Religion and Ethics Forum
General Category => Literature, Music, Art & Entertainment => Topic started by: Nearly Sane on July 19, 2017, 11:42:29 AM
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I know there are a number of members who listen to podcasts, thought I would start a thread with the latest I have discovered.
https://theleagueofnerds.co.uk/author/theleagueofnerdsradio/
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Following on from discussion of specific episode of the Infinite Monkey Cage, link to the available shows.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00snr0w/episodes/player
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I'm quite a fan so I'll mention a few - since they are all free on iTunes I won't give links, but the non-BBC ones tend to have easily accessed websites. Remember all of these have an archive so you can start from the beginning.
BBC.
Moral Maze
Great Lives
The Why Factor
Beyond Belief
Thinking Allowed
In Our Time (with archives on Science, Philosophy, History, Culture)
The History of the World in 100 Objects.
Soul Music (which focuses on a song or piece of music and asks people why the piece is important to then - some, such as A Change is Gonna Come, are very moving).
Wireless Nights with Jarvis Cocker, looking at what people get up to at night.
The History of Rome and Revolutions - both by Mike Duncan. The first starts slowly, by his own admission, but then finds its stride: just 170+ episodes to listen to. The latter covers the various revolutions in more modern times starting with the 17th century civil war here, American Independence, the French Revolution and so on - currently on 1848 events in Europe.
Attaboy Clarence - for anyone interested in the heyday of Hollywood - includes ads from the time and also radio-plays, some of which are abridged versions of well known films with the original cast doing the radio version - for example Cagney doing Angels with Dirty Faces for radio.
The War - episodes of radio shows compiled for US troops abroad during WW2: lots of music from the time plus comedy (Bob Hope etc) - the flagrant advertising (especially cigarettes) sound quite odd now.
For those who like fantasy try Drabblecast.
For journalism try The Guardian Long Reads
Best of Old Time Radio - US radio shows from the pre-TV era mixing comedy (Jack Benny etc and early radio sit-coms) with drama - for example episodes of Dragnet, Gunsmoke etc before they migrated to TV. Again the mid-show ads are hilarious.
The Mortified Podcast - adults reading their old teenage diaries to an audience: mostly US but can be quite funny.
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And this reminds me that Colin Murray's at home series was brilliant.
The Jimmy White episode may be my favourite thing ever
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08pm9sl/episodes/downloads
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And philosophy with no gaps
https://historyofphilosophy.net
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Dan Carlin's podcast
http://www.dancarlin.com/hardcore-history-series/
Given the current political climate, I can hardly recommend the latest one "Destroyer of Worlds" enough.
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Dan Carlin's podcast
http://www.dancarlin.com/hardcore-history-series/
Given the current political climate, I can hardly recommend the latest one "Destroyer of Worlds" enough.
I clicked on the link. It shows blank squares (which are outlined in dark lines by my SuperNova software. Are they videos or text?
NO rush for answer - I'm just about to switch off!
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I clicked on the link. It shows blank squares (which are outlined in dark lines by my SuperNova software. Are they videos or text?
NO rush for answer - I'm just about to switch off!
The web site is probably very screen reader unfriendly. I clicked on the link to the one I recommended and my ad-blocker went bananas, it blocked 54 ads.
http://feeds.feedburner.com/dancarlin/history?format=xml
The above is the link to the podcast in iTunes. It should be a bit less obnoxious.