Planet Money was invaluable in understanding what was happening during the 2008 financial meltdown. They were creating new episodes nearly every other day to explain the next domino that was falling.
Since then they've done a nice pivot into using that style to explain other gears in the global economy. The series about making a T-shirt, for example, was excellent.
Another vote for Planet Money as it has been my top podcast! I would note that the indicator is far inferior to Planet Money as it is more the politicaly charged flavor of the show.
I've started listening to a lot of podcasts and audiobooks while riding my bike. Here's some of my favorites:
Storytelling: This American Life, Reply All, The Moth
Business / Finance: Startups For the Rest of us, The Indie Hackers Podcast, The SaaS Podcast, Planet Money
Comedy: Comedy Bang Bang, Hollywood Handbook, John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme
Science / History: The Infinite Monkey Cage, Stuff You Should Know, Hardcore History, Behind the Bastards
Philosophy / Discussion: The Knowledge Project, Think Again
I've tried listening to a lot of other podcasts, but these are the ones I keep coming back to.
I'll also listen to The Tim Ferriss Show if there's an interesting guest. He had an awesome conversation with Drew Houston recently, and there were lots of interesting stories from the early days of Dropbox.
I also really enjoyed Caliphate, but it's a mini-series that's finished.
Mostly german podcasts with focus on science and comedy.
English podcasts:
- omega tau - science and engineering (http://omegataupodcast.net/) now ten years old. Realy good mixed bag of topics. They interview people who know stuff or have done stuff. Last 4 topics were:
292 – Gene Editing with CRISPR/Cas
291 – Flying in the Papuan Bush
289 – Music Production at Sandlane Studios
288 – Flight Research at NASA Armstrong, Part 3: Historic
German podcasts
- Methodisch Inkorrekt ( https://minkorrekt.de ) Review of 4 new science papers from all research subjects
- Kohlenpod (https://kohlenpod.de ) Germany is closing down all black coal mines this year. This podcast releases one episode every sunday until the end of the year and discusses the history of black coal in germany. He started with the Episode 52 and count towards 0.
- Chaos Radio Express ( https://cre.fm ) Weekly radio show with guests from the chaos computer club. Mostly tech related. Since this is also a public radio broadcast show, it tries to explain tech topics to non-tech people.
- Alternativlos ( also mixed german/english depends on the guest ) ( https://alternativlos.org/ ) Politics. Not day-to-day politics but the "big pictures".
Perhaps not quite what the OP is looking for, but I use podcasts mostly for music consumption. My favorite (for quite a while now) is The Anjunadeep Edition [1], which delivers a 1 hour continuously-mixed "deep" (often programming-friendly) electronic music every week. I'd be curious to hear what other music podcasts HN recommends.
My absolute favourite is KEXP's Music That Matters[1] of the KEXP Live In-Studio performance fame[2]. They have an amazing artist selection.
I love the soothing voices of Cheryl Waters, Kevin Cole and John Richards, the short background informations they provide about the bands and their upcoming releases and tour dates, and the music usually spans across multiple genres which broadens your listening horizont and appreciation of other styles which you might not usually listen to.
But most of it all, I truly enjoy discovering new music from them which almost always is spectacular.
Sidenote: I also like that they prominently (actually, "equally" should be the more fitting word in a better world) feature female musicians/bands (which you sadly cannot say from most other music podcasts / radio shows... most of it features male voices/artists), even without ever mentioning "Ladies" or all-female or otherwise including the gender in their short artist announcements (as it should be).
Out of the more recent episodes 201-David Hohme & 206-Modd were top quality.
If you enjoy Anjunadeep then I think you will also like
'When We Dip' , Canopy Sounds and Magician on Duty podcasts. They really go well with the anjunadeep style although I would say is more laid back then Anjunadeep (which has an at times housier/trancier vibe).
I only really listen to one as I have other ways I tend to listen to music, but Hospital Records - https://www.hospitalrecords.com/podcast/ - is the one. It's entirely focused on drum'n'bass though.
Same same! Would love to read more music podcast recommendations. My personal pick is The Concert by the Gardner Museum. Each episode is a live performance of classical chamber music. Sadly shut down last year but there are 12 years of archives online and all episodes are still available in the feed.
Signed up after years of lurking just to ask for more classical music podcast recommendations.
Thanks to your recommendation, I have listened to "The Concert" for the last couple of hours while working and it's absolutely incredible. Amazing quality, brief introductions packed with interesting bits of info and a great selection.
I have classical playlists in youtube but their quality is nowhere near this podcast's and I didn't learn anything about the genre while listening to them since it's just popular tracks passing one after the other in the background without an introduction.
EconTalk - interviews with social scientists about various topics. The interviewer is an economist so it's an interesting discussion between experts.
Economics detective radio - similar to EconTalk
Rationally speaking - interviews related to rational thinking.
80,000 Hours podcast - in depth interviews about the world's biggest problems and how to use your career to solve them. (Disclaimer: I used to work for them, but I genuinely love the podcast)
Feeling good podcast - by one of the pioneers of cognitive behavioural therapy, discusses mental health techniques.
Readit News
Some recent highlights:
- P is for Phosphorus https://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?stor...
- How the Social Security Number Became our National Identification https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2018/03/14/593620579/epis...
- The Poop Cartel: https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2018/07/25/632444815/epis...
Since then they've done a nice pivot into using that style to explain other gears in the global economy. The series about making a T-shirt, for example, was excellent.
Storytelling: This American Life, Reply All, The Moth
Business / Finance: Startups For the Rest of us, The Indie Hackers Podcast, The SaaS Podcast, Planet Money
Comedy: Comedy Bang Bang, Hollywood Handbook, John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme
Science / History: The Infinite Monkey Cage, Stuff You Should Know, Hardcore History, Behind the Bastards
Philosophy / Discussion: The Knowledge Project, Think Again
I've tried listening to a lot of other podcasts, but these are the ones I keep coming back to.
I'll also listen to The Tim Ferriss Show if there's an interesting guest. He had an awesome conversation with Drew Houston recently, and there were lots of interesting stories from the early days of Dropbox.
I also really enjoyed Caliphate, but it's a mini-series that's finished.
English podcasts:
- omega tau - science and engineering (http://omegataupodcast.net/) now ten years old. Realy good mixed bag of topics. They interview people who know stuff or have done stuff. Last 4 topics were:
German podcasts- Methodisch Inkorrekt ( https://minkorrekt.de ) Review of 4 new science papers from all research subjects
- Kohlenpod (https://kohlenpod.de ) Germany is closing down all black coal mines this year. This podcast releases one episode every sunday until the end of the year and discusses the history of black coal in germany. He started with the Episode 52 and count towards 0.
- Chaos Radio Express ( https://cre.fm ) Weekly radio show with guests from the chaos computer club. Mostly tech related. Since this is also a public radio broadcast show, it tries to explain tech topics to non-tech people.
- Omega tau ( its mixed german and english)
- Kack und Sachgeschichten (http://www.kackundsachgeschichten.de ) Discussing movies and series.
- Alternativlos ( also mixed german/english depends on the guest ) ( https://alternativlos.org/ ) Politics. Not day-to-day politics but the "big pictures".
[1] Here's a recent episode I enjoyed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Chn4SZWnJbc
My absolute favourite is KEXP's Music That Matters[1] of the KEXP Live In-Studio performance fame[2]. They have an amazing artist selection.
I love the soothing voices of Cheryl Waters, Kevin Cole and John Richards, the short background informations they provide about the bands and their upcoming releases and tour dates, and the music usually spans across multiple genres which broadens your listening horizont and appreciation of other styles which you might not usually listen to.
But most of it all, I truly enjoy discovering new music from them which almost always is spectacular.
[1]: http://feeds.kexp.org/kexp/musicthatmatters [2]: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUh4W61bt_K6tflBpjWgn...
Sidenote: I also like that they prominently (actually, "equally" should be the more fitting word in a better world) feature female musicians/bands (which you sadly cannot say from most other music podcasts / radio shows... most of it features male voices/artists), even without ever mentioning "Ladies" or all-female or otherwise including the gender in their short artist announcements (as it should be).
Out of the more recent episodes 201-David Hohme & 206-Modd were top quality.
If you enjoy Anjunadeep then I think you will also like 'When We Dip' , Canopy Sounds and Magician on Duty podcasts. They really go well with the anjunadeep style although I would say is more laid back then Anjunadeep (which has an at times housier/trancier vibe).
I have classical playlists in youtube but their quality is nowhere near this podcast's and I didn't learn anything about the genre while listening to them since it's just popular tracks passing one after the other in the background without an introduction.
https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast.aspx
ABC Radio Nation does quite a few great shows, you’ll find them at http://abc.net.au/rn
One thing I couldn't find out from their website: what happened to the fifty-odd early episodes which're no longer available?
Economics detective radio - similar to EconTalk
Rationally speaking - interviews related to rational thinking.
80,000 Hours podcast - in depth interviews about the world's biggest problems and how to use your career to solve them. (Disclaimer: I used to work for them, but I genuinely love the podcast)
Feeling good podcast - by one of the pioneers of cognitive behavioural therapy, discusses mental health techniques.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14819798
Startups: This Week In Startups
Startups: Mixergy https://mixergy.com/
Startups: How I built this
Startups: Rocketship
Startups: Steve Blank podcast
Startups: The SAAS podcast
Startups: Startup grind
Startups: Art of Product
Startups: Rocketship
Fantasy fiction: Podcastle
Fantasy fiction: Beneath Ceaseless Skies
Horror fiction: Psuedopod
Sci fi fiction: Clarkesworld
Sci fi fiction: Lightspeed magazine
History: History of the Crusades
History: In Our Time
History: Emperors of Rome
Science: ABC The Science Show
Life: The Moth
Life: Modern Love
Games: IGN GamesScoop
Games: Eaten By A Grue