Since Jane and I began working on the Dear Bitches Smart Authors Podcast (new episode coming this week, I promise!) I've started subscribing to a few podcasts, but I want to expand my subscription list. So I figured I'd ask you, since our tastes align in a few key areas.
So far, I subscribe to the “Stuff You Should Know” podcast, and the “Notes in Spanish” podcast – which gives me some hope that I haven't entirely lost my ability to understand Spanish (though my ability to understand the accent from Spain is much greater than my ability to understand Spanish speakers from, say, Argentina, alas).
I haven't found any other podcasts that talk specifically about romance, but I am curious what podcasts you love, and which ones you subscribe to.
Care to share links? I'd much appreciate it – and I bet other folks would, too! And of course, if you've got your own podcast, please do give yourself a bit o' the pimpage up in here, up in here.
Stuff you Missed in History Class, by the stuff you should know people is excellent.
http://entertainment.howstuffw…
Here are some of my favorites, book-related and non-book related:
The Bookrageous Podcast
Cooking with the Moms
Girls in the Stacks
The Guardian Books Podcast
The Kindle Chronicles
Kindle Women
Nancy Pearl Book Reviews
Read it and Weep
tranquility du jour
What’s Old is New
I don’t have links because I download directly onto my ipod touch. I know that all of the above can be found on Itunes and other podcast aggregators.
I’m new to podcasts, but it’s great discovering new ones!
I quite like:
WTF with Marc Maron
Girl On Guy with Aisha Tyler
The Nerdist
I don’t have links, but all are on iTunes and all have websites.
Dan Savage
Wiretap (!!!)
The Moth
Pop Culture Happy Hour. It’s like hanging out with your snarkiest of pals. Plus-the host, Linda Holmes, is a big fan of the romance genre (s).
NPR’s Pop Culture Happy Hour
It’s the only podcast I regularly listen to and I love it to death. Linda Holmes and crew are awesome.
http://www.npr.org/templates/a…
http://www.StoryWonk.com
Writing related podcast with romance author Lani Diane Rich and her husband Alastair Stephens
so many podcasts, too little time
WTF with marc maron—comedian interviews funny and poignant—-also most comics are messed up or in recovery
Pop culture happy hour—funny, fun and good natured
Extra hot great-hilarious culture podcast—-their big simpsons fans—-that a plus
Slate culture gabfest—-all the slate podcast are great but this is my favourite really smart conversations about culture high and low—Stephan Thompson’s rants about the end of times are both erudite and if you listen selectively kind of convincing—-or infuriating (either way I love them)
Firewal and Iceberg and Talking TV with Ryan and Ryan—two of the most excellent TV podcasts out there
I second the rec for Pop Culture Happy Hour. Romance as a genre only comes up occasionally, but it is always a fun listen. It’s the only podcast I’ve ever actually looked forward to listening to on a weekly basis.
Adventures in SciFi discusses the publishing industry and interviews authors. Onbeing is an NPR podcast that discusses the spiritual in our lives.
Thank you. I needed a way to block out Christmas music at work (before I kill someone!) and now I have the perfect way. 🙂
I really like Julie Klausner’s How Was Your Week. Very funny
The Onion News Network video podcast is an absolute must for any discerning podcaster.
This American Life
WNYC’s RadioLab which is kinda like TAL, but for science. If you like Stuff You Should Know, you’ll love it. I’m a big Stuff fan also.
Savage Love
Bookrageous (which I believe you were on, young lady)
Pop Culture Happy Hour
WTF with Mark Maron
Mohr Stories
These are the ones I listen to regularly.
I also occasionally listen to some of the MaximimFun podcasts.
Pop Culture Happy Hour
Extra Hot Great
This American Life
Q with Jian Ghomeshi on CBC.ca (love his voice)
Reasonable Discussions by the Onion AV Club
Stash and Burn, if you like knitting
Freakonomics
I’ve just spent the last two hours listening to Stuff You Missed in History Class podcasts. The ARE excellent! So interesting, intelligent and informative! I’m currently downloading all their podcasts ever made. Because they’re just that good! (The history nerd in me is rejoicing.)
I am all about the Pop Culture Happy Hour, as well. And if you like that, you might want to try the AV Club’s “Reasonable Discussions.” It’s not quite as much fun as PCHH, but it covers some interesting territory. And even though it has absolutely nothing to do with romance, I’ve recently become obsessed with “Mike and Tom Eat Snacks,” in which actors Michael Ian Black and Tom Cavanaugh discuss snacks and crack jokes. I tend to like podcasts that sound like a bunch of friends just hanging out.
This may sound weird, but honestly I love Car Talk. I don’t even car about cars, but it’s fun, hilarious, and it’s like listening to your cool uncles gab for an hour.
I love Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me. I also enjoy the Marketplace podcasts.
I love podcasts and am so happy to see so many recommendations. I just downloaded hours of Stuff You Missed in History Class. In addition to many of those already mentioned, my list includes:
The Moth,
BBC Documentaries,
BBC Africa,
NPR’s Planet Money,
In Our Time with Melvyn Bragg,
World Affairs Council of Northern California,
International Spy Museum SpyCast,
NPR’s Wait, Wait… Don’t Tell Me.
I’m also hooked on several writing podcasts, including StoryWonk, Writing Excuses, and I Should Be Writing. I just discovered Books on the Nightstand, which I’m enjoying, but I can tell is going to cause me to go over my book-buying budget.
The Moth
Stuff Mom Never Told You
This Week with Larry Miller
This American Life
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Filmspotting
This American Life
Wait, Wait Don’t Tell Me
Popcorn Dialogues (currently on break but is supposed to be back soon)
The Splendid Table
Book Lust with Nancy Pearl
BTR: Book Club Girl Blog
Faith Middleton Show
NPR: Books Podcast
Slate’s Audio Book Club
TED Talks (audio)
WABE-FM Between the Lines
WNCY’s Radiolab
BBC World Book Club
Looking forward to checking out some of the recommended pod cast!
Wow – I’ve found a lot of new podcasts I need to subscribe to just by reading through the comments!
My favorites are:
Wait, Wait… Don’t Tell Me
This American Life (I love their iPhone app!)
Fresh Air
The Sporkful
Broadway Radio (perfect if you’re a theatre geek)
The Splendid Table
Grammar Girl
How to Do Everything
Slate’s Spoiler Specials (the specials they did on Australia and The Love Guru are hysterical)
Slate’s Audio Book Club (I don’t always agree with the analysis, but I enjoy hearing intelligent people talk about books)
The History Chicks
The history chicks, all the way! They add a lot of rich tertiary information to my historical romance reading.
Stuff Mom Never Told You did an episode on romance novels a couple weeks ago that I found awfully meh, but they did mention Beyond Heaving Bosoms, if I remember correctly.
Answer Me This! is delightful. With good humor, they tackle questions that range from inane to funny to “Oh, hey, I’ve always wondered about that” to “I would never in a million years have wondered that.”
And I get my fun-with-news fix with The Bugle, The News Quiz, and Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me!
I second the recommendations for Answer Me This and Mike and Tom Eat Snacks, and I also want to recommend the Tobolowsky Files. It’s just Stephen Tobolowsky, a long time character actor, telling stories from his life. Some of his stories are about Hollywood and acting, but a lot of his stories are just about his life. He is an absolutely wonderful storyteller. I suggest starting from the beginning because a lot of his stories build on each other.
I would also highly recommend This American Life and Radiolab. Both are amazing and worth a listen.
Absolutely hooked on BBC’s Thinking Allowed.
Sarah I’ve got the same problem with english, can understand british english with not much problem but american english is another thing entirely! Working on it though, LOL
I’ll have to save this thread to come back to. Thanks for asking this. (I find new podcasts hard to discover.) The ones I listen to are:
A Way with Words (words and language and how we use them, with Martha Barnette and Grant Barrett)
Judge John Hodgman (comedy, self-appointed judge settles disputes between friends)
BBC Comedy:
Adam and Joe from BBC 6 Music (possibly defunct, but my favourite)
Friday Night Comedy from BBC Radio 4
Scotland’s Funny Bits from BBC Radio Scotland (you can test your comprehension of Scottish accents too!)
n.b. BBC tends to delete each podcast episode after 7 days 🙁
I would never, every miss the “In Our Time” podcasts. Every week, Melvyn Bragg and three professors discuss a specific topic. It’s absolutely fascinating, and you never know what is going to come up.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/fe…
And you can also catch up on the site, because they’re there, too. Go an explore, and I promise you’ll get lost there. Last week it was the Jewish hero Judas Maccabeus.
And the BBC Now Show – Just bloody funny:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programme…
Marcus Brigstocke and Mitch Benn are unmissable. Mitch Benn’s version of Prince Philip doing “Killing In the Name Of” was wonderful.
Slate’s Culture Gabfest (much, much better than Pop Culture Happy Hour)
If you’re a fan of Ricky Gervais (which I am), his podcasts may have you nearly peeing your pants, and screaming with laughter. http://www.guardian.co.uk/podc… was the first series, and there were two more: http://podcast.rickygervais.co… and http://podcast.rickygervais.co…. At least, those are the only new ones I know about.
I have to second (third?) the recommendation for In Our Time. It goes from a Scottish battle, to the moon, to Taoism, to … who knows? This week is Judas Maccabeus. (I have no idea who that is, but I’ll know more after listening.)
AstronomyCast. An astronomy professor and the guy who runs Universe Today talk about a specific topic in astronomy. They are all 30 minutes or so long and Pamela Gay does a great job explaining (in real language) what’s going on. This all was helpful during Thanksgiving dinner when someone started talking about how we’re going to die in 2012 and I was able to fight back with science! I’d recommend starting with the episodes on all the planets. Those are fabulous.
The other favorite I have is Birdchick, who I found from a mention on Neil Gaiman’s blog (birdchick and Neil are beekeeping buddies.) She’s a birder (obviously) so it’s ostensibly about birding, but she records with her geeky, sarcastic, non-birding husband Bill, and they sometimes go off on these tangents that are absolutely hilarious. It’s not a “comedy” podcast, and you do learn a lot of fascinating stuff about birds and the environment, but their interactions are the best part.
Have spend a nice time……
Here are some of my favorites
Cooking with the Moms
Grammar Girl
Read it and Weep
How to Do Everything
tranquility du jour
http://www.jnhxtv.com
Hypothetical Help
This American Life
Muggle Cast
Definitely Not The Opera
Girl On Guy with Aisha Tyler
I LOVE The Satellite Sisters. Five real sisters chat about life and current events.
Also in agreement with everyone on many of these!
Pop Culture Happy Hour (Excellent range of things they discuss, and I’d rather listen to their coverage of award shows than watch them. Check out the Monkey See blog for an idea – http://www.npr.org/blogs/monke… I still re-listen to their review of the MTV Awards. Subscribe to it via NPR’s Culturetopia.)
Slate’s Culture Gabfest (Not better than the Pop Culture Happy Hour – completely different thing, and host Metcalf tends to get a bit purposefully polysyllabic, and I say that as one who was once in academia – totally depends on your tolerance/preference. I listen to both – PCHH makes me laugh, Culture Gabfast usually doesn’t – but I honestly have used recommendations from both.)
Extra Hot Great (If you’re a pop culture junky, like the odd television trivia quiz, and have ever enjoyed reading Television Without Pity, you should give this a try. Lots of snark. Involves multiple folk – counting the occasional guests – who write about television/pop culture for a living.)
WNYC’s RadioLab (Covers wide array of subjects, excellent sound mixing, which I can’t explain, you’ll have to listen. If you want to listen to one episode try The Ring and I. It’s about Wagner’s Ring Cycle – but even if you have zero interest in opera or Wagner, you’ll find this interesting. Star Wars and Bugs Bunny and Tolkien are mentioned. Link: http://www.radiolab.org/blogs/… )
Stuff You Missed in History Class (All the interesting stories you remember and some you never heard – fun choices of subjects. Some will force you to google for books to read.)
NPR Books Podcast (Compilation of all book reviews and stories on books/authors from NPR.)
NYTimes Book Review (Reviews of books, interviews with authors, discussion of book rankings.)
In Our Time (History but covered with a panel of experts. I really enjoy listening to a discussion of people who so obviously love their topic of study.)
On the Media (Reviews the week’s media stories, with an interview or two. Website is excellent for posting transcripts of each episode. http://www.onthemedia.org/ )
KCRW The Business (Hollywood business that is – behind the scenes information/interviews not on celebrities but on writers, directors, crew, lawyers, etc. Probably more interesting to me because I live in Southern California, and the industry effects us a bit differently.)
Filmspotting
Pop Culture Happy Hour
WNYC’s Radiolab
Stuff Mom Never Told You
BBC Scott Mills Daily
The Hollywood Saloon
WTF with Marc Maron
The Nerdist
The Smartest Man in the World Proopcast
Doug Loves Movies