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Title: Podcasts
Post by: Barmymoo on 11 Jun 2011, 03:55
I've recently started using my MP3 player again, and also downloaded a couple of audiobooks onto my Kindle, and it's reminded me that podcasts exist. So far I've stuck to the BBC - Radio 3's Arts & Ideas, Radio Ulster's The Book Programme, Desert Island Discs, Play of the Week, Women's Hour and Radio Four Thought.

Which podcasts do you listen to? What would you recommend? When do you listen to them?
Title: Re: Podcasts
Post by: StaedlerMars on 11 Jun 2011, 06:19
I don't really have patience for podcasts, dunno why, cause I always find them interesting when they're on, just never get around to listening to them on my own.

But when I do: Wait Wait Don't Tell Me, This American Life, How Stuff Works, and Stuff You Missed In History Class are all really good, fun, educational podcasts.
Title: Re: Podcasts
Post by: IDMG on 13 Jun 2011, 21:22
HBO releases the audio of Real Time With Bill Maher. If you hate having to sit in front of a TV like I do, it's pretty handy. I also listen to Ardent Atheist. It's pretty cool if that's your deal.
Title: Re: Podcasts
Post by: kemon on 13 Jun 2011, 22:55
i listen to the hawpcast (http://thehawpcast.mevio.com).  mostly it's video games and doctor who. it's anthony and ashly burch (brother and sister).  they make an internet show (hey ash wahtcha playin) that makes fun of video games and whatnot.  pretty much the only podcast i listen to.  i tried various other video game and webcomic podcasts but none of them really kept my interest.
Title: Re: Podcasts
Post by: IrrationalPie on 14 Jun 2011, 12:20
Radiolab (which is why I started a thread about it).
Title: Re: Podcasts
Post by: pwhodges on 14 Jun 2011, 12:24
The History of Rome (http://thehistoryofrome.typepad.com/)

More interesting in the long run than I expected.  Actually, I think I was pointed to it by this forum in the first place...
Title: Re: Podcasts
Post by: Tiogyr on 14 Jun 2011, 13:06
I've been downloading the free Yale and Harvard courses through iTunesU, lately. There's some pretty interesting stuff in there (the Yale course on the American Civil War is really well done and doesn't have any of that bullshit Lost Causer garbage in it that romanticizes the South).
Title: Re: Podcasts
Post by: pwhodges on 14 Jun 2011, 14:45
I suppose I ought to mention that the Oxford University stuff on iTunes is said to get really good ratings - but I know nothing more than that.
Title: Re: Podcasts
Post by: Blue Kitty on 14 Jun 2011, 20:16
My friend makes one (http://www.zodcomplex.com/). It's....ok. Especially if you like comic books.
Title: Re: Podcasts
Post by: David_Dovey on 15 Jun 2011, 18:32
The History of Rome (http://thehistoryofrome.typepad.com/)

More interesting in the long run than I expected.  Actually, I think I was pointed to it by this forum in the first place...

That might've been me, I've listened to the whole series something like six or seven times through now (150+ episodes and counting, currently coming to the end of Constantine's reign). Such a fantastically straightforward approach to history podcasting, it's a shame there aren't equivalent podcasts for other historical subjects (I'm having a hell of a time trying to find something for Greece, the best thing I could find being this series of Yale lectures (http://academicearth.org/courses/introduction-to-ancient-greek-history). also available on iTunes U)

EDIT: That wasn't a very helpful post! Aside from the History of Rome the only other podcasts I listen to on the reg are comedy podcasts, namely:
Title: Re: Podcasts
Post by: J on 16 Jun 2011, 01:22
short form fiction:
Escape Pod (http://escapepod.org/) (sci fi)
Pseudopod (http://pseudopod.org/) (horror)
PodCastle (http://podcastle.org/) (fantasy)

science & skepticism:
Skepticality (http://www.skepticality.com/)
Monster Talk (http://monstertalk.skeptic.com/)

news & current events:
Free Speech Radio News (http://fsrn.org/)

psychology:
Shrink Rap Radio (http://www.shrinkrapradio.com/)