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The Black Oil

Catching up on Snap Judgement. Episode 612 Unforgigven featured a story of a woman who lost her husband. He died in the line of duty as an officer with the NYPD bomb squad. She later corresponded with the woman jailed in connection with his death. All was going well, very well, until they met. Found it quite moving.

http://www.npr.org/programs/snap-judgment/405191210/unforgiven

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S.M.B.

Hadn't yet heard of the Michael Lewis podcast. Will check it out.

I haven't listened to any Pushkin Industries productions so will add Revisionist History and Broken Record to my deed along with Against the Rules.

steve_r

I liked Revisionist History, haven't heard of the other one

S.M.B.

For generations of music lovers, the liner notes on albums were a central part of the way music was heard.... Broken Record is a show that tries to restart that conversation for a world without liner notes. It's a long-form podcast that tells stories for a new audience of music lovers.

Sounds like my sort of thing.

jessiblah

Giving the Blindboy Podcast a go at the moment but it’s quite long for me. I find it harder to concentrate on most podcasts if I’m walking and the bulk of my trip home from work (about 30 out of 40 minutes) is spent walking so I don’t have a lot of time for it. Once I’m home, I put it on but forget to listen ðŸ€¦*♀️

noveltea

Just listened to all "the dropout" episodes based on the recommendations here. Really enjoyed it. Thought it was well put together and interesting story. I would love to hear her real voice.

Kingp35

noveltea wrote: »

Just listened to all "the dropout" episodes based on the recommendations here. Really enjoyed it. Thought it was well put together and interesting story. I would love to hear her real voice.

There's a HBO documentary called The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley. I haven't seen it though so don't know if it's good or not. I would recommend the book that the podcast is based on, it's brilliant.

neris

Kingp35 wrote: »

There's a HBO documentary called The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley. I haven't seen it though so don't know if it's good or not. I would recommend the book that the podcast is based on, it's brilliant.

will second the book its a really good read. Theres a series of clips about 10 minutes long on youtube from a programme aired the states a few weeks ago based on the podcast. I,ll try post the link later

S.M.B.

The HBO documentary is not great. I have yet to see the abc night line one myself but feel like I've had enough theranos for now. Will give it a break until the movie which I believe is due later this year.

Edit: I now just see Hulu are making a mini series adaptation of the podcast which is bizarre.

neris

A BBC podcast on Billy Bookcase.

Part of a series called 50 things that made the modern economy. Short podcasts on various things thats are now part of our lives and helped the way we live

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04b1g3c/episodes/downloads

gmisk

S.M.B. wrote: »

The HBO documentary is not great. I have yet to see the abc night line one myself but feel like I've had enough theranos for now. Will give it a break until the movie which I believe is due later this year.

Edit: I now just see Hulu are making a mini series adaptation of the podcast which is bizarre.

Apparently Jennifer Lawrence is playing the lead in a film version...I can see that working to be fair.

Kate McKinnon is going to be playing her in the hulu thing as well....random

Cienciano

Anyone listen to the latest Reply All? Some guy had a weird problem about podcasts, for some reason 99% Invisible wouldn't play through Bluetooth in his car stereo. Great episode.

jessiblah

Listened to Gary Vee a bit today. His podcast used to be great and you'd learn a lot, but I'm finding the information to be a lot more diluted now. It's a lot of the same thing on repeat and it's not as interesting as it used to be. Too much filler, very disappointing.

Also listened to an episode of Roisín Meets from the Irish Times. I don't think it's still running anymore but there was an episode with a holocaust survivor. I didn't want it to end, heartbreaking and fascinating.

neris

New 1 I found called sports wars thats only started out. 1st series is about 2 players in the NFL going after the 1 spot on the team. Similar kind of presentation to business wars.

steve_r

Some recent listens:

The dropout - great story

Michael Lewis - Against the rules - latest episode is about Art and ratings agencies in the financial crash. My favourite episode so far.

The Butterfly Effect by John Ronson
Late to the party on this, this is a series from 2017 on the impact of the changes to the porn industry.
Only listened to the first episode so far but found it really interesting.

Charged - This is a podcast from Slate and the Appeal. The current season is looking at the impact of New York's sentancing rules for gun possesion, which made the penalties and custodial sentances much more severe. It follows individuals as they go through the system, so in that sense it reminds me a lot of Season 3 of Serial (which I gave up on) but I'll give the second episode a go becuase I think it could potentially be a very interesting story.

John Mason

I have been listening to "That Peter Crouch Podcast" which i am really enjoying considering i had to google who he was.

i am also loving "I secretly recorded by boyfriend"

But great for work when doing boring tasks but dont really require an attention.

d8491prj5boyvg

John Mason wrote: »

I have been listening to "That Peter Crouch Podcast" which i am really enjoying considering i had to google who he was.

i am also loving "I secretly recorded by boyfriend"

But great for work when doing boring tasks but dont really require an attention.

I loved the first series of the peter crouch podcast but the second one has taken a huge nosedive. It's like they are aware of their own popularity and try to emulate it, spoiling the spontaneity that made it good in the first place. It would have been much better as a single series or if they got someone else in for series 2.

The Black Oil

BBC World Service about the Grenfell tower fire. Difficult listening at times, but informative.

10, 9, 8, 7 re the missions before the Moon landing - good also.

griffin100

Just finished listening to The Last Days Of August by Jon Ronson. It’s about the suicide of a porn star after online bullying. Was good but not as good as his Butterfly Effect series which is about the impact PornHub has had on the porn industry - that’s really good.

Started Forest 404 on the BBC, it’s different but enjoying it so far.

Gimme A Pound

The Teacher's Pet - very compelling stuff.

neris

listened to the 1st 3 episodes of a 7 series called Inside Star Wars. Its a Wondery production so the usual dodgy voice overs but so far seems good. Giving background in to George Lucas and his career up to producing Star Wars

degsie

Listened to the companion podcast for 'Chernobyl' from HBO. Great insight to the characters and making of.

DopeTech

Lew later.

Cienciano

degsie wrote: »

Listened to the companion podcast for 'Chernobyl' from HBO. Great insight to the characters and making of.

Started this too, really good. Looks like they had a podcast out each week after an episode of the TV show, definitely worth a listen if you liked the tv series.

gmisk

Dear Joan and Jericha

Absolute filth...Julia Davis is a genius

S.M.B.

Only just started Headlongs latest season Running from COPS and really liking it. Hadn't come up on my radar before now. 6 part series looking into the absurdoty of the reality TV show COPS.

jessiblah

Giving Eoghan McDermott's podcast a listen. The editing isn't great with noticeable cuts (there's one point where it sounds like there's three cuts in fifteen seconds) but the guest RuthAnne is very good. I'd always liked her in interviews before anyway

humberklog

Listened to Caliphate very good insight into ISIS recruitment.

The storyline doesn't really land a punch though.

degsie

'13 Minutes to the Moon' from the BBC is very listenable

The Black Oil

Fresh Air interview with Jim DeRogatis who has been working on the R. Kelly story (for 19 years). I'd heard much of this before, but it's still horrendous e.g. getting a tape of what he did to young women. DeRogatis took a lot of flack from the African American community for his coverage. He's never retracted or been sued, though. Can't imagine being Kelly's lawyer, tbh.

Radiolab - The Good Samaritan about fentanyl, overdoses and opioids. One of the best in a while.

neris

2 from Wondery Sports wars & Inside Start Wars. Good listening if you can over the ads and dodgy voice overs