[listening] What podcasts do you listen to?

Dom said:
Just finished the first of the BBC Lovecraft investigations The Case of Charles Dexter Ward. Set in the modern day as an investigative podcast explores the disappearance of Ward, it’s a great audio drama released in podcast format. Next up The Whisperer in Darkness.
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You are in for such a treat.
This is how I like my Mythos, underexplained and never quite resolved.
Watch out for Nicola Walker, she manages to do a great exposition dump by prefacing and epiloguing it with "of course this is all bollocks".
 
steveh said:
Yes, a real treat.

The author, Julian Simpson, has other audio plays set in the Pleasant Green universe, but don't look before you finish Innsmouth!

As several also star Nicola Walker, I think she must be one of his favourite actors.

I haven't listened to the Mythos trilogy yet, but I've only just found them online. (I don't think they were there when I was first found this site.)
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Thanks for those leads. Great fan of Nicola Walker's audio plays and the Charles Dexter podcasts. Off to go listen....
 
steveh said:
The author, Julian Simpson, has other audio plays set in the Pleasant Green universe, but don't look before you finish Innsmouth!
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He wrote a lot a of scripts for New Tricks and a fair few of them veered off into the occult and/or esoteric e.g. London Underground which investigates Iain Sinclair/Peter Ackroyd psychogeographical territory with a case connected to the subterranean River Fleet.
 
Guvnor said:
You are in for such a treat.
This is how I like my Mythos, underexplained and never quite resolved.
Watch out for Nicola Walker, she manages to do a great exposition dump by prefacing and epiloguing it with "of course this is all bollocks".
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I’m pretty certain you flagged it to me initially.
 
I was enjoying the recent Delta Green scenario Convergence episode of Fear of a Black Dragon podcast (currently my favourite gaming podcast) and the hosts mentioned Limetown, which I've started listening to. It's okay - an investigation into the mysterious disappearance of 300 men, women and children from Limetown in Tennessee.

I've just finished series 1, about to start on series 2.

It's okay, but not as good as the Pleasant Green stuff.

(And apparently, there's a novel and a TV series, which I didn't know about until I went hunting for the link for this post. The Guardian didn't think much of the TV series.)
 
The Slow Newscast seems good. The Lebedev episode was intriguing. Investigative journalism covering one story per week. https://overcast.fm/+oXTXqCMao

The Rest is Politics is also good. Rory Stewart and Alastair Campbell discuss politics and through in interesting back stories and experience. Both exiled from their parties, they don’t feel obliged to hold back on their opinions. I’m looking forward to to episode doing the Blair vs Boris how far can you go with the truth episode. Obviously current events feature highly. https://overcast.fm/+3wcwSI4zM
 
Currently listening to assorted Italian lessons (I find I need to devote at least 30 minutes a day to maintain the language, and more than that if I want to make any progress; podcasts are a very convenient way of doing that) and these, all of which I am really enjoying and recommend to the house.
  • Tale of the Manticore. Describes itself as a cross between solo B/X D&D actual play and a dark fantasy novel. This is making me think even more seriously about turning back to the OSR and the games of the '70s and '80s.
  • The Lone Adventurer. Solo actual play in a setting developed using Microscope; season one uses D&D 5th Edition, season two uses Blades in the Dark, both use Mythic GM emulator. Where it speaks to game mechanics at all, it speaks of Mythic.
  • Fathom. SF audio drama about a huge, mysterious artefact found on the ocean floor and the people sent to investigate it.
 
Dom said:
Susan Cooper’s The Dark is Rising is now live on the BBC and podcast platforms. One episode a day. It’s done very well.

https://overcast.fm/+9oynWvA_0
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Penultimate episode today. The sound on this is absolutely gorgeous. The Wild Hunt was summoned and the signs invoked, with the Dark put to flight. Even if you haven’t read the books, treat yourself to this series.
 
Dom said:
Penultimate episode today. The sound on this is absolutely gorgeous. The Wild Hunt was summoned and the signs invoked, with the Dark put to flight. Even if you haven’t read the books, treat yourself to this series.
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It's great, isn't it. Definitely one for headphones too. Really nice sound quality.
 
I've only started listening recently (due to a phone update!):

  • Empire - William Dalrymple and Anita Anand. First ~20 episodes cover the East India Company, and they have just started on Byzantium and the Ottomans.
  • Space Boffins - Space science
  • Supermassive - Izzie Clarke and Becky Smethurst cover astronomy research
 
I've just discovered Cautionary Tales, by the same fellow who does More or Less. This one looks at great mistakes and how they could have been avoided, and wanders into the supporting science.
 
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