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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 175 ✭✭joinme


    Maybe already mentioned, but I really enjoyed Ghost Story from Wonderly. Starts out as an old fashioned haunting in an old house story , but becomes much more interesting as a whodunit mystery. Recommended.



  • Registered Users Posts: 86 ✭✭OrangeLavender


    I'm glad someone else found it interesting too.



  • Registered Users Posts: 1,070 ✭✭✭secondrowgal


    I'd recommend Scamfluencers. A different story every episode - some really ingenious scammers and some really stupid people out there.


    Also enjoying The Missing Cryptoqueen at the moment. I'm afraid to Google anything about it as it's fairly recent.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,734 ✭✭✭StupidLikeAFox


    Going to recommend In Our Time with Melvin Bragg, from BBC4. It is "boring" in the sense that it picks a topic in history and discusses with a panel of academics. Very educational and insightful.

    No ads, no suspenseful background music, no teasers, no banter between podcast hosts trying to be funny. Just well informed information and discussion. A tonic for the bullshiittery of a lot of modern podcasts



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    David McSavage's podcast - And that's they we're not together.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 708 ✭✭✭gigantic09


    Might be mentioned already but can highly recommend The Belly Of The Beast , documenting the role of Ned Broy in the founding of the State.Most people including myself have never heard of the man but it's a fascinating story well told and it's a shame that he's so overlooked in this tumultuous period of our history.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,843 ✭✭✭Patsy167


    The entire Goalhanger family of podcasts are great. I currently subscribe to The rest is entertainment, The rest is Money, and The rest is football.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,632 ✭✭✭Mehaffey1


    Probably said 100 times in this thread but The Two Norries Podcast is great.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,957 ✭✭✭kirk.


    The Newagents are great they do a US and UK podcast , always engaging

    John Sopel talks a little fast

    Currently also listening to Pivot and The week in tech . Long podcasts so not too much queing up needed



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,632 ✭✭✭Mehaffey1


    Not So Quiet On The Western Front is brilliant. If you love the Rest is History then you'll like this. Very well spoken and produced, great length per episode too.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,081 ✭✭✭Notmything


    Was about to recommend this, very easy to listen to.

    Hopefully it won't be too English centric in what battles they cover, and despite the title they cover the other fronts.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 742 ✭✭✭doughef


    Probably the worst thing that ever happened in the history of listening …

    I can’t get over how bad it is and how unfunny the two ‘hosts’ are.



  • Registered Users Posts: 9 StudyLover


    I'm a big fan lately of 'The Rabbit Hole Detectives'

    It's somewhere reminiscent of QI but less trying to be funny. Three very smart hosts who take a random topic of interest and research it for a week before giving 15 or so minutes of chat on it.

    One of the hosts is Richard Coles who I suspect is better known in the uk but he's a very interesting guy.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,787 ✭✭✭pappyodaniel


    I am sorry to tell you this, but the 2 Norries is not a comedy podcast.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 742 ✭✭✭doughef


    Didn’t say it was ??

    the 2 ‘fellas’ carry on like babies. I had the misfortune of being in a car recently and someone had it on.


    id imagine their listeners enjoy similar personalities.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,787 ✭✭✭pappyodaniel


    The 2nd season of Jon Ronson's Things Fell Apart was released last week



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,632 ✭✭✭Mehaffey1


    Well you'll be glad to hear they're parking up the podcast at least for the time being.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 971 ✭✭✭Unknownability


    Can you recommend any other espionage podcasts?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,057 ✭✭✭lc180


    My favourite espionage podcast of the past couple years is The Agent. Fascinating stuff.

    "The true story of Jack Barsky, the longest-surviving known member of the KGB illegals program operated during the height of the Cold War"

    I'll try add some more names here later. Please share if you have found any good ones. I've been struggling to find any interesting podcasts lately.



  • Registered Users Posts: 13 ociarba


    The Big Steal by Patrick Radden Keeffe is good. About how Putin got his money from the oligarchs in Russia

    Another good one is Revisionist History by Malcolm Gladwell.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,780 ✭✭✭Cartman78


    Started listening to "The Secret History of the Estonia" yesterday.

    It's an investigative documentary series about the sinking of a ship in the Baltic sea in 1994....only listened to the first 2 episodes but it's riveting stuff so far imho



  • Registered Users Posts: 3,711 ✭✭✭cloudatlas


    The new series of Jon Ronson's 'Things fell apart' is now available https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/things-fell-apart/id1592984136

    It's about the culture wars but from a humanist perspective. He speaks to both sides and tries to see why they believe what they do and if he can he seeks to challenge those beliefs and help explain the current state of affairs.



  • Registered Users Posts: 1,070 ✭✭✭secondrowgal


    I Spy is stand alone episodes with ex spies. Some good, some ok. Narrated by that actor from The Americans - their handler.


    dammit. Thought I would remember her name but had to google it: Margo Martindale



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,537 ✭✭✭Suckler


    I'm a few years late given it came out in 2020 but still a good listen.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand/m000jf7j



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,057 ✭✭✭lc180


    Currently enjoying a new podcast from RTE called Runaway Joe. Episodes still being released but it's pretty intriguing.


    An investigation into one of the oldest unsolved cases on the FBI's books spanning six decades. Joseph Maloney remains wanted on a charge of first-degree murder having escaped justice in both the United States of America - and Ireland.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,787 ✭✭✭pappyodaniel


    The first episode had me hooked but they're dragging the bol!icks out of it though, very little happens in each episode since.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,788 ✭✭✭Karppi


    Just got to this, it's excellent. Thoroughly recommended



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,780 ✭✭✭Cartman78


    Agreed.....it's very convoluted.

    I'll admit to not being 100% tuned in when I'm listening to it but it's extremely hard to follow imho....I'm sure there's an interesting story in there somewhere but there's way too many tenuous relations getting air time



  • Registered Users Posts: 438 ✭✭Robert McGrath


    I know there’s been a million different versions of the Sherlock Holmes stories in film and on TV in the last couple of decades, but the Sherlock & Co podcast is well worth a listen.

    Each of the Conan Doyle stories updated for modern ears and told as radio plays over a couple of episodes. Very entertaining



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,179 ✭✭✭mrsdewinter


    Spotify algorithms threw up 'The Lady Vanishes' during the week and I'm hooked. The series started 5 years ago, so I've been firing through old eps. It focuses on the disappearance of a middle-aged Australian teacher who decided to travel to Europe in 1997. She rang home a few times, sent a few cards, etc, but failed to reappear back home for her daughter's wedding and hasn't been seen since. The investigation in the 1990s was a shambles.

    The podcast wound up recently, and there's been significant progress since it launched in 2019, at least in part due to the podcast, or at least the attention it drew to the case.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,057 ✭✭✭lc180


    Spot on with your comment. It dragged on something serious but at the same time felt like it wrapped up too quick.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,787 ✭✭✭pappyodaniel


    Easy knowing this podcast is being paid for by the public broadcaster. Pavel Barter is taking the p!ss. Another episode where nothing happens but hey how's about another trip to Cyprus and then another one back to the States.

    Keep putting those tv licence letters into my letterbox.


    Nice work if you can get it.



  • Registered Users Posts: 1,070 ✭✭✭secondrowgal


    In the Dark by The New Yorker. Can't recommend enough. I've just finished the second season about Curtis Flowers - if you don't know anything about it, don't google it. It's just extraordinary how much **** goes down in the US "Justice" system. Highly recommeded:





  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 708 ✭✭✭gigantic09


    Currently listening to Mobituaries, where the presenter Mo Rocca (a CBS news correspendant) gives the listener an obituary of a person or sometimes an object who's passing he feels was overlooked at the time .

    Some episodes are of celebrities that are well known but many are long forgotten from pop culture.His style is to avoid the more salacious angle that many podcasts go for and it works very well imo .some episodes include Singer Peggy Lee and a young girl Samantha Smith who during the Reagan era sent a letter to the Russian President beseaching him not to start a nuclear war.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 175 ✭✭joinme


    Thanks for the tip on this. i just finished listening to the Curtis Flowers series. it's remarkable the investigation that was done by the podcast team, so diligent and effective, essentially the work you would hope/expect impartial law enforcement to do. Their work, along with his defense team was imperative to the outcome.

    Doug Evans and the prosecution are really exposed here for the way they tried the case ( 6 times!!). But I wouldn't be holding my breath anyone will face any repercussions. Race is still such a big issue in the US, if you are black you are not equal in the eyes of the law in many states.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,780 ✭✭✭Cartman78


    Recently discovered (or an algorithm discovered it on my behalf) a podcast called "Long Shadow" and would heartily recommend it to anyone with an interest in American politics/culture.

    The first season is a very interesting and insightful look back at the Twin Towers attacks and America's response to it.

    Season 2 looks at the rise of the right (from Waco, Ruby Ridge, Oklahoma all the way through to the January 6th Capitol attack)

    Season 3 is ongoing and looks at gun culture, the rise of the NRA and the general obsession with guns over there



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,843 ✭✭✭Patsy167


    Enjoying the Gatekeepers series from the BBC at the moment. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001w207



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,843 ✭✭✭Patsy167


    The first episode of 'The real Carrie Jade' on RTE podcasts was excellent. Looking forward to the series.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,843 ✭✭✭Patsy167


    Th second episode was surprisingly heavy in places. Well produced podcast though.



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  • Registered Users Posts: 653 ✭✭✭Space Dog


    The Ghost Story podcast by Tristan Redman is excellent, as is The Ripper Retold, which focuses on the victims of Jack the Ripper instead of the Ripper himself.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81 ✭✭ekkinak


    Anything Goes with James English

    The Anything Goes Podcast Show is a place you'll find people talking about their real-life stories and experiences. Hosted by James English, guests include reformed gangsters, comedians, actors, footballers, porn stars, politicians and many more who all have a story to tell. Expect shocking stories about murder, crime, depression, addictions and suicide, with some laughs along the way with sagas of sex, love and comedy.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,179 ✭✭✭mrsdewinter


    Just wanted to say, thanks for the tip. 3 episodes in, and I've already become so hooked on the story that I burned through the podcast with Sue Perkins ('Carrie Jade Does Not Exist'), and I'm dug into Liveline for the latest updates.



  • Registered Users Posts: 1,726 ✭✭✭maebee


    Me too. I'm 3 episodes in. Unbelievable story. Thanks for the tip Patsy167



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81 ✭✭ekkinak


    The Bureau of Lost Culture

    The Bureau of Lost Culture broadcast curious, half-forgotten, countercultural stories, oral testimonies and rare tales from the underground. *Join host Stephen Coates and a wide range of guests including musicians, artists, writers, activists and commentators in conversation.



  • Registered Users Posts: 1,070 ✭✭✭secondrowgal


    Just finished "Hunting Warhead". It's quite disturbing as it's about the hunt for the admin of a child abuse site. But excellent. Very, very scary what goes on out there on the Dark Webb.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,262 ✭✭✭carrollsno1


    Halfway through "The Deer Wars" tells the story of the New Zealand governments battle to cull the out of control Red Deer population (introduced species) over tge course if 50 years.

    Better living everyone



  • Registered Users Posts: 1,070 ✭✭✭secondrowgal


    The Teacher's Pet - about a missing woman in Australia.

    I highly recommend that you DO NOT google it.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,632 ✭✭✭Mehaffey1


    Really really enjoying Tower 4.

    Storyline is good so far by the fifth episode in. About a guy landing a job in a fire watch tower in the middle of nowhere were things escalate quickly.

    Production value unbelievable for a free podcast in instalments, great music and sound effects.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,537 ✭✭✭Suckler


    Would recommend this. Really good investigative journalism coupled with a bungling police effort.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 971 ✭✭✭Unknownability


    If you can get past it being the produced by the Sun. I found this very good Murder in the Granite City, delves into a murder of scientist in 1970's Aberdeen.

    https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/25473529/murder-in-the-granite-city-podcast-brenda-page/



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