Forgot my books- podcast recommendations please?

[regementaria]

gutted because I wanted to unplug and avoid doomscrolling but I took out my books from my luggage and did not repack them.

i don’t really ‘do’ podcasts. I did when I was younger and into different fandoms but haven’t listened to any in years apart from some of the ones that come with my magazine subscriptions.

i like politics (generally material with a more centrist slant), celebrity fluff, tech, history…not massively into natural science or film.

i love the tv show peep show so I have found a fan podcast that I am enjoying this morning as a sneak peek into the show but I think I want to try and engage my brain a bit more than rewatching a sitcom from 10 years ago via the medium of podcast 😂

any ideas? Don’t want anything massively deep.

Politics - Newscast (and Americast at the moment too), The News Agents, The Rest is politics - all good for slightly different takes on what's going on day to day.

There was a "what podcast" thread recently that had loads of good suggestions, I'm rubbish at links though

The newsagents
The rest is history
Newscast
Americast
The rest is politics (U.K. and US version)
Not another one
You're dead to me
Dan Snow's History hit
History extra podcast

Should have said, if it’s politics- I don’t really want to relive the news of the day. I want to check out of life.

i want more bigger picture analysis, or features rather than talking heads discussing what happened 24 hours ago

thanks for suggestions so far

Definitely give The Rest Is History a go. Scroll back and find one of their multi part series on a subject you're curious about.

Their Hundred Years War series was very good I thought, and the Rise of the Nazis, the Falklands War and Richard Nixon.

I use podbean and it has audiobook options, most of the podcast I listen to are true crime.
Podbean has categories so you can search easily it also has some podcasts from BBC iPlayer,
I find iPlayer the most irritating way to listen to a podcast
If you have Amazon prime, I think they have a podcast section

For bite size news I like the Economist Intelligence daily podcast which has three pieces in a 24 minute slot. Normally the first one covers the biggest story of the moment and the others cover global stories or general trends you might not know about.

Jon Ronsons’s podcast ‘things fell apart’ is good, it’s looking into how the recent cultural shift was born. I’ve just started ‘the coming storm’ which is similar.

’behind the bastards’ is a good one too.