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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& #39;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/ ">https://thedeadauthorspodcast.libsyn.com/">...
@DeadAuthorPod | http://thedeadauthorspodcast.libsyn.com/ ">https://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"> http://welcometonightvale.com
@NightValeRadio | http://welcometonightvale.com"> http://welcometonightvale.com
3. Alice Isn& #39;t Dead - A truck driver in her search across America for the wife she had long assumed was dead. Jasika Nicole& #39;s voice is ASMR on steroids.
@AlicePodcast | http://www.nightvalepresents.com/aliceisntdead/ ">https://www.nightvalepresents.com/aliceisnt...
@AlicePodcast | http://www.nightvalepresents.com/aliceisntdead/ ">https://www.nightvalepresents.com/aliceisnt...
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/ ">https://www.rabbitspodcast.com/">...
@rabbitspodcast | https://www.rabbitspodcast.com/ ">https://www.rabbitspodcast.com/">...
5. Everything Is Alive - Unscripted interviews with inanimate objects.
@ianchillag | https://www.everythingisalive.com/ ">https://www.everythingisalive.com/">...
@ianchillag | https://www.everythingisalive.com/ ">https://www.everythingisalive.com/">...
6. The Truth - Short, darkly funny movies for your ears.
@TheTruthFiction | http://www.thetruthpodcast.com/ ">https://www.thetruthpodcast.com/">...
@TheTruthFiction | http://www.thetruthpodcast.com/ ">https://www.thetruthpodcast.com/">...
7. The Allusionist - Wonderful adventures in language, with the wonderful Helen Zaltzman.
@AllusionistShow | https://www.theallusionist.org/ ">https://www.theallusionist.org/">...
@AllusionistShow | https://www.theallusionist.org/ ">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">https://www.bbc.co.uk/programme...
@OwenBennettJone | https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p05r6cgx">https://www.bbc.co.uk/programme...
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/ ">https://www.imaginaryadvice.com/">...
@rossgsutherland | https://www.imaginaryadvice.com/ ">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 ">https://nightvalepresents.com/withinthe...
@withinthewires | http://nightvalepresents.com/withinthewires ">https://nightvalepresents.com/withinthe...
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/ ">https://99percentinvisible.org/">...
@99piorg | https://99percentinvisible.org/ ">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/ ">https://videopalace.shudder.com/">...
@shudder | http://videopalace.shudder.com/ ">https://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">https://bbc.co.uk/programme...
@BBCRadio4 | http://bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02pc9pj/episodes/downloads">https://bbc.co.uk/programme...
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">https://www.nightvalepresents.com/adventure...
@NVPresents | http://www.nightvalepresents.com/adventuresinnewamerica">https://www.nightvalepresents.com/adventure...
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"> http://www.philosophizethis.org
@iamstephenwest | http://www.philosophizethis.org"> 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/ ">https://www.thebrightsessions.com/">...
@brightpodcast | http://www.thebrightsessions.com/ ">https://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& #39;s panel show & #39;QI& #39;.
@nosuchthing | https://audioboom.com/channel/nosuchthingasafish">https://audioboom.com/channel/n...
@nosuchthing | https://audioboom.com/channel/nosuchthingasafish">https://audioboom.com/channel/n...
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">https://www.bbc.co.uk/programme...
@MaritHigraff, @bbcworldservice | https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p060ms2h/episodes/downloads">https://www.bbc.co.uk/programme...
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">https://www.bbc.co.uk/programme...
@BBCMoreOrLess | https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qshd">https://www.bbc.co.uk/programme...
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/">https://wondery.com/shows/shr...
@opinion_joe | https://wondery.com/shows/shrink-next-door/">https://wondery.com/shows/shr...
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 ">https://www.nightvalepresents.com/dreamboy&...
@DreamboyPodcast | http://www.nightvalepresents.com/dreamboy ">https://www.nightvalepresents.com/dreamboy&...
22. The Missing Cryptoqueen - An eight-part series for BBC Sounds, exploring the mysterious circumstances under which one of Europe& #39;s richest, most influential women promised the world a financial revolution... and then went missing.
@BBCSounds | https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p07nklnm">https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/pl...
@BBCSounds | https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p07nklnm">https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/pl...
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 ">https://gimletmedia.com/shows/rep...
@replyall | https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all ">https://gimletmedia.com/shows/rep...
24. Story Tellers & Story Sellers - Creators, entrepreneurs, and marketeers engage in freewheeling conversations around the business of entertainment in India.
This one& #39;s close to my heart, and the first desi podcast on this list!
@ashcharyafuckit | https://ivmpodcasts.com/story-tellers-and-story-sellers">https://ivmpodcasts.com/story-tel...
This one& #39;s close to my heart, and the first desi podcast on this list!
@ashcharyafuckit | https://ivmpodcasts.com/story-tellers-and-story-sellers">https://ivmpodcasts.com/story-tel...
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">https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/p...
@macwrites | https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/panoply/the-message">https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/p...
26. Root of Evil - Sisters Rasha & Yvette, great-granddaughters of the alleged Black Dahlia murderer, deep dive into the Hodel family& #39;s fascinating, macabre history and the horrific secrets that ripple across its generations.
@RashaPecoraro | https://tinyurl.com/s3awt6z
https://tinyurl.com/s3awt6z&q... href="https://twtext.com//hashtag/TrueCrime"> #TrueCrime
@RashaPecoraro | https://tinyurl.com/s3awt6z
27. Throughline - Every headline has a history. From the complex racial history of the American census, to Savarkar& #39;s impact on present-day India, NPR& #39;s Throughline goes back in time to understand the present.
@throughlineNPR | https://www.npr.org/podcasts/510333/throughline">https://www.npr.org/podcasts/...
@throughlineNPR | https://www.npr.org/podcasts/510333/throughline">https://www.npr.org/podcasts/...
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 ">https://www.whisperforge.org/thefarmer...
@TheFarMeridian | https://www.whisperforge.org/thefarmeridian ">https://www.whisperforge.org/thefarmer...
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/ ">https://greaterbostonshow.com/">...
characters and stories that slowly interweave over time.
@InGreaterBoston | https://greaterbostonshow.com/ ">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& #39; deaths!
Eccentric, eclectic, and consistently hilarious.
@amelia_podcast | http://ameliapodcast.com"> http://ameliapodcast.com
Eccentric, eclectic, and consistently hilarious.
@amelia_podcast | http://ameliapodcast.com"> http://ameliapodcast.com
