Recently blasted through Untold : The Daniel Morgan Murder podcast
Thanks for the recommendation. Its appeal is similar to that of
Serial, which I assume most people here will have listened to already
(if not, highly recommended).
I'm a BBC whore:
A Point Of View, Start The Week, Infinite Monkey Cage, Front Row, Arts & Ideas, Thinking Allowed, The Media Show, In Our Time, Inside Science, The Film Programme, Friday Night Comedy, Kermode & Mayo, From Our Own Correspondent, Short Cuts, The Inquiry, The Forum, Analysis, Seriously/The Documentary, The Reith Lectures - but I'll make special mention of
More Or Less, which is the most valuable show the BBC produce.
When I'm not sucking on Auntie's tit, the
538 US politics podcast was intended to cover the 2016 election then disappear, but it's become a rational guide to the spiraling lunacy of the incumbent. I'm almost certainly the only person on Earth who
loves the
Bret Easton Ellis podcast, but I'll pimp it anyway. That guest list looks uninspiring, but Easton's the star.
Each show opens with an impossibly long monologue that bombards the listener with ideas and allusions delivered at the same speed as that old
lipsmackingthirstquenching ... Pepsi ad. Then you realise Easton's made his poor guest sit there while he perorates, battering them into submission for the rest of the show. It's basically a diary charting BEE's failure to make it in Hollywood.
Freakonomics is NPR's sister show to
More Or Less, and
TED Radio Hour/This American Life are great if you're okay with them pushing a social agenda in a voice that's a cross between Bill Lumbergh and Kermit. Pick of US factual shows is
Malcolm Gladwell's Revisionist History, which explains why we're stupid and keep on doing stupid things even when we know they're stupid.
My favourites are the terrifying
Toyota Brake Scandal and the whimsical story of why big, butch basketball players would rather be rubbish than
look like little girls.
