (exploring are-souls)
Lovecraft Investigations (cant wait for next series)
Talking Sopranos (is excellent if youre a fan)
My dad Wrote a Porno (so funny I nearly crashed my car laughing so hard)
Kurupt FM Podkast (Brentfords finest)
oh, and to actually answer the OP with recommendations for science-y ones: my absolute favourite podcast is Stuff You Should Know - mainly for the shear breadth of topics they discuss. I also occasionally listen to Daniel and Jorge Explain the Universe, it's quite heavy going but they do a great job of explaining very complex stuff so the layman can understand it!
Thanks guys - loads of good ideas there.
In regards to the BBC app, yes of course its great but its all.....y'know BBCish and sometimes (quite often actually) I prefer a different take on stuff.
Has anyone listened to The Big Steal or Hemingways Picasso yet?
but there’s more than enough stuff on Sounds that I think is excellent to fill the time I have
I totally get that view point. There's loads of really good stuff on the BBC site. The only thing I would say about other media, is that you don't have BBC rules and regulations hampering the output.. I listen to a podcast called "I Don't Speak German" it reports on (largely) US fascism via material gathered from the their own "safe spaces" I don't think the BBC would go near it with a barge pole because of the possible lible issues. There's been several podcasts I've listened to about QAnon that have named people as being the instigator of that conspiracy again in a way the BBC wouldn't do.
I think the BBC output is amazingly good, I think other sources have greater freedoms.
but there are loads of hidden gems
Undoubtedly. However, I lack the time and, if I'm honest, the inclination to find them.
I think of BBC Sounds like my local, excellent, off-license - it's convenient and I know it'll have a good selection of the things I like to drink. I could travel around and try others to see what they have, and/or look in online beer and wine merchants, but I don't because I don't feel I need to, and I don't feel I'm missing out as I'm enjoying quality booze.
Forgot; Smith & Sniff, on that side of things
I listened to the first couple of '39 ways to save the planet' yesterday and really enjoyed them.
Lazarus Heist is an eye opener and a bit of a history lesson too.
Kurupt FM Podkast (Brentfords finest)
OMFG - going to download right now. Selecta!
Pinkbike podcast (best biking one imho)
Agreed, particularly the episodes with Richard Cunningham talking about his life - maybe start with one of those OP.
Kurupt FM Podkast (Brentfords finest)
Seems to only be available via Audible?
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One I found recently - Tim and Gend's Weekend podcast.
Two guys chatting about what they did at the weekend. Ex-pro snowboarders Tim Warwood and Adam Gendle. Tim W did the action sports stuff at the Olmypics in his Hawaiian.
Very light and unstructured, if you like them you like them, just half an hour or so in the company of some likeable chaps.