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16-01-2018 04:30PM

Beersmith wrote: »

Still people getting into pods, i had to resubscribe to pods getting a new phone also.

if you use something like player fm on android you can login with your google account meaning you won't lose your subs when changing to a new phone. (for next phone change!)

Rumpy Pumpy · 19-01-2018 12:53AM

Just another mention for RTE's Documentary on One.

In my mind, it's the best thing that RTE do. There are very few dud episodes. What makes it even better is that most of them are made by regular punters around the country.

This remains my favourite radio documentary ever.

http://www.rte.ie/radio1/doconone/2009/1010/646232-herman/

Ninap · 20-01-2018 04:04AM

Just finished listening to the 10 part drama series Stone on Radio 4 (on the BBC iPlayer radio app). First time I think I've ever stuck with a radio drama (which I usually find stagey or poorly written). This was superb. Great story, excellent writing and acting. Engrossing and well worth checking out. (Basically a story about police investigating a suspected murder in present day Manchester which has links to a killing 20 years previously.)

pc7 · 20-01-2018 07:20AM

3 episodes of Atlanta Monster out now, it’s excellent. I listen to lots of True Crime and never heard any of this story. Really slick, soundtrack reminds me of stranger things.

steve_r · 20-01-2018 05:37PM

Rumpy Pumpy wrote: »

Just another mention for RTE's Documentary on One.

In my mind, it's the best thing that RTE do. There are very few dud episodes. What makes it even better is that most of them are made by regular punters around the country.

This remains my favourite radio documentary ever.

http://www.rte.ie/radio1/doconone/2009/1010/646232-herman/

Totally agree, here's a really interesting recent one on the millennium clock
https://www.rte.ie/culture/2017/1117/920868-documentary-on-one-fr-pat-noise-and-the-doomed-millennium-clock/

This is a really emphatic story on Marsha Merhan, an Iranian bord author who was found dead in a house in Mayo where she was living in solitude.
http://www.rte.ie/radio1/doconone/2016/0625/797981-an-open-verdict/

Arghus · 28-01-2018 11:27PM

Enjoying Movie Crush with Chuck Bryant. Chuck, one half of the Stuff You Should Know Podcast, interviews people, usually comedians, about their favourite movie. It has a nice easy free flowing structure: sometimes the conversation is really minutely focused on the movie in question, other times it's pretty all over the place, but you get a good insight into the people he's interviewing and he's a nice low key host.

Cienciano · 31-01-2018 03:00PM

Anyone listen to the new Hardcore History about executions? Some nasty stuff involved but brilliantly told by Dan

ILikeBoats · 31-01-2018 03:03PM

Getting through it slowly!

Rumpy Pumpy · 31-01-2018 09:24PM

Dan’s the man. My only slight peeve isn’t how he keeps saying he isn’t a historian. Who cares? His history podcast is brilliant.

QueenRizla · 04-02-2018 12:19PM

Can anyone recommend episodes of Hardcore history to start on?

Cienciano · 05-02-2018 02:30PM

Rumpy Pumpy wrote: »

Dan’s the man. My only slight peeve isn’t how he keeps saying he isn’t a historian. Who cares? His history podcast is brilliant.

He usually just says that when he's going to say something a "proper" historian might find stupid. Like top 3 armies of all time.

QueenRizla wrote: »

Can anyone recommend episodes of Hardcore history to start on?

Depends what you're interested in.
Episode 48 onwards are free to listen to on your podcast app. My favourite one was probably Blueprint for Armageddon, it's about WW1, but it's fairly long, 6 episodes around 4 hours long each. A one off episode about the Cold War is episode 59 (The Destroyer of worlds) might be a good one if you don't want a series. Prophets of Doom is supposed to be a good one off episode, but I haven't listened to it yet.
Here's the list, so 48 down are free, others you have to pay for on his website. I found them through "other" means, but I actually paid for them about 2 weeks ago because they were worth it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Carlin#Hardcore_History

optogirl · 05-02-2018 02:38PM

The Irish History Podcast with Finn Dwyer is excellent - http://irishhistorypodcast.ie/

Brilliant on early Ireland, Vikings, Normans & the Famine

Cienciano · 05-02-2018 02:44PM

optogirl wrote: »

The Irish History Podcast with Finn Dwyer is excellent - http://irishhistorypodcast.ie/

Brilliant on early Ireland, Vikings, Normans & the Famine

Yeah, that's a great podcast too. A podcast worth going back through and listening to older episodes

Cushtie · 15-02-2018 10:20PM

Currently listening to "The Assassination" by the BBC world service. Tells the story surrounding the murder of ex Pakastani prime minister Benizir Bhuto.

As a youngster I can remember this going on in the news in the background but there is/was so much happening in that part of the world that is all seems to blend.

This gives a nice easy picture into the political situation at the time.

Also a poster above said. Love the radio one Documentary in One.

steve_r · 19-02-2018 09:54AM

Listened to the first episode of "A very fatal murder" - it's an Onion parody of the True crime podcasts. Very sharp

donspeekinglesh · 21-02-2018 02:28PM

Enjoying Dax Shepard's Armchair Expert.
Hollywood type talking to Hollywood types, but interesting all the same.

pilly · 21-02-2018 04:08PM

Got a free trial of audible to download the West Cork podcast. Don't bother!!!! Brutal, 13 episodes when it could have been 2 or 3 at most.

Worst thing I've heard in a while, kept listening to see if there was anything surprising, no!

It's about Sophie Toscan De Plante btw.

Hector Savage · 23-02-2018 02:30PM

Joe Rogan

This one is fascinating

https://youtu.be/HYJFgyqs0sM

kirk buttercup · 25-02-2018 10:29PM

Hector Savage wrote: »

Joe Rogan

This one is fascinating

https://youtu.be/HYJFgyqs0sM

I really like his Podcast . I like him and his guests are usually pretty interesting.

Ciaran_B · 08-03-2018 01:17PM

I listened to a few episodes of Chart Music over the weekend. A podcast looking at random episodes of Top of The Pops over the years. It's hosted by a few music journos from back in the day (Taylor Parkes, Simon Price, Neil Kulkarni etc). I'm really enjoying this, it's mostly a look at the music from the time but also is a kind of social history of England in the 70's, 80's and 90's.

Recommended for anyone who used to read Melody Maker back in the 90's.

steve_r · 17-03-2018 03:19PM

Finished off "A very fatal murder" - sags a bit in the middle but on a whole quite a sharp satire of the true crime genre, in particular wildly inappropiate ads in the middle of these shows.

Which brings me to Atlanta Monster, which I just started. Very sombre telling of the disappearance of multiple children in Atlanta - punctuated by "Do you ever see smoothies on Instagram and think - I wish I could do that?" The mind boggles at the person who thought that was appropriate.

I don't mind ads on podcast because they need to make revenue some way - but really jarring ones like that come across as very cynical - you're telling a show about the tragic death of children, but you think deep down that I just want to have a smoothie just like the ones on Instagram?

Atlanta Monster seems good apart from that.

I finished the free version of Slow Burn, on Watergate. Very impressive and I might just sign up to Slate Plus. They are looking at the Clinton impeachment next.

eviltwin · 17-03-2018 04:07PM

All Bad Things - a look at natural disasters, accidents, basically depressing stuff

We're All Mad Here - interesting look at the history of mental health treatments over the centuries.

The Black Oil · 20-03-2018 11:27PM

This American Life's episode, Five Women, was good. Disturbing. Radiolab's The Gun Show was also very good. The NRA was originally about teaching marksmanship skills, pretty simple. Then it all got political a few decades ago.

D'Agger · 28-03-2018 03:52PM

Casefile - The Silk Road
Casefile - The Moors Murders

Both 3 parters and very enjoyable.

optogirl · 28-03-2018 03:57PM

Just started listening to 'You Must Remember This'. A podcast that tells the stories of the first 100 years of Hollywood - a huge archive and really well told.

Arghus · 28-03-2018 05:34PM

optogirl wrote: »

Just started listening to 'You Must Remember This'. A podcast that tells the stories of the first 100 years of Hollywood - a huge archive and really well told.

Great podcast.

29-03-2018 07:28PM

"How I built this" hosted by Guy Raz by NPR. Very entertaining podcast where company founders go through their story.
Businessy but an easy and entertaining listen.
Pretty much all of them that I've listened to are great. The Dyson one is a good one to start with.

Wegian · 02-04-2018 08:11PM

Irish History Podcast: Maamtrasna Murders 3 Parts

LoonyLovegood · 02-04-2018 10:30PM

I've been making my way through Stuff You Missed in History Class again, and it's really nice to go back through a podcast I've listened to before and I know a lot about.

Cienciano · 03-04-2018 01:26PM

Wegian wrote: »

Irish History Podcast: Maamtrasna Murders 3 Parts

That was a great one.

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