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[WOM]

I'm really enjoying Philosophy Bites - free from iTunes or the PB website.

They're casual, fifteen minute chats with various philosophers/thinkers and hosts Nigel Warburton (Open University) and David Edmonds (Oxford).

Genuine philosophy buffs might find them a little light, but for the uneducated dabbler, they're great.

[evilC]

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TED

[linus]

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A lot of philosophy courses from Berkeley are open and available online, the one on Heidegger (Phil. 185) is pretty popular.

http://www.google.ca/search?q=uc+berkeley+philosophy+podcasts&sourceid= ie7&rls=com.microsoft:en-US&ie=utf8&oe=utf8&rlz=1I7HPIC_en

[jefe]

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BBC4 has a few good ones on iTunes. I liked their history of the world in 100 objects one.

[Anton Gramscescu]

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If you have 60 or so hours to spare, the History of Rome podcast is well worth a listen. The host has his irritating moments, but as an amateur effort, covering over 1000 years of history (we're into the 270s) in 130-odd episodes (to date), there's a lot to admire here.

[Stumpy Pepys]

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Dan Carlin's Hardcore History is a podcast I enjoy a lot. The three podcasts on the eastern front during WWII are particularly good.

They're casual, fifteen minute chats with various philosophers/thinkers and hosts Nigel Warburton (Open University)

When I first read that paragraph, I thought you'd written Nigel Winterburn.

[Ibn Pickthall]

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Now that would be a good podcast series. The philosophy of retired left-backs. I’d quite like to hear the episode on French existential thought, Camus & Sartre, hosted by Julian Dicks.

[evilC]

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The 'Audio' area of Archive.org has tons of stuff.

I can barely believe there's 7800+ items to do with the Grateful Dead up there, though! (And their presence there isn't a recommendation! ...Not from me, at least.)

[Andy C]

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My influence on this board hasn't half diminished.

[caja-dglh]

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evilC wrote:

TED

TED annoys me disproportionately.

[WOM]

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I get that. TED topics are fascinating. But the way that people present at TED seems to have fallen into a standard 'TED style' that's really starting to grate.

[Etienne]

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Interesting point, Andy. Do you think there was a tipping point?

[caja-dglh]

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Etienne wrote:

Interesting point, Andy. Do you think there was a tipping point?

Blink and you missed it.

[Andy C]

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Pah.

[WOM]

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You weren't glad...well...appreciative of his joke?

[Incandenza]

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Worn Old Motorbike wrote:

I get that. TED topics are fascinating. But the way that people present at TED seems to have fallen into a standard 'TED style' that's really starting to grate.

I also get annoyed with TED. After a while I start to wonder what the point is. Someone dared to criticize TED on a comment on Boing Boing, and everyone attacked him in outrage that someone could have anything bad to say about TED.

I wish I could like Radiolab--I really like their first few episodes--but god their production and editing style really annoys me.

[Ginger Yellow]

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I find Radiolab's subjects to be interesting enough that I can get over the production style, grating though it is.

I'm also a fan of Philosophy Bites, especially now that they've moved beyond necessarily shallow overviews of individual philosophers into discussions of particular questions.

Anyway, I won't recap my oft posted list of podcasts, but I will plug a new addition, Marcus de Sautoy's Brief History of Mathematics.

[linus]

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There is a good recent radiolab ep on goalkeepers. It might have been posted elsewhere on the forum but it`s worth putting up just in case:

http://www.radiolab.org/blogs/radiolab-blog/2011/feb/08/radiolab-presents-loneliness-goalkeeper/

[Ginger Yellow]

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The most recent one, on symmetry (which actually turns out to be about asymmetry, but anyway) is excellent.

[Auntie Beryl]

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The definition of "interesting" is open, of course, but I do appreciate The Word for music and The Bugle for comedy.

[Stumpy Pepys]

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Neil Tennant was on great form in the last Word podcast. The Danny Baker and Nick Lowe ones were also excellent.

[kugelrund]

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I’d quite like to hear the episode on French existential thought, Camus & Sartre, hosted by Julian Dicks.

Nice idea. But I doubt they've Evra spent any time studying, so they'd just churn out the usual Clichys.

[Crusoe]

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Any more recent suggestions on interesting podcasts? I'm fairly new to podcasts and so far I'm listening to:

Guardian Football Weekly
Radio 3 Late Junction Sessions
Radio 4 Infinite Monkey Cage
Radio 4 Kitchen Cabinet
Radio 5 Danny Baker Show

I'm unsure on Welcome To Night Vale - some good moments, some bits just seem to drag. Anyone know if that gets better or grows on you?

[Jimmy Bignutz]

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The Bugle - very funny topical podcast with John Oliver and Andy Zaltzman
Regular Features - surreal, sometimes puerile humour
An Irishman Abroad - great long-form interviews with notable Irish people
Second Captains - another football podcast (there's a sport one too) featuring Garcia from this board

[hobbes]

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Astronomy Cast
Recycled Electrons
Bugle
Anything by Richard Herring
DID
Life Scientific
Do the right thing
Pappys flat share slamdown