To ask for your BBC Sounds recommendations

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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've had this - I've come across something by chance or by searching for a programme recommended to me and it definitely doesn't appear if I just look in the appropriate category. Very odd.

Nonfiction

Cautionary Tales
More or Less
In Our Time
The Kitchen Cabinet
Food Programme
Curious History of Your Home
Open Book
Thinking Allowed
A Good Read
The Verb
Word of Mouth

Fiction

Charles Paris
Small Town Murder
Trueman and Riley
Craven
In and Out of the Kitchen
Cabin Pressure
The Interrogation
This Service Will...

Such a shame the BBC Sounds app is so clumsy and difficult to navigate because the content is fabulous!

Such a shame the BBC Sounds app is so clumsy and difficult to navigate because the content is fabulous!

Agree! I have the same problem with Apple TV+

I forgot to say that there is a superb back catalogue of Archive on 4 which is a stunning collection of one-off documentaries and personal-passions. There is something for everyone in there - one of my favourites was an interview recorded with the author Andrea Levy and which she only agreed to on the condition that it wasn't released until after she died (she had incurable cancer at the time). It was so moving but there's everything from Frank Cotterell Boyce on children's books to one about Grenfell.

Also, if you want to raise your blood pressure, The Great Post Office Scandal is a tremendous piece of campaigning journalism which will not fail to get you screaming out loud at the way in which the PO treated its sub-post masters.

If you're listening to content that people have worked their backsides off to write and produce then you should jolly well pay for it.

Mattan - Injustice of a Hanged man. I listened to this on a long drive a couple of years ago and it still haunts me. I followed it up with Shreds Murder in the Docks. They are both about miscarriages of justice.

A new series of The Gift has just been released. About what can happen when the results of an online ancestry DNA test are not as expected! Fascinating!

Not BBC Sounds but Serial have great podcast - my favourites are The Truth About Adnan Syed and Sh*t Town.

I listen to podcasts on my way home from work on the train so am always looking for recommendations!

I tend towards crime (I work in the criminal justice system in my defence - pardon the pun) and documentary type stuff. There’s a great one which Michael Sheen was involved in about awful “forever” chemicals being dumped in Wales years ago. Really interesting though the name escapes me. It’s a BBC sounds one though.

Voices from the old Bailey.

It's centuries old court cases that are absolutely fascinating. Details of people's lives who were otherwise not recorded in history.

I like Sliced Bread which talks about latest gimmicks, is it worth spending more on tyres v standard. Then its sister programme, Toast talks about companies that are no more and its reasons of their demise.

Not a BBC Sounds podcast, Love British Killers with Stuart Blues.

I like consumer programmes, so listen to You & Yours, Moneybox and (sometimes) the Martin Lewis podcast.

I also like Sliced Bread if they're talking about a product I'm interested in.

Anything by Tim Harford (More or Less, Cautionary Tales).

Life Changing can be compelling listening too ... interviews with people who have had life changing experiences.

my bloody autocorrect! Sweet BoBBY

How did I forget Cabin Pressure?! Literally one of the funniest things I’ve ever heard.

I wanted to share it with OH but it wasn’t available recently.

Eh? How could you complete it? There are numerous stations broadcasting all day plus all the podcasts and historic programmes, it would be literally impossible to listen to everything

Cabin pressure is on Spotify

Michael Sheen/forever chemicals is second series of 'Buried' 😁

I forgot Real Survival Stories.

Thank you! It wasn't last time I checked so we ended up listening on a dodgy YouTube video. Might have to do it again now! Love Cabin Pressure.

I bloody love Real Survival Stories. The presenter has such a sexy voice 😳

@Rooftileswithmoss thank you so much for recommending ‘The Documentary’ - enjoying this immensely!

I’m not sure if anyone has mentioned ‘The Rest is History’ - but there are still a fair few on Sounds so no adverts!

The Lovecraft Investigations agree.
Limelight and Uncanny. The Whodunnit and the Paul Temple.
League of Gentlemen radio show is on at moment.
Eleanor Rising. I enjoyed Mrs Sidhu investigates before TV show. Elven Quest.
My subscribed is full. There is so much.

Pathos???