Any podcasts I MUST listen to?

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I really enjoyed Serial and the one with Catherine Keener (can't remember what it was called )

Anything new - in the last year or so?

Real Crime Profile is a good one if you like Serial. It’s real criminologists and psychologists talking about infamous murder cases in depth. It’s not tacky and explotative like some crime podcasts can be.

WTF with Marc Maron is a good one if you like interviews with interesting people. He chats to politicians, celebrities, artists etc and has a really relaxed interview style. He gets a lot of really personal, interesting stuff out of people.

Also like Adam Buxton, The Comedian’s Comedian (if you like stand up/comedy in general), and Freakanomics for general interesting topics.

Currently binging Short Cuts by Josie Long on Radio 4. Each is a half hour curation of the weird and wonderful bits of radio.

I like The History Chicks. There's heaps of them to choose from (some follow on from another, but they usually reference that at the start).

Each episode focuses on a woman in history; covers a wide range of time and different countries. Each on interesting and informative.

I love Crime in Sports and Small Town Murder.
Very funny and well researched

Guys We Fucked - started as what it sounds like (2 comedians interviewing men they had slept with), but they now mainly interview other comedians or people with interesting stories about sex and feminist issues. Very sweary!

I enjoy Scummy Mummies. Often found giggling on the bus listening to them! I saw them live at a festival last summer and was a bit “fan-girl” about seeing them. Embarrassing when you’re a 39 year old mum of two

I also love “Ramblings” with Clare Balding. I love listening to people chatting about their passions whilst Clare describes the lovely views on their walks. I’ve laughed and sobbed listening to some people’s stories, and I always learn something interesting!

Invisibilia
RadioLab
ReplyAll (if you are a bit of an IT geek)
Startup
Untold: The Daniel Morgan Murder (if you enjoyed Serial)

Welcome to Nightvale, all on Spotify. S'like the X Files and Twin peaks.

Can I be a total technophobe and ask how you listen to podcasts? Do you download them through an app?

Untold: the Daniel Morgan murder is one of the best podcasts out there IMO and I've listened to them all a lot.

Would second ‘this American life’, ‘wtf’, ‘Adam buxton’, ‘s town’, ‘invisibilia’.

Would also recommend ‘2 dope queens’ of you like stand up.

@NancyFrank i have an iPhone (I know) so there is a podcast app, but I also use ‘stitcher’ another podcast app. You can also listen on Soundcloud and Spotify I think.

I like the High Low podcast with Pandora Sykes & Dolly Alderton - funny, interesting, topical & makes me feel like I've got my finger on the zeitgeist.

Thanks @cheekyandfreaky I'll have a look

I’ve just discovered 99% invisible and I am obsessed. It’s about something differed every episode but basically how something we take for granted became that way. So I found myself engrossed in an episode the other day about the development of skid row in LA (it’s a proper neighbourhood, never knew that!) Then I was listening to an episode about a marketing campaign reebok ran in the run up to the ‘92 olympics. And how the compact style packaging for the pill was developed.

It sounds boring but every episode is fascinating. And the presenter, Roman Mars, has the most gorgeous voice i’ve ever heard.

For all the true crime buffs may I recommend Ear Hustle? It’s made inside San Quentin prison in California by prisoners and a volunteer artist and is the little stories of life inside. So there’s an episode on how you get your cell mate, another about prison tribes etc. It’s so well made and full of the most gorgeous music recorded around the prison.

Answer me this!
My Favourite Murder
Oh No Ross and Carrie

Great idea for a thread, always looking for new podcasts.
Radio 4 Friday night comedy (News Quiz at the mo)

They Walk Amoung us (true crime)

History Hit (Dan Snow and often gives really interesting background to topical issues - North Korea, US elections, Catalan independence etc, it’s very good)

Slow Burn (it’s about Watergate - just started it and it’s good - especially given the parallels in the US at the moment).

Lots of other Radio 4 stuff

Thanks for all these new ones!

Another vote for casefile (my fav crime pod) and sword and scale. I loved Ron Johnson’s the butterfly effect - gripped start to finish. Beyond reasonable doubt is ace, as is locked up abroad. And up and vanished! But I think my fav has been Untold - the Daniel Morgan murder. Shocking levels of police corruption etc. Was mind blowing.

The Tip Off is amazing - it's a British podcast about how big investigative journalism scoops happened told by the journalists concerned. One of the episodes is about the Panama papers stories being put together right from the earliest leaks.

Great recommendations here!

I love Griefcast / Adam Buxton / Scummy mummies as well as true crime ones.

I'm currently listening to The Adoption which is really fascinating- following a real adoption. 10 mins episodes and v well done & heartbreaking.

At the moment I love,

Unladylike - a podcast about what happens when women break the rules
www.unladylike.co/podcast/

Strangers - amazing storytelling podcast

Seconds to 99% Invisible, I agree with everything icebear said, Slow Burn, Ear Hustle, Invisibilia, Radiolab and Reply All.

If you like a bit of true crime, I recommend Already Gone, Casefile and Southern Fried True Crime.

The Beef and Dairy network, have only heard the ones where they ‘interview’ Eli. Hilarious and dark, very league of gentlemanesque.

Another vote for Adam Buxton

Grace Dent - The Untold.

Absolutely love these.

Casefile is my absolute favourite

My favourite murder, very different as it's about 60:40 random chat to murder ratio so takes a few episodes to get into what they're on about

My dad wrote a porno had me in stitches, need some other funny ones now

I love podcasts. Sleep podcasts banished my horrible night time anxiety when away from home.

Really need to get into podcasts, loving the suggestions. I’ve only listened to My dad wrote a porno (hilarious!), no such thing as a fish and infinite monkey cage. My DH puts A Plus on sometimes which is also very funny!