Podcasts

[hitmouse]

Bloomsbury Academic Podcast is... not a particularly exciting name for a podcast, but it looks like there's some worthwhile stuff there? For a moment I thought it was a companion podcast to the 33/3 series, but I don't think they seem to be covering all the books, only a small selection, but they have done The Raincoats and Live Through This, which are also the only two good albums that have ever been recorded, probably. Also a variety of other topics which sound interesting - Simone de Beauvoir, sex and suits, prisons, Octavia Butler, that sort of thing.

 

[Jeff Robinson]

This is a very bingeworthy podcast about catfishing and coercive control:

Sweet Bobby - Tortoise

Episodes Sweet Bobby is a live, multi-part investigation in search of one of the world’s most sophisticated catfishers. It’s a story about who we are online, and how social media can be weaponised as a tool of abuse and coercion. Read more Team Alexi MostrousReporter and host Alexi Mostrous is...

www.tortoisemedia.com

 

[BristolEcho]

Quite enjoyed this one on contraception during the Medieval period. Funny if quite depressing too.

Medieval Contraception with Eleanor Janega - Medievalists.net

One of the things medieval and modern people definitely have in common is an interest in preventing unwanted pregnancies. This week on The Medieval Podcast, Danièle speaks with Eleanor Janega to get all the details on medieval contraception.

www.medievalists.net

 

[BristolEcho]

One on Aberfan here. Not listened yet but have saved it.

BBC Radio Wales - Aberfan: Tip Number 7 - Downloads

Podcast downloads for Aberfan: Tip Number 7

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[stereotypical]

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This is a very bingeworthy podcast about catfishing and coercive control:

Sweet Bobby - Tortoise

Episodes Sweet Bobby is a live, multi-part investigation in search of one of the world’s most sophisticated catfishers. It’s a story about who we are online, and how social media can be weaponised as a tool of abuse and coercion. Read more Team Alexi MostrousReporter and host Alexi Mostrous is...

www.tortoisemedia.com

Great recommendation this. Blasted it in one go today.

Had never heard of it till seeing your post lastnight so nice one.

 

[BristolEcho]

Enjoying this series by Dan Jones at the moment through the BBC

Medieval masterclass 1: Imperium 410-750

Dan Jones takes listeners on a journey through early medieval Europe, beginning with the Roman empire in a state of collapse, rocked by a changing climate and mass migration. He speaks to David Musgrove about the superpowers that emerged in Rome’s wake: the so-called “barbarian” realms that laid...

aca.st

 

[moonsi til]

marty21 i listen to ‘we didn’t start the fire’ too. Great concept for a podcast. I especially like the one on Budapest.

I like Dan Snows ‘History Hit’ especially the last few that have been about finding Shackleton’s Endurance shipwreck & listened to one about Jon Von Neumann who I knew nothing about.

 

[marty21]

marty21 i listen to ‘we didn’t start the fire’ too. Great concept for a podcast. I especially like the one on Budapest.

I like Dan Snows ‘History Hit’ especially the last few that have been about finding Shackleton’s Endurance shipwreck & listened to one about Jon Von Neumann who I knew nothing about.

Yep , very enjoyable!

Quite fancy the Shackleton one , just finished a biography of him.

 

[frogwoman]

havent put up an episode since the summer but finally re recorded one this evening. Apart from a few weird long pauses and scratchy sounds hopefully it sounds ok

 

[frogwoman]

- my latest

 

[rubbershoes]

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This is a very bingeworthy podcast about catfishing and coercive control:

Sweet Bobby - Tortoise

Episodes Sweet Bobby is a live, multi-part investigation in search of one of the world’s most sophisticated catfishers. It’s a story about who we are online, and how social media can be weaponised as a tool of abuse and coercion. Read more Team Alexi MostrousReporter and host Alexi Mostrous is...

www.tortoisemedia.com

That was really good. We all think it couldn't happen to us, but the depth and complexity of the deception is staggering.

I've also finished the Fault Line series about the lead up to the second Iraq war. It's got a high powered team. Presented by David Dimbleby and Tony Blair as one of the interviewees. It's clear that Blair knows he fucked up but can't admit the extent of it.

I found the interviews with the lesser known figures more revealing as they filled in the bits that weren't so well known.

And every episode raised a smile as Dimbleby awkwardly drops the g in the name of the production company Somethin' Else

 

[frogwoman]

 

[farmerbarleymow]

One about invertebrates

Grubbing In The Filth: An Invertebrate Podcast

If it lacks a backbone, we're interested. In this podcast, we're exploring the world of invertebrates, discovering the amazing lives they lead, and thinking carefully about our relationhips with these much-maligned creatures. With the help of expe...

www.grubbinginthefilth.com

frogwoman

 

[frogwoman]

my latest

 

[frogwoman]

My latest one is up - on the cream spot.

 

[Nine Bob Note]

I'm now listening to Alistair Campbell and Rory Stewart of a Friday evening I believe it's already the most listened-to podcast in the country.

 

[Throbbing Angel]

From UB40¿!?

 

[Nine Bob Note]

I'm now listening to Alistair Campbell and Rory Stewart of a Friday evening I believe it's already the most listened-to podcast in the country.

From next week they're doing a secondary Q&A show. Never thought I'd want more Alistair Campbell in my life Rory Stewart comes across as more of a tory shit by the week.

 

[frogwoman]

my latest one is now up, probably the most high profile guest i've ever interviewed.

 

[frogwoman]

 

[hitmouse]

Just learned from this that Mark Steel has throat cancer, although the prognosis apparently looks good:

What The F*** Is Going On? with Mark Steel – Ep 99 – What The F*** Is Going On? with Mark Steel – Podcast

In this special episode, Mark talks about his recent cancer diagnosis and asks “What The F*** Is Going On?” From big needles to biopsies to the Rolls Royce of scanning machines, it's... – Listen to What The F*** Is Going On? with Mark Steel – Ep 99 by What The F*** Is Going On? with Mark Steel...

podtail.com

In other news, the long-defunct UK union podcast Labour Days has started up again:

Labour Days

A podcast about trade union issues and labour history.

soundcloud.com

 

[pbsmooth]

I'm now listening to Alistair Campbell and Rory Stewart of a Friday evening I believe it's already the most listened-to podcast in the country.

I've become strangely addicted to this too. I guess it's not hard to offer a more balanced and less irritating level of political conversation than you get elsewhere online nowadays.

 

[T & P]

For fans of paranormal stuff, Uncanny is a kind of if thinking man’s look into alleged cases. On BBC Sounds, and recently made into a BBC2 (audiovisual) series.

 

[Nine Bob Note]

I've become strangely addicted to this too. I guess it's not hard to offer a more balanced and less irritating level of political conversation than you get elsewhere online nowadays.

I increasingly hate it, but I still listen. Campbell is being invited to this and that and thinks he's back as the LP big cheese even though he's not even a member (AFAIK), and RS is the great white saviour who flies from country to country between episodes whilst complaining about climate change. Today's discussion on the pros/benefits of the Chinese economy was interesting at least.

 

[Dom Traynor]

We can be weirdos with Dan Schriber is great, especially when people talk about their batshit lists of all the mad stuff they believe in.

 

[kittyP]

We can be weirdos with Dan Schriber is great, especially when people talk about their batshit lists of all the mad stuff they believe in.

I love we can be weirdos!
The first episode was interviewing a top neurosurgeon and the second, a full time Loch Ness Monster hunter

 

[kittyP]

For fans of paranormal stuff, Uncanny is a kind of if thinking man’s look into alleged cases. On BBC Sounds, and recently made into a BBC2 (audiovisual) series.

I also love all of Danny Robins work

 

[Dom Traynor]

I love we can be weirdos!
The first episode was interviewing a top neurosurgeon and the second, a full time Loch Ness Monster hunter

Exactly its not unquestioning it's just interested.

 

[pbsmooth]

I increasingly hate it, but I still listen. Campbell is being invited to this and that and thinks he's back as the LP big cheese even though he's not even a member (AFAIK), and RS is the great white saviour who flies from country to country between episodes whilst complaining about climate change. Today's discussion on the pros/benefits of the Chinese economy was interesting at least.

I think Campbell is still very involved.

 

[hitmouse]

If anyone is desperate for more especifismo podcasts in their life, then I have good news, Black Rose's podcast From Below is relaunching.