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Podcast Recommendations

pluk

pluk

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In the last couple of years podcasts have displaced music as my audio of choice while I'm driving or walking. There are a few I'm obsessed with and a few I dip in and out of, but with the amount of them out there I bet theres some good ones I'm missing out on.

Here's my recommendations, what do you guys listen to? Any good themepark based ones that aren't too dry or earnest, or 12 year olds guessing where Chessington are building a hyper coaster?

The Adam Buxton Podcast I know I'm not breaking news to anyone recommending pretty much the biggest UK podcast, but I can't say how much I utterly adore listening to Buckles. It's like a big audio hug, hitting a delicate balance between comedy, sincerity, and being informative absolutely perfectly. And the little audio inserts are incredible, even better with added Cyriak




Grounded with Louis Theroux No surprises that such a skilled documentary maker makes for an excellent interviewer, but even so its adtounding how relaxed and candid he manages to get his guests to be. If you are going to listen to one episode make it Sia. Emotional stuff.


Richard Herrings Leicester Square Theatre Podcast For new listeners the volume of in jokes and deliberate self indulgence from Herring might make it hard to get into, but it's worth it. Excellent comedy guests, consistently hilarious.


Off Menu James Acaster can do no wrong in my eyes. The format of guests picking their ideal meal might already be starting to feel a bit tiered and repetitive on weaker guest weeks, but the slower ones are worth it find the gems.
 
Big podcast fan here, I too listening to far more than I do music, but I much prefer the storytelling ones - have enjoyed Grounded but did struggle to get to the end of some of the episodes. Most of what I listen to is crime or politics based.

It feels like the format is suffering a little bit, in part because it's so easy to create one, but also because instead of it being indie as it originally was, a lot of big organisations are now leading the way. Something I was listening to recently advertised a new one that Barclays had started, with Warwick Davis speaking to business leaders. It sounded like satire, but seemingly not.

The Missing Crypto Queen - probably the scam of our generation, brilliantly researched and produced by Auntie
https://play.acast.com/s/themissingcryptoqueen

The Teacher's Pet - investigation into a disappearance that shook things up enough for arrests
https://play.acast.com/s/theteacherspet

The Political Party - best political interviews and great stand up too. Part of a monthly comedy night which is also great.
https://play.acast.com/s/politicalparty

Swindled - scams, well researched and told with no dearth of sarcasm
https://play.acast.com/s/swindledpodcast

This Sounds Serious - season 1, the best tale of a long journey or walk (don't read anything else)
https://play.acast.com/s/this-sounds-serious

Every current UK theme park one I have tried makes me die a little inside.
 
Due to lockdown meaning I am working from home, Podcasts have become a big thing for me when out for a walk too.

Current favourites are (and several of these are quite American)

Twenty Thousand Hertz (20k.org) - Fascinating stories about sounds, I liked the history of the Netflix Ba-Dum, how the sound effects on Star Wars were made and more fascinating facts.

Proof Podcast | America's Test Kitchen - I've only listened to a few episodes but some good histories of American food.

Must Watch - TV reviews and general TV chat. Its just nice to listen to regularly, not that insightful but has helped me find a few new TV shows.

Rule of Three podcast - just got into this one this week, Found it via a recommendation of the episode with Charlie Brooker talking about the film Airplane. Now listening to Dara O'Brian talk about Eddie Izzard's Definite Article show, its great hearing how good comedy should be done.


I used to listen to Disney podcasts abut 15 years ago (on an actual iPod!!) but they were just people chatting for an hour. I'd rather speed read theme park news nowadays.


Thanks everyone for the recommendations too, I will try a few, Off Menu sounds good and Crypto Queen might be interesting, I've not got into series type Podcasts before.
 
If you happen to like comedy songs and general inanity, then you might like The Horne Section Podcast, as seen on Cats Does Countdown, The Last Leg and Taskmaster. They have a different celebrity guest joining in each episode, sing a number of unique, original songs and play silly games throughout. It's just a lot of fun really. :)
 
My usual weekly ones are

Wittertainment - Mayo and Kermode, the BBCs flagship film programme. Somehow entertaining even if you've no real interest in films.

Empire Film Podcast - A usually weekly show again with them discussing and reviewing the weeks films

Kermode On Film - Mark Kermode basically just having a chat with this weeks guest

Office Ladies - An ongoing weekly series were two of the cast of the US office discussing each episode, what it was like to film. Usually they get on people who were involved in the episode/series as well.

As a Liverpool fan I'll usually listen to The Red Agenda and The Anfield Wrap

For theme parks, as mentioned above finding a UK one has been difficult. Such a difficult subject to do really, I've got a weekly radio show and very rarely do I discuss that hobby.

I enjoy the coaster bot podcast mainly because the shows have a weekly topic and the occasional guest.

Recently tried the US based In The Loop as well.
 
Burbs said:
If you happen to like comedy songs and general inanity, then you might like The Horne Section Podcast, as seen on Cats Does Countdown, The Last Leg and Taskmaster. They have a different celebrity guest joining in each episode, sing a number of unique, original songs and play silly games throughout. It's just a lot of fun really. :)
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Yes! The Horne Section is one of my absolute favourites, forgot about it as it's currently between series. The volume of quality material they burn through in the podcast is frightening, so much talent.

I nearly crashed my car the first time a heard this...
 
I regularly listen to the How to Survive podcast. It's a different film each week, often horror or horror-adjacent, though episodes are less regular these days. They're a couple of British guys who do a synopsis, general thoughts on the film, and then discuss how they would survive if they were in the film.
 
Theme park podcasts are very hit-and-miss I find. I’ve listened to In The Loop for years though - very enjoyable if you’re looking for more informal theme park chatter. Also recommend reviewtyme for more Disney-centric content.

Aside from parks, my big interests are football, film and music. Not the Top 20 is brilliant for the former (certainly as a Norwich fan).

Films to be Buried With can be good - but that is largely dependent on the guest.

However, my biggest recommendation is The Soundtrack Show, which looks at the context and theory behind iconic film and game scores - most recently, the Legend of Zelda. The episodes on Morricone’s work with Leone are wonderful if you’re a fan of a western.
 
My Podcast listening is pretty niche - even for a roller coaster fan

I listen to wrestling Padcasts - all of the Conrad Thompson ones. But my favourite is the Eric Bischoff one 83 weeks.

However I came her to write That Peter Crouch Podcast. Ok I’m a football fan but this is real fun, comedic and informative. It’s becoming a British Institution
 
I listened to some of the recomendations on here.
I struggled to get too engaged with the Horne Show podcast, felt a bit to trying to be surreal funny and didn't quite hit the laughs.
The Soundtrack show about Zelda was kinda interesting but got a bit too technical at one point.
But the Off Menu episode with Sue Perkins was hilarious, it was really worth a listen so thanks for the recommendation on that, I will be trying some other Off Menu episodes.
 
jon81uk said:
I listened to some of the recomendations on here.
I struggled to get too engaged with the Horne Show podcast, felt a bit to trying to be surreal funny and didn't quite hit the laughs.
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I don't know how far you went back, but I think The Horne Section podcast has struggled more than others from lockdown restrictions, hard to get the music aspect together properly over zoom call. It can always be pretty surreal and daft though, so not for everyone.

I've started listening to Stuart Goldsmiths The Comedians Comedian, goes into the structure of comedy, how sets are created and evolve, and how the business works. Really interesting as well as funny.
 
Alright the firm.

Been struggling to find a new podcast to get into recently. Wondering if anyone would like to suggest any. I tend not to listen any involving already famous, as the true heart of a podcast is in the amateur productions.

Living with Madeley:- two middle age blokes. Talking about old tv.

Cane and rinse:- sound gaming podcast with old titles that even I played.

Waffle on:- film review podcast with brummie.

Chained dogs:- ive struggled to find a decent theme park podcast. Theses have nailed a decent tone.

WDW radio:- be careful with this as it can get a bit to up disneys arse.

British sitcom history:- sound one about sitcoms from the past.

That's it for now. Any suggestions are greatly appreciated.
 
Sequelisers. An utter joy to listen to. Ashens is the most famous on there (when he's on, mostly first 3 seasons)
 
Horne Section Podcast - if you enjoy general inanity and comedy songs (hosted by TV's Alex Horne and his band who have appeared on a few shows too). Although maybe this goes against your brief for avoiding celebs.

The Black Tapes - an American paranormal podcast featuring a woman called Alex investigating unsolved mysteries. It is fiction but designed to sound like a real documentary. It's very good and quite scary in places!

My Dad Wrote A Porno - although not my favourite it is good fun to dive in and out of occasionally if you enjoy crude humour. I did get a bit bored by the end of season 1 as it is all the same humour throughout. How they've managed 4 or 5 seasons of it I don't know, but as I say, it is a fun listen every now and then.
 
20 thousand Hertz is fascinating about sound effects, sound design, sonic branding and all sorts of nerdy sound things. The episode on Netflix's Ba-dummm is how I found it.

TV Show and Tell is also quite nerdy but full of fascinating behind the scenes stuff about TV (mainly gameshows and similar).

Off Menu with Ed Gamble and James Acaster is sometimes fun, particularly when the guests choose niche items for their dream menu.

On BBC Sounds (so not really a podcast just a Radio 4 documentery) I enjoyed Unreal, a history of reality TV, looking back at Jade Goody and early Big Brother was fascinating and nostalgic.

If you watch Inside No 9 on BBC2 then the accompanying show on BBC Sounds, Inside Inside No9 is also great, just half hour of Steve & Reece talking about that weeks episode.

Wild Things about Siegfried and Roy was quite interesting, although not sure it actually answered many questions it was still interesting.
 
A few good recommendations here already...

Thread 'Podcast Recommendations' https://towersstreet.com/talk/threads/podcast-recommendations.5684/

Slugjc said:
I tend not to listen any involving already famous, as the true heart of a podcast is in the amateur productions.
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I'm not sure about that. Just because someone is already famous doesn't mean their content should be any less worthy if the quality is there.

If you look at someone like Richard Herring, he's already a famous comedian, but his content is effectively amateur being pretty much self funded and produced. Same as Bob Mortimer. The creative freedom low production costs give is what makes the medium exciting for me, regardless of prior stature.
 
pluk said:
A few good recommendations here already...

Thread 'Podcast Recommendations' https://towersstreet.com/talk/threads/podcast-recommendations.5684/



I'm not sure about that. Just because someone is already famous doesn't mean their content should be any less worthy if the quality is there.

If you look at someone like Richard Herring, he's already a famous comedian, but his content is effectively amateur being pretty much self funded and produced. Same as Bob Mortimer. The creative freedom low production costs give is what makes the medium exciting for me, regardless of prior stature.
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That's not what i was getting at. I have listned to RHLSTP (RHLSTP) since its birth as ive always liked Richard herring. Never listned to atheltico mince, but heard great things about it. For me, its the people sat in the bedroom doing it for the love that stand out more. Don't get me wrong, ive heard some terrible podcast. I downloaded a few of one podcast called hey.......... Do you remember, which was a film review podcast and my lord did i want to punch the host. He had been to film school and just criticised everything. Missed plot points, couldn't understand why english films had regional accents. Awful.

Lookin for that nicheness that celeb ones dont give you. Tv, film, gaming. Id love a podcast on public information films.
 
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