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Not books, but podcasts 21:43 - Mar 22 with 3247 viewsCoastalblue

Having an hour or so communte each way to and from work I've gotten into podcasts recently having got a bit bored with the radio not always in the mood for music.

Lately I've listened to the first season of Serial, which I enjoyed, a lot of the Dan Snow History hits and have just started Dan Carlin's Hardcore History with his WW1 episodes, at two to three hours and above each episode I'm really enjoying these, and learning a lot.

I also have Dad Wrote A Porno ready and waiting for when I need some light relief.

Any reccomendations, anybody got any they are particularly enjoying?

Edit: Blue Monday gets a spin too, don't know why but I wasn't expecting a lot from it and am really surprised in a good way.
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Not books, but podcasts on 23:24 - Mar 22 with 3197 viewsSWGF

Mainly comedy ones for a bit of light relief

No Such Thing As A Fish is the QI mob
The Horne Section podcast
Athletico Mince
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Not books, but podcasts on 00:11 - Mar 23 with 3178 viewsIllinoisblue

it would be remiss of me not to bang the Desert Island Discs drum. 35 mins long which is a perfect fit for my commute.

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Not books, but podcasts on 06:29 - Mar 23 with 3129 viewsJohnny_Boy

Was on a long road trip & a friend put a few of these on:
Revisionist History - Malcolm Gladwell

The episode 'Halleluah', concentrated on Leonard Cohen. If your not a fan, it's still an interesting listen. It discusses being born a genius or eventually becoming one.

Answer Me This is a good podcast that's been going for years.
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Not books, but podcasts on 06:32 - Mar 23 with 3126 viewsJohnny_Boy

Not books, but podcasts on 23:24 - Mar 22 by SWGF

Mainly comedy ones for a bit of light relief

No Such Thing As A Fish is the QI mob
The Horne Section podcast
Athletico Mince
Quickly Kevin


Tried listening to the QI mob one & it was far too smug for my liking.
Couldn't get past their self indulgent laughing of their own jokes.
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Not books, but podcasts on 06:34 - Mar 23 with 3122 viewsMullet

I've been listening to Dan Carlin for a couple of years, his last one was hard to get through during a week of commuting right after breakfast! If you haven't and can go back and get the ones he's still got for free or selling cheaply they're epics.

History on Fire is even better IMO and I always suggest these.

RadioLab and their spinoffs about the American legal system I find fascinating. Also the Radio 4 stuff like in Our Time and Natural Histories (which are less frequent) are excellent. Thinking Allowed if you like Sociology stuff is top notch too.

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Not books, but podcasts on 09:30 - Mar 23 with 3080 viewsfactual_blue

Not books, but podcasts on 06:29 - Mar 23 by Johnny_Boy

Was on a long road trip & a friend put a few of these on:
Revisionist History - Malcolm Gladwell

The episode 'Halleluah', concentrated on Leonard Cohen. If your not a fan, it's still an interesting listen. It discusses being born a genius or eventually becoming one.

Answer Me This is a good podcast that's been going for years.


Gladwell's thesis in Outliers about 'genius' is quite compelling.

Basically, it's a combination of very hard work and being in the right place/area of activity at the right time.

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Not books, but podcasts on 12:13 - Mar 23 with 3049 viewsitfcjoe

I listen to loads of podcasts - have them on 2x speed which I am so used to now everything else sounds like it is in slow motion if I put it back to 1x speed! Worth a try and takes a few days to get used to but doubles what you can listen to - only works in headphones though, as soon as through a speaker sounds like the chipmunks

Below are my most recommended ones

Sport:
At home with Colin Murray - various interviews but generally good
5 Lives World Football Phone In - weekly phone in with the excellent Tim Vickery from Up All Nioght. Football based but you elarn a lot about everything
Flintoff, Savage and the Ping Pong guy - I really like this, even Robbie Savage
Elis James Feast of Football - Welsh football podcast but guests Danny gabbidon and iwan Roberts give a really good insight into life as a pro footballer
The Football Ramble - twice weekly reveiw of UK football
The Magic Sponge with Jimmy Bullard - a Bit banter heavy but I like hearing stories about 90s footballers getting up to all sorts

True crime/stories etc
Butterfly Effect with John Ronson - looking at the porn industry but goes out in a few directions and really interesting
This American life - just brilliant
Untold - The Daniel morgan Murder - investigation into police corruption in London where a guys brother was killed and the Mets role in this
Beyond Reasonable Doubt - Story about a death/murder in USA which has always been suspicous.


General interest/Politics
Desert Island Discs - always a good listen
The Modern Mann - Split into 3 sections, Zeitgeist, a long interview with someone random which is always good and a sex info. Really good
The Political party - Comedian Matt Forde interviewing politicians in front of a live audience, always interesting seeing a human side to them
Slow Burn - A history of Watergate
Revisionist History with Malcom Gladwell - my favourite

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Not books, but podcasts on 12:41 - Mar 23 with 3027 viewsSuperfrans

The Adam Buxton podcast is the best. Just great. Very funny and he interviews interesting people all the time, usually comics or (mostly British) film directors etc.

Kermode & Mayo do the best movie podcast - this week's films reviewed etc.

If you can listen to Owen Jones for 30 seconds without wanting to punch the wall (I can, thankfully, being a raving lefty) Agitpod is a really good, left-leaning political podcast hosted by OJ and the female OJ (and rather lovely) Ellie Mae O'Hagen.

And, of course, Desert Island Discs is the best thing ever.

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Not books, but podcasts on 12:48 - Mar 23 with 3025 viewsitfcjoe

Not books, but podcasts on 12:41 - Mar 23 by Superfrans

The Adam Buxton podcast is the best. Just great. Very funny and he interviews interesting people all the time, usually comics or (mostly British) film directors etc.

Kermode & Mayo do the best movie podcast - this week's films reviewed etc.

If you can listen to Owen Jones for 30 seconds without wanting to punch the wall (I can, thankfully, being a raving lefty) Agitpod is a really good, left-leaning political podcast hosted by OJ and the female OJ (and rather lovely) Ellie Mae O'Hagen.

And, of course, Desert Island Discs is the best thing ever.


I have issues with Agitpod, I quite enjoy the podcast but every now and again the feed seems to corrupt and download loads of music podcasts on that feed - Paul van Dyk's NYC Sessions etc.

it happens every week or so and I have to delete them all

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Not books, but podcasts on 13:35 - Mar 23 with 3007 viewsSuperfrans

Not books, but podcasts on 12:48 - Mar 23 by itfcjoe

I have issues with Agitpod, I quite enjoy the podcast but every now and again the feed seems to corrupt and download loads of music podcasts on that feed - Paul van Dyk's NYC Sessions etc.

it happens every week or so and I have to delete them all


That's really weird. I usually listen via Spotify tbh, so never have any issues.

Have you mentioned to them? Sounds like the channel you are listening through though to be honest.

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Not books, but podcasts on 13:47 - Mar 23 with 2994 viewsLord_Lucan

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Not books, but podcasts on 19:27 - Apr 9 with 2839 viewsCoastalblue

Not books, but podcasts on 06:34 - Mar 23 by Mullet

I've been listening to Dan Carlin for a couple of years, his last one was hard to get through during a week of commuting right after breakfast! If you haven't and can go back and get the ones he's still got for free or selling cheaply they're epics.

History on Fire is even better IMO and I always suggest these.

RadioLab and their spinoffs about the American legal system I find fascinating. Also the Radio 4 stuff like in Our Time and Natural Histories (which are less frequent) are excellent. Thinking Allowed if you like Sociology stuff is top notch too.


I'm guessing the Dan Carlin one you were referring to there is the painfotainment one?

I just finished the Celtic holocaust and then that came up next on my journey home, sounds like it's going to be tough going.

I'll dig out history on fire cheers, Thinking allowed is something I quite often catch in the car on R4

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Not books, but podcasts on 19:50 - Apr 9 with 2821 viewsMookamoo

Some more...

The Bugle
Richard Herring's Leicester Square Theatre Podcast
TED Radio Hour
Short Cuts (Radio 4 with Josie Long)
Jarvis Cocker’s Wireless Nights - back catalogue can be downloaded

If you're into your history, The Reunion on R4 is worth a listen - lots of old episodes available
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Not books, but podcasts on 20:01 - Apr 9 with 2803 viewssoupytwist

For politics the Talking Politics podcast hosted by a Cambridge academic covers a wide range of subjects and is a good listen. I've also just listened to a couple of the Unfiltered with James O'Brien, they were interesting but it depends on the guest I suppose.
John Ronson's series called the Butterfly Effect is very good, as long as you don't mind discussions of the porn business. There's also a series I listened to called Containers which covers the history of containerised shipping and is more interesting than that description makes it sound.
I also listen to one called Econtalk which is hosted by an American economics professor called Russ Roberts, it's weekly and it covers all sorts of subjects. He hosts it very well and you always learn something from it.
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