Podcasts Wot OTF People Are Listening To And Recommend

[ursus arctos]

I have used PocketCasts for yonks, but honestly don't know how it works on the web because I have never used it as such.

If you are otherwise committed to the Spotify and/or Amazon Music ecosystems, it would be worth looking at those.

Podcast Addict also seems to have significant market share.

[ad hoc]

I use podcast addict. Does everything I need it to, and seems easy to learn (and as an added bonus never asks you to rate either it or the podcasts themselves)

[Jobi1]

I'm a PocketCasts person too, but I only ever use it on mobile so not sure what it's browser compatibility is like.

[Furtho]

Re: PocketCasts, it looks like syncing with the web version is only available for paid subscribers (which for me may actually be worth it, as I often switch between my phone and laptop). Thanks for the suggestions, more welcome.

[diggedy derek]

The In The Dark team have done a podcast about the Dubai Royal Family’s abuse and imprisonment of Latifa and her sister. It’s more conventional than In The Dark but some of the reporting eg interviews with sex workers are I think new. It’s still an important story, of course, with no happy ending as yet

https://www.newyorker.com/the-runaway-princesses

[ursus arctos]

Search Engine, from a former host of Reply All

https://www.audacy.com/podcast/search-engine-c67a8

[Tony C]

I’m listening to back editions of ‘Career We Go’ a football trivia quiz podcast with questions of sufficient challenge as to be considered OTF appropriate. It’s compulsive.

[diggedy derek]

Search Engine, from a former host of Reply All

https://www.audacy.com/podcast/search-engine-c67a8

Thanks for that sounds interesting.

I'm really enjoying Maeve Mcclenaghan's podcast The Tip-Off again. It's got a great and very moving two-part episode about how the Jimmy Savile story broke. Often the stories of how these stories broke, from the journalists, is as gripping as the stories themselves, certainly so with the Savile case.

[Simon G]

I’m listening to back editions of ‘Career We Go’ a football trivia quiz podcast with questions of sufficient challenge as to be considered OTF appropriate. It’s compulsive.

Have been listening to it for a while - keeps my brain from thinking about how tired I am when I'm running.

[Tony C]

Tried the ‘Football Book Review Podcast’ and came away disappointed. Analysing footballers’ autobiographies seems such a fertile ground for getting laughs and the podcast’s premise felt like it had promise but the show is hosted by a group of (seemingly) young, giggling post grads with a particularly puerile line in banter. An opportunity lost (unless I just chose the wrong edition).

[ursus arctos]

The Flaming Hydra Round Table, a weekly roundup of some of the (generally excellent) articles published by a cooperative of about 60 journalists that publishes a wide ranging daily newsletter consisting of two columns a day

https://flaminghydra.com/podcast/

[Discordant Resonance]

Have discovered Iain Dale's Irish Taoiseach Podcast, in which each episode profiles one of the then 15 people to have held the title of head of the Irish government - rather wisely, the LBC DJ restricts his contribution to asking questions deriving from his research, and allowing Irish academics/political commentators to do most of the talking:

https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR...XRhb2lzZWFjaC8

[diggedy derek]

The LRB have done a podcast series on the sinking of the Belgrano, which is very good indeed. Presented by Andrew O’Hagan.

https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcas...y/id1736951748

[Ginger Yellow]

Looks like Matt Levine is turning his newsletter into a podcast. Not sure it will translate seamlessly, but of course he did notoriously get that quote about crypto staking from SBF.

[ursus arctos]

I like it (but then I would)

The ads are incredibly amusing, ranging from Apollo to a personal injury lawyer whose slogan is "Don't be a whiner. Turn your pain into payment."

[caja-dglh]

It is strange - I like it, but it is a little bit too close to odd lots. Even if Matt Levine is 20x smarter than Weisenthal.