Podcasts to enjoy
20 Jan 2015 | podcastsNB. for those that link off to iTunes, if your podcast app isn’t iTunes, just find the RSS feed – typically by heading to their website where they’ll publish it.
Music
Infrequent but good when they publish
Low End Theory podcast
quality varies.
Stones Throw podcast
typically good mixes
The Nextmen
eclectic mix of DJ mixes; mostly techno leaning
Residents Advisor
always quality beats RECOMMEND
Solid Steel
ace mixes of D&B
Drum and Bass sound
Awesome funk/soul/jazz/hip-hop mixes by some London cats. RECOMMEND.
Breaking Bread
Invariably good (housey) hour long mixes.
Freerange records podcast
Always great quality – often eclectic covers – less frequent mixes these days – but well worth a listen through their back catalogue
Paris DJs podcast
Some darker DnB – but pretty good if your into that style.
Mauoq DnB podcast
Typically focus on an artist per podcast .. styles vary.
Giles Peterson
Japanese label – good mixes – vary across the hip hop/funk/soul/jazz genres.
Rootdown records
Spoken Word
Podcasts of science, comedy, general knowledge, economics etc.
From QI researchers, very interesting/funny.
No such thing as a fish
As it says on the tin. Epic stories of epic characters or moments in history (long and entertaining)
Hardcore History
Richard Herring’s Leicester Square Theatre Podcast
comedy chat/interview of sorts with a guest.
RHLSTP
Better than it sounds.
Planet Money
Design through a range of topics.
99% invisible
Rarely uploads, but good when they do
The Infinite Monkey Cage
Canberra in podcast form!
Several Suburbs
Interesting podcast – with unique style (overlaid sounds to stories/interviews)
Radio Lab
Science shows, every Thursday is an hour long Dr Karl phone in.
5 Live Science
Thursday podcast of Dr Karl science phone in on the J’s
Dr Karl
Linguistics, etymology – generally interesting stuff (eg. the origin of the ‘camp’ gay sound, origin of swear words etc).
Lexicon Valley
Weekly interviews on a wide range of topics (climate change, AI etc) and generally “curiosities of everyday decision-making”.
Econ Talk
From the guys that wrote the book – typically interesting.
Freakonomics
Science news, interviews, experiments.
Naked Scientists
Phillip Adams interviews across a wide range of topics
Late Night Live