[listening] What podcasts do you listen to?

I’ve been listening to Intrigue (BBC Radio). It’s a series of investigative reports available as a podcast.

Season 1 - Murder at the Lucky Holiday Hotel - murder and conspiracy in China
Season 2 - the Ratline - Nazi escapes post WW2
Season 3 - Tunnel 29 - escape tunnels from East Berlin
Season 4 - Mayday - murder of James Le Mesurier, the founder of the White Helmets in Syria

I’m currently midway through season 4. They’re pretty fascinating.
 
The News Meeting by Tortoise is worth a listen. 3 journalists at Tortoise pitch the stories that they feel should lead the News. They analyse them and then their editor decides the run order and explains why. 30 min and fascinating.
 
The Hall of Blue Illumination. Advice and guidance on running a game in the Empire of the Petal Throne on Tekumel, and interviews with people who were part of the original groups in the 1970s and 1980s. Relaxed pace, plenty of interesting anecdotes and ideas, and the occasional revelation of deep secrets in the setting.

https://tekumelpodcast.com/episodes/
 
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Sablemage said:
The Hall of Blue Illumination. Advice and guidance on running a game in the Empire of the Petal Throne on Tekumel, and interviews with people who were part of the original groups in the 1970s and 1980s. Relaxed pace, plenty of interesting anecdotes and ideas, and the occasional revelation of deep secrets in the setting.

https://tekumelpodcast.com/episodes/
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I found it incredibly slow.
 
Sablemage said:
The Hall of Blue Illumination. Advice and guidance on running a game in the Empire of the Petal Throne on Tekumel, and interviews with people who were part of the original groups in the 1970s and 1980s. Relaxed pace, plenty of interesting anecdotes and ideas, and the occasional revelation of deep secrets in the setting.

https://tekumelpodcast.com/episodes/
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Didn't know about this one - thanks.

My List:

  • The Rest is Politics
  • The News Agents
  • Cautionary Tales (Tim Harford)
  • Super Massive (Astronomy and Astrophysics)
  • Everybody Wins
  • Opening the Way (Cthulhu Wars)
  • We Have ways of making you talk (WW2)
  • Leading
  • Imaginary Worlds
  • In Our Time
  • Space Boffins (Present past and future of Space Science)
  • Old Gods of Appalachia
  • Empire
  • The Rest is History
 
Sablemage said:
I find all podcasts incredibly slow and listen to most of them at 140% speed, usually while exercising or winding down for the night.
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I use 110%, mainly so the presenters don’t get too squeaky.
 
Dom said:
I use 110%, mainly so the presenters don’t get too squeaky.
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120% > I think any faster would make it cartoon like for me
 
Breakfast in the Ruins, originally concentrating on Michael Moorcock's fiction, but has expanded into 70s and 80s pulp generally. I've been listening to the episodes featuring crustacean bothering schlockmeister Guy N Smith. The presenters invariably get stuck into some strong drink and you can hear them slurring their words at times, but as is the way with drunken inspiration they do come up with the occasional piece of genius off kilter insight. Made me laugh quite a few times e.g. their interpretation of the crabs as being like an unruly gang of yobs.
 
What they *say* they'd do..
 
If you've enjoyed Julian Simpson's Lovecraft Investigations podcast, his Adritch Kemp and the Rose of Pamir is now on BBC Sounds.


I listened to it all yesterday on a long drive, and thoroughly enjoyed it. This is the third in the Aldritch Kemp series, and this time, Simpson doesn't so much as break the fourth wall as smash it into tiny bits. (There's a lovely section where Clara Page stops the narrative to berate Simpson - although it probably isn't to everyone's taste.)
 
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