Five Essential Podcasts (FAO @charlottegore).

[miss_s_b]

I have become something of a podcast addict. These are the five I cannot live without:

• BBC Friday Night Comedy Podcast - alternates between The News Quiz and The Now Show, both of which are awesome.


• The Pod Delusion - difficult to categorise, but always interesting. Has features on science and politics and other geeky things. Also has regular guest spots from Alex Foster, whose voice makes me do Vic Reeves thigh-rubbing.


• Dirty Whoers - the best Doctor Who podcast by a country mile. Slightly sweary, utterly irreverent, and now featuring Brian Blessed.


• BBC Gardener's Question Time - Bob Flowerdew is awesome. That is all.


• The Guardian Science Weekly - does exactly what it says on the tin.

Comments

[po8crg]

Thanks, that's three that are new for me.

[po8crg]

Some I like:

In our Time - Melvin Bragg, Radio 4, three professors, 45 minutes, and
House of Comments - Our own Mark Thompson (Reckons) and Stuart Sharpe plus other interesting people.
Mr. Deity - Atheism can be funny. (video, not audio)
NPR's Planet Money - best economics / finance podcast going; recently did superb series on Haiti and reconstruction. From running some items on the Haitian clothes industry, it looks like they are going to make their own T-shirts (with reports from e.g. farm where cotton grown, spinning mill, weaving mill, dyers, etc)

Also Newsjack when it's on (which it isn't at the moment) is a good complement to the Friday Night Comedy.

[davegodfrey.livejournal.com]

In Our Time varies between "why the hell am I listening to this" to "Cool!" depending on the subject. For instance I can't think I'll ever listen to the one on Soren Kirkgaard unless I get a severe case of insomnia. Whereas I'll wear out the hard drive if its got Jim Al-Khalili or Marcus De Sautoy involved.

[po8crg]

I like having my mind stretched, and In Our Time certainly does that in a big way. Especially when they start on philosophy or mediaeval literature that I know nothing about.

There's no way I'd listen to "The Varieties of Religious Experience" otherwise. The two on the history of the City were very good recently. Going back a bit further, there was one on the evolution of the whale that was fantastic

[yoyoangel]

I find it hard to forgive Bob Flowerdew for not being Geoff Hamilton. On the other hand, he has the most appropriate surname of any person ever ever (hippy+gardener).
Will investigate the others (I already get Friday night comedy).