I recently changed the podcast application on my phone to Pocket Casts, so I figured now was as good a time as any to update the world as to what podcasts to listen to, to keep up with my segue free, abrupt subject changes.
Software
- A Little Bit of Python
- Coding By Numbers
- FLOSS Weekly
- Free as in Freedom
- This week in Debian
- IT Conversations
- Pragmatic Podcasts
Technology
- Boing Boing Gweek
- Future Tense (ABC)
- Innovations (ABC)
- Outriders (BBC)
- Patch Monday by ZDNet Australia
- SolderSmoke Podcasts
- Spark (CBC)
- Spectrum Podcasts
- Tech Weekly
- EEVblog – The Electronics Engineering Video Blog
Language
- A word in your ear (ABC)
- Grammar Girl Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing
- Word of Mouth with Colleen Ross (CBC)
- A Way with Words
Health
- All in the Mind (ABC)
Politics/Current affairs
- Analysis (BBC)
- Background Briefing (ABC)
- Counterpoint (ABC)
- Law Report (ABC)
- More or Less: Behind the Stats (BBC)
- National Interest (ABC)
Astronomy
- Astronomy Cast
- StarStuff (ABC)
Culture/Community
- TEDTalks
- Big Ideas (ABC)
- Geologic Podcast
- Ideas (CBC)
- KCRW’s Le Show (NPR)
- Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me! (NPR)
- Search Engine (CBC)
- Tank Riot
- This American Life (NPR)
- Robert Llewellyn’s CarPool
History
- Dan Carlin’s Hardcore History
- The history of the world in 100 objects (BBC)
- In Our Time With Melvyn Bragg (BBC)
- Playback (NPR)
- Rear Vision (ABC)
- Stuff You Missed in History Class
Science
- 60-Second Science
- 60-Second Tech
- The Science Show (ABC)
- Discovery (BBC)
- Material World (BBC)
- Nature Podcast
- Krulwich on Science (NPR)
- Ockham’s Razor (ABC)
- Quirks and Quarks (CBC)
- Skeptoid
- Radiolab (NPR)
- Science in Action (BBC)
- Science Talk
Economics
- Freakonomics Radio
- Planet Money (NPR)
Film
- Eli Glasner on Film (CBC)
- KCRW’s Film Reviews (NPR)
- At the Movies (ABC)
Music
- All Songs Considered (NPR)
- Live Concerts from All Songs Considered (NPR)
Media
- The Age of Persuasion (CBC)
- Media Watch (ABC)