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eviltwin · 13-06-2015 12:17pm

Last Podcast on the Left, a crime/ unsolved mystery podcast but with a good dose of comedy thrown it.

greensterpod · 30-08-2015 6:44pm

Hey, I've a podcast on audioboom. check it out please. It's called 'TheGreensterPodcast'.

Thanks Guys

Worztron · 30-08-2015 8:11pm

greensterpod wrote: »

Hey, I've a podcast on audioboom. check it out please. It's called 'TheGreensterPodcast'.

Thanks Guys

Will check it out.

Update: Don't like it.

What is the main topic(s) of the show? It's very scattered at the moment. I wish you well with it.

thevinylword · 31-08-2015 1:00pm

I've started a new weekly music podcast. There won't be much in the way of mixing, just playing some tunes I'd like to share. Complete mix of styles. Feel free to subscribe, I've a D/L link there too.

Thanks

Episode 1 is Caribbean, Afrobeat, Island Disco-ey stuff - https://www.mixcloud.com/WobbieCostelloe/the-vinyl-word-episode-1-wilsons-wistful-wishful-and-wearisome-waxy-wavy-sunset/

Episode 2 is a bit deeper, some deep house, hip hop and soul - https://www.mixcloud.com/WobbieCostelloe/the-vinyl-word-episode-2-sadly-skimming-stones/

Culture Craic · 31-08-2015 2:17pm

Hey folks, we make an (almost) fortnightly podcast called Culture Craic. It's trying to capture that feeling of chatting in the pub with your mates so every episode we put a few topics on the table while trying out a new beer. Check out the latest episode (ep 20) to get a sense of what the show is like.

Hope you enjoy!

Lovely Bloke · 16-09-2015 1:01pm

Detective, an old American detective talks about his murder cases.

Extremely interesting

Link

Korvanica · 23-09-2015 9:55am

Suprised Startalk Radio hasn't been mentioned in here.

The History of World War 2 is also, quite good. Very detailed.

irish_m93 · 23-09-2015 7:55pm

A good podcast series is the Near FM History Show by Cathal Brennan and John Dorney - which takes an alternative look at Irish history. It is well structured, diverse, and interviews some interesting speakers/historians.

Also worth a listen is the Near FM Podcast "To the Ends of the Earth" - which examines Irish historical influences in South America.

Datallus · 29-11-2015 2:30pm

"The Writer's Almanac" is a nice daily podcast, a 5 minute dose of poetry and history.

http://writersalmanac.org/

7 days a week

El Guapo! · 30-11-2015 10:21pm

I've been listening to "Criminal" recently and I'm really enjoying it.
It's a podcast about true crime stories and there are some really interesting stories in there such as this one: http://thisiscriminal.com/episode-30-the-agreement/

I'd highly recommend giving the show a listen.

cloudatlas · 10-12-2015 4:32pm

Surprised nobody has mentioned 'The Savage Lovecast' hosted by Dan Savage.
Dan is a lefty leaning liberal, savvy, gay, sex and relationship columnist who doles out relationship advice to all and sundry men, women, gay straight bi poly. Part of the appeal is a certain amount of voyeurism but it is also worth it as he also gives good clear eyed advice.

Mr E · 07-01-2016 4:26pm

Really enjoying PJ Gallagher and Suzanne Kane's podcast Dubland. Very very funny.

Not sure it's a good one to listen to in work. It's only a matter of time before someone asks me why I'm crying.

Also available in your favourite podcast client (just search for dubland).

https://soundcloud.com/user-530592989

Adventagious · 12-01-2016 11:05am

Bit of a cross section of interests, but there's a new podcast out which i'm enjoying (4 episodes available) called The West Wing History Class :

"A fun, historical journey through Aaron Sorkin's landmark TV Drama, The West Wing.
Part love-fest / part historical podcast, The West Wing History Class will look at both the events of each episode and the real world events that inspired them" - Hosted by Russ Frushtick & Chris Plante.

Fun for fans of the show or if your'e checking it out for the first time.

peteeeed · 22-01-2016 3:57pm

comedy podcasts

the todd barry podcast
do you need a ride (comedians giving other comedians a lift to or from LAX)
the adam buxton podcast
richard herring Leicester square theatre podcast
tell em stevedave

peteeeed · 22-01-2016 3:57pm

comedy podcasts

the todd barry podcast
do you need a ride (comedians giving other comedians a lift to or from LAX)
the adam buxton podcast
richard herring Leicester square theatre podcast
tell em stevedave

El Guapo! · 02-02-2016 7:07pm

I recently started listening to 2 more podcasts (like I'm not subscribed to enough already!).

The first one is "Unfictional" by KCRW.

http://www.kcrw.com/news-culture/shows/unfictional

Description from the site:

Fascinating documentary production and storytelling that covers the ground between the sophisticated and the profane. A half-hour of captivating stories of real life, created by the most talented producers from around the country...

I've only listened to a couple of these but I've enjoyed them so far.

The second one is "This is Actually Happening"

http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/this-is-actually-happening

Description:

First-person stories that explore what happens when everything changes.

All these episodes are told in first person with no commentary and they all start with the question "What if..."
Some really interesting stories and perspectives in there.

Inventive User Name · 20-02-2016 3:21pm

Tumanbay is an excellent ten part drama series made by BBC radio 4, set in ancient Egypt. Central themes of power, class, trust and betrayal, all the good stuff.

WindmillWarrior · 04-03-2016 10:50am

The Duncan Trussell family hour is very funny. And also can get quite deep and sh*t man! He's a stand up comedian, but is also big into spirituality and Buddhism and psychedelics etc. All very interesting

MillField · 10-03-2016 2:55pm

Connected on Relay FM is a good tech/Apple themed podcast.

koutoubia · 17-03-2016 8:35pm

Mr E wrote: »

Really enjoying PJ Gallagher and Suzanne Kane's podcast Dubland. Very very funny.

Not sure it's a good one to listen to in work. It's only a matter of time before someone asks me why I'm crying.

Also available in your favourite podcast client (just search for dubland).

https://soundcloud.com/user-530592989

Really funny.
Really had to fight back the tears of laughter in work today listening to the first 3 episodes.
From crows that are as intelligent as a 4 year old to Beibers 'Mickey' to PJ's obsession with animals.

BoJack Horseman · 21-03-2016 6:25pm

If anyone has an interest in things military and/or geopolitics, the below might be worth a look:

- Lawfare
- War College
- War On The Rocks.

This week, War College had a look at the secretive militaristic nation of Eritrea.

sryanbruen · 22-03-2016 4:17pm

I'm not advertising here or anything - I am aware of the rules. But a podcast I'd recommend (if you're interested in music that is though) is Summer Songschool Show 2015 (National Concert Hall). You can search up Songschool on iTunes and you will see it there for free. It features interviews with the artists, including myself and plays each of their singles (beware of my horrible singing though :pac:, I have given up since then). I am recommending here because you might like music and might like to have a laugh (I piss myself laughing at it, especially me).

That_Guy · 31-03-2016 11:21am

Grown Ups Read Things They Wrote As Kids - Despite 300 odd episodes, this feels like an absolute hidden gem of a podcast.

It's absolutely hilarious but can be quite serious at times. Definitely worth a listen.

allybhoy · 31-03-2016 12:45pm

That_Guy wrote: »

Grown Ups Read Things They Wrote As Kids - Despite 300 odd episodes, this feels like an absolute hidden gem of a podcast.

It's absolutely hilarious but can be quite serious at times. Definitely worth a listen.

Thanks for that, recommend any stand out episodes to get a taste of it?

That_Guy · 31-03-2016 12:59pm

allybhoy wrote: »

Thanks for that, recommend any stand out episodes to get a taste of it?

I've only listened to the latest one. A nice mix of hilarity and seriousness to give you a taste of what they're about.

Missyelliot2 · 03-04-2016 1:39pm

I love Snap Judgement
It's basically a storytelling podcast, with a central theme running through.

rebeve · 11-04-2016 8:02pm

A follow on from serial -Its called Undisclosed .

No Agenda is another good one .

Wanderer78 · 21-04-2016 5:48am

Loads of good stuff on prn.fm

Terrontress · 21-04-2016 6:58am

Embedded, another NPR one seems good. It's in-depth journalism, like Serial, but only for one episode.

wnolan1992 · 24-04-2016 11:53pm

"Beef and Dairy Network" is bloody brilliant. It's a new enough podcast, with only 9 episodes at about 10 minutes each. It's a parody podcast about beef and milk production. I listened to all the episodes today, and I'm hooked.

Trent Houseboat · 25-04-2016 9:19am

I'd second that Beef and Dairy podcast recommendation.

The Black Oil · 01-05-2016 10:44pm

Terrontress wrote: »

Embedded, another NPR one seems good. It's in-depth journalism, like Serial, but only for one episode.

It's very good. Well worth listening to.

joseph brand · 04-05-2016 1:04pm

Highly recommended:

'Friday Night Comedy from BBC Radio 4' - UK news and politics discussion with Miles Jupp and guests.

'The Jimmy Dore Show' - US politics with phone calls from politicians voiced by Mike MacRae (he does a great Vince Vaughan).

'WTF with Marc Maron' - Interviews with famous people. He recently replayed his talk with Garry Shandling due to his passing earlier this year. I'd recommend that one.

hidinginthebush · 25-06-2016 3:31pm

The Black Tapes is really good. I'm only two episodes in, but the crowd that did serial (npr or something like that?) were doing a small series on people with interesting jobs, and had picked a paranormal investigator to do an episode on. But it was so good they decided to do an entire series on it.

Highly recommended!

SimonTemplar · 27-06-2016 12:10am

I was recently introduced to The Parapod by a friend and I really enjoy it.

It is basically two English comedians discussing the paranormal. One is an avid believer in ghosts and is actually a ghost hunter as a hobby but takes it very seriously. The other guy is the complete opposite and uses logic and reason to debunk the ghost stories. The banter between the two is fantastic and often hilarious. I think that is the main selling point - the comedian aspect adds the humour that distinguises it from more serious paranormal podcasts.

I've no real interest in the paranormal but find their conversations very entertaining.

The best way to describe it is a chat between Mulder and Scully if both were comedians. Definately worth checking out. You'll find it on soundcloud.

keane2097 · 27-06-2016 4:39pm

'You are not so smart' is another one in the NPR sciency kind of mould that I came across lately and am enjoying

Trent Houseboat · 28-06-2016 2:23pm

I really hate that NPR style of podcast. The production style belongs to a US reality show.

Owryan · 29-06-2016 10:18pm

BBC Radio 4 have a short 10 part series called "Museum of Lost Objects". It covers historical artifacts in Iraq and Syria lost or destroyed because of the fighting.

Owryan · 17-07-2016 11:38pm

Sportsjoe.ie have a new GAA podcast with Colm Parkinson. Each episode is about an hour long and is a panel based discussion show.

Colm Parkinson is either a love him or hate him type character but might be worth a listen

pavb2 · 22-07-2016 9:46pm

http://www.untoldmurder.com/

I've been listening to this over the past few days the story of the unsolved murder of a private detective Daniel Morgan in 1980's London. There are so many elements and characters to this story, police corruption, cover ups, alleged suicide it is like a work of fiction.

hidinginthebush · 22-07-2016 11:01pm

hidinginthebush wrote: »

The Black Tapes is really good. I'm only two episodes in, but the crowd that did serial (npr or something like that?) were doing a small series on people with interesting jobs, and had picked a paranormal investigator to do an episode on. But it was so good they decided to do an entire series on it.

Highly recommended!

OK... So I might have been too eager to recommend this. I rescind my recommendation. The narrator, whatever you call her, just annoyed my too much. She sounds exactly like the lady who did serial, you can always hear the smug smile in her voice. Also all the interviews / clips sound like bad voice actors reading off a script. No thanks.

Shame as it pulled me in with a good premise, but the execution just annoyed me too much.

pavb2 · 23-07-2016 7:21am

hidinginthebush wrote: »

OK... So I might have been too eager to recommend this. I rescind my recommendation. The narrator, whatever you call her, just annoyed my too much. She sounds exactly like the lady who did serial, you can always hear the smug smile in her voice. Also all the interviews / clips sound like bad voice actors reading off a script. No thanks.

Shame as it pulled me in with a good premise, but the execution just annoyed me too much.

Same as the Thinking Sideways podcasts the presenters just try to hard to be zany and funny and end up being irritating and annoying spoiling what would otherwise be very interesting subjects. It was mentioned previously but I felt the same about Those Conspiracy Guys podcasts.

It would be better if the commentators just present the facts rather than trying to project their "wacky" personalities on the content.

Arghus · 05-08-2016 12:22am

Sword and Scale Episode 70 - My first listen to the much talked about Sword and Scale pod. True crime podcasts seem to be everywhere at the moment and while I've listened to a few of them, I wouldn't call myself too much a fan. A lot of my pod listening is done late at night or on the way to sleep, so it can be disturbing to start awake in the middle of the night with a creepy tale of grisly death and murder still filtering form your headphones into my brain - as I lie there in the pitch dark wondering what the hell is going on. Plus, I find a lot of the tone of these types of shows distasteful: focusing - as they do - on the most horrible aspects of criminality and human nature, but not being upfront about their own barely disguised salaciousness, to the extent that a lot of them come across - to me - as santimonious and heartless. They are milking tragedy for entertainment purposes, after all.

But - I am a sucker for stories involving bank robberies, double crosses, mad cap heists, and the like! Even though these tales usually feature their own share of painfuly and hastily spilled blood, I can manage to get caught up in the narrative drive and complexity of these type of yarns - to the extent that I don't feel quite as dirty listening to them. Even better if some of the characters in these stories have middle names like "fingers" or "slippery". You're in for a good time there.

Well, the story told in Sword and Scale 70 was one of the best of this kind I've yet heard. If there's any justice, someday they'll make a big screen version of events; it would be a cracker. I don't want to say too much, apart from it involving a massive homemade bomb primed to go-off in a casino. It's got a bit of everything: unusual twists, a little bit of moider, ingenuity, careful planning gone awry. Dynamite - if you'll pardon the pun! Well worth a listen.

Unfortunately, it also appears to be an outlier in the history of Sword and Scale itself. The second half of the same edition of the pod was taken up with recounting, in excrutiating and overwrought detail, the horrible death of a young Japanese woman. Uggghhh. I listened to a few more just to be sure about the particular angle of the world of crime the show was aiming for, and it does seem to be one of those types of productions that'll make sure you are left in no doubt exactly how many stab wounds this weeks poor beleaguered victim had to endure; before they died at the moment of maximum pathos. Double uggghhh.

Still though, that opening half of episode 70 is great!

ahlookit · 05-08-2016 10:19am

The opening part sounds excellent, will give it a listen. I heard one or two episodes of Sword and Scale in the past, and yes, it did tend to revel in the gory details too much.

As a fan of bank robbery stories, you might be interested in this episode:

http://loveandradio.org/2014/08/choir-boy/

"Tom Justice is passionate about cycling, and was on the shortlist for the US Olympic Team. Also, he’s a bank robber."

Trent Houseboat · 10-08-2016 3:31pm

Has anyone listened to Pin Kings? It's the true story of two high school wrestling stars one of whom becomes the biggest coke trafficker in Miami and the other is the DEA agent investigating him.

The NPR production style (it's an ESPN podcast, but straight out of the Serial mould) is annoying and the first episode is little more than a 25 minute teaser. In spite of this I will listen on as it seems like an interesting story.
Another thing they have going for themselves is that they've published 10 podcasts in the past week, which means not sitting around for months waiting for your weekly ration.

pavb2 · 28-08-2016 8:10pm

Arghus wrote: »

Sword and Scale Episode 70 - My first listen to the much talked about Sword and Scale pod. True crime podcasts seem to be everywhere at the moment and while I've listened to a few of them, I wouldn't call myself too much a fan. A lot of my pod listening is done late at night or on the way to sleep, so it can be disturbing to start awake in the middle of the night with a creepy tale of grisly death and murder still filtering form your headphones into my brain - as I lie there in the pitch dark wondering what the hell is going on. Plus, I find a lot of the tone of these types of shows distasteful: focusing - as they do - on the most horrible aspects of criminality and human nature, but not being upfront about their own barely disguised salaciousness, to the extent that a lot of them come across - to me - as santimonious and heartless. They are milking tragedy for entertainment purposes, after all.

But - I am a sucker for stories involving bank robberies, double crosses, mad cap heists, and the like! Even though these tales usually feature their own share of painfuly and hastily spilled blood, I can manage to get caught up in the narrative drive and complexity of these type of yarns - to the extent that I don't feel quite as dirty listening to them. Even better if some of the characters in these stories have middle names like "fingers" or "slippery". You're in for a good time there.

Well, the story told in Sword and Scale 70 was one of the best of this kind I've yet heard. If there's any justice, someday they'll make a big screen version of events; it would be a cracker. I don't want to say too much, apart from it involving a massive homemade bomb primed to go-off in a casino. It's got a bit of everything: unusual twists, a little bit of moider, ingenuity, careful planning gone awry. Dynamite - if you'll pardon the pun!

Still though, that opening half of episode 70 is great!

Yes I enjoyed this it was so off the wall but needed a bit more detail of the perp's motivation and personal life.

Mehaffey1 · 28-08-2016 10:01pm

Not so much podcasts but Dan Carlin's Hardcore History has been great listening.

hidinginthebush · 29-08-2016 8:26am

Mehaffey1 wrote: »

Not so much podcasts but Dan Carlin's Hardcore History has been great listening.

Can't recommend that enough!

Doodah7 · 30-08-2016 10:35pm

I've listened to all of the Damn Interesting podcasts over the past while. So really interesting and quirky historical topics covered.

buster180 · 01-09-2016 8:22pm

The Elis James and John Robins podcast on Radio X is brilliant. Well worth a listen.
Here is a little clip somebody made of the show :-)

https://vimeo.com/159079322
and another
https://vimeo.com/163074498

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