Recommend me a podcast
 

My commute to work takes about an hour, and frankly I am getting a little bored of the same music.

Any ideas on a good podcast/podcasts to listen to? My commute is on a dedicated cycle track so I can safely listen to it.

Any subject is welcome, maybe something to get me thinking!

I have tried some from the BBC, but they are mostly 30 mins long, and if I am honest do get a little boring.

Sound quality is also important, although I know that with podcasts this can vary greatly.

many thanks in anticipation............

Kermode and Mayo?

Why not try some free, serialised audiobook novels from Podiobooks.com?

One hour shows -

This American Life
Four (or so) episodes of The Moth.

The BBC In Our Time podcast with Melvyn Bragg - History, science, philosophy, and an hour long

Are you a techy?
Angry Mac Bastards
This Week in Tech
This Week in Google
Mac Break Weekly

Fiction:
Transmissions From Beyond: short stories from TTA, Black Static, Interzone.

Also worth a mention:
Skeptics with a K
The Pod Delusion

Football Ramble FTW

+1

Also PRI selected shorts are pretty good. (All are short stories, the Moth ones are normally quite humourous.)

One of the best podcasts I've ever heard was The Moth episode with Steve Osborne - Walk Like A Cop, Talk Like A Cop, he's a NYPD officer with 20 years on the street.

Best podcast ever was This American Life - The Break Up, heard it the week before my wife and I finally parted company as we were going through a divorce. Bittersweet shit...

Ned Boulting/Matt Rendall's Real Peloton is the best pro-cycling podcast out there. Often shambolic, but all the better for it.

some good recomendations that I will have to research, thanks. Ste_S, where can I find that? I also listen to the Two Johns podcast (about bikes) which took a few listens but now I really like.

Found it and downloaded one for a trial...

Jay & Silent Bob get old... the first 6 or 7 episodes are great... after that it's just dick & fart jokes.

The Tom Green Podcast is good.... especially the one with Bobcat Goldthwait.

I'm also a fan of Bill Burr's Monday Morning podcast.

Got the Jay and Silent Bob podcast, yeah agree that after the first couple it just got silly.........

Guardian football and tech podcasts are great

Radio 4 friday night comedy podcast is also amazing

http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/5642...__Podcasts_1-5

Should keep you going for a while

Radio......suckers never play me
 

Anyone got any tips for radio stuff what I can downlerd to me ayeperd for t'listen ter, so as I can get some fuckin' shut eye like? Like comerdy podcasts 'n that?

on the mix , they disobey me,

what was the question?

this is pretty restful

I wants some new comerdy podcasts for me ayeperd for t'listen ter so as to get me off ter on t'nod off

This'll send you to sleep pronto...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qykl

^ fuck off. In Our Time is awesome. And Melvin's undertone of frustration with at least one of his guests any given week keeps me on edge week.

And comedy podcasts keep me up when I listen to them while going to bed.

Anyway, podcast thread >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

An audio version of the football thread. Some proper jokes to be had there.

Try story books

Sherlock holmes is a good one

i know it's a bit cliched but some of the ricky gervais and stephen merchant stuff is pretty funny especially when they are picking on carl pilkington

and carl pilkington is as surreasl as they come sometimes some of the stuff he says

Hah. Irony there that possibly didn't come across. I do listent to it when I get a chance, at so I can't dislike it that much.

That says pancake day, but if you play it, it has 'Melvyn Bragg' in it.

'stuff you should know' free downloads from itunes are quite interesting, sometimes comical US podcasts. Mainly around 20 minutes long each.

Yeah, I figured. Still had to get Melvin's back. Even though I suspect he's a right cock in real life. I just respect what he does as a public intellectual. We don't really have those in Canada (to the same degree). So the likes of him and Laurie Taylor (and whoever it is that puts them on air) are gold-star heroes, in my book.

Brian Cox, on the other hand, can piss off. He creeps the fuck out of me.

has this been retuned yet?

I don't think we are on the same wavelength

there was a really nice spoken word piece by scroobius pip on a week or two back on radio 4 late night 11.15 or so definately worth a listen

he is allegedly now one of britains formost spoken wordsmiths according to radio 4 and his albums aren't bad neither

I dont know where you are but Im at ohm

^ I would rep, but I can't.

Search for Carl Sagan in iTunes, there's a couple of podcasts in tribute to him I've got queued up.

Also Limmy's World of Glasgow for mo' lulz

I subscribe to Richard Herring's "warming up" which is just him reading his daily blog. it's dull at the moment though as he's on holiday after Edinburgh. "As it occurs to me", his unedited weekely stand up and sketch show (written, rehearsed and performed in 48 hours every week) was hit and miss (and very VERY crude) but when it hit it was great. It's a total birds nest of self referntial call backs though so if you don't listen from the beginning you'll probably be totally lost. I recently did the whole three (?) series pretty much back to back. It's fun to hear Richard Herring mentally unravel as the series progresses too. (aside: it isn't)

The audio version of this story by the BBC's Moscow Correspondent Steve Rosenburg, recorded on the 'elektrichka' train to Petushki is a brilliantly evocative portrait of Putin's Russia in 2012.

Audio journalism at its best - I first heard it on Broadcasting House on Sunday and had to go back and listen to it again (just follow the link then scroll down the page to the box and press play):
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-17095227

Graeme Obree interview recorded a LMNH by the 'Bike Show' from resonance fm:

http://thebikeshow.net/

'The Lost Cyclist'

http://thebikeshow.net/page/2/

Highbrow listening these days FOX
;)

On a comedy tip:

The Bugle - Andy Zaltsman and John Oliver giggling at each other for an hour (better than it sounds)
Adam & Joe - on 6music and XFM although you'll need to trawl the archives to find them

Elsewhere, the Desert Island Discs archive is now available so you can choose your presenter and subject, and avoid all the crap you don't like. Endless autobiographical joy