Hare gew.

Right, these are in no order of priority, just the order that they occur to me. i am grouping them though, roughly. This took a while.

Comedy

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Brendon Burns' Dumb White Guy. He's a controversial comedian, but very funny imo. The original premise of the show is him talking to Black and Minority Ethnic people about comedy, and asking "Dumb White Guy questions" but recently he's been talking exclusively to women. He also mixes in loads of his live stand-up. Check out specifically the episodes with Craig Quartermaine. User Posted Link

The Bugle. Andy Zaltzman's podcast, with a short recurring roster of comedian guests. Current affairs and bulls**t, very funny. Often cricket. User Posted Link

Greg Proops' The Smartest Man In The World. Live stand-up, anecdotes and lefty hectoring. I love him. User Posted Link

Richard Herring's Leicester Square Podcast. Childish, but funny. User Posted Link

Drama

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arsParadoxica - clever time travel scifi story. User Posted Link

The Message/LifeAfter. Clever and well produced sci-fi dramas. Season one (about 8 episodes is The Message, season 2, about 10 episodes is LifeAfter). I binged these recently and LOVED them. Very Black Mirror (in fact LifeAfter borrows an actual Black Mirror set-up and does something different with it: User Posted Link

Deadly Manners - 1920/30s art deco murder mystery set in the US, high camp, I enjoyed it. Ru Paul is in it, as it her off of The Good Place.
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The Reservoir Tapes. Off the BBC. Companion piece to Jon McGregor's novel Reservoir 13, but you don't have to have read that, and it doesn't spoiler it off. 15 short stories all told about the disappearance of a girl in rural Derbyshire. Very good. Excellent acting. User Posted Link

Levar Burton Reads. Ronseal. Levar Burton (Geordi LaForge off of the Star Treks) reads a short story. I could listen to him read a telephone directory. User Posted Link

Love In Recovery. BBC comedy drama, excellent cast (Rebecca Front, Dennis Pennis) funny and touching. User Posted Link

History

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Dan Carlin's Hardcore History. Long episodes, but compellingly told history. User Posted Link

Slate's Slow Burn - a podcast about Watergate. I *loved* this. Being aware of Watergate in broad terms but not knowing the details, the parallels between then and now were shocking. "The truth is these aren't smart guys, and things got out of hand." User Posted Link

Crimetown - a history of mafia criminality, politics and the intersection of those, in Providence, Rhode Island. Really good. Well told. User Posted Link

Malcolm Gladwell's Revisionist History. My all-time favourite podcast, I think. Gladwell looks at bits of history that haven't really had the attention they deserve. User Posted Link

Misc.

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Bookshambles. Robin Once, Josie Long and a guest chat s**t about books. User Posted Link

Ear Hustle. Love this. It's made entirely by inmates of San Quentin prison in California (plus one visiting volunteer), actually inside the prison. User Posted Link

The Last Podcast On The Left. My current favourite. Three American lads discuss unpleasantness - serial killers, horror movie tropes, that kind of thing. Irreverent, crude, very very funny. User Posted Link

Lore. Exploring the real stories behind folklore tales and whatnot. Short episodes. User Posted Link

20,000 Hertz. About aspects of sound. Sound in movies, weird aural phenomena, sounds animals make, importance of sound in societies, advertising, psychology. All that. Very interesting. User Posted Link

99% Invisible. Ostensibly a podcast about design, but really a podcast about everything, because design is an aspect of everything (a mostly invisible one, hence the name) User Posted Link

S-Town. Brilliant storytelling about a town in the Deep South, and one very odd resident. User Posted Link

Criminal. About crime. Ronseal. Very good. User Posted Link

What Trump Can Teach Us About Con Law. This is excellent. It's not at all lefty handwringing about Donald Trumpet, it's a primer on American Constitutional law, which unbelievably is much more interesting than you'd imagine, and how Trump makes things interesting by absolutely refusing to follow convention. And so much of the American constitution depends on convention being followed, and loads of actually important stuff is actually untested in court. User Posted Link

Marathon Talk. Probably only of interest if you're runny, but if you are it's terrific. Magazine show about, well, running. User Posted Link

True Crime Garage. Two merkin lads sit in a garage drinking beer and talking about real-life crime stories. A new story every week. User Posted Link

Posted By: Arizona Bay on April 4th 2018 at 18:49:50

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