Podcast list

[jwgh]

I just wrote this in a response to a post by donutgirl, but I thought it was worth posting the list of podcasts I listen to here too. I hope that some of these are of interest. If any of you listen to podcasts too and have any recommendations to make in return, please do!

So here's the list of podcasts I currently listen to:

Blank Label Comics Podcast (interviews with online comic folks; usually rambly and off-topic, which seems to work)

Escape Pod (science fiction stories)

Firesign Theatre (sketches, live recordings, etc.)

Mashup of the Week (OK, this is music)

On the Media (the NPR show)

Otaku Generation (a bunch of geeky people trading crude humor in a basement)

Quirks and Quarks (science news and analysis from Candian Public Radio)

Reel Reviews (movie reviews)

Seven Second Delay and other WFMU radio show podcasts (SSD is an 'experimental talk show' that I think is often pretty funny)

Slate Magazine podcasts (often about as annoying as Slate usually is, but sometimes interesting or noteworthy)

They Might Be Giants podcast (lots of music, also some other weird stuff; so far there has only been one episode)

War News Radio (Swarthmore College students talk to people in Iraq)

Comments

[sunburn.livejournal.com]

I'm looking forward to future TMBG podcasts-- the first one was great.

I've been gradually wading into BBC Podcasts, as it is my habit to listen to BBC radio while at work-- the drama and comedy stuff, that is, not because I'm that person who *knows* that the American Corporate Media is all controlled by Karl Rove. Here's the whole list of shows:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/downloadtrial/

But the best one I found so far is Mark Kermodes Film Reviews from BBC5 ("fivelive"), a live show talking about current movies-- they get email comments, but it's not a call-in (or as the brits would say, "talkback). The length varies because the podcast elides the actual film clips that they play, which can be kind of jarring when they refer to the contents of the clips. But, the hosts are not afraid to get wound up about good movies or bad movies, and they'll dish it out to anyone who writes in to complain-- pretty funny.

Also, being a british show, the reviews of current and soon-to-open films are a weird mix of stuff that's practically out on DVD over here, not yet here because it was made in England, or just out here as well. It's nice to get the advanced word on the English movies, even though the big-name ones manage a near-simultaneous release in the US and UK (just as the big-name American movies do).

[sunburn.livejournal.com]

Also, I was going to recommend the reasonably listenable "The Naked Scientists Show" from BBC ("stripping down scientists," or proof that Jamie Oliver is too big a media influence in the UK), but I just listened to an episode about UFOs and found the whole show to be quite credulous, and furthermore a response to a letter at the start of the show (on the topic of falling through holes bored through the Earth) got the science wrong. So, no link and nevermind the podcast.