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- Lemon Half
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Podcast recommendations
I like to listen to podcasts while walking my dog. I have been listening to various Spotify podcasts and have enjoyed Freakanomics and Great Albums on there.
I also use the BBC Sounds app and yesterday listen to Tunnel 29 which was a true story of a tunnel dug into East Berlin to help 29 people escape in the early 60s. Highly recommended.
Does anyone have any recommendations for podcast to listen to.
John
I also use the BBC Sounds app and yesterday listen to Tunnel 29 which was a true story of a tunnel dug into East Berlin to help 29 people escape in the early 60s. Highly recommended.
Does anyone have any recommendations for podcast to listen to.
John
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Re: Podcast recommendations
Can’t help on podcasts but the ‘Story of Tunnel 29’ is available via the BBC news app.
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Re: Podcast recommendations
redsturgeon wrote:Does anyone have any recommendations for podcast to listen to.
John
Well, since you asked.
Let's start with the BBC ones that I enjoy.
The Infinate monkey cage.
More or less
CrowdScience
The Inquiry.
Digital Planet
Books and authors
Moneybox
If you haven't listened to them then you could catch up on
50 things that made the modern economy.
13 minuits to the moon.
Given that this is a financial forum, how about
FT's money show
IC (Investors Chronicle)
Planet Money.
NPR do a podcast called
TED radio hour.
Econtalk is interesting and eclectic. Check out econtalk.org before deciding to subscribe.
Finally, if you are interested in SF authors then the Baen free radio hour is worth checking out. Again check the website before subscribing.
Ps, if you go for the lot then you are going to have a very tired dog.
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Re: Podcast recommendations
EconTalk. The best economics podcast I've found.
Run by Russ Roberts, who is a Chicago-Austrian school professor of economics. Weekly interviews since 2006.
Prof. Roberts has a wide range of interviewees about a variety of topics. Unlike many interviewers he lets them talk instead of continually interrupting them. Interviewees include several Nobel Prize winners, journalists to discuss sports (he likes baseball) and the man from whom he bought his car.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/EconTalk
https://www.econtalk.org/
I've learned more economics from EconTalk than in my MSc.
Run by Russ Roberts, who is a Chicago-Austrian school professor of economics. Weekly interviews since 2006.
Prof. Roberts has a wide range of interviewees about a variety of topics. Unlike many interviewers he lets them talk instead of continually interrupting them. Interviewees include several Nobel Prize winners, journalists to discuss sports (he likes baseball) and the man from whom he bought his car.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/EconTalk
https://www.econtalk.org/
I've learned more economics from EconTalk than in my MSc.
Re: Podcast recommendations
Cocaine and rhinestones - in particular the “Harper Valley PTA” episodes.
You don’t need to be a fan of Country or Western for these.
You don’t need to be a fan of Country or Western for these.
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Re: Podcast recommendations
Caliphate got me into podcasts.
My weekly listening:
Lineker and Baker: Behind closed doors
BBC radio 4 Friday night comedy
We have ways of making you talk
Mayo and Kermode film review
No such thing as a fish
But likely to be very personal tastes
DM
My weekly listening:
Lineker and Baker: Behind closed doors
BBC radio 4 Friday night comedy
We have ways of making you talk
Mayo and Kermode film review
No such thing as a fish
But likely to be very personal tastes
DM
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Re: Podcast recommendations
US based but I enjoy David Stein's Money for the Rest of Us and Paul Merriman's Sound Investing.
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Re: Podcast recommendations
redsturgeon wrote:I like to listen to podcasts while walking my dog. I have been listening to various Spotify podcasts and have enjoyed Freakanomics and Great Albums on there.
I also use the BBC Sounds app and yesterday listen to Tunnel 29 which was a true story of a tunnel dug into East Berlin to help 29 people escape in the early 60s. Highly recommended.
Does anyone have any recommendations for podcast to listen to.
John
Tunnel 29 is the third series of 'Intrigue' https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04sj2 ... /downloads
The ratline and murder in the lucky holiday hotel are just as good. I'd start with the ratline:
BBC Radio 4 presents a major new podcast in the Intrigue strand - The Ratline, presented by barrister and writer Philippe Sands.
The Ratline is an investigation into Otto von Wächter, a senior Austrian Nazi indicted for mass murder, who escaped justice after the war.
Over ten episodes Sands uncovers remarkable new evidence about what exactly happened to Otto von Wächter leading up to his unexpected death in 1949. Accompanied by Wächter’s son Horst, Sands embarks on a journey that goes right to the heart of ‘the ratlines’, the post-war Nazi escape route out of Europe, and tries to discover the circumstances of Otto’s death in Rome.
The Ratline is a story of life and love, murder, denial and a curious death.
- https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/lates ... ne-podcast
Because you listened to Freeakonomics: Econtalk, 50 things that made the modern economy, the Journal, planet money, behind the money, FT alphachat, trade talks.
Because you listened to Tunnel 29: Serial, Bundyville, Caliphate, embedded
...and just because: 99% invisible, no such thing as a fish.
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Re: Podcast recommendations
Thanks for all the responses...that should keep me busy for a while, brilliant.
Unfortunately I will tire out before the dog!
John
Unfortunately I will tire out before the dog!
John
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Re: Podcast recommendations
redsturgeon wrote:I like to listen to podcasts while walking my dog. I have been listening to various Spotify podcasts and have enjoyed Freakanomics and Great Albums on there.
I also use the BBC Sounds app and yesterday listen to Tunnel 29 which was a true story of a tunnel dug into East Berlin to help 29 people escape in the early 60s. Highly recommended.
Does anyone have any recommendations for podcast to listen to.
John
Listened last night, very well done indeed. Thx for that. It was an Ominbus edition so heard the first part. 2nd part next week..will try out the others as well.
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Re: Podcast recommendations
Some good suggestions above.
I am listening to The Anglo-Boer War by Des Latham. There are 112 episodes (so far) of 25 minutes or so.
I am listening to The Anglo-Boer War by Des Latham. There are 112 episodes (so far) of 25 minutes or so.
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Re: Podcast recommendations
If you liked Tunnel 29 then I highly recommend "Death in Ice Valley" produced by the BBC World Service. I also enjoyed the Chernobyl podcast, a must listen if you enjoyed the TV series.
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Missing Crypto Queen on BBC - amazing 8 part series of one of the biggest cons of the last decade. Billions swindled from the gullible all over the world from tiny villages in Uganda to London. A crypto currency with no blockchain (all will be explained to listeners) coupled with a gigantic pyramid scam fronted by Dr Ruja - who has been missing since 2017! An amazing listen.
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Re: Podcast recommendations
terminal7 wrote:Missing Crypto Queen on BBC - amazing 8 part series of one of the biggest cons of the last decade. Billions swindled from the gullible all over the world from tiny villages in Uganda to London. A crypto currency with no blockchain (all will be explained to listeners) coupled with a gigantic pyramid scam fronted by Dr Ruja - who has been missing since 2017! An amazing listen.
T7
Agreed. I'm listening to this as I type. Gripping stuff and a lesson for us all.
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terminal7 wrote:Redmires
see BBC report today on Ruja's brother
T7
It's interesting how the USA manage to prosecute fraudsters and shysters whilst over here they get off scot free, with lots of book passing by the authorities. As told by this weeks 'File on 4' programme (not a podcast so slightly off topic).
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000b5lb
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Redmires wrote:It's interesting how the USA manage to prosecute fraudsters and shysters whilst over here they get off scot free, with lots of book passing by the authorities. As told by this weeks 'File on 4' programme (not a podcast so slightly off topic).
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000b5lb
Interesting. World Commodity Trading were mentioned on TMF back in January 2014. It took under 3 days before a threat of legal action.
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Just finished the BBC "Cryptoqueen" podcast. An excellent trip through the looking-glass world of MLM, financial scams and the strange psychology that drives them.
John
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redsturgeon wrote:Just finished the BBC "Cryptoqueen" podcast. An excellent trip through the looking-glass world of MLM, financial scams and the strange psychology that drives them.
John
I'm almost at the end of this podcast; really enjoying it!
I have to thank everyone here for the suggestions.
I finished the tunnel 29 just before this one; which was my second podcast after "the infinite monkey cage" which I've been listening on and off to for a few years.
I didn't realise I should make the time, or use my "empty" time for these until I saw this post.
I think I might be hooked, (though I do occasionally have HGTTG flashbacks as I'm listening; which might say more about the state of the planet than me)
Thanks greatly
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Re: Podcast recommendations
servodude wrote:redsturgeon wrote:Just finished the BBC "Cryptoqueen" podcast. An excellent trip through the looking-glass world of MLM, financial scams and the strange psychology that drives them.
John
I'm almost at the end of this podcast; really enjoying it!
I have to thank everyone here for the suggestions.
I finished the tunnel 29 just before this one; which was my second podcast after "the infinite monkey cage" which I've been listening on and off to for a few years.
I didn't realise I should make the time, or use my "empty" time for these until I saw this post.
I think I might be hooked, (though I do occasionally have HGTTG flashbacks as I'm listening; which might say more about the state of the planet than me)
Thanks greatly
-sd
Happy to help
I must try TIMC next, I have enjoyed the live broadcasts when I have occasionally listen to them.
John
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