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Let me tell you about a few good podcasts. Then, if you’re so inclined, suggest one of your favorites in the comments section below.
• This Week in The Economist. Go back and listen to last week’s episode, if only to hear a distinguished British gentleman discussing Anna Nicole’s “celebrated, American breasts, engineered by silicon to be as broad and bountiful as the prairie.”
• Grammar Girl. Because we as a society don’t talk enough about punctuation. A recent episode was all about semicolons; I’m almost afraid to use one here.
• 60-Second Science. Scientific American serves bite-sized helpings of science and technology news. I now know that you can tell a good surgeon by his Madden ‘07 prowess. Also, napping at work may not be good for your career, but it’s great for your health.
• Only in New York. Sam Roberts, metro reporter for The New York Times, tells stories you’ve probably never heard about the city. I recommend several NYT podcasts – Front Page, Most Emailed, Book Review, The Ethicist, and all the op-ed columns (those are subscription only). I almost cut The Times out of this list after they failed to deliver my Saturday paper for the fourth time in seven weeks. But Sam Roberts is not to blame.
Fire off your suggestions.
My favorite podcast is from Hays, Kansas’ local publication called The Stir. The podcast is titled Lights. Camera. AWESOME! and it’s three movie fans/critics talking/arguing about all things movie-related. It’s available on iTunes (search for Lights. Camera. AWESOME!) and on The Stir’s website www.thestironline.com. Check it out!
posted by Fan of The Stir on 2-27-2007 at 10:43 am
What about NPR’s ‘Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me’? And ‘Selected Shorts’ and ‘This I Believe’…NPR has so many good ones.
Also, BBC’s ‘From Our Own Correspondent’.
posted by septer on 1-11-2008 at 11:28 am
I just had this thread elsewhere -
Quirks and Quarks - CBC’s science show. Very good.
Smodcast - Filmmaker Kevin Smith’s extremely profane podcast. but its funny as ****
This Week in Tech - Leo LaPorte and his crew of zanies do a take on the weeks tech news.
GeeksOn - “A show created by Geeks, for Geeks”. found at www.geekson.com
NPR’s Wait, Wait… Don’t Tell Me! - awesome quiz show and my only regular source of news besides the daily show.
posted by Ack on 1-11-2008 at 1:09 pm
My apologies to striking WGA members -
“A Daily Show with John Stewart” not “The Daily Show”…
posted by Ack on 1-11-2008 at 1:09 pm
Can’t live without This American Life, WNYC’s Radio Lab, and of course, Wait, Wait . . . Don’t Tell Me.
posted by Patricia McMahon on 1-11-2008 at 7:20 pm
The only podcast I listen to is “The Ongoing History of New Music” with Alan Cross. It’s good for quick bits of interesting music trivia every few days.
posted by Katie on 1-13-2008 at 1:12 am
Definite ditto on ‘Radio Lab’ and ‘Quirks & Quarks’. Two other good podcasts from the CBC are ‘Search Engine’ and ‘Spark’. From the BBC, ‘In Our Time with Melvin Bragg’ ranges all over the philosophical, historical, and scientific spectra. I like comedy music and show tunes, so for the first I download ‘The Mad Music Show’ and for the other ‘On Broadway’.
posted by Edd on 1-13-2008 at 5:25 pm
Radio Lab is one of the best podcasts out there, check em out at radiolab.org
Also Science Friday on NPR and StoryCorps!
posted by Tim on 3-23-2008 at 9:26 am