#radioforumnow What are the current favorites? I listen to too many but they really get me through the slow days at the office. Current favorites are: Pop Rocket - sort of like a filthier Pop Culture Happy Hour, hosted by Guy Branum who I find quite funny The Worst Best Sellers - they review terrible books and do dramatic readings We Have Concerns - they take a weird science-y article every episode and discuss it with some improve A Storm of Spoilers - Game of Thrones centric but only if you've read the books and every set report and rumour going around And there are of course the staples: /Film, Firewall & Iceberg, Pop Culture Hapoy Hour, Rachel & Miles Xplain the X-men and A Cast of Kings. Any recommendations?
I currently listen to the following: The Flop House Page 94: The Private Eye Podcast No Such Thing As A Fish Richard Herring's Leicester Square Podcast Welcome To Night Vale The Bugle The Archers BBC Friday Night Comedy Answer Me This Richard Herring: As It Occurs To Me BBC Radio 4 General Knowledge Quizzes BBC Comedy of The Week More or Less Polling matters The Allusionist Ask Me Another Judge John Hodgman International Waters
How do you keep up?! At the moment I'm only listening to Rachel & Miles X-plain the X-men, and Radio 4's More or Less
I listen while working (if I'm doing tasks that don't need a lot of concentration) and while I play on my PS3. Here's my full list: Pop Rocket The Worst Bestsellers A Storm of Spoilers Tom & Lorenzo Pop Style Opinion Fest We Have Concerns This American Life Serial (when it's on) What's the Tee Rachel & Miles Xplain the X-men Give Me Fiction Firewall & Iceberg Girl on Guy The Dissolve Posdcast A Cast of Kings A Podcast of Ice and Fire Cast of Thrones Boars, Gore and Swords Boiled Leather Talking TV with Ryan and Ryan Wait Wait Don't Tell Me Pop Culture Happy Hour Savage Lovecast Throwing Shade /Film
I fluctuate between the following: This American Life How Did This Get Made? BBC More or Less The Flop House Freakonomics radio What's the Tee? The Bugle (occasionally) Radiolab (few episodes here and there) Criminal (few episodes here and there) Serial (when it's on) I would listen to far more but i've been working my way through the considerable archives of the above and thus don't really have the time to follow more as they go.
I do all of these, although only More Or Less if the subject interests me. Plus Grammar Girl, and The Media Podcast.
Just discovered a new one called The Sewers of Paris which is interviews with gay guys about what influenced them as they were growing up. The first episode included Eurovision and the second one Bag It Up.
I love the HowStuffWorks podcasts. Stuff You Missed In History class hones in on one topic per episode and gives a 30 minutes or so rundown on it. Stuff You Should Know covers all sorts really, from science to sociology to whatever else. And Stuff They Don't Want You to Know is conspiracy theory based. Also, Slate's Audio Book Club and some wrestling ones.
Hang on, I never knew there were three! I've been listening to Stuff You Should Know for a year now, but need to investigate the others now!
I absolutely adore NPR Planet Money and NPR TED Radio Hour. Also The Allusionist, Death Sex And Money and Freakonomics Radio.
I've been staying true to Rachel & Miles X-plain the X-men. Turns out it's them I like, rather than the subject material, when two other guys covered for them last week, it was flat as a pancake. Got put off Freakonomics, just makes me miss More or Less. He did an interview with Anziz whatshisname from Parks & Rec but sounded so uninterested, really put me off. Plumbing the Death Star is a bit too "obnoxious Internet nerds" and seem to think they are very clever... But it's ok.
I actually listened to the RuPaul one for the first time last night. Initially he sounded uncanilly like that rubbish drag queen who does the red carpet reporting for the reunion episodes, but I actually found the whole thing (or the half that I managed) rather enjoyable and relaxing.
I don't listen to all the episodes but like Jill said, there's a lot of repetition. The story of Michelle trying to convince Ru to tour must have been repeated at least three times. The last one I listened to was the Laganja Estranja one which was there so she could repent her sins as the two of them to bless her.
I got the Shangela one. What I will say is there wasn't too much repitition (yet), but when excited it was lots of "I.. I.. I.." All very "the time has come - for you to spit it out".
There are even more than three! But the others are mostly more techy so I haven't bothered. SYSK is the main one I think, and is brilliant, but I love the History one. You should check it out.
SorB you would like the Steve Allen podcast on LBC - get the app on your phone. 15 minutes each morning great for the treadmill. He basically goes through the papers and slags everyone off.
Vadge and a disco beat is all that works for me as far as the treadmill goes, but I'll give it ago when putting my face on in the mornings.
I've started with What's the T, with Michelle Visage (and promotional concerns provided by RuVC). I'm getting a bit sick of listening to Visage going on about her health evangelism. She's yelling at me now to look for my local organic juicery. REALLY QUEEN?
Turns out it's not just health evangelism, it's just her talking about her and fishing for compliments and somehow bragging about herself too. I might just download the ones with guests.
I've said it before and I'll say it again - if you want to continue to like Ru (and to a certain extent Michelle, although she does come off better) then don't continue listening to the podcasts.
Apart from the repetition of the same themes/stories week after week after week, the Drag Race magic they use to put Ru in a positive light is all too missing on the podcasts and you soon realise he's actually incapable of talking at length in coherent sentences. He also makes it quite clear he hates doing drag and it's only for the DOLLAR.
I've recently discovered and am enjoying very much The Comedian's Comedian podcast http://www.comedianscomedian.com/ Stuart Goldsmith (a comedian I don't think I was aware of until he appeared on Alan Davies As Yet Untitled) interviews a different comedian or comic writer about how they write and their motivation etc, invariably heading off on many tangents. Most episodes are over an hour long, but they aren't a slog at all, although there are over 150 episodes and so far I've been very much cherry picking who I want to listen to for that period of time. He has a fair few big names (Matt Lucas & Dara O'Briain both fairly recently), and also lots who I'm not at all familiar with. I listened to my first episode with some trepidation, feeling it could be a bit wanky and pretentious hearing comedians drone on about their craft, but it isn't at all.
I've added a few since this thread was started but most notably You Must Remember This which is about old Hollywood stories. The first few episodes are from all over, Lauren Baccal, Madonna, Howard Hughes, etc... But now she does them in series, the first one was about Charles Manson and the second about MGM Studios.
What tosh, the Ru one is FAB. Occasionally they have a dull guest on who doesn't really pique my interest, but on the whole it's really funny and warm and the chemistry between Ru and Michelle is very endearing. He knows he can't remember a thing and dips into his world theories a lot, but it's all good fun.
Not heard this one and not sure I want to. I've got a load of tech podcasts that form my mainstay plus some choice cuts from Radio 4 (Friday Night Comedy, The Film Programme, This Week In Westminster).
I'm almost all the way through the Thinking Sideways back catalogue (unsolved mysteries/conspiracy theories) and in the market for something similar when I finally do run out
We read Belinda Blinked (the erotic novel) as a book group on the beach at Sitges this year and literally DIED OF LAUGHTER. Turkey sandwiches and Chilean wine with a youngish man in a medium sized maze ALL ROUND. I'll never be able to participate in a TOMBOLA ever again. My poor cervix.
Some of my faves: Disappearance of Ben McDaniels Death of Annie Bojesson Area 51 broadcast interruption White House farm murders Lake City quiet pills The Beaumont Children The Sodder Children The Springfield Three Death of Princess Diana Disappearance of Sneha Philip Madeleine McCann The Tylenol Murders Lisanne Froon and Kris Kremers The best ones are where there's enough interesting information to drown out the annoying tendencies of the hosts. When the story isn't good, everything falls to pieces. I was listening to one the other day about whether some baseball player hit a ball out of Yankee Stadium - who gives a fuck?
Thanks! I haven't ever listened to that one and was put off because I thought it was more a comedy thing for some reason, but I'll give it a go
Thanks! I'll check them out although maybe not the Maddie one - we all know there's NO MYSTERY there.
