Recommend a Podcast

'Answer me this' - a podcast where people send in questions, and the three hosts look up the answers. Reminiscent of 'Fix it Friday' on the old Ray d'Arcy show, before Ray got all grumpy.

Very funny - been on the go 13 years or so.

Damn Interesting infrequent but always good.
Swindled is also excellent. I like the format short intro story followed by a longer main event.
Mens Rea is really excellent.
Rusty Hinges
50000 Htz
99%invisible
scienceVs
Criminal
In general I dont like the jokey/chatty two-handed style of podcast.
I find some of the Irish podcasts to be over long and over produced.

Against the odds" its a wondery podcast so usually very good. I'm listening to the latest episodes on john mccain prisoner of war. About his struggles after being shot down and captured during Vietnam War. Interesting so far.

I found this more of like listening to a movie in parts. Just grabbed my attention. I get what you mean though

'The Rest is History' features Tom Holland, the classical historian ('Persian Fire', 'Rubicon'), and Dominic Sandbrook, a modern historian.

The podcast is often quite British in focus, but they are both very knowledgeable and interesting. Podcast is kind of free-form - sometimes they have a guest, sometimes they take questions from listeners. Sometimes the topic is really narrow ('1981'), sometimes very broad ('Persia').

Very easy to listen to.

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I see that 'Real Dictators' has a new series hot off the presses - the first episode is on Franco.

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A News podcast I've only recently found is Stories of our Times.
It's a daily Times pod. Not unlike The Guardian's Today in Focus. But much more on topic with investigative pieces and less social commentary.

Recently they've been running the Cameron story over a few episodes. That might not sound exciting however the Pod is very good at explaining messy details and it also remains quite upbeat and often funny.

been listening to stories of our times since your recommendation , very very good. thanks

I’m listening to Exit Scam at the moment (it’s still ongoing so you may have to wait if you only listen to podcasts that are fully available). It’s about a cryptocurrency company CEO who dies in mysterious circumstances and his passwords die with him. I’m liking it.

I love My Favourite Murder - 2 women with a love for the macabre talk about all their favourite murder and mayhem. It’s a comedy podcast and they don’t fact-check everything but I really like it as a lighter relief to more serious true crime podcasts. I didn’t really like the first 4 or 5 episodes but that was just them getting into their groove.

You’re Wrong About is excellent. Two journalists take well know tropes and stories and give the REAL story behind them, not the commonly believed and accepted version. My favourites in that so far are the Enron one and the Ann Nicole Smith one. Highly recommend.

My Dad Wrote a Porno - as it says on the tin. Three presenters read chapters from one of the presenter’s dad’s attempt at writing an explicit “novel”. It’s good, and riotously funny in places but a bit samey after a while. I dip in and out (ooeer missus )

Who the hell is Hamish - one of the first podcasts I listened too and got me hooked on podcasts! A fraudster in Australia and it’s just amazing how many people he cheated.

i listened to a bbc podcast series this week while on dog walks...about paul massey, the manchester gangster..... extremely good i thought, full of drama, story really well told.
think its just called 'gangster'

BBC podcast called who killed Emma?

Good listen, about a Scottish prostitute who was murdered. But some good investigative journalism in it