Podcast recommendations 2022-23

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Dearest U75 comrades.

I'm after a couple of new Podcasts to listen to. All suggestions welcome please.

The ones I really enjoy and have listened to pretty much every episode of are...

Adam Buxton

Richard Herring

James O'Brien

Over to you.

 

[Ranbay]

The Blindboy Podcast

Hosted by Blindboyboatclub, who is an artist and author. An eclectic podcast containing short fiction, interviews and comedy.

play.acast.com

 

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The Blindboy Podcast

Hosted by Blindboyboatclub, who is an artist and author. An eclectic podcast containing short fiction, interviews and comedy.

play.acast.com

Perfect thanks man. I know this chap through Adam Buxton's podcast, Listening now.

This episode is brilliant. Really good.

 

[paul mckenna]

If you're into tech, the Acquired podcast is ridiculously fascinating

 

[quimcunx]

The Blindboy Podcast on Stitcher - meandering hot takes

Srsly Wrong on Stitcher - library socialism

The British History Podcast on Stitcher - I'm nearly 400 episodes in and nearly at 1066.

Black History for White People on Stitcher - USA, not UK

Behind the Bastards on Stitcher - about terrible people

 

[Jeff Robinson]

“Tell me a secret” - new Guardian miniseries very much in the mold of ‘sweet Bobby’ and other true crime psychological thrillers. It’s about stalking. Worth a listen if you’re a fan of this genre.

 

[shifting gears]

Love is the Message:

Tim Lawrence (author of seminal dance music history book Love Saves the Day) and Jeremy Gilbert diving deep into music, counterculture and the dancefloor. Highly detailed - I think the section on Afro-Psychedelia stretched to about 10 episodes alone! Only gripe would be they play 20-sec snippets of tracks (copyright reasons) so it’s best listened to when you’ve got the time to pause it and listen to the full tracks.

 

[Mrs Miggins]

Can I just check with people.....I need to download podcasts as I use the underground. I can't seem to do that with a lot of them. Is that me being useless at tech or many of them only available to stream?

 

[emanymton]

Can I just check with people.....I need to download podcasts as I use the underground. I can't seem to do that with a lot of them. Is that me being useless at tech or many of them only available to stream?

I use the pocket casts app and have never found one I couldn't download on there.

 

[rubbershoes]

Can I just check with people.....I need to download podcasts as I use the underground. I can't seem to do that with a lot of them. Is that me being useless at tech or many of them only available to stream?

You could try podbay. I've always found what I'm looking for available to download on there

 

[Mrs Miggins]

You could try podbay. I've always found what I'm looking for available to download on there

Thanks I'll try that.

 

[Mrs Miggins]

I use the pocket casts app and have never found one I couldn't download on there.

Thanks - I'll try that too!

 

[Orang Utan]

You just need to get a podcast app.

 

[pbsmooth]

Any more? I also like Adam Buxton

If you're into music and dance music I recommend Not A Diving Podcast by Scuba. Rambling chats about music and the music biz (in an interesting way).

 

[Orang Utan]

The latest Buxton podcast is with a nice and interesting lad called Richard Dawson, a folk musician from Newcastle. The first song he played sounded so daft and affected that i thought it was a Buxton pisstake, but he’s real and genuine and the second song he played was rather good, but then he ruined it with an instrumental on an out of tune guitar. I like Buxton but he’s got shite taste in music. Even so, they’re still worth listening to as he’s so good at chatting to interesting people

 

[pbsmooth]

Yeah that is one of the few I didn't get into that well and haven't finished (unrelated as I was travelling and had to stop). The musician seemed mildly annoying but I think I'd invented most of what was annoying in my head.

 

[pbsmooth]

And I was talking bollocks, he's interesting.

 

[Me76]

A few I really like:

Strippers in the Attic. Two strippers who talk about the antics of the work.

Literary Friction. Two women talk to an author, then on a theme and then share some book recommendations.

My Mate Bought a Toaster. Go through some famous people's Amazon

 

[Cid]

Peter off 5-4 and Michael Hobbs (Maintenance phase, late of 'you're wrong about') have a new podcast out called 'if books could kill' about airport pop science stuff and how shit it is. Listened to ones on Freakonomics and Gladwell's outliers so far. Enjoyable.

 

[BassJunkie]

I would highly recommend the Chart Music podcast. Old Melody Maker writers spending hours reviewing a particular old Top Of The Pops episode shouldn't be entertaining. But it is. Potty mouthed erudite cultural criticism, or someink like that.

Stuff You Should Know is almost always entertaining and elucidating no matter what the subject.

Stuff They Don't Want You To Know is about conspiracy theories. They're not promulgating conspiracy theories, more describing them. Can be fascinating.

For downloading podcasts I use the Google Podcasts app.

 

[RedRedRose]

James O'Brien

I have quite liked this. Though, the guest is important.

Ologies - environmental/animal experts discuss their field, occasionally a bit of fluff

History Extra - a lot of history topics

Thinking Allowed - BBC podcast, discusses recent sociological research

Ones and Tooze - Economist Adam Tooze's discusses current affairs

 

[ska invita]

ForcesWatch » The Warrior Nation podcast

The Warrior Nation podcast is a deep dive into military affairs and the relationship between defence, the armed forces and civil society in modern Britain, produced and edited by ForcesWatch.

www.forceswatch.net

The Warrior Nation podcast is a deep dive into military affairs and the relationship between defence, the armed forces and civil society in modern Britain, produced and edited by ForcesWatch.

The show is presented by Joe Glenton. See details about Joe's new book Veteranhood (published November 2021) from his publisher Repeater.

Also listen on Spotify and itunes/iphone podcasts.

Season 3 - War and memory: This season of the Warrior Nation podcast explores the role memory plays in the experience and remembrance of war. In each episode we will unpick the multifarious ways conflict is etched onto the collective and individual psyche, and the role played by the armed forces and government in the process.

Season 4 - Militarism and democracy: In the UK, the military is often viewed as an impartial and benign actor subordinated to a democratic leader. This season we examine the truth behind this commonly held view. Since 2000 the civil-military gap has been narrowing as the UK military has sought to influence democracy and democratic institutions. With our hugely knowledgeable guests, each episode explores how militarism and the military impact on democracy and democratic processes in Britain.

 

[ska invita]

Good prison podcast with a strong gang crime angle
Delinquent Nation

https://m.youtube.com/channel/UC5VS6DXkmKaRdLcLru-_leg/videos

 

[not-bono-ever]

I am enjoying Alexei sayles imaginary sandwich shop series on bbc sounds. It’s great if you want surreal political ranting. I chortle when Im listening to it on the bus. Lots of rants. Lots

 

[Fallon]

The Blindboy Podcast

Hosted by Blindboyboatclub, who is an artist and author. An eclectic podcast containing short fiction, interviews and comedy.

play.acast.com

Listened to hundreds of hours of Blindboy at this stage. Discovered him during Covid lockdowns and honestly think he got me through a lot of it.

Highly recommended though think I have heard enough for the time being (starting to find it somewhat repetitive, which is hardly surprising)

 

[girasol]

I'm loving this series right now Porno Chic and The Brief Heyday of X Ratings (Erotic 80s Part 1) — You Must Remember This

by Karina Longworth, who has released over 200 episodes about Hollywood history, available everywhere... (Started in 2014 and still going)

About the Podcast — You Must Remember This

www.youmustrememberthispodcast.com

It's really well done!

Also Scamfluencers about the biggest online scams in recent years

The Dropout about Elizabeth Holmes and the blood machine testing fiasco (very deep dive, it includes the court proceedings too in great detail, but the initial series is only about 5 episodes iirc)

You're Wrong about looking at misrepresented people/events. It was the episode about movie ratings here that led me to Karina Longworth's impressive History of Hollywood podcasts

There's one I listened to a couple of years ago which is a deep dive on Lolita and the whole aesthetic/sexism/misogyny and misinterpretations that surrounds it. Very very good but can't access the website in the UK anymore, only the podcasts, search for Lolita Podcast / iHeartRadio by Jamie Loftus

Who is Lolita? The Nabokov literary classic has sparked infinite discussion in the 65 years since its release, but the cultural memory the book has left behind lives more in romance and fashion aesthetics than a cautionary tale about a deceptive predator and his young prey. Jamie Loftus wants to know how we got here, and this series traces Lolita -- the person, Dolores Haze -- from her literary origin to current status as a doomed icon.

 

[pbsmooth]

Enjoying The Rest is History podcast. Good to dip in and out and feel like you can learn something in every episode.

 

[RedRedRose]

Do we need a new group? Amend the title?

 

[pbsmooth]

Belatedly got into Blindboy podcast - some excellent interviews and essays on mental health.

 

[marty21]

Just finished " Life Moves Pretty Fast" (seems available all over the shop ) it's a short series (6 episodes) covering John Hughes films & the music (although they don't play any) . If you are a fan of The Breakfast Club, Pretty in Pink , Ferris Bueller's Day Off, and Planes, trains & Automobiles , you will enjoy it.