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We normally listen to infinite monkey cage or RHLSTP on a long drive but we've just finished the KLF million quid one which was ace. So what else is there out there to try?
The Moth
This American Life
BBC Friday Night Comedy Show
Adam Buxton
Blood on the Tracks for music and people stuff, some interesting guests and stories
I listen to loads of podcasts when I’m driving around. Mostly to avoid the rubbish on the radio during the day. Here’s a list of the ones I’ve enjoyed. Most could be started from the first episode or picked up.
Distraction Pieces Podcast - Scroobius Pip talking to interesting comedians, musicians, actors, writers.
Athletic Mince - Bob Mortimer’s football podcast. It’s pure Mortimer and has no relevance to football. Very funny. Start on ep1 to get the full stories and jokes.
Quickly Kevin Will He Score - podcast about 90’s football. If you don’t like football don’t bother.
Danny Baker Show - it’s his Saturday morning 5 Live show without news or traffic. Easy listening and normally funny.
Baker & Linekar - weekly football podcast with stories from their past. Some great Gaza’s stories.
Adam Buxton Podcast - similar to distraction pieces
Evil or Genius - Russell Kane and others discuss famous people and if they evil or genius. 30 mins long.
At Home with Colin Murray - there are a load of episodes of Colin Murray speaking to sports people about their life and career. Some very funny stories and some insights into their careers that you don’t normally get.
I listen to loads each week but that should get you going with some old episodes and the new content being released.
Drifters - Soft and gentle, and lots of talk of socially awkward people of doing awkward things. Pleasant listening.
Free Weekly Timed - Parkrun chat, don't listen if you don't Parkrun, it'll make no sense at all.
The Grade Cricketer - Brilliant, funny, slightly dark cricket chat. Australia focused but broad enough to cover the rest of the globe.
Running Commentary - Very funny running chat with a couple of comedians.
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
I'll try that blood on the tracks podcast, talking about music/dancing about architecture is what I'm into
As Mike says ,some of the Blood on the tracks podcasts are excellent https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09wgfst
Outlook
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00jz8v4
Just been listening to the Gander one
Not exactly 'fun' but really, really interesting. End of Days. Its a really detailed documentary about the Waco seige right from how they recruited people from Manchester into the cult of Koresh and got them to move out to Texas, right through to the horrible bloody end. Absolutely fascinating!
Another vote for 'At Home with Colin Murray' as well
Personal favourites are:
BBC The News Quiz from R4
No Such Thing as a Fish (makers of QI)
The Bugle
The Curious Cases of Rutherford and Fry
If you like film:
Empire Magazine
Kermode and Mayo
Pilot TV
Kermod on Film
No such thing as a fish is really good.
So is the friday news quiz from the BBC comedy one
Hardcore History - more of a work of art than a history podcast
Adam buxton - as mentioned above
Hello internet - chat about vaugely sciency / internet things
Planet Money - short podcasts on popular economics
Freakonomics - popular economics (very broad definition of that!)
Criminal - pod cast about criminals / people who were called criminals
Science Vs - popular science podcast
How I built this - founders of companies discuss how they got to where they are
Page 94 - Private eye podcast
Measuring up - Two guys off you tube discuss woodworking / joinery business (much better than it sounds!)
Behind the bastards - Comedians learn about a monster from history (or current events) - the one on Paul Manafort is eye opening
The history of rome - monster series documenting rome from the start to the end
The butterfly effect - the effect of pornhub on the porn industry (much better than it sounds!)
Pod save america - US politics show, from a democratic point of view
My favourite murder - two comedians covering real life crime
Joe Rogan experience - Joe Rogan does interesting interviews
Pod save the world - Like Pod save america but covering liberal politics and issues across the world
Slow burn - history of the monica lewinksy / clinton affair explains how we got to today!
Today in focus - guardian newspaper podcast - current affairs
Standoff - history of the ruby ridge siege
The move - cycling podcast with lance armstrong (dormant under the season starts)
This pod cast will kill you - couple of phds tell you everything you want to know about various dieseases in a fun and engaging way
Our ludicrous future - youtubers cover electric cars and spaceflight
The bechdel cast - comedians look at a different movie each week and discuss if it passes the bechdel test (look it up)
Marc Maron's WTF, especially if you've got a platform that gives you access to all 700+ episodes. some true greats in there, and some utterly absorbing conversations with some people you've never heard of.
https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2017/06/the-25-best-wtf-with-marc-maron-episodes.html
The Life Scientific - "Professor Jim Al-Khalili talks to leading scientists about their life and work".
Baker & Linekar – weekly football podcast with stories from their past. Some great Gaza’s stories.
Long time listener to the Candyman but I did not know about this, thanks.
🙂
"The Beef and Dairy Network" podcast. Supposedly it is for those working in, or just interested in the beef animal and dairy herd industry.
It is actually a spoof of a magazine type podcast for the aforementioned industry. Put together by some comedians who do a fair bit of R4 comedy and sketch stuff. Think of it as like an audio version of "Look Around You", or The Day Today /Brass Eye.
Give it a couple of episodes before making your mind up. They are only around 10-15 mins long.
I really like Escape This Podcast. Self-described as "a cross between escape rooms and traditional table-top role-playing games," each episode has the team or guests trying to solve puzzles to escape a scenario described by their host.
Someone else mentioned The Bugle (which is ace). Andy's sister presents The Allusionist, which is a look at words and language. It's interesting and fascinating if you like that sort of thing.
A couple more that I don't think have been mentioned:
- That Peter Crouch Podcast - genuinely laugh out loud funny perspective on football
- Last Podcast on the Left - very funny and frequently offensive podcast on the supernatural, serial killers, cults and the unexplained... in fact there are quite a few podcast on the Last Podcast network that are worth a listen
- The Bugle - Andy Zaltzman lies about about the news this week (it was better with John Oliver when he was on it before he got famous, but I have a bit of a thing for Alice Fraser who's a regular contributor so it keeps me happy)
[edit - ok, so the post literally one above this mentioned the Bugle but it's still worth a listen]
I listen to Stuff You Should Know, but the presenters are OK, not amazing
Anything similar like that?
My Favourite Murder - two US Comedians tell each other True Crime stories lots of catchphrases as they obvs have a big and weird fanbase but it's good fun, sort of...
Planet Money has some really interesting episodes, the money laundering bank one recently in particular.
The Dream, a series about multi level marketing schemes (pyramid schemes)
Caliphate, New York Times journalist reporting about the Islamic State.
All Killer No Filler. Very funny show about serial killers but mostly funny because of the banter between the hosts.
Sorry to drag up an old post, anything new in 2020! Love technology & sport.
That Peter Crouch Podcast - you can hear him thinking "I probably shouldn't have started this story" about halfway through each item
Philosophize This! is interesting, it's been going a long time but still new episodes. Not a quick listen, it's worth starting at episode 1 (it's up to 137 now).
Imaginary Advice
In the episode S.E.I.N.F.I.E.L.D is about trying to train a Neural Net to do standup comedy.
https://soundcloud.com/ross-sutherland/45-seinfeld
Sorry to drag up an old post, anything new in 2020! Love technology & sport.
I think these are both 2019 but Tunnel 29 is great (but neither tech nor sport) and I'm part way through the Missing Cryptoqueen which is interesting and loosely tech based.
I love The Dollop, its an American (and elsewhere) history podcast by two comedians, can be very very funny, big archive. The Disco Demolition Night one is amazing.
When Saturday Comes is fairly new - if you were a fan of the fanzine then it's pretty good.
Similarly, if you were a football fan in the 90s then Quickly Kevin Will He Score can be really good. Recent one with Darren Huckerby as a guest was ace.
99% Invisible is kind of addictive, a podcast about the design of things.
I really like the Listening Service as well, as a non-trained barely-competent musician it's very relatable.
Ear Hustle - if you want to know the finer details of how San Quinten prison works.
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I listen to Stuff You Should Know, but the presenters are OK, not amazingAnything similar like that?
Interesting, I think Chuck and Josh are great! Takes a few listens to get into their rapport as they’ve been together for so long but I end up getting actual lolz from them. Plus it’s just good to have such varied topics to listen to on the way to/from work
I'm quite enjoying the following during my dog walks;
BBC 4's Moral Maze
Meaningful Money
Life Scientific
The Modern Mann
Wild Ideas worth living
The week unwrapped
Living Adventurously (Alastair Humphries latest venture)
Philosiphise this
Stuff you should know
Tim Hartford - Cationary Tales
Because getting sex magic into a podcast about blitzkrieg is an achievement worth listening to.
Missing crypto queen was brilliant. Fake heiress was really enjoyable, it’s really well put together.
Looking at my list on my phone:
Sport:
Running Commentary is a great, easy listen.
The Grade Cricketer is very funny indeed, but you need to like cricket, ideally Aussie cricket
Tailenders is more cricket but much more light and English cricket based.
Quickly Kevin, for lovers of 90's football.
Looking Sideways, for action sports.
Off Bike with David Millar I thought I would hate but the 3 episodes so far have been good, particularly the one with Paul Smith.
Food and drink:
The Nightcap, basically Michelin starred chefs talking shop.
Out to Lunch with Jay Ranyor is chat over dinner.
Rusty's Garage
Talks to mainly Aussie motorsport riders, drivers, mechanics etc. Some real interesting stuff.
okay, as someone who struggles a bit with tech, you all seem to be doing a lot of podcast listening whilst driving......
i wouldnt know how youd listen to one in the car, or where youd find them all.
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. how do you know what theyre called before you search tho?
c'mon then, how do you all find and play podcasts?
+1 for Cautionary Tales, one of the best things I found late last year.
It was trailled on 99% Invisible, which I now struggle to listen to after Adam Buxton's latest Squarespace ad rips the piss out of Roman Mars.
c’mon then, how do you all find and play podcasts?
with a podcast app - such as the one that comes as standard on iPhones or something like 'Casts' and dozens of other. The BBC has bundled its live radio, catch up and and own podcasts all into the BBC Sounds app. They all give you a means to search for, download, subscribe to, and playback your podcasts.
c’mon then, how do you all find and play podcasts?
There's an app for that.
I've found PocketCast and Player FM both to be decent but there are many, many others, on Android at least. Presumably there's also iEquivalents.
One that I listen to that hasn’t been mentioned above - Off Menu with James Acaster and Ed Gamble
Adam Buxton’s latest Squarespace ad rips the piss out of Roman Mars.
As a very well observed piss take of the podcast format and style and particularly the presenter-presented-ads... East Coast Listening Post on BBC Sounds
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0006ds4
c’mon then, how do you all find and play podcasts?
Find a podcast app on your phone. The standard Apple one is fine, Spotify or Google Podcasts also work as does Acast.
Search for some of the above, you'll then find similar listed with them in the search.
Get your phone to communicate with your car stereo, Aux lead, USB, BlueTooth, whatever is easiest.
okay, as someone who struggles a bit with tech, you all seem to be doing a lot of podcast listening whilst driving……
i wouldnt know how youd listen to one in the car, or where youd find them all.
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. how do you know what theyre called before you search tho?
c’mon then, how do you all find and play podcasts?
Finding good stuff is the hard bit, hence threads like this. I've not found any app that does "you liked that, so try this" well so you need to make a list (eg from this thread), get an app (I use podcast republic), download the first couple of episodes, connect it to the stereo (for me that's bluetooth in one car, a jack lead in the other) and have a listen. I pretty much never do this alone, just on long trips which usually means with the wife. If you like it download more episodes, which is usually much easier. You can get s****ier car stereos that do it all but it's not essential.
Joe Rogan experience,
The Doug Stanhope podcast,
Bill burrs Monday night podcast.
And for not comedy, the fitzall podcast, with Jimmy di Resta, Eric from handtools rescue and Andrew of blacksmiths tools. Talking about old tooling and machinery. But it's very amusing
+1 Joe Rogan Experience
Bug and the shed thing by Adam Buxton was pretty good.
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.
What’s the KLF podcast called ?
"How to burn a million quid"
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p06x35s5/episodes/downloads
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.
Bookmarking
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
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand/p07mdbhg
Mysterious cases of Rutherford & fry
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07dx75g/episodes/downloads
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!)
Ecstasy the battle of rave. Good podcast worth listening to if you're into dance music.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p08qw04h/episodes/player
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 - https://open.spotify.com/show/5Hq3EnkEdqdMwcnntgU6E5
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