This seems like a good opportunity for people to recommend some excellent and well-researched podcasts for various topics.
"Hardcore History" by Dan Carlin is such an example and I wish it was easier to find other such podcasts of similar quality.
"Hardcore History" by Dan Carlin is such an example and I wish it was easier to find other such podcasts of similar quality.
* History of Rome: A narrative history of Rome from foundation to fall of the western empire
* Revolutions: A long series of various revolutions around the world (American, French, Haitian, etc. etc.)
* The British History Podcast: Chronological history of the British Isles, very detailed, hundreds of episodes in and the Normans have not showed up yet.
* When Diplomacy Fails: Covers various political/military events throughout history. Currently doing a deep dive on the Korean war.
* The China History Podcast: Episodes on all topics from Chinese history from ancient times to the Mao era
* The History of Byzantium: Picks up where History of Rome ended and continues the story until (theoretically) the fall of Byzantium.
* The History of England: Similar to British History, but moves at a far faster pace, currently in the reign of Henry VIII
There are of course many many more, but these are probably some of my favorites.
Shameless Plug: I create a podcast on the First World War called History of the Great War. I think it is pretty good, at least the more recent episodes.
* Norman Centuries - A Norman History Podcast by Lars Brownworth
* 12 Byzantine Rulers- The History of The Byzantine Empire
* The History of Rome
Maybe it's just the scope or ambition of the projects but things like a season Serial Podcast or the Byzantine/Norman podcasts I mentioned here are more like miniseries.
I've dabbled a bit in the "History of Japan" podcast but since I encountered some episodes that weren't accurate (although they weren't strictly about history), I've lost trust and stopped listening. Apart from that, the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" podcast is ok, albeit a bit too comedic at times for my taste.
Thanks for the other podcasts, by the way!
- "The Daily" by the NYT - High Quality, but it is skewed towards "liberal ideas".
- "Who? Weekly" - This is a weird one for this crowd, but it's 2 people who are deep into celebrity culture and it's fun to get outside of my depth.
- "Limited Resources" - MTG podcast with great in depth coverage of the limited format
- "S-Town" - Fun narrative podcast, that opened some ethical questions by the end, but I think would def make this crowd cry.
Our American Stories is really good http://www.ouramericannetwork.org
Art of Maniless https://www.artofmanliness.com/category/podcast/
SOFREP Radio https://sofrep.com/radio/
Also Twit TV has a bunch of good ones, video/audio formats. https://www.twit.tv/shows?shows_active=1
Both supports opml file that saves your subscriptions to the cloud. So you can sync on your devices.
Podcast addict supports youtube links also, both support video podcasts.
And why not use Itunes? Itunes likes to download all your podcast feeds, and can eat lots of disk space if you have many subscriptions, use a dedicated podcast app/program.
There's a few ads in the earliest episodes, but otherwise they keep it to the occasional "Hey ya freeloaders, go rate us on iTunes" at the start of the show.
Another underrated show is Masters of Scale[0] I know it's a little more techie based which might be too much for people trying to escape that reality while listening to podcasts but I've found it very informative and I highly recommend it.
These are all A+ Podcasts.