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ChastMastrChastMastr Shipmate
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What podcasts do people follow regularly?

For me it’s been mainly The Holy Post, hosted by Phil Vischer (who created VeggieTales), Skye Jethani, and Kaitlyn Schiess.

What do others like?

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  • DoublethinkDoublethink Admin, 8th Day Host
    I am subscribed to a load, but the one I listen to most often is The Poisoners Cabinet. They comically retell poisoning, murder and mayhem - accompanied by a cocktail of the week made with an ingredient derived from the story.
  • North East QuineNorth East Quine Purgatory Host
    edited May 2024
    There are lots of great podcasts on BBC Sounds.

    I like Life Changing and I've just started listening to When it hits the fan. I also enjoy the Shedunnit podcast, about golden age crime fiction, and Lucy Worsley's Lady Killers.

    When I had covid I listened to hours and hours of The Lady Vanishes about a missing Australian woman. There was a lot of repetition and I found I could drift in and out of sleep without losing the thread. (That probably doesn't sound like a recommendation, but that podcast kept me going!)
  • Celtic KnotweedCeltic Knotweed Shipmate
    I'm not sure if what I listen to counts as podcasts or not, since they're both BBC radio shows. I follow Mary Beard's Being Roman, which looks at Roman stuff that might not be in the normal history books; and You're Dead to Me, which describes itself as "a history podcast for people who don't like history", where the host takes a subject, an expert, and a comedian, and the 3 of them discuss it for about an hour.

    Having only found You're Dead to Me earlier this year, I'm still working my way through the 2020 episodes. I don't listen live to either show because they tend to be on whilst I'm at work!
  • HeavenlyannieHeavenlyannie Shipmate
    I listen to The Rest is History whilst cooking in the evening.
  • CameronCameron Shipmate
    I quite like Poetry Unbound with Pádraig Ó Tuama - his reading and insights often add an extra dimension to poems. I think the format helps: you get the poem, a few minutes talk about the poem and the poet, and then a second reading which often hits you differently. Mr Ó Tuama is an engaging presenter too.

    I get it through Spotify, but is available through other routes too - I have a lot of episodes to catch up on…
  • la vie en rougela vie en rouge Purgatory Host, Circus Host
    I agree with @North East Quine about the BBC. A personal favourite of mine is Uncanny, which delves into listeners' real life paranormal experiences. I also enjoy Good Bad Billionaire which looks at how billionaires made their money, and whether they consider them good, bad or just rich.
  • EigonEigon Shipmate
    I've also found a lot of good stuff on BBC Sounds, including the Mary Beard series. I also listen to Filkcast regularly (science fiction folk music) and Folk on Foot (walking with a musician and talking and playing as they go). I also enjoy bOrgcast, a Star Trek podcast - they've been going through the original series, and some of their comments are very funny. English Heritage also has a good podcast which I dip into from time to time, and Octothorpe are brilliant for news from SF fandom - and they're on the shortlist for a Hugo Award this year.
  • Rufus T FireflyRufus T Firefly Shipmate
    Freight Train Boogie - an hour of independent Americana music, hosted by Bill Frater. I stumbled across it during COVID and am now gradually working my way backwards, episode by episode. At the moment, I am listening to an episode from 2017(!).

    Mostly it is music by people I have never ever heard of. Some of it is so-so but occasionally I come across something that is just amazing. I mostly listen to it whilst in the car - it is great music to drive to.

    Sadly, Bill Frater hasn't posted a new episode for two months, which is very unlike him. There is nothing on the website to say what the problem is - I just hope he is OK and that he puts up a new episode soon. In the meantime, I just have another 400 or so episodes to go before I have listened to them all!
  • Cheery GardenerCheery Gardener Shipmate
    Love a good podcast! A few have taken my fancy recently. The history listen and Stuff the British stole, both good historical podcasts, locally made (Australia). There is one episode of the latter that I put on if I wake in the night with insomnia. The presenter's voice is very soothing and in a couple of minutes I am gone! When awake, I find the content of both to be fascinating. The history listen is being renamed from June, which I find frustrating, it's perfectly obvious what it's about now. Perhaps Rewind is a sexier title, who knows?!!

    I also enjoy The Scandalmongers podcast, which has a variety of guests and topics. I think my most memorable recent episodes were the Blood and the Post Office episodes, reminded me a lot of our own Robodebt problem, here.

    I've only just discovered The rest is entertainment with Richard Osman and Marina Hyde, I particularly like the episode where they answer questions sent in by listeners.

    I enjoy taking a podcast into the garden when I'm working as they help pass the time when weeding and make it a whole lost pleasanter!
  • EigonEigon Shipmate
    I like Stuff the British Stole, too - it delves into some really obscure corners of history.
  • luvanddaisiesluvanddaisies Shipmate
    My go to is No Such Thing As A Fish, which celebrated its 10th anniversary earlier this year - I’ve listened to every episode multiple times, have it on to fall asleep to most nights, and am going to their live show when it’s on tour near me in September.
    Each of the four people on it (who are all “Elves” from the cracking BBC programme QI, and if you like one you’ll likely like the other) bring along a fact each week and they all bandy about related(ish) facts and discuss it, it’s a comedy podcast, but stuffed full of odd facts.
  • Cheery GardenerCheery Gardener Shipmate
    That sounds great @luvanddaisies, I've added to my list of things to check out!

    Just popped back in to note that Stuff the British stole won the best history award given by the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television. I am assuming that it's for the TV program, rather than the podcast and eligible because it's a co production with CBC
  • chrisstileschrisstiles Hell Host
    There's a ton of podcasts I listen to - as I've essentially come to use them as a form of on-demand radio. My app reckons I subscribe to about 160 .. some may be defunct.

    In terms of stuff that may be relevant here; Magnificast, Truths Table and Conspirituality.

    Other stuff; Blowback (about various American foreign policy interventions and how they have unexpected side effects), Cursed Objects (near term British history through the story of various bits of tat), The Long Seventies Podcast (picking up various threads in American culture that have impacts to this day). I like the OK Jazz podcast too - guy in Japan who introduces new soul, jazz and world music albums.
  • not entirely menot entirely me Shipmate
    I like the aforementioned You’re Dead To Me, No Such Thing As a Fish, & recommend just seeing what’s on BBC sounds that you like. I also like the News Quiz. & if that suits you check out The Bugle & it’s off shoots.
    I’m an Off Menu fan. But a bit picky on my guests.
    I’d you like No Such Thing As A Fish you might like Problem Squared.
    Love The Community Library as a book and story appreciative podcast - plus no ads!
    Spot the insomniac with a 30min commute in the group!
  • EigonEigon Shipmate
    Oh, I forgot Fantasy Book Swap - each episode has a guest, and they choose a classic children's fantasy book and a modern one to compare.
  • North East QuineNorth East Quine Purgatory Host
    I forgot to mention Tim Harford's Cautionary Tales, which is informative, quirky, insightful and entertaining.

    I'm listening to Dead Man Running just now as I grew up in Inverness and find the local angle interesting. I'm listening to it through gritted teeth as the presenter has a painfully staccato manner of speaking. I think he's aiming for "dramatic pause" but seems unable to get through a sentence without a pause. And someone has decided the story isn't enough on its own but needs background dramatic sound effects.

    And then (pause) a letter arrived (pause) addressed to me. oooh-oooh-ooh sounds. It was (pause) Kim. (zing, zing, zing sounds).

    Just calm down and tell us the story!
  • ChastMastrChastMastr Shipmate
    edited June 2024
    Oh, my priest has a podcast on horror fiction (especially older/classic) called Whiskey and the Weird.

    I should listen more to comics interview Word Balloon and maybe Good Faith.

    Holy Post has spun off others, mostly Patreon-only, but I’m mainly just into the original HP and French Fridays with David French.
  • [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 0
    I’ll have to look up the horror podcast by the priest. I recently met a priest who also had a horror podcast.

    For religious podcasts I mostly listen to “The Bible Project”, “ The Bible for Normal People,” “Biologos”, “Recovering Evangelicals” and various other ones that are not Christian.

    For fiction, I almost exclusively listen to horror. I really like Creepy, Pseudopod, Wicked Library, Nocturnal Transmissions and I’m currently listening to “ Vampires of White Chapel”, Magus Archives and Dead Space.

    For nonfiction it’s mostly either science, or filmography ( horror films ). For science I really like In Defense of Plants, Backyard Ecology, The Common Descent Podcast and for films I like Perfect Organism, 3x The Terror, Dead Meat and The Faculty of Horror.

    At my job in an aluminum mill we can wear one earbud under our muffs so listen to 40-60 hours of audiobooks and podcasts a week.
  • ChastMastrChastMastr Shipmate
    Skovand wrote: »
    I’ll have to look up the horror podcast by the priest. I recently met a priest who also had a horror podcast.

    For religious podcasts I mostly listen to “The Bible Project”, “ The Bible for Normal People,” “Biologos”, “Recovering Evangelicals” and various other ones that are not Christian.

    For fiction, I almost exclusively listen to horror. I really like Creepy, Pseudopod, Wicked Library, Nocturnal Transmissions and I’m currently listening to “ Vampires of White Chapel”, Magus Archives and Dead Space.

    For nonfiction it’s mostly either science, or filmography ( horror films ). For science I really like In Defense of Plants, Backyard Ecology, The Common Descent Podcast and for films I like Perfect Organism, 3x The Terror, Dead Meat and The Faculty of Horror.

    At my job in an aluminum mill we can wear one earbud under our muffs so listen to 40-60 hours of audiobooks and podcasts a week.

    Cool! :) and welcome!
  • Lamb ChoppedLamb Chopped Shipmate
    I appreciate the lists, will pass them to my son.
  • W HyattW Hyatt Shipmate
    North East Quine wrote: »
    I forgot to mention Tim Harford's Cautionary Tales, which is informative, quirky, insightful and entertaining.
    My favorite - I highly recommend it.

  • Nick TamenNick Tamen Shipmate
    Skovand wrote: »
    I’ll have to look up the horror podcast by the priest. I recently met a priest who also had a horror podcast.

    For religious podcasts I mostly listen to “The Bible Project”, “ The Bible for Normal People,” “Biologos”, “Recovering Evangelicals” and various other ones that are not Christian.
    Another “Bible Project” fan. @orfeo, formerly of this parish, introduced me to it. The other religious podcasts I listen to are Die Lichterfeier aus Taizé (The Celebration of the Light, Saturday evening prayer, from Taizé), “Along the Road” (a podcast for persons in ordered ministry in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)), “Voices United: A Congregational Song Podcast,” (from the Hymn Society in the U.S. and Canada’s Center for Congregational Song), “All Things Rite and Musical” (liturgy and music from an Anglican/Episcopal perspective) and “The Accessible Altar” (faith and disability). Unfortunately, the last three are pretty sporadic these days.

    In news- and politics-related podcasts, I listen to “Up First” (daily headlines from NPR), “The NPR Politics Podcast,” “The 538 Politics Podcast” and NPR’s “Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me.”

    In other podcasts, I listen to “The History of English,” “Let’s Talk About Myth, Baby” (Greek Myth) and “Batch” (about food, from “The Bitter Southerner”), plus a few really niche podcasts.


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