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Re: Ask HN: Favorite podcasts?

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Post by sranso »

DanBC wrote: post #35
tomkinstinch wrote: post #14

I get enough tech in my daily life, so I look to podcasts to enrich my life in other dimensions and teach me new things. Here are some of my favorites: * Cooking, food, and molecular gastronomy; Cooking Issues: http://www.heritageradionetwork.org/programs/51-Cooking-Issu... * Outdoor adventure; Dirtbag Diaries: http://dirtbagdiaries.com * Music and poetic music breakdown (uniquely well-suited to audio as a medium); S…

> I'd love to find a good fiction podcast, with either short form stories or episodic long form arcs in the fashion of old-school radio shows. Afternoon drama: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qrzz 15 Minute Drama (15 minutes per weekday, total 1hour 15mins per drama) http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qy2s Book of the week: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qftk Book at bedtime: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes…

The Truth http://thetruthpodcast.com/The_Truth.html is really good! You could start with http://thetruthpodcast.com/Story/Entries/2013/10/13_The_Talk.... Radiotopia in general is good for this kind of stuff.

Re: Ask HN: Favorite podcasts?

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Post by WCityMike »

I went through this thread and tallied up all the mentions, agreements, etc. -- here are the top 20 results:

Startup (11 mentions) - http://gimletmedia.com/show/startup/

This American Life (10 mentions) - http://www.thisamericanlife.org/podcast

99% Invisible (9 mentions) - http://99percentinvisible.org/

Radiolab (9 mentions) - http://www.radiolab.org/

Planet Money (8 mentions) - http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/

Invisibilia (7 mentions) - http://www.npr.org/programs/invisibilia/

Serial (7 mentions) - http://serialpodcast.org

Bugle (6 mentions) - http://thebuglepodcast.com/

Dan Carlin's Hardcore History (6 mentions)

EconTalk (6 mentions) - http://www.econtalk.org/

WTF with Marc Maron (6 mentions) - http://www.wtfpod.com/

Freakonomics (5 mentions) - http://freakonomics.com/category/freakonomics-radio/podcasts...

Skeptic's Guide to the Universe (5 mentions) - http://www.theskepticsguide.org/

Moth (4 mentions) - http://themoth.org/

No Agenda Show (4 mentions) - http://www.noagendashow.com/

StarTalk (4 mentions) - http://www.startalkradio.net/shows-archive/

Startups for the Rest of Us (4 mentions) - http://www.startupsfortherestofus.com/

The Truth (4 mentions) - http://thetruthpodcast.com/The_Truth.html

Upvoted by Reddit (4 mentions) - https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/upvoted-by-reddit/id9541...

Anything else was three mentions or less, but I'll likely put my spreadsheet up on Google Sheets.

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