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To ask for your BBC Sounds recommendations

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Annabella92 · 07/11/2024 12:58

I have a fair bit of cleaning to do today and have been enjoying some BBC Sounds content, BBC Ulster in particular had a great wee programme about a haunting and a house that vanished. I also enjoyed a recent one on Lord Lucan. I feel like I might have exhausted BBC Sounds by now though - what am I missing? What have you enjoyed?

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Lincslady53 · 09/11/2024 21:47

I enjoyed this https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand/p07nkd84?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile

If you like history, try the podcast, not BBC, This is History by Dan Jones, 5 series now covering the Plantagenets, I find him really interesting to listen too. On the same vein ,The Rest is History is also very good, but more varied.

BBC Sounds - The Missing Cryptoqueen - Available Episodes

Listen to the latest episodes of The Missing Cryptoqueen on BBC Sounds.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand/p07nkd84?origin=share-mobile&partner=uk.co.bbc

VegTrug · 09/11/2024 21:26

Allfur · 08/11/2024 07:38

Out if interest, how do people prefer to listen to podcasts that are non bbc?

Apple Podcasts. On which I listen to The Missing. Their episodes are currently featuring American cases but if you go back to the earlier series they’re all UK based cases

VegTrug · 09/11/2024 21:19

Roundaboot · 07/11/2024 15:00

Oh I always download too, but even so, the app just randomly stops. Especially if I try to use another app but also when I'm only using Sounds. It's particularly annoying when I'm driving and can't easily restart it

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The app has never once stopped on me? Let me guess, you’re on Android? If so that’s an Android issue or an issue with the Android version of the BBC Sounds app. My iOS BBC Sounds app is perfect

Stretchedresources · 09/11/2024 17:04

I've remembered another one, Good / Bad Billionaire. I listen to it with teens in the car and we always try to guess the verdict.

VegTrug · 09/11/2024 00:55

‘Bad People’ by a Canadian Criminal Psychology doctor and an English documentary maker. They’re quite amusing too.
I’m also listening to ‘Crime Next Door’ about the Salisbury Poisonings and the current inquest into it.
Obviously there’s the infamous ‘Uncanny’ with Danny Robins! If you’re into the unexplained. It really gives an objective take on people’s experiences rather than a load of hyperbole. It’s also entertaining in a real way. Love it

VegTrug · 09/11/2024 00:49

TheTrainNowDeparting · 07/11/2024 13:46

If you're up for some great comedy with a fair amount of pathos, have you listened to Conversations From A Long Marriage? Joanna Lumley and Roger Allam. All series currently on BBC Sounds. I'm waiting impatiently for more.

Pathos???

AlviarinAesSedai · 09/11/2024 00:10

The Lovecraft Investigations agree.
Limelight and Uncanny. The Whodunnit and the Paul Temple.
League of Gentlemen radio show is on at moment.
Eleanor Rising. I enjoyed Mrs Sidhu investigates before TV show. Elven Quest.
My subscribed is full. There is so much.

MarjorieDanvers · 08/11/2024 23:51

I’m not sure if anyone has mentioned ‘The Rest is History’ - but there are still a fair few on Sounds so no adverts!

MarjorieDanvers · 08/11/2024 23:47

@Rooftileswithmoss thank you so much for recommending ‘The Documentary’ - enjoying this immensely!

LunaNorth · 08/11/2024 22:10

TheLastSherbetLemonInTheJar · 08/11/2024 20:25

I forgot Real Survival Stories.

I bloody love Real Survival Stories. The presenter has such a sexy voice 😳

Simplelobsterhat · 08/11/2024 21:10

DreamW3aver · 08/11/2024 19:18

Cabin pressure is on Spotify

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Thank you! It wasn't last time I checked so we ended up listening on a dodgy YouTube video. Might have to do it again now! Love Cabin Pressure.

TheLastSherbetLemonInTheJar · 08/11/2024 20:25

I forgot Real Survival Stories.

Starch1e · 08/11/2024 19:20

Picoloangel · 08/11/2024 08:39

Not BBC Sounds but Serial have great podcast - my favourites are The Truth About Adnan Syed and Sh*t Town.

I listen to podcasts on my way home from work on the train so am always looking for recommendations!

I tend towards crime (I work in the criminal justice system in my defence - pardon the pun) and documentary type stuff. There’s a great one which Michael Sheen was involved in about awful “forever” chemicals being dumped in Wales years ago. Really interesting though the name escapes me. It’s a BBC sounds one though.

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Michael Sheen/forever chemicals is second series of 'Buried' 😁

DreamW3aver · 08/11/2024 19:18

AlertCat · 08/11/2024 19:08

I wanted to share it with OH but it wasn’t available recently.

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Cabin pressure is on Spotify

DreamW3aver · 08/11/2024 19:17

SometimesMaybe · 08/11/2024 08:08

I thought I had completed BBC sounds so this thread is brilliant for new recommendations.
I follow Drama on 4 for a new standalone drama each week.
My favourite podcast of all time is Paradise which investigates the disappearance of two Brits in Belize some years ago and the story develops in real time over the course of the podcast. It’s really really good.

Eh? How could you complete it? There are numerous stations broadcasting all day plus all the podcasts and historic programmes, it would be literally impossible to listen to everything

AlertCat · 08/11/2024 19:08

Nocalmwaters · 08/11/2024 19:05

How did I forget Cabin Pressure?! Literally one of the funniest things I’ve ever heard.

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I wanted to share it with OH but it wasn’t available recently.

Nocalmwaters · 08/11/2024 19:05

Tintackedsea · 08/11/2024 08:11

Nonfiction

Cautionary Tales
More or Less
In Our Time
The Kitchen Cabinet
Food Programme
Curious History of Your Home
Open Book
Thinking Allowed
A Good Read
The Verb
Word of Mouth

Fiction

Charles Paris
Small Town Murder
Trueman and Riley
Craven
In and Out of the Kitchen
Cabin Pressure
The Interrogation
This Service Will...

Such a shame the BBC Sounds app is so clumsy and difficult to navigate because the content is fabulous!

How did I forget Cabin Pressure?! Literally one of the funniest things I’ve ever heard.

Picoloangel · 08/11/2024 18:07

Picoloangel · 07/11/2024 20:15

Insisted sit a great one recently - think it was The Crime Next Door and was a series about a double murder in a remote Welsh farm; Death on the Farm. It was kind of heartbreaking but very good.

Also, “Who Killed Emma?” “ Sweet Bonny” and the Hampstead Child Abuse Hoax.

my bloody autocorrect! Sweet BoBBY

creameggz · 08/11/2024 09:26

I like consumer programmes, so listen to You & Yours, Moneybox and (sometimes) the Martin Lewis podcast.

I also like Sliced Bread if they're talking about a product I'm interested in.

Anything by Tim Harford (More or Less, Cautionary Tales).

Life Changing can be compelling listening too ... interviews with people who have had life changing experiences.

Auburngal · 08/11/2024 08:54

Not a BBC Sounds podcast, Love British Killers with Stuart Blues.

Auburngal · 08/11/2024 08:50

I like Sliced Bread which talks about latest gimmicks, is it worth spending more on tyres v standard. Then its sister programme, Toast talks about companies that are no more and its reasons of their demise.

Pinknotpurple · 08/11/2024 08:46

Voices from the old Bailey.

It's centuries old court cases that are absolutely fascinating. Details of people's lives who were otherwise not recorded in history.

Picoloangel · 08/11/2024 08:39

Not BBC Sounds but Serial have great podcast - my favourites are The Truth About Adnan Syed and Sh*t Town.

I listen to podcasts on my way home from work on the train so am always looking for recommendations!

I tend towards crime (I work in the criminal justice system in my defence - pardon the pun) and documentary type stuff. There’s a great one which Michael Sheen was involved in about awful “forever” chemicals being dumped in Wales years ago. Really interesting though the name escapes me. It’s a BBC sounds one though.

FannyCradocksDoughnut · 08/11/2024 08:37

A new series of The Gift has just been released. About what can happen when the results of an online ancestry DNA test are not as expected! Fascinating!