After a “podluck” at the Academy of the Impossible on Thursday, I am inspired to share my podcast list – partly because I spend a lot of time listening to podcasts and sometimes people ask and so other people might be interested – and partly because I would like to know if there are any obvious missing ones for those that know me, or can make some assumptions from the below list.Leaves tips in the comments…
Theatre
- National Theatre (UK) [RSS] website
- Good interviews with people working at the National.
- 2amt Podcast [RSS] website
- Occasional posts from USA hashtag turned theatre movement.
- OAC podcast [RSS] website
- Some primers on grants
- The Traverse Theatre [RSS] website
- Occasional posts from the Traverse.
- Anne Bogart and SITI Company[RSS] website
- Very occasional posts from SITI.
Culture and ideas
- This American Life – NPR [RSS] website
- Classic.
- Radiolab – NPR [RSS] website
- Science show that is very very well edited.
- Spark – CBC [RSS] website
- Nora Young hosts one of the best CBC shows. About society and technology.
- Writers and Company – CBC [RSS] website
- Eleanor Wachtel is one of my favourite interviewers
- The Thing Is – NPR [RSS] website
- Alec Baldwin talks to interesting people.
- Planet Money – NPR [RSS] website
- This American Life spin off on money. Not revolutionary, but clear.
- On the Media – NPR [RSS] website
- USA media gets talked about by USA media.
- 99% Invisible [RSS] website
- Design and the world.
- Front Row – BBC [RSS] website
- Culture reporting from the BBC
- Arts and Culture from Nightwaves – BBC [RSS] website
- Interviews with people about things they do.
- In Our Time – BBC [RSS] website
- Smart British people talk history
- Decode DC [RSS] website
- Good politics. Not very frequently.
- Ideas – CBC [RSS] website
- Not as good as it was. Especially now that David Cayley retired.
- Roderick on the Line [RSS] website
- Merlin Mann and John Roderick weekly phone call. Might not help, but sometimes does and I like hearing friends talk.
- Savage Love [RSS] website
- Dan Savage talks about sex and relationships
- Studio 360 – NPR [RSS] website
- Interviews with artists and other people.
- Tapestry – CBC [RSS] website
- Religion and spirituality.
- Thinking Allowed – BBC[RSS] website
- British people talk about academic things.
- You Look Nice Today [RSS] website
- More Merlin Mann and friends. More comedy focused.
Entertainment/Research:
- The World Exists [RSS] website
- Roundtable storytelling. Funny and friends talking.
- Old Time Radio Drama [RSS] website
- What it says.
- Old Time Radio Comedy [RSS] website
- What it says.
- All Songs Considered – NPR [RSS] website
- Good music. I mostly listen to their year end, and that way, I’m only a year behind.
- The Truth[RSS] website
- Podcast radio drama or “movies for your ears”
Deep geekery in tech and work flows (I feel shy about sharing the depth of these. But I find this “how to work field interesting and have been a Mac geek for a while [previous geek posts])
- Back to Work – 5by5 [RSS] website
- Merlin Mann and Dan Benjamin talk, nominally sometime and sometimes more focused-like, about issues of working. Mostly for tech world, but I like.
- MacPower Users – 5by5 [RSS] website
- Mac geekery. Workflow episodes are my favourite.
- Systematic – 5by5 [RSS] website
- Brett Terpstra – crazy coder for the text people – talks to other people.
- Crossover – 5by5 [RSS] website
- 5by5 hosts talk.
- Let’s Make Mistakes [RSS] website
- Nominally about design.
- Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders – Stanford [RSS] website
- Fancy people talk about things. Sometimes good. Always a little troubling and telling
- The Talk Show [RSS] website
- John Gruber of Daring Fireball talks Apple and other gear/software stuff.
- Work Talk Show [RSS] website
- A new one. More on “how to work”
Oh and of course