Entertainment For Lively Minds
Speaking of podcasts ATM
Posted by Gooner1050 on 26 October 2011 - 10:07am.
The Word PodCast excluded (not a subscriber but guess I’ll have to take the plunge soon – fair enough) what other PC’s do the Massive feel are worthwhile. I download the Mayo/Kermode show and the occasional Desert Island Discs – what other podcasts should I consider listening to while jogging (very slowly)?.
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In Our Time.
I've learned more about history and philosophy from that than I ever learned at school.
My first thought as well,
And the nice people at the BBC have put every episode up as a podcast, grouped into topics: science, history, etc.
More BBC: the World Service put a few documentaries up each week - a very mixed bag (brilliant to... not at all brilliant), but worth a try - each lasts about twenty minutes.
This American Life is rather spiffy as well.
Not sure if it's what you're referring to but R4 also do a
'Documentary Of The Week' podcast. Does what it says on the tin - the best radio doc of the previous week.
My list...
In Our Time - agrred stimpy, absolutely magnificent listening.
On R4
Great Lives - almost as good as IOT: Cerys Matthews on Hildegard of Bingen was superb
Last Word (obits)
The Bottom Line (business, but accessible for all)
Friday Night Comedy Podcast (News Quiz/Now Show)
Media Show
6Music's The First Time...series: good interviews with Bongo, Alice Cooper, etc
Sound Opinions which I heard about here - a bit too scripted but still interesting. The freeform Word podcast spoils you in this regard.
Guardian Music Weekly has its moments: not v coherent in the styles of music it covers, but some nuggets, eg recent ep on boxed sets
And as I am a geek:
PC Pro podcast (if you need only one tech podcast, this is the one)
Sophos Security Chet Chat
Guardian Tech Weekly
That would have to be
All Songs Considered which regularly gets a mensh on here.
A bizarre gem from the US is...
NPRs 'Car Talk' podcast. On the face of it, it's a simple car-related phone-in where two mechanics provide help and advice on motoring related problems. In reality it's a slightly surreal and often hilarious hour of 'talking bollocks' on a vaguely automotive theme.
I was going to mention this
I don't give a toss about cars but I love the show. The brothers who do it have a bit more under the belt than it may seem at first. One was a science teacher and the other a materials engineer.
I subscribe to about 50 but my favourites (beside the mighty Word and the above car talk) are:
Sound Opinions
Stuff you should know
More or less (BBC stats in media: great show)
Skeptics guide to the universe
MonsterTalk
Film Sack
Kermode
Danny Baker show
Freakonomics (These are as good as the book)
This American Life (The one this week on the right to remain silent was a doozy)
Adam and Joe (when they are on, but the back catalogue is well worth
checking out- My favourite podcast)
And last, but not least, Podrophenia from our own Mondo. Really great show, and along with the Word podcast, it fills the "chatting about music with mates" gap I've had in my life for about the last 20 years.
Adam & Joe back catalogue?
Have you got a link, P?
iTunes has the ones since Christmas
but appears to have dumped the rest. I have a season or two from before that.
Everything
Just about everything audio that A&J have ever done is archived and linked from a couple of fan sites - mainly MP3s - full shows, shows with tjust the music taken out, podcasts etc not too hard to find if you know that there's any point in searching!
I had a cassette of Car Talk
from friends who lived in New Jersey. Brilliant, I shall be looking for the podcast>
Podcasts.
I couldn't live without them.
Football wise - I'd recommend the Monday Night Club on 5Live & the Guardians Football Weekly.
Can I also point you in the direction of Radio Downloader. Will grab any radio show & turn it into an MP3 - which you can then load onto ipod as a podcast. It's the sole reason I still haven't thrown out my PC (sadly it's not mac compatible).
Other Podcatchers are Available.
Radio Downloader's good, but the problem is it automatically re-encodes to its own set bitrate and, as far as I can tell, there's no way of circumventing this.
My regulars include
Fighting Talk (5 Live)
The Danny Baker Show (5 Live)
Kermode & Mayo
The Vinyl Cafe
The Guardian Football Weekly
The Tuesday Club (Arsenal)
The Arseblog Arsecast (Arsenal)
World Football Phone-in (5 Live)
Answer Me This
The Football Ramble
Brief Lives (when it's on)
Not sure if you like football
(ho ho) but take a look at Danny Kelly's "My Sporting Life" podcasts. he's interviewed quite a few former Gooners as well as some other well known sporting names. I'm downloading a few myself now.
Danny Kelly you say...
not known for his love of the Arse(nal) but does live with a Gooner (so can't be all bad). Strange fellow really - not sure how he went over to the "dark side" as I believe he was born in Gooner territory. Maybe Danny Baker could enlighten us!
I'll give it a go - cheers
Thegame - the Times footy
show with Gabriel Marcotti's not bad either.
If I remember rightly
All Danny Kelly's family are Arsenal, and he was being contrary.
Thanks YTDS
a fellow Gooner I note - yes that would explain it - he's actually one of the few presenters on talk sport I can stomach - He went to the same junior School as my sisters I believe - just off the Holloway Road - so I never really got why he supported the other lot, but just to be different would explain it - I warned my Son's at a very young age that they would have to leave the house and live with a Russian Family (fictional, I should add) if they every showed leanings towards any other team - worked well - they are both even more fanatical than me now!
Fighting Talk
Gets my vote too.
Miscellaneous
The Bugle
Radiolab
Slate's Cultural Gabfest
Slate's Political Gabfest
Real Time With Bill Maher
Guardian Science
Little Atoms
The Moth
if you like your economics and public policy
the london school of economics has a vast selection albeit poorly recorded and poorly edited if at all
they need fraser.
Here Goes
Plenty to try out here.....
Answer Me This
Clearance Rack - 80s retro dance mix
CNET UK Podcast - techy
Danny Baker Show
Dave Gorman on Absolute Radio
Desert Island Discs
Documentary of the Week - R4
The Football Ramble
Guardian Football Weekly
Friday Night Comedy
J's Indie Rock Podcast - College radio from North Carolina - 2 hours of up to date guitar based-"Indie" stuff that you'll have heard of....
KCRW's Le Show - Harry Shearer tells it as it is in the US.
Mark Kermode/Simon Mayo
Medium Wave podcast - Dr Volume of this parish...
The Moth
NPR All Songs Considered
Off the Ball - Scottish football
Podrophenia - Mondo of this parish...
Radio Talk - all about the radio industry but interesting for keen amateurs
The Shend's Radio Programme - my favourite music based one at the mo' - as if John Peel had come back to life and did an hour a week on your iThingy....lovely stuff!
Sound Opinions
This American Life
This is only a Test - these guys talk tech stuff for 2-3 hours per week - US biased but really interesting conversation, not at all technical to the uninitiated....
Tim & Simon's Brain Spill - an Adam & Joe substitute whilst A&J are asleep.
The Word (obviously)
60 Minutes
Some Comedy
Although they're not regular, in the last 6 months I have enjoyed:
Pappy's Flatshare Slamdown (some are very very funny)
Richard Herring's Edinburgh Fringe Podcast (Different guest every day - you do need to like RH though!)
I'm quite looking forward to seeing what the Dave weekly podcast is going to be like.
At the moment:
Dave Gorman - Absolute Radio
Desert Island Discs
Friday Night Comedy - Radio 4
Kermode/Mayo
Radio Le Mans/Midweek Motorsport - won't appeal to many on these boards, I suspect, but properly informed news/banter and not afraid to express opinions
Shaun Keaveny - 6 Music
Was Ist Das? - "krautrock, noise, madness, minimilist ambirny, freak sounds. sounds from the likes of Acid Mothers Temple, Faust, Current 93, Nurse with Wound, Sun Araw, Chora, Twilight Sad, Max Richter"
The Word
I can recommend Wreckless Eric's (occasional) 'casts.
Great music and a bit of grumbling ;-)
It's enjoying a rest atm, but there are 30-odd available through his blog.
From Canada
Here are a few podcasts which are put out by CBC Radio.
Q (and "From the Q Vault") - A mixture of people both musical and entertainment. Includes lots of Canadian artists, Neil Young, Leonard Cohen, Wilco, Feist, Margaret Atwood and the like.
Vinyl Cafe. A Canadian Garrison Keeler. Very much a Canadian institution. Contains stories of Dave (owner of a small Toronto record store) and his family.
The Age of Persuasion. Fascinating insight into the world of advertising.
11 O'Clock Comics
and Frank Skinner on Absolute Radio are two I like that haven't had a mention yet.
The Rocking Vicar
Well worth a listen - two Word-friendly characters (at least one of whom graces these pages from time to time) blathering on about a range of current topics including (but not restricted to) popular music and media.
The website (listed over there -----> somewhere) and the email newsletter are both also highly recommended.
You can slip me the fiver later T.
I took your advice
and am thoroughly enjoying the RV back-catalogue. Thanks for the tip!
I still have the paper Rocking Vicar one-off magazine
which I'm convinced was the earliest incarnation of the Word - it even had a Danny Baker interview.(and a free RV badge!)
I have them-thanks
but am getting major crosstalk between left and right channels. Sounds like a faint echo on one side-almost like print through used to on tape but more annoying and louder. Does anyone else get this ? Am using Google Listen on Android phone, have tried a second one just to see if it was just one 'cast.
No probs with other casts than this. Baffled.
Excess Baggage
BBC Travel podcast is worth a mention.
I like...
The Football Ramble.
NPR All Songs Considered.
Fighting Talk.
Friday Night Comedy.
Classic Albums Podcast (I'm not sure if it's still going but you can download all the old podcasts) - it's basically two friends who lend each other an album to listen to and they discuss it the next time they meet - quite funny at times - one of them is obsessed by Belle & Sebastian and the other one can't stand them.
Two recommendations from me
Both vaguely current affairsy:
The Bugle: John Oliver and Andy Zaltzman talk entertaining nonsense about world events.
Greg Proops' Smartest Man In The World: whiny-voiced ex-Whose Line man freestyles for an hour about whatever takes his fancy. Often US-centric but none the worse for it and very sharp on modern day political hypocrisy. Takes a while to get used to the format, but worth it.
Robin & Josie's Utter Shambles
Robin Ince and Josie Long. Perhaps not to everybody's taste but I love this. Guests have included Billy Bragg, Alan Moore, Mark Gatiss and Edgar Wright. Interesting and enthusiastic, well worth a listen.
History of the World in 100 Objects
I think this is still up on some BBC web property. It's a superb series of 15 minute podcasts, each one based on an historical artifact. Covers the stone age to the present day.
Highly recommended by..er..me.
Seconded... Sone annoying background music
which, over 100 episodes, really grates but otherwise a fascinating alternative history of our civilisation.
I believe there's a single bulk download available if you look a little way past the BBC website.
Radio 3 Jazz library
they now have them indexed as well in two archival feeds
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006x41z
[edit: The most recent was a good example, great summary of the life of Louis Jordan, seen here doing Saturday Night Fish Fry
who I'd heard of, but didn't know too much about.]
Scttish Football Podcasts
Off the Ball - BBC show with rather wonderful disdain for the Old Firm. Very funny if you're an ex-pat Jock like me!
Check Out The TWiT Network...
on the web or iTunes etc etc if Tech and related stuff is your thing. Set up by one guy (broadcasting from what looked like his home office) fed up with technology broadcasting either being rubbish or its listeners/viewers treated like idiots but now has a comprehensive stable of audio and video "netcasts" covering all areas of tech-related news and views.
You'll need to get round the US west-coast bias, but after that it's intelligent programming and definitely the way that broadcasting could be going over the next few years.
A shout out to
the Infinite Monkey Cage. Great idea, beautifully executed.
The Moth
I listen to quite a few already mentioned here (DID, This American Life, Kermode and Mayo, Football Weekly), but check out The Moth Podcast. It's a 15 minute spoken word true story each week.
You get the very odd duff one or one that's a bit too "American" for my tastes ("I was like, erm, like, yeah" *whooping from audience*), but the majority are brilliant. Real diverse group of story-tellers and everything from the hilarious to the heartbreaking.
If it's still up, as a taster try and get hold of 'Little Mama' which is a story by a woman who used to dance for James Brown. Brilliant.
I'd like to recommend
a podcast featuring a couple of members of the Word Massive.
It's PaddyH speaking to el hombre malo (of The Primevals and The Beat Poets) about his musical influences - and it's fascinating stuff. If you love listening to someone talking with genuine delight, enthusiasm and knowledge about music, check it out.
Part 1 here: http://gobshitesmiscellany.blogspot.com/2011/10/podcast-primevals-beat-p...
Part 2 here: http://gobshitesmiscellany.blogspot.com/2011/10/monk-and-coltrane-and-be...
Radcliffe & Maconie's
BBC 6 Music show now has a podcast, too.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/radmac