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Posted by Twangothan on 15 October 2009 - 9:52pm.
I know we've done podcast reccos before, but anyone found any new ones lately? BTW - Adam and Joe don't do it for me...
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Danny Baker - Five Live. If you like him, you'll love this. (I do).
Redd Kross - their own history. Powerpop ? (ish)
AIOTM
Have you tried the new Richard Herring one AIOTM? It shows definite promise. The other new one that I've just tried this week is the Michael Legge one which is a bit more edgy than Adam & Joe would want to be!
Legge
Saw it in the listings but haven't downloaded any yet - would I be right in thinking it a bit like Collings & Herrin (if you've heard that one) in style/subject?
Very similar
They are clearly fans of the C&H podcast because they keep referring to it. The premise is the same but the in the Michael Legge podcast almost all the humour comes from him with his friend realy only there to provide someone to bounce off - I'm not trying to demean that, it's a vital role in this type of podcast and seems to be done very well.
Cheers for that
More inclined to check it out now if I find a spare hour.
Dave Gorman
There's a new podcast started up this week from his new Absolute Radio show on Sundays. I've not listened to it yet myself, but I thought the few weeks earlier in the year when he stood in for Frank Skinner were pretty good.
here a few I like at the moment
http://www.wnyc.org/shows/radiolab/
http://www.thisamericanlife.org/
http://www.themoth.org/podcast
http://escapepod.org/
And this is a good one for finding new podcasts: http://speechification.com/
I'm generally steering clear of recommending pure humour podcasts because humour is so subjective but this might appeal to people: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/us_elections...
Seconded
I listen to This American Life (monday) and The Bugle (friday) every week.
Can also recommend:
http://www.soundopinions.org/
Second soundopinions
Second soundopinions
Thirded
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I´ve got 4 for you
For Politics/Humour and Righteous Anger: Real Time with Bill Mahr
For Science/Culture and excellently produced pods: Radio Lab from WNYC
For Anecdotal Genius: A Point of View with David Attenborough
For Music: Radio Nowhere
Developing an Esoteric Podcast Habit at the moment.
Alan Watts Podcast.
Celtic Myths Podcast.
Mysterious Universe.
Vedic Mythology.
Vedanta and Yoga.
Druid Cast.
Out There.
Paranormal Podcast.
Chasing Hermes: the Hermetic and Metaphysical podcast.
I'll get my sickle.
I see the OP has been negged
at time of writing.
Mr Twang has politely asked for recommendations while very mildly suggesting A&J don't shake the peaches on his tree
So - an avid A&J fans hits the neg arrow and runs away
We may as well include buttons that say "nuh nuh nuh nuh" and "ooh - and my dad's bigger than your dad".
The arrows have got to go
Completely agree
They are just being used for pointless and juvenile nonsense, unbeffiting of the spirit of this site. Perfectly polite and reasonable posts are degraded out of nothing more than laziness and spite.
Negging
Yeah... Saw that negging and thought it a tad small-minded.
Just for that I've poss-ed (?) the OP.
prefer 'pozzed'
meself.
The BBC
podcast directory has something for everyone (I'm sure many are aware of it but if you've not visited it's worth a look).
You could always try mine - Podrophenia
Only made 5 so far - but in essence it's me and mate choosing and chatting about tunes based on a different theme (animals, summer)for each podcast
You can grab them from my blog
http://planetmondo.blogspot.com/search/label/podrophenia
Or via iTunes if you prefer
http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=3231447...
We had Martin Gordon (ex Sparks and Radio Stars) and Chris Constantinou (ex Adam's Ants and now a Wolfman) introducing tracks on the last one..
As it occurs to me
Is worth it for the Hasselhof sketch alone this month. "I'm looking for freeeeedom!"
rolling about I was.
Back on the BBC ones
I quite like Jon Richardson (6Music) and Rhod Gilbert (BBC Wales).
Thanks
For the Rhod Gilbert tip - I did not know he did a podcast and I love his stuff.
Danny Baker is great, if only the BBC would give him a show where he could re-visit his All Day Breakfast Show themes, now that would make a great podcast.
I love Frank Skinner on Absolute Radio, nothing on earth would get me to listen to Dave Gorman - if anyone wants to start another 'a long way on very little' debate he would be at the top of my list.
Danny Baker
I was looking forward to this but had to give up half way through, I couldn't listen due to his irritating giggling "sidekick", I just found it really unnecessary. I didn't think he needed any cronies in the studio with him.
I really love the Football Weekly podcast with James Richardson though, it's the only one I've felt comes close to The Word one.
Oddly enough
I was listening to his BBC London show as I read this thread. I think Baker needs people to bounce off of - callers, cronies, guests. I've found the R5 footy shows too thin and repetitive so far, and was speculating that it would benefit from another "team" member. I've never heard DB broadcast solo - it's either been with Danny Kelly, or Amy Lamé / Baylen Leonard/ David Kuo who did the podcasts and still do BBC London
these two podcasts also contain some really well
crafted material. Don't be put off by the genres:
http://podcastle.org/
http://pseudopod.org/
(they are made by the same team that make http://escapepod.org/ which I recommended earlier on in the thread)
Real Time with Bill Maher
If you're fascinated by US politics and culture then you'll love this.
Adults having adult conversations about the issues of the day, interspersed with sharp humour. Maher is a pothead, atheist lefty who delights in skewering those (left or right, but mostly loony right) who he deems to be a menace to human progress.
Podcasting highlight of the week.
And it's an HBO production. Need I say more?