Please can you recommend your favourite time-wasting podcasts?

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Having realised that listening to the radio on my phone whilst running is a very quick way to lost a LOT of data, I think I should download some podcasts instead. I need something that will be great escapism and distract me from the pain of trying to run.

Want to stay away from anything political or about fashion/beauty/lifestyle. I love listening to Chris Evans on Virgin for his longer interviews so interesting interviews could be good. Or real life stuff. Maybe true crime? I tried one of those this morning and the woman had such a ridiculous monotone that I gave up.

So, wise podcast-listening people of MN, any suggestions?

Thank you!

Shagged, Married, Annoyed by Chris and Rosie Ramsey- absolutely hilarious!

If you watched the series the Chernobyl ones were amazing.
The intrigue: The Ratline ones were god too

Stuff you should know
A wide variety of subjects over the last 10 years.

Crime: serial, who killed elsie frost. S town isnt crime but made by the same people as serial and is v compelling.
Interviews: griefcast with cariad lloyd, reasons to be cheerful, ways to change the world, this american life (same people as stown and serial). You might like the guilty feminist as they have different guests on and its interesting and funny.

If you need a laugh then my dad wrote a porno, and joan and jerricha. Although mdwap made me laugh so hard on one occassion i needed my inhaler so save that one for when youre not running.

No such thing as a fish.
The Teachers Pet
Crime Junkies
Stuff you missed in history class
Casefile True Crime
They walk among us.

I flit between these (and a few style/ beauty ones)

Gay and a Non Gay on Spotify is bloody hilarious 😂

Table manners with Jessie Ware
Second “No such thing as a fish”, Chernobyl podcast and my dad wrote a porno
99% invisible
The anthropocene reviewed
The Allusionist
David tennant does a podcast

For comedy: shagged married annoyed
For documentary \ interesting stuff : the ratline, in the dark and Chernobyl
Uk crime : they walk among us
America crime : crime junkie

I love:

Kermode and Mayo's Film Review
Jay Rayner's Kitchen Cabinet
Off menu (Ed Gamble and James Acaster)

Beef and dairy
Fortunately
50 things that made the modern economy
Simon Evans goes to market

My favourite murder
Real crime profile
Serial
Desert island discs

Young house love - about DIY, I find it weirdly compelling
In our time
My dad wrote a porno

I second Stuff You Should Know, I actually love Josh and Chuck and there is an ace SYSK Army Facebook group

Another one for No Such Thing As A Fish too.

Bob Mortimer's Athletico Mince is bloody hilarious, even if you hardly know anything about football (it's not all about football)

And lovely Adam Buxton's podcast is always funny and fascinating. I really enjoyed him talking to Nina Stibbe recently, and David Sedaris.

Podcasts are a huge part of my life, they help me get through all my household chores and to fall asleep at night.

Stuff you should know by Chuck & Josh from Short Stuff. They have an especially interesting two parter on the Tylenol murders in the USA but just as thought provoking stuff as what were human zoos and what is perfect pitch?

S-town
Serial
Casefule
My favourite murder
Sincerely x
I'm terrible, thanks for asking
Dr death
Red handed
Crime junkie
Who the hell is Hamish
This American life
Teacher's pet
Up and vanished
Sword and scale
The hurricane tapes
The wonderland murders
Slow burn
Someone knows something
Dirty John
Blackwood
Swindled

Gossip

I wrote that lot as a list. Bloody app!!!

Criminal

If you're interested in US politics:

All the president's lawyers
Trumpcast

@cecilandsnail I was going to recommend Someone Knows Something too. I found the first season really fascinating. And kind of spooky. I think about it now and again. You're the only person I have come across who has ever listened apart from me.

Drunk women solving crime - funny & crime-y.
Griefcast with Cariad Llyod - interesting interviews not as heavy as you would think
No such thing as a fish - funny & full of interesting facts

Mortified (people reading the best of their childhood diaries)
Answer me This!

I like How to Fail with Elizabeth Day (although she does also write for the Mail on Sunday so probably can't be mentioned on MN)

The Lady Vanishes - for people that liked Serial, STown etc. Also West Cork.

Red handed is my absolute favourite at the moment. Also drunk women solving crime.