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Hi! As a huge fan of the medium, I spend so much time in my life (and on twitter) recommending and hyping the podcasts I love. So here's a consolidated (forever-growing) list of some of my favourites.
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1. The Dead Authors Podcast - Love time travel? Hate Jules Verne? Crave a seance with literary giants of the classic kind? This is the podcast for you.
@DeadAuthorPod | http://thedeadauthorspodcast.libsyn.com/
@DeadAuthorPod | http://thedeadauthorspodcast.libsyn.com/
2. Welcome to Night Vale - Community radio for a small desert town with a big heart. And even bigger secrets.
@NightValeRadio | http://welcometonightvale.com
@NightValeRadio | http://welcometonightvale.com
3. Alice Isn't Dead - A truck driver in her search across America for the wife she had long assumed was dead. Jasika Nicole's voice is ASMR on steroids.
@AlicePodcast | http://www.nightvalepresents.com/aliceisntdead/
@AlicePodcast | http://www.nightvalepresents.com/aliceisntdead/
4. Rabbits - Carly Parker searches for her missing friend Yumiko, and finds herself in the midst of a decades-old alternate reality game. Prepare for chills.
@rabbitspodcast | https://www.rabbitspodcast.com/
@rabbitspodcast | https://www.rabbitspodcast.com/
5. Everything Is Alive - Unscripted interviews with inanimate objects.
@ianchillag | https://www.everythingisalive.com/
@ianchillag | https://www.everythingisalive.com/
6. The Truth - Short, darkly funny movies for your ears.
@TheTruthFiction | http://www.thetruthpodcast.com/
@TheTruthFiction | http://www.thetruthpodcast.com/
7. The Allusionist - Wonderful adventures in language, with the wonderful Helen Zaltzman.
@AllusionistShow | https://www.theallusionist.org/
@AllusionistShow | https://www.theallusionist.org/
8. The Assassination - A 10-part investigation into the murder of Benazir Bhutto, including interviews with the accused. Produced by the BBC.
@OwenBennettJone | https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p05r6cgx
@OwenBennettJone | https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p05r6cgx
9. Imaginary Advice - Remarkably original collection of audio fiction that feels like a cross between a pop culture fever dream and an epiphanic 2am conversations with oneself.
@rossgsutherland | https://www.imaginaryadvice.com/
@rossgsutherland | https://www.imaginaryadvice.com/
10. Within the Wires - Exceptionally produced series of fictional audio guides. Each of the three (standalone) seasons is a fascinating deep-dive into a universe as magical as it is mundane.
@withinthewires | http://nightvalepresents.com/withinthewires
@withinthewires | http://nightvalepresents.com/withinthewires
11. 99% Invisible - Weird and wonderful tales about the design and development of everyday things; like Atlas Obscura for your ears. 99pi is consistently amazing, and every bit as entertaining as it is educational.
@99piorg | https://99percentinvisible.org/
@99piorg | https://99percentinvisible.org/
12. Video Palace - After watching an unmarked white VHS tape, Mark starts talking in his sleep in a language that doesn’t exist. His search for answers leads him and his girlfriend down the perilous path of the legend of Video Palace.
@shudder | http://videopalace.shudder.com/
@shudder | http://videopalace.shudder.com/
13. Friday Night Comedy (from BBC Radio 4) - Love British panel shows? Hate The Daily Mail? Bamboozled by the goings-on of Brexit? Friday Night Comedy brings you all the hot-takes and hilarity of Mock the Week, but for your ears.
@BBCRadio4 | http://bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02pc9pj/episodes/downloads
@BBCRadio4 | http://bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02pc9pj/episodes/downloads
14. Adventures in New America - Afrofuturistic, political satire, buddy comedy featuring... techy terrorist vampire zombies... from outer space... Mhmm.
@NVPresents | http://www.nightvalepresents.com/adventuresinnewamerica
@NVPresents | http://www.nightvalepresents.com/adventuresinnewamerica
15. Philosophize This! - A beginner-friendly look into some of academic philosophy’s most fascinating concepts and how they helped shape the world we live in. (I especially recommend the three-part series on Michel Foucault)
@iamstephenwest | http://www.philosophizethis.org
@iamstephenwest | http://www.philosophizethis.org
16. The Bright Sessions - A chilling sci-fi podcast that documents a group of therapy patients -- each with an amazing supernatural ability -- and their mysterious therapist, Dr. Bright. Very creepy, very captivating.
@brightpodcast | http://www.thebrightsessions.com/
@brightpodcast | http://www.thebrightsessions.com/
17. No Such Thing As A Fish - A hilariously informative weekly podcast for trivia nerds, produced and presented by the researchers behind BBC Two's panel show 'QI'.
@nosuchthing | https://audioboom.com/channel/nosuchthingasafish
@nosuchthing | https://audioboom.com/channel/nosuchthingasafish
18. Death In Ice Valley - A BBC World Service and NRK original podcast, investigating the death of the mysterious figure known only as The Isdal Woman against the complex political backdrop of Europe during the 70s.
@MaritHigraff, @bbcworldservice | https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p060ms2h/episodes/downloads
@MaritHigraff, @bbcworldservice | https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p060ms2h/episodes/downloads
19. More Or Less - This incredible show from BBC4 gets behind the numbers and statistics that appear in the news and in life, all backed with interesting and often eye-opening nuggets of research.
@BBCMoreOrLess | https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qshd
@BBCMoreOrLess | https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qshd
20. The Shrink Next Door - The story of a therapist’s psychological manipulation, crossing lines, and defrauding patients. Veteran journalist Joe Nocera asks what happens when a doctor-patient relationship turns into something much darker.
@opinion_joe | https://wondery.com/shows/shrink-next-door/
@opinion_joe | https://wondery.com/shows/shrink-next-door/
21. Dreamboy - Misadventures on Grindr, bizarre dreams, flickering lights, unexplained murders, creepy girl scouts, and a murderous zebra. Dreamboy is millennial storytelling doused in magical realism at its very best.
@DreamboyPodcast | http://www.nightvalepresents.com/dreamboy
@DreamboyPodcast | http://www.nightvalepresents.com/dreamboy
22. The Missing Cryptoqueen - An eight-part series for BBC Sounds, exploring the mysterious circumstances under which one of Europe's richest, most influential women promised the world a financial revolution... and then went missing.
@BBCSounds | https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p07nklnm
@BBCSounds | https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p07nklnm
23. Reply All - Deep dives for the digital age featuring hilarious, meme-riddled, yet movingly human stories about how we shape the internet, and how the internet shapes us.
@replyall | https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all
@replyall | https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all
24. Story Tellers & Story Sellers - Creators, entrepreneurs, and marketeers engage in freewheeling conversations around the business of entertainment in India.
This one's close to my heart, and the first desi podcast on this list!
@ashcharyafuckit | https://ivmpodcasts.com/story-tellers-and-story-sellers
This one's close to my heart, and the first desi podcast on this list!
@ashcharyafuckit | https://ivmpodcasts.com/story-tellers-and-story-sellers
25. LifeAfter - A thrilling, brilliantly produced and acted 10-part audio drama series that follows a recently widowed low level FBI employee who finds himself embroiled in a conspiracy WAY above his pay grade.
@macwrites | https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/panoply/the-message
@macwrites | https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/panoply/the-message
26. Root of Evil - Sisters Rasha & Yvette, great-granddaughters of the alleged Black Dahlia murderer, deep dive into the Hodel family's fascinating, macabre history and the horrific secrets that ripple across its generations.
@RashaPecoraro | https://tinyurl.com/s3awt6z
#TrueCrime
@RashaPecoraro | https://tinyurl.com/s3awt6z
#TrueCrime
27. Throughline - Every headline has a history. From the complex racial history of the American census, to Savarkar's impact on present-day India, NPR's Throughline goes back in time to understand the present.
@throughlineNPR | https://www.npr.org/podcasts/510333/throughline
@throughlineNPR | https://www.npr.org/podcasts/510333/throughline
28. The Far Meridian - The story of Peri, an agoraphobic young woman who lives in a lighthouse. Peri must face her fears when one day, her home starts to show up in a new location every day, spurring on a search for her missing brother.
@TheFarMeridian | https://www.whisperforge.org/thefarmeridian
@TheFarMeridian | https://www.whisperforge.org/thefarmeridian
29. Greater Boston - A surreal, cinematic, and impossible to describe audio drama set in an alternative universe version of Boston featuring a full cast of remarkably odd
characters and stories that slowly interweave over time.
@InGreaterBoston | https://greaterbostonshow.com/
characters and stories that slowly interweave over time.
@InGreaterBoston | https://greaterbostonshow.com/
30. The Amelia Project - A look into the workings of The Amelia Project, a mysterious agency that offers a very special service: Faking its clients' deaths!
Eccentric, eclectic, and consistently hilarious.
@amelia_podcast | http://ameliapodcast.com
Eccentric, eclectic, and consistently hilarious.
@amelia_podcast | http://ameliapodcast.com
