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