podcasts 🎙️
Podcast episodes that I've enjoyed recently - Armando, Cillian, Barbie, 'the Stalin of the Steppes', Troy, Princess Di, John Wilkes Booth, UFO's, etc
Strong Message Here - Political words of 2024
Barbie and the plasticity of pop - Switched on Pop
UFO sightings: an otherworldly history - History Extra
Cillian Murphy - WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
The Hated and the Dead - Khorloogiin Choibalsan
The Rest is History - Stephen Fry and Troy
Hancock’s Half Hour - Fred’s Pie Stall
A right royal night out - Witness History
You Are There (TV Series) - The Capture of John Wilkes Booth (April 26, 1865) (1953)
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast Episode 1449 - The United States of Conspiracy w/ Robert Guffey
Lenny Kaye nails some moments “when the universe shifted”. Word In Your Ear … Word In Your Ear.
The Rest Is History - Podcast Episode 392. JFK: The Road to the White House (Part 1)
BBC Soul Music - I Say a Little Prayer for You
Paul Sinha’s perfect pub quiz - Bradford
Word In Your Ear -David Gedge – and a postcard from Peel
Word in Your Ear - Simon Napier-Bell - Marc Bolan, the Who, chains, feathers and German police
Dashiell Hammett - The Maltese Falcon — Backlisted with crime novelist Mark Billingham
There are many, many more at: Podcast episodes I’ve enjoyed
Podcasts and radio shows I’ve enjoyed recently
The Political Party Show 203 - Margaret Beckett
Radio 4 - Soul Music - Ghost Town
Living through the Troubles History Extra podcast ·
The Last Bus Home Hancock’s Half HourSeries 6 Episode 3 of 14
Political Party - Philip Hammond
Episode 153 : Lloyd Bradley on Black London + Tina Turner + Steve Barrow audio - Rock’s Back Pages
Dancing in the Dark - Bruce Springsteen -Soul Music - BBC
Desert Island Discs - Peter Hennessy
Nick Heyward reboots ‘the fragrance of rock’ - Word in Your Ear
Caesar is assassinated - You are there -
There’s a list going back years here: mattypenny.micro.blog/podcast-e…
I’m listening to Rolling Stone’s The 50 Worst Decisions in Music History. It’s good fun
Coincidentally I was scrolling through Wikipedia’s list of Chelsea managers, as you do, and it struck me that binning Anceolotti and recruiting AVB might be one of the Worst Decisions in Football History
Recommended podcast: Origin Story
I’ve only discovered this podcast recently, but it seems very good
The blurb says
“[Lynsky and Dunt] “focus their attention on exploring a single over-used (and over-abused) word or phrase. Through a combination of historical, etymological and contextual analysis, they unmask the true meaning of our most popular misinterpreted expressions—giving listeners keen insight into the murky nature of political and societal communication.”
…but it’s an awful lot more entertaining, and usually less heavy than that
Origin Story - www.podmasters.co.uk/origin-st…
Origin Story - open.spotify.com/show/5Aog…
🎙️ Podcast episode in which A.J. Jacobs tries, and largely fails,to live day without plastic
This podcast episode includes my favourite tale of quintessential British upper middle classness
A young Hugh Laurie asks whether his father can actually row before a boating expedition. It had not been mentioned before, not was it mentioned at the time, that his father had won a gold medal in the coxless pair event at the 1948 Olympics
“Drummers are like hockey goalies. No-one knows how to talk to them apart from other drummers”
#TodayILearned how much of a drummer Karen Carpenter was
Word In Your Ear Is Karen Carpenter pop music’s saddest story?
I listened to this yesterday. It’s fascinating, ridiculous and disturbing, often at the same time 🎙️
The Rise Of QAnon - Fresh Air
#TodayILearned the phrase ‘gish gallop’. It’s means to create a deluge of rubbish in argument, to overwhelm your opponent
Mehdi Hasan | Win Every Argument: The Art of Debating, Persuading, and Public Speaking
#OnThisDay in 1930, which was Good Friday, the BBC News Announcer announced, in the evening bulletin, that ‘There is no news’ and then played some music instead
This is lovely
Frank Cottrell-Boyce talking about how the Queen jumped out of a helicopter for the 2012 Opening Ceremony 🎙️
When the Queen ‘jumped out of a helicopter - Witness History
#TodayILearned that Chris Spedding, who produced the Cramps, and possibly the Sex Pistols, and had a hit with MotorBikin' was also one of the Wombles
Underground, Overground - Mike Batt on Word in your Ear - youtu.be/5JUqyAp7H…
Chris Spedding - Wikipedia - en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chri…
Remember You’re A Womble by The Wombles - songwhip.com/thewomble…
Interesting point in this, at least for politics nerds like myself
Famously, JFK performed better in the Presidential debates than Nixon, according to TV viewers, but less well according to radio listeners
Danny Finkelstein says that a recent study suggests that this is entirely explained by radio listeners being more rural, more conservative and more likely to vote for Nixon in the first place
It’s clearly not the main point of my friend Tom’s podcast, but #TodayILearned that ‘Kosovo’ is derived from ‘Kosovo Polje’ which means ‘the field of blackbirds’….which I quite like
The Hated and the Dead podcast: Kosovo Serbs - podtail.com/en/podcas…
#TodayILearned that the first Beatle’s concert in the United States was at Boneyard Bocce Ball Club in Benton, Illinois.
The first Beatles concert in the US was somewhere else
Good podcast: The Hated and the Dead
The blurb says: “Kissinger said that ninety percent of politicians give the other ten percent a bad name. Each week, a guest and I discuss the life and legacy of one politician from recent times. Some are well-known, others obscure; all have left an indelible mark on our world, and often for the worse. Join me, Tom Leeman, in a journey through the corruptible and the controversial.”
I’d say: My young friend Tom interviews academics, politicians and journalists about figures from political history. It’s similar in tone to the BBC’s In Our TIme…but for me it’s more interesting
Link: The Hated and the Dead - Listen on Spotify - Linktree
Harry Houdini and the Barrel of Tetley's
#TodayILearned that, when he was in Leeds, Houdini was sponsored by Tetley’s Bitter to perform his ‘escaping from a locked milk churn full of water’ trick with the milk churn instead filled with beer
The trick depended on air being trapped in the domed lid of the churn, and in that instance the air was largely replaced with CO2 and alcohol fumes
The escape failed and Houdini was rescued by his assistant
Timewatch, 2000-2001: The Houdini Myth: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m001xqqn via @bbciplayer
Also www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/opin…
