Podcasts or documentaries to stop my brain dissolving with a baby?

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Thanks!!! Feel like I need to learn something new ASAP!

Is there anything in particular you're interested in / not interested in?

This is from 4 years ago but it’s really fucking good

https://www.feministsurvivalproject.com/

I like Women’s Hour (radio 4), Rutherford and Fry (science), the Infinite Monkey Cage (also science/ comedy)

The infinite monkey cage
Parenting Hell
Inside Science
Martins money
The guardian long reads
Sliced bread

For something funny I like ‘Off Menu’ podcast. For more learning type podcasts I enjoy ‘This Podcast Will Kill You’ and ‘Ologies’.

I felt the same. I taught myself the 50 states (name them all, and their capitals, can name them just by outline, by location on the map etc). It was pretty pointless but I needed my brain not to atrophy

I'd say a language. Basic French or Spanish or whatever you've fancied learning.

https://www.ihmc.us/stemtalks/

STEMtalk, very good and quite wide ranging.

I like-
Off menu
Shagged married annoyed
Parenting hell
Murder they wrote
Traitors
Happy mum happy baby

Ooh and also ‘No such thing as a Fish’ which is by the QI people.
For history / comedy mixed there’s ‘You’re dead to me’ and ‘Not just the Tudors’

Parenting hell is so so good but not intellectual if that's what you're after.

"the rest is history" also good/easy and you learn.

More or less on R4! I haven’t done statistics since high school and I loved listening to this weekly on maternity leave!

Loved parenting hell and help i sexed my boss, both funny.
Diary of a CEO

The newsagents is good

I've listened to a lot of podcasts while on maternity leave. If anything I feel like I've learnt more and my brain is taking more in because I'm not distracted by work!

It depends what you're into. I like history, literature and food.

• History Hit
  *History extra

• You're dead to me

• Off Menu

• In our time (there's so many episodes, I just pick the ones I'm interested in)
  *99% invisible

• the retrospectors

• 60 songs that explain the 90s is good if you like music

There's a lot on the BBC sounds app. I've just started listening to a great one called Toast, about businesses that failed and why.

You can also listen to audio books. I've got through a lot of books this way.

Season 1 of Serial is my all time favourite podcast.

You’re Wrong About

I like Analysis on Radio 4 for current affairs topics

I do remember watching Magic Mike XXL when DD was born as it was on Netflix

And Gilmore Girls

I really enjoy The Rest Is History.

I never saw myself as a podcast person, but I'm absolutely hooked on The Rest Is History

Can I ask when do you all manage to listen to them?
My toddler demands so much attention he just grabs my EarPods or needs something every 30 seconds.

Even on a walk he either wants water or dropped his dummy or just looks at me to make sure I'm there and not on the phone etc.

The Hidden Brain podcasts are really interesting!

The Rest is History
Empire

The entire back catalogue of In Our Time is on BBC Sounds so loads of topics there to chose from randomly

Natalie Haynes stands up for the Classics
Mary Beard’s Being Roman

Stuff You Should Know is fab. And Dan Snow's History Hit too.