Recommend a Podcast

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

Can you recommend any other espionage podcasts?

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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/