Yet Another Cycling Forum
Off Topic => The Pub => Arts and Entertainment => Topic started by: ian on 02 April, 2020, 10:19:47 am
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I confess the entire podcast thing has passed me by (I have even featured as the invited Tidy Haired™ Thought Leader* on several, the Tidy Hair being a bit of a waste, but I don't want to listen to myself waffle any more than you do).
Anyway, as I spend an hour a day spinning away on the exercise bike, I've opted to fill the time with podcasts.
But where to start? I'm open to recommendations. I've been listening to Very Bad Words but I'm getting to the end of that.
*a relatively modest claim to fame, my distant ex presented an entire episode of Horizon on BBC2, which is nerd-awesome to this day.
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Akimbo is a bit airy-fairy but mostly helps me understand different ways of looking at things.
Pessimists Archive looks at commonplace things that were originally decried as dangers to civilised behaviour.
Re-Cycle are short pieces on interesting historical bike races and incidents.
Strong Songs are detailed analyses of specific songs, popular and seminal.
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I asked my niece this question a few months ago.
She suggested "My Dad Wrote a Porno".
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Was that a suggestion?
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I asked my niece this question a few months ago.
She suggested "My Dad Wrote a Porno".
I *cough* actually did.
Only writing I ever got paid for. Then they invented moving pictures on the internet.
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Dan Carling - Hard Core History
Various eras
https://www.dancarlin.com/hardcore-history-series/
The History Of English
The development of the English languages from Indo-European to the present day.
The website has maps and things to go with the podcast
https://historyofenglishpodcast.com/
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Dan Carling - Hard Core History
Various eras
https://www.dancarlin.com/hardcore-history-series/
The History Of English
The development of the English languages from Indo-European to the present day.
The website has maps and things to go with the podcast
https://historyofenglishpodcast.com/
I'm slowly working my way through The History of English. Fascinating.
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What sort of thing are you after? News, politics, true-crime, drama, comedy, satire, history, language, cycling, footy, other sport (apparently there are more), science (can't help with that), documentaries?
There's a massive range of comedians interviewing other comedians, and lots of instances of comedian B interviewing comedian A on Comedian B's podcast after Comedian A has interviewed Comedian B on Comedian A's. Some good, some bad.
The second series of 'Conflicted' is running at the moment:
The award-nominated podcast, hosted by Thomas Small, a Middle East expert, and Aimen Dean, a former jihadist turned British double agent inside Al Qaeda, is back for a second series. After exploring the War on Terror in series one, they’ll be turning their attention to the New World Order in new episodes
Fascinating stuff.
It finished a long time ago but the Onion did a piss-take of the Serial podcast called 'A Very Fatal Murder' which I found very funny. I don't think listening to Serial first is a pre-requisite.
And on the subject of Serial, the same people did one called S-Town - murder and seediness in small-town Alabama (though the S in the title is an abbreviation of 'shit' rather than 'small') featuring a larger-than-life horologist.
American politics. I'm sticking with The Rachel Maddow Show (cos I'm a bleeding heart pinko liberal), despite the creeping in of ads and trailers. I was getting a little jaded by the primaries but, hurrah!, coronavirus has come along and she's now shedding a bright light on American government incompetence (also helps take the mind away from UK government incompetence).
Comedy - Athletico Mince. With Bob Mortimer. Say no more.
The Bellingcat people have a podcast. Just one series so far, on the downing of the Malaysia Airlines plane over Ukraine. You'd think they'd be better with a visual medium but it didn't stop this being a good solid piece of investigation. Apparently the Russians did it.
Gossipmongers - simple premise. 3 people, including Joe Wilkinson, read out gossipy stories and rumours from contributors and vote on the best. I do laugh out loud sometimes, but not as much as the presenters, who have a whale of a time.
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Podcasts... I consume a lot of these. I listen to them while doing audaxes and races, so easily consume 15+ hours on a Saturday. I can tell I've not been riding much if my podcast backlog builds up...
As such, I have found I really like:
- Zigzag podcast - Skip series 1, series 2 onwards is worth it, series 3 and 4 best yet
- 99 Percent invisible - A podcast about design in the world around us. I started with episode 296.
- Articles of Interest - A fork of 99% invisible by Avery Trufflman hidden stuff behind the design of our clothes. Really interesting.
- The Guilty Feminist - My favourite for cycling too, I started with episode 117 (Emily Chappells recommendation), warning I almost crashed my bike laughing at 119.
- Reply-all - From Gimlet media, Episode 120 is very good, start there and continue on
- 13 minutes to the moon - From BBC world service
- 50 things that made the modern economy - from the BBC
- BBC Inside Science - All the best science news in a form that the lay person can understand
- Bombshell - 4 National security experts drinking cocktails and explaining the world at the moment
- No Such thing as a fish - The QI elves very own podcast
- Passenger list - An audio play, great production values, addictive
- Queer Out Here - LGBT people and the great outdoors. Audiologs meet art.
- Serial - The podcast that made podcasts big.
- The Adventure Syndicate Podcasts - Jenny Grahams RTW record in podcast form.
- The Allusionist - Language, such beautiful language
- The indicator from planet money - Byte size economics
- The infinite monkey cage - Ignore the latest two episodes on UFOs, they are bollocks, everything else is absolute gold.
- The Truth - Audio plays, start with "The Off Season"
- The West Wing Weekly - If you're a west wing fan like me.
- Wheel suckers podcast - from Look mum no hands.
I've left out a few from my list that aren't as good as the above, or are more niche in their target, but hopefully the above should give everyone something to enjoy.
J
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Cool thanks. I like most things other than sports. Someone should do a metacritique of the oeuvre of Mr Daniel Brown. That would get me pedalling.
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Terra Incognito - if your want adventure podcasts. Quite a variety of different stuff and sports / expeditions but all adventurous.
All in the mind - makes you think.
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Quite a few BBC programmes get podcasted as well, often with a few minutes extra tacked on the end. In Our Time, Radio 3 documentaries, The Kitchen Cabinet and so on.
And I've found odd things like Historic Royal Palaces (Tower of London, Hampton Court, Kensington Palace...) have released podcasts of their public lectures. The sound quality of the latter can sometimes be a bit off, but interesting if that's your sort of thing.
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A few great pods i listen to:
Price of Football - A great insight into the murky world of football finances
Undr The Cosh - Current and Ex Footballers sharing stories from their time in the game (Mark Crossley & his stories of Brian Clough are very funny) - Some crude stuff - but very funny!
Gossipmongers - People send in stories of local gossip - some very funny and daft stories - proper laugh out loud stuff!
The Horne Section Podcast - Alex Horne and his band making up songs with a 1 person guest audiance
Any of these are well worth a listen in my opinion.
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Started on Serial today, for some reason I had assumed it was something else entirely to what it actually is.
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- Wheel suckers podcast - from Look mum no hands.
This is probably my current favourite, the recent "Pop Cast" was rather good.
Also, The Bike Show (Jack Thurston of lost lanes) but it's is rather occasional these days.
I dip into the C86 podcast, which can be a bit rambling but appeals to a certain musical taste.
Beats In Space is good for when i need something danceable to code to.
Radio 3 and 4 both do some good ones, the building a library analysis of classical music I used to recommend to my PhD students as instructive on the art of critique and comparison.
Mrs Dan rates "my dad wrote a porno" but make sure your headphones are securely plugged in if you're in public.
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For the many, a mixture of politics and smut, partly because I went to school with Jacqui Smith and her soon to be ex-husband and she lives in Malvern which I still consider to be my home town.
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We go to sleep with The Archers, followed by a couple of episodes of American old time radio detective stories - Generally the 'Great Detectives of Old Time Radio' or 'Relic Radio Thrillers' which have episodes from the 1940s & 50s (Dragnet, Philip Marlow etc).
We also have 'Criminal', 'BBC Inside Health' and the BBC quiz shows on as well.
For when I can't sleep, I have 'Philosophy Bites' (a great 15 minute simple philosophy discussion podcast), 'Slow German' (for subliminal language learning) an for serious strangeness 'Numbers Station' (very odd, but guaranteed sleep induction)
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Here's few
Ear Hustle (probably my favourite atm)
Far from home
Rough translation
Twenty thousand hertz
The infinite monkey case
Reply all
Never Strays far
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Started on Serial today, for some reason I had assumed it was something else entirely to what it actually is.
I did enjoy this – though I found season two about the army deserter a bit of a drag. Series 3 about the Cleveland courtroom was very good – and sadly apposite given the current focus on race and criminal justice in the US. It's worth digging up Courtroom 302: A Year Behind the Scenes in an American Criminal Courthouse. Believe me, nothing has changed in the intervening decade.
Currently In the Dark, another indictment of the US criminal justice system. The first series was about the desperate sad case of a child murder, but actually more about police incompetence in not catching the murderer (it turned out by chance they did just as it was about to air, so it puts a different complexion on proceedings). The second which I'm listening to now is about a man in Mississippi who's been tried six times for the same crime and is currently on death row. The legal shenanigans and all-out-lies and the dearth of evidence that has someone (black obviously) on death row is breathtaking. Basically every time he's been convicted, it's been overturned on appeal, so the prosecutor goes back and gets a retrial. Twenty-three years in prison. It's also a reminder that everything in Mississippi still splits along racial lines.
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Current grisly weather has had me back on the turbo, and I've been listening to French language podcasts to try and 'keep my ear in'. It's a question of choosing the right level; anything too demanding and the cycling suffers, whereas trying to ride hard means I miss some of the sense of what is being said. Got the balance about right today with "Les Français sont-ils racistes?" from the 'Inner French' series, but then I wasn't busting a gut on the turbo ;D
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Mark Beaumont has joined seemingly everyone else and now has a podcast:
https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/endurance-mark-beaumont-wqcfA35e2r8/
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Invisible infrastructure, purposeless art, bicycles, grand pianos, pirate radio...
https://rwm.macba.cat/en/sonia/sonia-317-reni-hofmuller
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Help, i've caught up with my podcast back log, and the podcasts I listen to are not being produced as fast as I can consume them I need to increase the number of feeds I'm pulling in.
So.
Can you recommend me good podcasts? As linked above, I love 99 Percent invisible, Guilty Feminist, Passenger list, Serial, etc...
I'm on the look out especially for stuff with high production values and interesting content.
What do you suggest?
J
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I refer you to what I posted above or you can pop in an audio book into your listening pleasure, to get the back log back up. I just did and I got 50 episodes I need to catch up with while walkies.
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I refer you to what I posted above or you can pop in an audio book into your listening pleasure, to get the back log back up. I just did and I got 50 episodes I need to catch up with while walkies.
I have audio books as well, but that's typically about 120 hours a year, I need to sustain about 600 hours annually...
Aside from how good the podcast is, what I love about 99pi and guilty feminist is it comes out every week, and I know it'll be good, it forms a base for my listening. My training ride on a Wednesday always starts with "This is 99 percent invisible, and I'm roman mars"...
This is the first time in all my podcast listening that I've caught up the back log. It's a strange feeling...
Shall investigate your list, I already have reply-all and infinite monkey cage.
J
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You're not trying.
Podcasts are a bit like amateur magazines, for me. Rarely are they well enough written to be worth the listen. Books won, mostly. Plus, there's something really satisfying about the association : the ride, the route, the book, the memory.
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You're not trying.
Podcasts are a bit like amateur magazines, for me. Rarely are they well enough written to be worth the listen. Books won, mostly. Plus, there's something really satisfying about the association : the ride, the route, the book, the memory.
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I implore you to try 99 percent invisible, Serial, or Passenger list. The quality of the production is amazing. Riding home from the shops listening to the latest episode of Passenger list today, it brought shivers down my spine. I slowed my pedally. Just. Wow. Start at episode 1 and go through.
There are a lot of awful podcasts out there.
but at the same time there are some fantastic ones.
J
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Here's a couple more that I'm listening to lately:
- Masters of Scale with Reid Hoffman (can be a bit tech bro, I dip in depending on who's being interviewed - Jimmy Wales was good)
- Soundtracking with Edith Bowman (film music)
- The Candid Frame (photography interviews, but not about gear / technique)
and a couple of other photography podcasts, but that's a bit of a tangent interest wise for here.
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I implore you to try 99 percent invisible, Serial, or Passenger list.
I love 99pi. Not only is the content great, and the production quality excellent, Roman Mars has the most wonderful voice. I could listen to him all day. He also has the best name.
For a good story-based podcast, I still like The Moth. They're recorded in front of a live audience, which means the sound quality can be a bit variable, but they're always interesting. And often surprising. The premise of the Moth is that everyone has a story to tell, and everyone can become a storyteller. They workshop the stories ahead of the show, to give them proper narrative structure, and for the storytellers to practise delivery. Often a show is based around a loose theme, but even within a theme the stories can vary in their style and content. Funny, sad, scary, inspirational, often all of the above at the same time.
https://themoth.org/about
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I'm going to suggest some of the ones I have been enjoying, but a little bit cautiously as they're all sport ones and that doesn't appear to be your cup of tea...
Cycling:
Matt Stephens Unplugged
Life in the Peloton (Mitch Docker) - he does some as part of "The Cycling Podcast" and some lighter ones as "Talking Luft" which are separate.
Formula 1:
F1 Nation
F1 Beyond The Grid
General Sport:
Stripped Back Sport with Kirsty Gallacher - there don't seem to be new ones coming through just now but her back catalogue looks interesting and I've enjoyed the episodes I've listened to.
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I currently only do horror/scifi audio drama, which may or may not be your cup of tea, but would recommend:
Tanis (quit before season 5, though, which is where the writers should have stopped)
The Left Right Game (I wish I had written this)
The Magnus Archives
BBC Sounds -- Tracks
BBC Sounds -- The Lovecraft Investigations
The Harrowing
Janus Descending
Primordial Deep
The White Vault
Also, Palimpsest is okay.
I have started, but have not yet decided if I would recommend:
Vast Horizon
The Silt Verses
No Place But The Water
Archive 81
My writer friends all rate Old Ghosts of Appalachia very highly. If you are in the mood for narrated stories, Pseudopod has new fiction on the regular, as does Escape Pod.
Sam
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It hadn't occurred to me to listen to podcasts while riding before -- I always listen to something, because otherwise external sounds play merry hell with my synaesthesia*. I just wanted to say thank you for the suggestion.
Sam
*I am not interested in starting a discussion/argument about the merits or demerits of headphones while riding. When an approaching car gives you the sensation of someone stroking a microplane up your spine, headphones are all about turning an unpleasant experience into a useful one.
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It hadn't occurred to me to listen to podcasts while riding before -- I always listen to something, because otherwise external sounds play merry hell with my synaesthesia*. I just wanted to say thank you for the suggestion.
Sam
*I am not interested in starting a discussion/argument about the merits or demerits of headphones while riding. When an approaching car gives you the sensation of someone stroking a microplane up your spine, headphones are all about turning an unpleasant experience into a useful one.
Podcasts and audiobooks are my goto for cycling. Much better than music for me. If I don't listen to something, my mind can wonder. They help me concentrate, and cos I use open backed head phones, i can still hear just fine.
J
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I've had to cull my postcast subscriptions since I stopped commuting - I used to get through at least 2.5 hours listening on the bike in addition to whatever I could fit in off the bike. I'm now down to one US politics one (from 3), but there's been less of interest since January.
But I can recommend a couple of fairly new comedy podcasts.
3 Bean Salad - 3 blokes improvising on (and usually then away from) a random subject provided by a listener. The 3 are Mike Wozniak (riding his wave of Taskmaster popularity), Ben Partridge (the The Beef and Dairy Network podcast man) and Henry Paker. They are very similar in voice, age and sensibilities and they each kick off each others riffs. Amiable nonsense.
Brain Cigar - Peter Baynham (Iannucci stable alumnus, and, somewhat improbably, now living in LA after his second Oscar nomination for the 2nd Borat movie) and someone called Jez Simmonds. More nonsense, but even less rooted in reality than the above.
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I’m sold. Mike Wozniak, Ben Partridge - say no more. I don’t know Henry Paker (or don’t think I do) but if he’s hanging around with those two, he must be alright.
As for Peter Baynham, he was always the best thing on Fist of Fun.
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Ultra running magazine did an episode on hallucinations earlier this year, which might appeal to the audaxers and mushroom fans amongst us. https://ultrarunning.com/featured/hallucinations/ (https://ultrarunning.com/featured/hallucinations/)
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I listen to BBC sounds quite a lot - when working in the garden, etc.
There are recurring podcasts that I follow; Ukraincast, Americast, Newcast.
Then there are one-offs.
The Lazarus Heist is very good. Documentary, not fiction. Season 1 is about North Korean hackers; I'm aghast that this isn't more generally known about. The scale of the financial theft is staggering, billions. This is how Kim can afford the missiles.
"I'm not a monster"
2 seasons, the first one about a USAnian woman who joins ISIS. Season one requires a strong stomach. Season 2 about Shamina Begum.