A few days ago, somewhere in these over-lapping threads, @Heikki recommended the Weird Little Guys podcast.
Thank you. It’s very good. It’s not the usual podcast with two guys shouting into microphones and filling time by laughing at each other’s jokes. I can only take about 10 minutes of that. This was dense, informative and serious.
This isn’t for most people.
Away Days Podcast is an episodic documentary series focused on unreported stories from the fringes of society. We’re compassionately documenting the underground without watering it down or editorially obscuring it. This is independent journalism with no filter. Real, raw, and ugly. Journalist Jake Hanrahan, the host and creator of Away Days has spent the last 10 years embedded in places he’s not meant to be. With unique access and a straightforward style of on-the-ground reporting, the listener will be taken deep into the places they didn’t know existed.
Watch Away Days documentaries at
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/b09jf11d
BBC hasn’t cut off it’s radio from the rest of world yet. The idea that I will need a VPN to listen to BBC 4 Extra is fucked up been listen to that since it was called BBC 7.
I found out recently that another podcast i’ve been listening to for years is ending. Possibly not entirely shutting down but will probably come back as something different. Its the Questlove Supreme podcast.
So now i’m down 3 podcasts. I’ll need to look for replacements, my problem isn’t necessary finding something, there’s just too many to choose from but hopefully this weekend i’ll find some i like
No geofence yet…
Today I binged all of The Directed Detective. There are two hosts. Over the course of ten regular episodes on of them writes a murder mystery of a bit over six hours total. The other host does not know anything beyond what the reader has heard at any point and can assign a limited number of tasks to the protagonist detective, determining the course of the investigation and trying to solve the mystery. The writer then writes additional chapters between episodes based on the other host’s decisions which are explained as direction from the detective’s boss.
That was a really interesting format and very well executed.
The Empire Never Ended
Antifascist Amerikanski-Balkan podcast about (neo) fascist terror, the (deep) state and the alienation, nihilism and desperation produced by the capitalist system. And how to get rid of all that. Something like that.
A weekly podcast hosted by Boris Mamlëz, Fritz McAlinden and Rey Katula.
I just noticed that Nick Revell has some of his old radio shows on his website.
A series of contemporary comic tales that could almost be true. Anything can happen - and it probably will - when this master storyteller combines comedy with magic realism.
Nick’s character is a world-class procrastinator with slovenly habits. Work takes second place to eating at Craig and Shona’s cafe, and drinking at the local pub.
Originally broadcast on Radio 4 from Jan 1992
The Million Pound Radio Show was a long-running radio programme written by and featuring Nick Revell and Andy Hamilton that aired on BBC Radio 4 consisting of a series of sketches, interspersed with dialogue between the two.
In the last couple months I burned through the last seven years worth of the Loremen podcast, which is a comedy folklore (/mythology/ghost story/urban legend) podcast. One of the hosts is Alasdair Beckett-King, of funny Youtube video fame. (And I guess he was on some UK comedy tv shows, too.) Half folklore, half meandering comedy banter. Mostly UK-based stuff, but they occasionally move further afield or have guests who expand things out to other countries as well. (I started listening to some of the guests’ folklore podcasts, and it’s absolutely hilarious just how much folklore the UK has.)
Edit: I also really like the accent work and voices they do (some of which has spawned long-running jokes), though the funniest so far was when one host started to read something from the point of view of a 16th century Portuguese sailor, commented that he didn’t know how to do a Portuguese accent, and the other host said, “Do it in a Cockney accent, then,” and he did.