“What podcasts will make me more intelligent just by listening to them?”, asks a Metafilter user. The responses have been quite useful, highlighting a number of interesting podcasts that I was unaware of. My personal favourites are Econtalk (check out, for example, this brilliant discussion with Nassim Taleb), Ideas and TED. There are often some interesting lectures to be found on the Cato podcast as well. The great advantage, of course, of the podcast is that it can be downloaded onto one’s MP3 player and played in the car or whilst walking.
I am sure there are many more — including some Islamic ones — so does anyone have any recommendations to add?
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I like Jamie Oliver’s podcasts, as well as Ricky Gervais’s on occasion. HBO also has some interesting ones about their documentaries.
I listen various audio from radio 4
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/atoz/
There is no Islam in it, and it has a soft left progressive agenda (stay away from the politics and the awful woman’s hour), but the history parts and others are very good.
Yes, Radio 4 for sure, From our own correspondent is very good stuff. Language mavens might want to look up podictionary from Charles Hodgson witch you can get in daily doses or as a weekly compilation. PBS (U.S. Public Radio) has Bill Moyers Journal witch is very good and American Public Media has “News from Lake Woebegon” and Writers Almanac both which are done by Garrison Keilor. Less serious types can get the satirical Oinion Radio News.
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