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I've just discovered Lore Podcast

"Lore is a bi-weekly podcast about true life scary stories.
The people, places, and things of our darkest nightmares all have real facts at their core. Each episode of Lore looks into a uniquely scary tale and uncovers the truth behind it.
Sometimes the truth is more frightening than fiction"
 
Not political, but I have been listening to the heavy metal historian a lot recently
Not really sure why I looked at this thread, but the heavy metal historian looks good and will certainly be taking a couple of epsiodes to work each day, ta :thumbs:
Trouble is, I m sure it will get me wanting lots more stuff.
 
I've just discovered Lore Podcast

"Lore is a bi-weekly podcast about true life scary stories.
The people, places, and things of our darkest nightmares all have real facts at their core. Each episode of Lore looks into a uniquely scary tale and uncovers the truth behind it.
Sometimes the truth is more frightening than fiction"
Lore has been mentioned in discussions about:

The Black Tapes Podcast
A docudrama (i.e. not real ;)) that's riffing on Serial, but about the supernatural and occult. It has its faults but is engaging and fans of Serial will enjoy the many nods..
but I've yet to check it out.

Also mentioned a fair bit is Limetown Stories, though again I've yet to check it out myself.
 
I'm listening to a Radio 4 podcast called "Who killed Elsie Frost" about an unsolved murder that took place in Wakefield in 1965.

If you like Criminal, I think you'd enjoy it. They're only short - maybe 10-15 minutes but I've listened to 4 episodes today!
 
I'm listening to a Radio 4 podcast called "Who killed Elsie Frost" about an unsolved murder that took place in Wakefield in 1965.

If you like Criminal, I think you'd enjoy it. They're only short - maybe 10-15 minutes but I've listened to 4 episodes today!

Yes - this is a very good series -listened to it all last week after reading this Who killed Elsie Frost? - BBC News
 
Song Exploder is pretty interesting. Musicians talking through the creation of certain tracks in depth.
 
Little Atoms

Brett Easton Ellis podcast is good when he has filmmakers on

Marc Maron WTF is good because he gets to interview pretty much everyone. At first you think that he's a terrible interviewer, but after you get used to him he's actually one of the best
 
It's good. Only 2 episodes plus a little teaser online so far and it's not clear how quickly the rest will come...
Downloaded the first two eps of this, plus the first three of Lore. Like Lore quite a bit so far, Limetown suffered from me being very drousy on the commute to work so possibly not paying full attention :oops: As you say though, only two so far so can relisten at some point :)
 
Did you listen to 'Undisclosed'? I'm about four episodes in so far, it's well worth listening to. Really bizarre case. Do you think he's innocent?

I'm about 7 episodes into Undisclosed (although I keep listening to it at bedtime and falling asleep so missing bits).

The police work on the case seems incredibly shoddy - there seem to be some really obvious questions that nobody seemed to ask or get answers to. At the end of Serial, it felt inconclusive, but that it could have gone either way, but going through the details, the case seems incredibly flimsy.

It's an interesting companion to the Wire and David Simon's other work about the Baltimore police. Thinking about the volume of murders that the Baltimore police had to deal with and the pressure they're under to close cases then you can sort of see how it happens.
 
Not really sure why I looked at this thread, but the heavy metal historian looks good and will certainly be taking a couple of epsiodes to work each day, ta :thumbs:
Trouble is, I m sure it will get me wanting lots more stuff.

Podcasts have replaced TV for me. Actually even radio. I will often have one on in the background of an evening if in doors.

Seen a couple more ^ to add now. :)
 
I'm about 7 episodes into Undisclosed (although I keep listening to it at bedtime and falling asleep so missing bits).

The police work on the case seems incredibly shoddy - there seem to be some really obvious questions that nobody seemed to ask or get answers to. At the end of Serial, it felt inconclusive, but that it could have gone either way, but going through the details, the case seems incredibly flimsy.

It's an interesting companion to the Wire and David Simon's other work about the Baltimore police. Thinking about the volume of murders that the Baltimore police had to deal with and the pressure they're under to close cases then you can sort of see how it happens.

Undisclosed is brilliant, there are some really interesting things happening with Adnan's case which Undisclosed follows. I'm not sure whether he did it but I don't think he should have been convicted on the evidence presented. As you say, it's incredibly shoddy.
 
I don't think he did it. But I'll give Undisclosed a whirl. There has always been something really funny about Jay. I don't know what's going on there.
 
I like the sound of Limetown - will give it ago once I've figured out who killed Hae Min Lee :)

What are our thoughts on Nightvale? That's something I never really got into but maybe didn't give it enough of a chance.
 
Some more good uns I've found

Podcasts - Very much the same as middleeastweek, it's even done by the same people, but it's focused on jihadists


Irish Revolution Podcast series by Michael Laffan - podcast, more of a series of lectures, about Irish history in the 19th century and early 20th century, there are other interesting looking podcasts on the same site but i haven't explored them yet


Belabored | Dissent Magazine trade union podcast, US-focused

Who Makes Cents really good long discussions on particular aspects of the history of capitalism
 
Behind the Headlines: British State Secrets – Interview with Robin Ramsay

This week on ‘Behind the Headlines’, we’re speaking with Scottish author and editor, Robin Ramsay. Ramsay has been editor and publisher of the Lobster magazine since it was founded in 1983. He has also written a number of books, including Smear! Wilson and the Secret State, Prawn Cocktail Party: The Hidden Power of New Labour, and Who Shot JFK?.

Behind the Headlines: British State Secrets – Interview with Robin Ramsay
 
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