To ask for your BBC Sounds recommendations

[Annabella92]

I have a fair bit of cleaning to do today and have been enjoying some BBC Sounds content, BBC Ulster in particular had a great wee programme about a haunting and a house that vanished. I also enjoyed a recent one on Lord Lucan. I feel like I might have exhausted BBC Sounds by now though - what am I missing? What have you enjoyed?

I really enjoyed The Curious History of Your Home by Ruth Goodman. Stories about the history of common objects in our home.

The Food Chain: There are hundreds of episodes available. All about various aspects of food including many related social issues. You don’t have to be a foodie to enjoy it.

Shedunnit: All about golden age crime stories and authors.

Room 5: A podcast where people share their stories of life changing diagnoses.

Life changing: Stories of people who have experienced extraordinary events.

Shared Experience: A podcast where they bring together people who have some life event or experience in common and share their stories.

The Crossbow Killer is a podcast all about the killing of an elderly man in Wales with a crossbow. It’s horrifying but fascinating.

I’ve just started listening to Real Dictators which is a podcast telling the story of various dictators throughout the world.

Oh I always download too, but even so, the app just randomly stops. Especially if I try to use another app but also when I'm only using Sounds. It's particularly annoying when I'm driving and can't easily restart it

The Gift, which is about various horrifying stories demonstrating the huge unintended consequences of mass DNA testing leading to people finding out they're not related to who they thought they were.

More or Less is excellent at explaining whether stories in the news have got the stats right.

I like Soul Music. It does seem to divide opinion, though!

I really enjoyed India Rakusen's 28ish Days Later, which is all about the menstrual cycle.

Do you remember the name of the BBC Ulster podcast? Sounds right up my street.

It’s a fair cop

Cautionary Tales (same guy that does More or Less) - looks at various historical events and looks at what went wrong and what it tells us about human behaviour.

Thanks for the suggestions everyone

For drama - Pilgrim by Sebastian Baczkiewicz and definitely endorse the Lovecraft series. Also caught part of Their Humble Servants - sounds interesting.

The Coming Storm - conspiracy theories linking in with USA elections

I love Uncanny, the Gift and More or Less

Uncanny is great if you like ghosty stuff 🙂

BBC Scotland have some good murder mystery series

Mark steel is coming to town. Very funny especially if you know the places.

Intrigue - Million dollar lover - about a rich elderly lady who falls for a homeless bloke and the fall out with her daughters

A very British cult - about a life coaching company that was really a cult

The coming storm, Marianna in Conspiracy land and Things fell apart - if you like the crazy side of US politics

Seconded!

Another vote for Uncanny!

Definitely second the Dickens adaptations - just enjoyed the last two episodes of Great Expectations this afternoon while finishing off some knitting - the bliss of retirement!

The Missing Madonna is a great podcast by the daughter of one of the men involved in the recovery of a stolen Da Vinci painting - a fascinating inside story.

Desert Island Discs back catalogue…just scroll through until you see someone you’re interested in. I love it but then I am very nosy for ‘people detail’!

Download every time though because the app is unbelievably frustrating when streaming. It sometimes gets stuck (or whatever the tech term is) even when you’ve downloaded.

If you like science at all, Unexpected Elements is fascinating

Uncanny if you like spooky stuff. Also Scary on Spotify or Patreon.

I love the BBC3 Classical Mix Tape and Jo Whiley's Shiny Happy Playlist.

I heard some snippets of this before and enjoyed it, thanks for the reminder!

I didn't know they were available so far back, thank you for the suggestions!

Sounds right up my street, thank you

It's A Fair Cop.

These are fascinating suggestions, how do I miss these?

The Lovecraft investigations! Great thank you

Yes I'd just finished Pig Iron before I posted!

Inside the Ethics Committee.
Is a medical ethics series.