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ATM- Further Podcast Listening?

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I start a new job next week, which involves my first commute using public transport for quite a while. The Word Podcast won't get me through the week, so can the Massive recommend any other podcasts that are worth a listen?
Thanks!

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Several, but

what topics are you interested in?

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Brookster | 16 January 2012 - 1:07pm

My current favourites

Greg Proops Worlds Smartest Man is brilliant. More impressive still when you have been listening to them each week over 6 months. He is a bright and funny man.

The Bugle (assuming it is continuing) is great.

The Moth is often very good.

From the BBC, Danny Baker, Fighting Talk and Desert Island Discs do it for me.

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Leedsboy | 16 January 2012 - 1:09pm

The Bugle seems to be alive and well

It is also still free as far as I can see.

Their back episodes aren't available in iTunes at the moment, but you can find them here.

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Norwegian Blue | 17 January 2012 - 5:17pm

The Moth

aired this episode last year. It's one of the most moving things I've ever heard. I thoroughly recommend giving up 15 minutes of your life to it. An astonishingly powerful story.

http://cdn.themoth.prx.org/moth-podcast-178-Charlene-Strong.mp3

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drakeygirl | 17 January 2012 - 6:33pm

We've done this one many times before

so judicious use of the 'Search' box might yield some good results.

Still, for what it's worth, here's my recommendations

In Our Time
Material World
NPR Car Talk
Adam and Joe on 6 Music
Danny Baker's Radio 5 show
Radio 4 Great Lives
Radio 4 Documentary Of The Week

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stimpy | 16 January 2012 - 1:12pm
drakeygirl | 16 January 2012 - 1:27pm
jockblue | 16 January 2012 - 2:58pm

A few recent ones

Q from CBC has had a cracking array of guests recently, including PJ O Rourke, Tom Waits, Gilian Welch, Ryan Adams, Elbow, David Cronenberg & Demetri Martin.

99% Invisible is about architecture and design and is fairly short, but interesting.

LA Review of Books has an interview with music critic Simon Reynolds.

On Being has an interesting interview with Roseanne Cash.

Both The AV Club's Reasonable Discussions and APM's Dinner Party have changed recently. Reasonable Discussions has moved to a bi-weekly with a longer discussion of the arts in general and Dinner Party is now an hour long, with no real loss in quality.

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Simon Ford | 16 January 2012 - 3:36pm

Thanks for the responses....

I thought a similar query had been posted before. I shall have a look at the links.

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tantamount | 16 January 2012 - 6:11pm

Newer ones

Since the last query, there are likely to have been some new podcasts which have started up (and some that have finished - e.g., Collings and Herrin podcast).

Speaking of Herrin(g) - his daily blog "Warming Up" is now available as a podcast. The blog is often very funny as well as being an insight into the working life of a comedian who has had/is having some success but isn't at the stadia-filling levels of M. McIntyre or P. Kay (Peter, not Phil).

written down version:
http://www.richardherring.com/warmingup/

reading out version:
http://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/rich-herring-warming-up/id446472645
http://soundcloud.com/herring1967/

Turning to Sport... it seems to be filed under comedy, but this is the best podcast out there involving a middle-aged man playing himself at snooker whilst also commentating and refereeing. It's "Me1 vs Me2" snooker. Unlike professional snooker players, who have it easy, this is the podcast of Richard Herring playing himself at snooker in his spare room with the added challenges of (i) ironing board, space hopper, old sofa and piles of unsold copies of "Bye Bye Balham" hampering his play, (ii) poor chalk which doesn't actually go onto the tip of the cue, (iii) not really knowing the rules of snooker and (iv) not really being able to play snooker.

A must for all sports fans*.
http://www.comedy.co.uk/podcasts/richard_herring_snooker/

* who like listening to a middle-aged man talking to himself and playing snooker whilst his girlfriend is upstairs making sandwiches.

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jburton | 17 January 2012 - 9:49am

You are Richard Herring aren't you?

and I claim my £5...

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jockblue | 17 January 2012 - 3:42pm

My faves...

The Football Ramble
NPR All Songs Considered
Desert Island Discs
The News Quiz

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Formbyman | 17 January 2012 - 3:50pm
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