Podcasts are Annoying

Well, bad ones do. A suggestion. Don’t listen to bad ones!

I like British Murders
Sliced Bread/Toast. Sliced Bread is a podcast about the latest fads are the worth it or complete bs. Toast is about companies that once were big and now no longer exist.

I don’t really like them either.

ds listens to them

i prefer music

It sounds like it's sorting them alphabetically.

If it's a current BBC podcast, then chances are it will be on most of the other podcast providers like Pocketcasts, and it's generally easier to download them all on one of those platforms. The BBC Sounds app is awful.

But there are tons of well-written podcasts on just about any subject imaginable, so you don't have to listen to people prattle or listen to them talk about tedious subjects. You find good podcasts about things you're interested in, just like you do when choosing books to read or films and TV shows to watch.

Oooh I agree with you so much about the 'telling you what's coming' and 'in the last episode ' , in the next episode.
So now I know what been , what's here and what's to come , ffs just get on with it !

Does anyone else have issues with downloading from bbc sounds when it's 10 or more episodes ?
I like to down load a full series all at once but every time it's 10 or more it always puts episode 10 between 1 and 2 .
Even if I download 1 to 9 then wait a few hrs to download 10 it still puts it in the wrong place 🤔

Definitely agree. I'll never understand why there's so much demand to listen to people prattling on, usually about incredibly tedious subjects.

I suppose it's a bit like the blogging craze of the early 2000s, when we all had unlimited internet access and everybody and their dog had a blog, thinking that they were suitably interesting for large numbers of people to want to read them.

But while writing (and particularly good writing) is a genuine skill, podcasting doesn't really require any - and that's probably why there's so damn many of them now.

You know when you logged on to mumsnet and started posting @Netcurtainnelly …,.

Great thing about them, you can listen whilst you do other things ha. Posting on MN , for example 😬

Never get time to listen to one.

Ah OK I don't listen to the radio really.

Most podcasts are very poor quality. Anyone and his dog can have one. Whether they should is another matter.

Part of this is true. It is very easy to start your own podcast and it is definitely something which not everyone is good at. Some of the low-budget ones I listen to (mainly about history/heritage) are really good not because they have amazing production values and hi-tech studios, but because the person cares about their topic, is very knowledgeable and communicates well.

But "most" being very poor quality? That's just not true, many of the big TV/Radio organisations around the world make their own podcasts like BBC or Sky News or New York Times. Then there are the other brands which just make podcasts - iHeart, Wondery, Goalhanger. There are a lot of podcasts i'm just not interested in the topic, but that doesn't mean they are poor quality.

Recent good listens for those interested in podcasts:

Titanic - Ship of Dreams, narrated by one of the acting McGanns. Excellent retelling of the story.
British Scandal (Wondery) - dramatisations of scandals like Lord Lucan, the Salisbury poisonings, The Peru Two...
Death in Ice Valley - co production between BBC and Norwegian broadcaster about an unsolved mystery which is absolutely fascinating
Assume Nothing - BBC N Ireland podcast with short seasons on a specific story.
Marianna in Conspiracyland - again several stories, all looking at conspiracy theorists.

Not liking podcasts is like saying you don't like books or television programmes. There are plenty of educational ones (although that's probably not your cup of tea) as well as 'celeb' ones.

They're a good medium for keeping up to date with what's going on, particularly science research or things like health advances, which hardly ever make it to radio let alone TV.

Some of the comedy is brilliant, as is some of the true crime. Just like other media there's something for everyone. If you've only listened to the shallow Z list celebrity type ones then I don't think you're in a position to comment on ALL podcasts.

That’s just not true though. There see tons of podcasts hosted by very knowledgeable people on every subject from deadly poisons to astronomy and many of them have very little to no waffle at all. Certainly not about Love Island.

Well to be honest I don't get those either! I think I've been to the cinema once in the last 20 years and only a handful of time prior to that.

If I watch/listen to something I want it to be relevant to the reason I'm watching it. I'm not interested in your Love Island habit - it may matter to you, it doesn't to me and I prefer not to spend my time listening to you wittering on about it in the hope that you may eventually say something interesting about life in Iron Age Britain which is what the podcast is supposed to be about.

Most podcasts are very poor quality. Anyone and his dog can have one. Whether they should is another matter.

No, the point is, if you only watched those kinds of films, you’d think that’s what all films were. Bit like you’re doing with podcasts.