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Nearly Sane

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What are you listening to - podcasts etc rather than music itself
« on: July 04, 2023, 09:59:59 PM »
Catching up with the second series of Uncanny

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001kx1h
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Re: What are you listening to - podcasts etc rather than music itself
« Reply #1 on: July 05, 2023, 03:53:50 PM »
The Rest is History podcast is my current fave.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rest_is_History_(podcast)
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Re: What are you listening to - podcasts etc rather than music itself
« Reply #2 on: July 05, 2023, 09:57:32 PM »
I've been a bit of a podcast addict for a long time now.

Current favs are, and I access these using using the 'Pocket Casts' app on my phone. :

Detectives Don't Sleep (True Crime)

The Moth (people telling about their own life experiences in front of a live audience).

Radio Rental - mildly disturbing tales.

Legends of the Old West - history series for cowboy/western fans.

Infamous America - various historical and recent true events told over 5/6 episodes for each topic.

Unspooled - each episode is about a particular film.
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Re: What are you listening to - podcasts etc rather than music itself
« Reply #3 on: July 05, 2023, 10:19:34 PM »
Having caught up with Uncanny, I have moved onto the second series of Ladykillers with Lucy Worsley. It covers women who murder, in some cases allegedly, from Victorian times up to around 1930. I knew of most of the ones in series 1 though all interesting takes.

Series 2 starts with a case I was not familiar with - Christiana Edmunds - and it's an absolute stonker. I would to have liked to heard more clearly on the timing of actions, and a bit more on the her earlier life but in 30 minutes only so much can be covered.
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Re: What are you listening to - podcasts etc rather than music itself
« Reply #4 on: July 05, 2023, 10:36:39 PM »
Bad Women is rather good - by Halle Rubenhold.

The first series  (The Ripper Retold) is about the Jack the Ripper killings, but with the emphasis on the women who were killed. The second series, The Blackout Ripper, is about a serial killer in London during WW2, and again told from the perspective of the female victims.
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Re: What are you listening to - podcasts etc rather than music itself
« Reply #5 on: July 05, 2023, 10:44:09 PM »
Quote from: Gordon on July 05, 2023, 10:36:39 PM
Bad Women is rather good - by Halle Rubenhold.

The first series  (The Ripper Retold) is about the Jack the Ripper killings, but with the emphasis on the women who were killed. The second series, The Blackout Ripper, is about a serial killer in London during WW2, and again told from the perspective of the female victims.
The Five, Rubenhold's book on which the first series is based, is excellent.
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Re: What are you listening to - podcasts etc rather than music itself
« Reply #6 on: July 06, 2023, 01:59:58 AM »
Quote from: Nearly Sane on July 05, 2023, 10:19:34 PM
Having caught up with Uncanny, I have moved onto the second series of Ladykillers with Lucy Worsley. It covers women who murder, in some cases allegedly, from Victorian times up to around 1930. I knew of most of the ones in series 1 though all interesting takes.

Series 2 starts with a case I was not familiar with - Christiana Edmunds - and it's an absolute stonker. I would to have liked to heard more clearly on the timing of actions, and a bit more on the her earlier life but in 30 minutes only so much can be covered.

Just to note that one of the cases discussed, Jane Toppan,  is the inspiration behind fiction The Art of Dying by Ambrose Parry (pseudonym for the writer Christopher Brookmyre and his wife Marisa Haetzman, writing as a pair) and second in as a series of currently 4 set in Victorian Edinburgh). I can recommend them.
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Re: What are you listening to - podcasts etc rather than music itself
« Reply #7 on: August 15, 2023, 06:23:39 PM »
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Re: What are you listening to - podcasts etc rather than music itself
« Reply #8 on: August 16, 2023, 06:45:03 AM »
I've been enjoying this fairly new podcast.

https://www.noiser.com/detectives-dont-sleep
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Re: What are you listening to - podcasts etc rather than music itself
« Reply #9 on: August 20, 2023, 04:52:22 PM »
Listening to these on Audible. The young Rumpole stories are a joy. The casting across the board excellent

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Rumpole-Radio-Collection-Full-Cast-Dramas/dp/B0BBMT8TH5
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Re: What are you listening to - podcasts etc rather than music itself
« Reply #10 on: August 20, 2023, 05:07:29 PM »
I listened to this the other night and loved it, despite the time of year. Fans of Santa may be surprised!

https://campfireradiotheater.podbean.com/e/the-bones-of-saint-nicholas/
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Re: What are you listening to - podcasts etc rather than music itself
« Reply #11 on: October 13, 2023, 03:36:41 PM »
A series on the films of Powell and Pressburger, the first is on The Red Shoes which is on BBC2 tomorrow afternoon.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03bfm1f
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Re: What are you listening to - podcasts etc rather than music itself
« Reply #12 on: December 05, 2023, 05:38:00 PM »
Was catching up with the latest series of Uncanny and a weird thing happened. When listening to it, it finishes the episode and then goes onto the next one, except for one , the second where it decided to go to a reading of Cranford!
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Re: What are you listening to - podcasts etc rather than music itself
« Reply #13 on: December 27, 2023, 10:18:22 AM »
Odd little series where a 'celebrity' selects a group of dead celebrities and then has a notional dinner party with them with old interviews stitched together. Can't make up my mind about it.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand/b0b6tfdc
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Re: What are you listening to - podcasts etc rather than music itself
« Reply #14 on: January 08, 2024, 02:26:05 PM »
Bern listening to these on Apollo 11 and 13


https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p076bhsv
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Re: What are you listening to - podcasts etc rather than music itself
« Reply #15 on: January 08, 2024, 02:47:11 PM »
Been re-listening to Mike Duncan's 'The History of Rome' - quite old now but still good.

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-history-of-rome/id261654474



and also to this - which returns with some new episodes this month.

https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/detectives-dont-sleep/id1669716123


Both these can be got for free on various podcast players - I use Pocket Casts, which you can get for Android, Windows etc

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Re: What are you listening to - podcasts etc rather than music itself
« Reply #16 on: January 13, 2024, 09:13:10 PM »
Interesting series on BBC Sounds - Uncharted witb Hannah Fry looking at data analysis, and graphs behind major stories.


https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand/m001qw8x
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Re: What are you listening to - podcasts etc rather than music itself
« Reply #17 on: March 26, 2024, 01:50:40 PM »
Enjoying those reading of The Wind In The Willows

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/series/p07snwbt
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Re: What are you listening to - podcasts etc rather than music itself
« Reply #18 on: April 28, 2024, 05:02:27 PM »
Listening to Rory Kinnear reading the Hawthorne and Horowitz books. Enjoyable if a little odd


https://www.anthonyhorowitz.com/books/list/series/hawthorne-horowitz
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Re: What are you listening to - podcasts etc rather than music itself
« Reply #19 on: June 03, 2024, 01:34:03 PM »
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Re: What are you listening to - podcasts etc rather than music itself
« Reply #20 on: June 07, 2024, 01:10:37 PM »
Been listening to Sally Rigby's Sebastian Clifford books. A little clichéd but enjoyable


https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57483844-web-of-lies
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Re: What are you listening to - podcasts etc rather than music itself
« Reply #21 on: June 07, 2024, 01:41:27 PM »
At the moment I'm on an Internet Radio on Mechanical Music radio...Fairground organs, pianolas and the like.
It brings in podcasts too. David Symonds History of Capital Radio from global.
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Re: What are you listening to - podcasts etc rather than music itself
« Reply #22 on: June 29, 2024, 02:00:51 PM »
Listening to 5 Red Herrings radio adaptation of the Dorothy L Sayers novel, with Ian Carmichael as Lord Peter Wimsey.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_Peter_Wimsey_(radio_series)
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Re: What are you listening to - podcasts etc rather than music itself
« Reply #23 on: August 17, 2024, 10:19:47 AM »
Joan Armatrading on Rosetta Tharpe

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0021wxt
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Re: What are you listening to - podcasts etc rather than music itself
« Reply #24 on: September 29, 2024, 12:24:29 PM »
Enjoyed Adrian Edmondson on Desert Island Discs


https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0023qbc
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