What are you listening to?

[voice]

Though I'd start a thread dedicated to what podcasts you are listening to or want to recommend, I've been listening to more and more when driving recently as the radio here is mostly shite.

Best ones recently
Sasha's message, about a Russian anti war activist locked up by Putin for puting stickers in a supermarket exposing the truth about the war.
Ultra, about the republican parties first attempt to install a fascist state in the US in the 30's and 40's and how, while they didn't succeed, never faced justice for the attempt.
Hollywood exiles, about the red scare and the people hounded into exile or locked up as a result
Love Janessa, about romance scams.

[mids]

I don't listen to podcasts much but A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs is very good.
500songs.com/

I sometimes listen to Youtube in the car but just the audio so it's much the same as a podcast. Triggernometry is very good.

www.youtube.com/@triggerpod/videos

[flatandy]

My current favourite - I'm about 10 episodes in but there are 120 - is William Dalrymple and Anita Anand's "Empire". It's unsurprisingly brilliant - every one of Dalrymple's books I've read has been incredibly good, despite me generally being very bored by most things Indian.

The first season is all about the British in India and I've learned an absolute sh*t tonne about the origins of the East India Company and how that ended up in the Raj after it got nationalised. Next up, in about 10 episodes, it's the Ottomans.

[marechal]

That sounds interesting.

A couple years back I listened to the entirety of Mike Duncan's History of Rome. Very good and it naturally covered a lot of ground.

[Repat Van]

Most podcasts I listen to are sweary social commentary and general gossip.

I really like If Books Could Kill though.

I also have started a practice of listening to a podcast / reading one book a year from somebody I loathe and disagree with for a different view. So currently working my way through back episodes of “Diary of A CEO.”

[Repat Van]

Feb 14, 2024 19:59:17 GMT mids said:

I don't listen to podcasts much but A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs is very good.
500songs.com/

I sometimes listen to Youtube in the car but just the audio so it's much the same as a podcast. Triggernometry is very good.

www.youtube.com/@triggerpod/videos

Triggernometry seems right up your alley….

[mids]

It is. Extreme evidence-based rational centrists with an old school liberal/ hugely tolerant bent. Could have been produced with me in mind.

[happyhammerhead]

Don't much listen to podcasts, but it's interesting to read what you lot do.

I'm fond of audiobooks though - at work listening to Raymond Chandler's novels, read by Elliott Gould, who has the perfect voice for Philip Marlowe.

[flatandy]

I didn't used to listen to podcasts - just the Kermode and Mayo film review, which is also generally good. But Empire is excellent.

[voice]

Podcasts are a new thing for me, and so far I've come across some very interesting stuff, especially the well researched stuff on historical stuff, and some of the modern topics as well. Learning a great deal.

[yord]

As spring is beginning to sprung, I like to venture from the rock and nettle strewn veranda and meander down to the meadow. Find a sunny and peaceful spot, clamp my ear to the ground and listen to the newly awoken worms wriggle beneath the soil.

[voice]

Been working my way through "Short Histories of" some interesting podcasts, half way through the French Revolution.

Also British Scandles, a good one on Bob Crowhurst.

Bloody autocorrect

[Repat Van]

Mar 12, 2024 21:11:27 GMT voice said:

Been working my way through "Short Histories of" some interesting podcasts, half way through the French Revolution.

Also British Candles, a good one on Bob Crowhurst.

Ooh that sounds interesting (not the British candles the one about the FR) - let me add it to the list.

[voice]

So, I've been working my way through the podcast 'A short history of' and while it's very good for the most part I'm finding that when I'm reading a book I'm mentally reading it in the voice of Paul McGann who narrates the series.

[moggyonspeed]

After all these years, I'm still listening to Melvyn Bragg's In Our Time on Thursday mornings (sometimes even at work!), and I also like to catch up with Desert Island Discs sometime during the week.

Last week's DID was worth a listen; I had no idea that Professor Alice Roberts was such a Rock Chick!

[mids]

I was listening to a debate about rewilding the other day. I'm torn on it. Emotionally I think, wolves- brilliant but then I don't know enough about the pros and cons to properly decide. The pro guy was the better debater, the against guy (a farmer) was a bit of a clichéd type. The pro guy was very activisty though, think he was a Goldsmith. Anyway I still don't know what I think about it.

[mids]

I used to see Alice Roberts around Bristol uni when we both worked there. She ran a pub quiz in my local which I went to. That was after the first series of Coast so she wasn't quite as well known.

[voice]

They've reintroduced wolves to a bunch of national parks here, against the moanings of ranchers and farmers and yes a bit of livestock predation has happened, but the wider effect on the ecology has been a real positive apparently.

[flatandy]

I can see why you might not want wolves in your hood if you’re raising lambs. But they seem to be very beneficial in actually wild areas.

[voice]

We have some north of us apparently, but never encountered any. There's this idea they howl, but even though I'm told they are there, never heard a thing when I'm in the backcountry.