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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.
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.
The Nextmen
The Naked Scientists
Undisclosed
Serial
Most of mine have been mentioned already, but try:
Ear Hustle https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/ear-hustle/id1240841298?mt=2
S-Town https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/s-town/id1212558767?mt=2
And another R4 ace Loose Ends.
athletico mince
YES!! Highly recommended
Other than that my core list is pretty similar to others;
Adam Buxton
RHLSTP
Dad wrote a porno
Answer me this
Modern Mann
+ some football (Arsecast etc)
+ some food/drink (Kitchen Cabinet etc.)
Ones I'll listen to if the interviewee sounds interesting;
Scroobius Pip
Desert Island Discs
The Nerdist
Hookit Podcast (interesting interviewee = ~5%, the rest of the guests + presenter are entirely too "sick edit bro" for me)
Looking forward to Jon Ronson's "The Butterfly Effect" which is coming soon (only on Audilbe at the mo)
The art of manliness is quite good
Haven't listened to any for a while but I used to like the sceptics guide to the universe, can't remember any others!
How do people consume podcasts these days? Mobile app or the like? I used to listen to them on my commute in the car but my commute is now 5 minutes by bike and I struggle to listen to anything with words in if I'm working on anything even slightly involved.
I listen to a ton of podcasts so can't list them all but I've tried to whittle it down to my top ten.
1) Criminal - Interesting crimes throughout history.
2) The Allustionist - breaking down the meaning and origin of the English language.
3) Snap judgement - storytelling with a beat, super engaging shows with cool stories.
4) Hello Internet - two interesting guys having a chat about random stuff very entertaining.
5) Undisclosed - quite a heavy podcast following / trying to solve wrongly convicted prisoners.
6) Crimetown - a true story of an American towns criminal corruption (mafia, wiseguys etc)in the 60s-80s, amazing story and beautifully produced.
7) Startup - podcast about starting a company it includes the listener in the tough conversations reall shows the ups and downs etc. ( Espically season 1)
8) Planet money - economics made interesting, been a go to podcast for years
9) This American Life - great story telling always a easy go to for a drive.
10) Death sex and money - title says it all really well produced story telling about the things people avoid talking about
11) Painkiller already - 3 american blokes chatting about different topics, their lives, interviewing guests, trying to solve world problems in immature ways etc.
12) How I built this - how some of the biggest businesses in the world made it. I would highly recommend the patigonia episode. Great story!
13) we're alive - zombie audiodrama with a full cast, sound effects and super engaging story!
TWiT (This week in Tech - Leo Laporte has the best radio voice ever)
Adam Buxton
Book Shambles
Scroobious Pip / Distraction Pieces
Maybe Joe Rogan if its someone I like enough to listen to for 3 hours! (Henry Rollins was the last one I dug out)
Sam Harris
Any questions
Moneybox
Assorted R4 podcasts
What's happened to the iPhone podcast app since the update? It's garbage
Anyhow here's a few of my favourites
Untold; The Daniel Morgan Murder - unbelievable true tale of a murder in the 80's and how it's still be covered up today, bent cops, underworld gangsters and even the Fake Sheik is in there.Fantastic
Elis James and John Robins. Podcast of their Radiox show, funniest podcast by a country mile
Quickly Kevin Will He Score. Josh Widdicombe's 90's football show, great guests and very funny
True Crime Garage. Mainly American true crime
Bill Burr's Monday Morning Podcast, excellent American stand up rambles on about stuff that annoys him
Joe Rogan Experience, very good but depends on the guests so I just pick and chose which ones to listen to
Frank Skinner Show, podcast of his excellent radio show
In The Dark, great true crime pod about a 27 year old unsolved abduction case
Luke and Pete Show, 2 very funny blokes waffling on about interesting subjects
I forgot one I’ve really been enjoying lately:
Smersh Pod
A non-Bond nerd series of presenter + a guest talking through the James Bond films in order
Jocko podcast
Joe rogan
Dan Carlin (hardcore history and common sense)
bookmarking for later review, ta.
Stuff you should know
infinite monkey cage
No others at the mo...
DrP
For the climbers Grimmer's jamcrack podcast is a must - very entertaining interviews with legends like John Redhead, john Allen etc.