What podcasts are you listening to?

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Feminist content optional but GC feminist values, critical thinking and optimism preferred, levity also good! I'm listening on Apple podcasts.

I've enjoyed:
Gender: a Wider Lens
Julie Bindel's Podcast
Blocked and Reported
Jim Harold's Campfire
Uncanny
More or Less
Clear and Vivid
The Office Ladies
Talking Sopranos

I used to love Thinking Allowed but I've gone off it a bit due to it going woo/mushy but would love a replacement.

I also enjoy the 'heterodox' podcasters, such as:
Meghan Daum
Meghan Murphy
Julian Vigo (although I wish she would let her guests do more of the talking)
Dr DEborah Soh
Benjamin Boyce
The Heterodorx - Nina Paley and (GC transwoman) Corina Cohn
Andrew Doyle

I don't always agree with any or all of them, but they all offer heartening approaches to our current troubles.

Off Air with Jane and Fi is better than their fortunately thing they did on the BBC. They had Dr Anne-Marie Imafidon on the other day who is a science genius and passionate about getting girls into STEM. I've only listened to a couple of episodes but so far so good.

On science, the Life Scientific is great.

Honestly with Bari Weiss has some good GC stuff.

A brilliant one I heard this week:
Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford, specifically the October one about conspiracy theories and ideologies (and breaking the spell/changing minds).

I also like the daily podcast on the war in Ukraine From The Daily Telegraph. They have a team on the ground of local and a British male and female journos including those who have served in the armed forces and can talk intelligently about the logistics of war. I have found it to be the most thorough and accurate.

It’s called Ukraine: The Latest

Subversive with Alex Kaschuta
Triggernometry

Many of the above, but also Queen's Speech with Clive Simpson and Dennis Kavanagh:

www.youtube.com/@CliveSimpson1963

Also, as a guilty pleasure and a contrast to Americast from the BBC, Megyn Kelly, who has a strong conservative slant.

I'll second this. I have really enjoyed these two episodes where the second responds to the first. They discuss how mental illness has become an identity...
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/honestly-with-bari-weiss/id1570872415?i=1000569731362
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/honestly-with-bari-weiss/id1570872415?i=1000587248886

Several of Brendan O'Neil's podcasts looks good, just listened to his conversation with Lionel Shriver and really enjoyed it

Fab, thanks for suggestions. Will pop some on my phone before tonight's dog walk.

I've been bingeing Blocked and Reported just for the irreverence and fresh air factor but over time I find their voices increasingly irritating peak upspeak so I probably should take a break.

I like Katie, but Jesse can be annoying.

Gender a Wider Lens
Heterodorx
Sideways (BBC sounds)
Feminist Current
Uncanny (and all the off shoots) (BBC sounds)
The Spark (BBC sounds)
Tortoise Media (The Tavistock)
The Next Big Idea
Benjamin Boyce Calmversations
You Must be Some Kind of Therapist

Gonna check this out! Thanks Crouton

Great thread idea btw

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I like A Special Place in Hell, which is Meghan Daum and Sarah Haider’s conversational GC podcast. They have interesting guests but also have episodes where they riff on current affairs.

Julian Vigo (although I wish she would let her guests do more of the talking)

God yes! I still grind my teeth at the memory of Benjamin Boyce’s Calmversation episode with Jane Claire Jones (“but women walk down the street in sexy yoga pants…” JCJ: “they’re just fitness clothes Benjamin! 🙄”) but at least he lets his guests talk.

Many already mentioned, buy also Caroline Criado Perez's podcast Visible Women is very good.

If you liked uncanny, you'll probably like his current effort: the witch farm.

Laura Richards - The Crime Analyst.
She's utterly fab. Calls it like it is and focuses on women and their experiences, plus rips the media glamourised reporting of male perps to shreds. Fucking awesome woman. She's involved in (all, I think) the coercive control laws wherever they come in in the world!!

Just listened. Excellent. Has implications for all sorts at the moment. I am also now signed up to the Podcast "You are not so smart"!

@Axolotlquestions I’ve downloaded a few of those (hadn’t heard of the series before) and going to listen after I’ve caught up with Wider Lens. It has been such a puzzle working out why people keep believing in nonsense but that episode explained a lot, about the social death side of things.

Diary of a CEO is really good (sorry nothing to do with feminism) the title initially put me off as I thought it would be about business but it's really about people, who have been successful at what they do, their origin stories and what motivates them with some really fascinating insights. Some great interviewees like Gabor Maté and Louis Theroux.

Pretty much all the above & including:
Unspeakable with Meghan Dahm
Dark Horse
This Jungian Life
Disaffected (although sometimes, Josh, honestly)
Your Undivided Attention
Also Keep Talking with Dan Riley.

One very interesting episode I listened to recently was Factually with Adam Conover. It was an interview with Robin Dunbar about how religion evolved. And the talk about how it holds societies together and how people have a need for the spiritual/transcendental/etc I thought was pertinent to some of the stuff we talk about here.