Interesting, factual podcast recommendations.

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I’ve recently enjoyed listening to a couple of episodes of the Swindled podcast (Nestlé infant formula scandal and Herbalife MLM) and a few of the Chris VT UPF podcasts. Any other podcasts similar or with interesting factual info I could listen to next?

In our time or Lady Killers on BBC Sounds app.

Have also started listening to Mythical Creatures by Rhiannon Pratchett.

Chris Skinners Countryside podcast is brilliant for history/wildlife.

Oh wow thanks everyone- not sure where to start!

I really like The Rest is History. I haven't tried The Rest is Politics - is that worth a go?

Cautionary Tales by Tim Harford is great. Some of the ones recommended above also look brilliant, what a helpful thread!

Also following

Freakanomics is excellent, but slightly different to what you have mentioned as each episode (mainly, some are two or three parters) is on a different topic.

@Magnificen I did too. It’s quite an old podcast now, and her husband has since been sentenced for her murder.

Another vote for Visible Women.
Also

• Sideways - bbc sounds.

@Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g Yes, it’s very good. Red Box Politics is also good if politics your bag. The Week Unwrapped with Olly Mann ace too.

History of the world in 100 objects and In our time on BBC sounds

Following- love to listen to podcasts on my way to work.

My suggeston: Seven Deadly Psychologies

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The fake heiress, really well done.

Mystery Hour is great.
Full disclosure ( Sheila Hancock one in particular)
Rest is Politics
Legacy
Diary of a CEO but have to pick through a bit some of them focused toward a younger audience
On Purpose

Light listen : Table Manners - love it especially Lenny .

A Bit of a Stretch
West Cork
The Debutante
Things Fell Apart (in fact anything by Jon Ronson)
Serial season 2

The BBC has an enormous back catalogue on Sounds which would be worth exploring. I think I'm right in saying the entire set of Desert Island Discs is on there. Some of the interviews can be very revealing. The one with Jamie Dornan recently stood out, also the one with Adrian Edmondson. In Our Time and The Life Scientific might be worth a look too. All in the Mind can be good.

@Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g i like the rest is politics, but it slightLy suffers from the same thing as Newscast, in that it can be a bit too Westminster love in. But Rory is lovely to listen to and has an interesting take on the world.

Thanks, @BarrelOfOtters and @RipleyGreen! I'll give it a go. I don't mind a Westminster focus, especially in an election year.

We Didn't Start the Fire - modern history podcast that goes through all the things mentioned in the song, so you get music, politics, war, books and (a bit too much) baseball

I listen regularly to:

This is actually happening
Dateline podcast
British Scandal
Even the Rich
The Economics of Everyday things
Stuff you should know
Scamfluencers
You're dead to me

Really interesting one off podcasts I've enjoyed:
Frozen Head
Dr. Death
Joe vs Carole
Stolen Hearts
Do no harm
Dirty John
You must remember Manson
Will be wild
Epstein - Devil in the darkness
Chasing Cosby

What’s her name - amazing women you’ve never heard of. Focuses on a different woman each episode

Carrie Jade Doesn't Exist (there was a thread on here when she claimed she was being sued by her Airbnb guests for being disabled.)

Your own backyard - the original is older as it was an old case, but it goes right through to the trial.

Twin Flames.

The Retrievals

Teachers Pet - has had more episodes since the original.

Can I tell you a secret? Now a Netflix show.

Currently listening to The Wedding Scammer.

I also like Murder They Wrote - 30mins, stand-alone, an easy listen (though can be a bit gruesome at times)

This is great!

I also like This Jungian Life and Moral Maze which haven’t been mentioned here.

I like In Our Time too.

can’t wait to look these up, have been looking for something.

99% invisible
A history of the world in 100 objects
A very British cult
Americast
Atlanta monster
Bad batch
Bad people
Battle scars
Behind the bastards
Brain stuff
British scandal
Buried bones
Cautionary tales
Conflict of interest
Crowd science
Dan Carlin's hard-core history
Dan Snow's history hit
Daniel and Jorge explain the universe
Dictators
Dirty John
Discovery
Dr Death
Ear hustle
End of days
Evil Genius
File on 4
Freakonomics radio
From our own correspondent
Fukushima
Gender: a wider lens
Great lives
Guru:the dark side of enlightenment
Hidden brain
History on fire
How I survived
How they made us doubt everything
How to vaccinate the world
I'm not a monster
In our time
Inside forensic science
Intelligence squared
Investigating the post office scandal
Killing Victoria
Lady Killers with Lucy Worsley
Law in action
Making sense with Sam Harris
More or less
Museum of lost objects
Naked neuroscience
Newscast
Nolan investigates: Stonewall
Ologies
Our fake history
Paradise
Part-time genius
Personology
Real dictators
Revisionist history
Richard Wiseman's on your mind
Sawbones
Science in Action
Science Vs
Seriously
Sideways
Stuff the British stole
Stuff to blow your mind
Stuff you missed in history class
Stuff you should know.
The allusionist
The boring talks
The briefing room
The compass
The curious cases of Rutherford and Fry
The Forum
The Fourcast
The great post office trial
The infinite monkey cage
The Intelligence from The Economist
The Lazarus Heist
The life scientific
The long view
The missing cryptoqueen
The museum of curiosity
The naked scientists podcast
The news agents - USA
The numberphile podcast
The people vs J Edgar Hoover
The rest is history
The rest is politics
The skeptics guide to the universe
The sound: mystery of the Havana syndrome
The teacher's pet
The women's war
Things fell apart
Thinking allowed
This is not a drill with Gavin Esler
Tides of history
Ukrainecast
Undercover
Unexpected elements
Untold: the Daniel Morgan murder
Up and Vanished
War on truth
We are history
We didn't start the fire
What a creep
When Greeks flew kites
Witness history
Word of mouth
You are not so smart
You'll die smarter
You're dead to me
You're wrong about