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Not sure if this has been mentioned.

Nuts and Bolts #1 – Jenny Hval
Nuts and Bolts is a show produced externally by Jessica Sligter and will expose the gear-secrets of some of your favourite female* artists. The first episode features Jessica talking to Jenny Hval. Produced with funding from the Norwegian Arts Council.

http://radio.thequietus.com/nuts-and-bolts-1-jenny-hval/

It’s only just started but the Jenny Hval interview is fantastic.

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New series of Sound Matters :slight_smile:

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I love EconTalk, hosted by Russ Roberts.

Any topic that might be considered under contemporary economics (and there are lots!) is fair game. To me it most often feels like a podcast on applied philosophy and contemporary society.

Some favourite episodes are Leif Wenar on Blood Oil and Doug Lemov on Reading.

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Can one recommend their own podcast? I suppose not, so I guess I’ll recommend the kind of person who might appreciate it:

My podcast is for anyone who is aware of the art of field recording, but never really understood the point of it or what people get out of listening to them.
It’s also for people who don’t want to/aren’t able to commit too much time to listening to a podcast - the episodes are ~15m long, not an hour or more like a lot of others are.

I’ve only started this recently so I’m still learning, but I’ve got three episodes up so I’ve decided to start sharing it more and trying to get some feedback. I thought some people here might appreciate it.

Sorry for the shameless self-promotion.

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Really nice. I’m enjoying it

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Reni Eddo Lodge released a controversial (to some) book last year called Why I’m No Longer Talking To White People About Race, and has just finished a podcast which is intended as a continuation of some of the ideas she explored in that book, called About Race with Reni Eddo Lodge.

It is sort of UK-specific, but I think it’s really important to get some more diverse discourse around racial issues, particularly because a lot of the discussion in the podcast world is coming out of the US, where things are in some ways very different, but in other ways exactly the same.

Feat. interviews with Billy Bragg, Diane Abbott, Nish Kumar, Riz Ahmed and lots of other great voices.

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This interview is so good.

{ Never knew I was saying Jenny’s name wrong! }

“Jenny or Laurel”

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Great podcast about sound of all sorts.

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I’ve recently been listening to a lot of the Unregistered Podcast with Thaddeus Russell. I find that this podcast consistently delivers some of the most thoughtful and thought provoking discussions around controversial topics. I have a few favorites, but I kinda feel you can’t go wrong by just choosing one at random. I’m currently on my second listening of his most recent one with Heidi Matthews. They discuss the Nuremberg trials, consent, law, coercion, rape etc. Here’s the little blurb on her:

Matthews is an assistant professor of international law at Osgoode Hall Law School at York University. Her recent work on the #MeToo movement and women’s sexual agency has caused considerable controversy in all the best ways.

And here’s the episode (it’s well worth your time in my opinion):

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I can’t believe I haven’t put this up here yet! A friend of mine has made a podcast about the history of sound recording.
It’s called Noise In The Groove, The Origin of Sound Recording.
Here’s episode 1 to get you started. ENJOY!!!

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Not quite a podcast but a great episode of swedish radio’s “Elektroniskt i P2”, a long interview with Éliane Radigue:

Episode also includes Kaffe Matthews on Radigue joining the band she has with Antye Greie and Ryoko Kuwajima, The Lappetites.

Hosts (Andreas Tilliander and Mats Almegård) speak swedish while Radigue holds forth in a joyful english. You’ll miss some context and backstory if you’re not a scandish speaker but I’d say it’s still worth it. And there are long, full, blastingly good pieces of music too.

Episodes are only up for a while.

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@nuun @marcus_fischer
Sound Matters and 20,000 Hertz are both an always-welcome arrival in my podcast feed, both usually go straight to the head of the “to listen” queue.

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There’s a new drone podcast from @Toaster that I don’t think has been mentioned here yet:

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Aww, thanks for the mention. Now I guess I’ll have to keep it updated.

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Against Everyone with Conner Habib is creeping into my favorites lately.
Here 2 recent, really good episodes:

SCOTT THOMPSON or RECLAIMING THE LISP:

MAGGIE MCNEILL or SEDUCING PEOPLE INTO ANARCHISM:

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Thanks for the recommendation! I was introduced to Hanegraaff just a few weeks ago by a friend and ordered his book Esotericism and the Academy.

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I’ve been searching, mostly without success, for podcasts that are something OTHER than serialized radio, NPR-style shows, interviews, discussions, or music playback - nothing against these at all, but there must be people looking at the podcasting’s potential as a new audio art form, with innovative sound design - I’m usually more interested in the avant-garde/experimental side of things but even narrative that is doing something new with the medium would be of interest. So far the only thing I’ve found that fits this bill is Archive81, which despite still having too many actors doing “radio voice” and that equivalent of expository dialogue a friend of mine recently labeled “roomsplaining” (eg “this is a weird place. what does it look like to you.” “well, that white bookcase over there is almost blinding, otherwise it’s a pretty standard victorian parlor”…) is genuinely innovating within the medium.
Even a podcast that is taking off from where Firesign Theater or Over The Edge/Hour of Slack left off (or stopped evolving) would be of interest, though I keep thinking there must be something out there at this point that is really groundbreaking and not necessarily comic or collage. People usually point me to NIghtvale and Quirpline, and Welcome to NIghtvale is a pleasantly distracting listen, but not really challenging my ears. Any suggestions?

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I don’t know if it’s exactly what you are looking for, but The Duncan Trussell Family Hour will often include long segments (monologues that he’s perhaps improvising?) where he paints these really psychedelic scenarios and plays around with the audio a little bit. It feels like wack-a-doo storytime. Like what it must have been like before TVs and everyone huddled around the radio…and everyone on air was on acid. Then he does go into interviews, but the way I described is usually how they start.

I’ll check out Archive81 though. Sounds interesting; specifically soothing.

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Sounds like you have a good idea of what you are looking for. Maybe you should be the one making it?

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