podcasts I listen to - some episodes
I’ve split the list into three posts, depending on whether I listen religiously to every episode, or just most episodes, or whether I cherry pick the ones that interest me:
This .opml file should be import-able into podcast apps
When I started consuming podcasts, I was very ‘hunt-and-peck’. I had a list of podcasts in an RSS reader and I would only download individual episodes that I thought looked interesting. ‘Interesting’ meaning ‘interesting to me’. I’ve only started downloading every episode of some podcasts fairly recently.
….anyway, I often download from all of these, but typically not every episode.
Bullseye with Jesse Thorn - very good celebrity/artist interview show RSS link
Conversations - another good interview show RSS link
A Point of View - BBC essay series. Older ones are by Clive James RSS link
All Songs Considered - music RSS link
Analysis - Radio 4 current affairs RSS link
Books and Authors - Radio 4 books RSS link
Anything But Silent - British Library podcast RSS link
Library Talks - author talks RSS link
Documentary on One - RTE Documentaries - docs from the Irish state broadcaster RSS link
The Documentary Podcast - docs from the British state broadcaster….I think this was World Service RSS link
The Radio 3 Documentary - more docs RSS link
Free Library Podcast - a greate archive of author talks RSS link
Fresh Air - US cultural show RSS link
The Intelligence - either the FT or the Economist RSS link
Game of Our Lives - football podcast RSS link
HARDtalk - tough, long-ish interviews with poiliticans etc RSS link
Headliners - Nihal Arthanayake interviewing mainly celebrity types. He’s very good at it RSS link
Here’s The Thing with Alec Baldwin - celebrity interviewing celebrities RSS link
Hip Hop Saved My Life with Romesh Ranganathan - Romesh interviews hip-hop fans and celebs RSS link
History Extra podcast - history, obviously RSS link
RTE - The History Show - also, history RSS link
I Was There - eye-witness accounts of stuff RSS link
In Our Time - Melvyn Bragg talks to academic on a subject. I enjoy the ‘easier’ ones RSS link
Little Atoms - podcast with a rationalist, atheist perspective RSS link
LSE: Public lectures and events - college podcast RSS link
Page 94: The Private Eye Podcast - the more serious bits of the mag RSS link
PODAROONEY - interviews by comedian/Father Ted actor Joe Rooney RSS link
Public lecture podcasts - college podcast RSS link
The Reith Lectures - prestigious annual BBC podcast RSS link
Shedunnit - ‘golden age’ crime fiction podcast RSS link
Sodajerker On Songwriting - interviews with songwriters of different levels of fame, specifically about the song-writing RSS link
Soul Music - about a specific song and what it means to people RSS link
Steve Wrights Big Guests - broadcasting genius as far as I’m concerned, but I only really download the episodes where it’s an interviewee I’m interested in RSS link
The Comedian’s Comedian Podcast - comedians talking about comedy and other stuff RSS link
The Guardian’s Audio Long Reads - audio versions of longer articles. RSS link
The Penguin Podcast - conversations with writers RSS link
Witness History - short-ish eye-witness accounts of stuff RSS link
World Book Club - talks with writers RSS link
Writers and Company from CBC Radio - more talks with writers RSS link
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast - I hadn’t heard of Marc Maron before the podcast. He’s a US comedian and actor. The podcast is hime interviewing people in his garage, including, famously, Barack Obama while he was still President RSS link
Meet Me at the Museum - people visit museums RSS link
You’re Dead To Me - history podcast RSS link
Dolly Parton’s America - a series about Ms Parton and her place in the world RSS link
Seem to be defunct :(
Bunce’s Tales of the Extraordinary - stories about sports-people RSS link
FT Life of a Song - short doc’s about specific songs RSS link