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rf_fozzy May 2021 12:00am, 8 May 2021 14,256 posts	Quote Pin rf_fozzy Basically what it says on the tin. What speech radio/podcasts and similar are you listening to? Recommendations with links!
rf_fozzy May 2021 12:03am, 8 May 2021 14,257 posts	Quote Pin rf_fozzy At the moment, I'm listening to "the Lovecraft investigations" on the BBC. (Here: bbc.co.uk ) It's HP Lovecraft meets Serial and updated for the 21st century. Its very good!
rf_fozzy May 2021 12:05am, 8 May 2021 14,259 posts	Quote Pin rf_fozzy (I seem to have accidentally duplicated this thread. Please use this one and I'll ask Fetch nicely to delete the other).
fetcheveryone May 2021 5:55am, 8 May 2021 26,028 posts	Quote Pin fetcheveryone There’s an existing thread for podcast recommendations too: fetcheveryone.com/forum/what-podcasts-do-you-listen-to-59560/
GordonG May 2021 9:17am, 8 May 2021 8,562 posts	Quote Pin GordonG i sometimes splurge on true crime podcasts but they soon get very formulaic and have about 30% too many episodes.
rf_fozzy May 2021 9:59am, 8 May 2021 14,261 posts	Quote Pin rf_fozzy In that case fetch, you can delete this thread. It's a bit odd though that that thread didn't appear in the list when I searched for "podcast" in the search bar ("find threads")
HappyG(rrr) May 2021 2:07pm, 12 May 2021 38,680 posts	Quote Pin HappyG(rrr) I've added a tag Fetch, so now they all come up in the Related Links box too >>> G
Dooogs May 2021 8:57pm, 13 May 2021 6,627 posts	Quote Pin Dooogs I've about 20 or so on the go (about 30 if you include probably-defunct ones): a handful of favourites are: * Boars, Gore & Swords - used to be a Game Of Thrones podcast, now more about sci-fi and fantasy TV in general: * Welcome To Night Vale - has it's own Fetch thread already: community radio from a desert town where all the conspiracy theories (not involving elections) are actually true: * Our Plague Year: from the co-writer of WtNV, an occasional set of voicemails and reflections on the pandemic and how individuals are (not) coping; * Guardian Politics Weekly - does what it says on the tin: one of the few Graun podcasts that hasn't folded; * How's Work?: two colleagues talk about their work lives with a psychotherapist (different pair every week). Much less lame than it sounds.
rf_fozzy May 2021 10:53pm, 13 May 2021 14,358 posts	Quote Pin rf_fozzy Interesting. I've been listening to meet David Sedaris on catch up. And the new series of John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme. Its a bit different to the previous ones due to lockdown, but still managed to crowbar in a "since you asked me..."
Dooogs May 2021 11:20pm, 13 May 2021 6,631 posts	Quote Pin Dooogs I like JF a lot- but I ditched the BBC Comedy of the Week podcast (not the Friday one) a year or two back because of just how piss-poor the average/median standard of the sitcoms were...