As I’ve noted before, I really love podcasts. And I wanted to update the list of my favorite podcasts that I posted last year. So here goes.
First, here are some recent finds; none of these are new, but they’re new to me1.
– The Sound of Young America2. Tagline: “A Public Radio Show About Things That Are Awesome.” Textism has a good overview of this podcast.
– The Moth‘s format is simple: People get up on stage, without notes, and tell stories about their personal experiences. There’s some wonderful, wonderful stuff here.
– RadioLab. A podcast about science and philosophy. Sometimes it’s a little too experimental, sonically speaking, for me. But the topics are always intriguing.
And then there are my (mostly well-known) favorites: podcasts that I’ve been listening to for a while and still really like:
– the ESPN Soccernet podcast3,
– On the Media,
– PRI’s The World, and
– World View, from the New York Times.
Got a favorite podcast to share? Let us know in the comments.
- If you’ve never listened to a podcast and wonder what all the fuss is about, check out this three-minute YouTube video: Podcasting in Plain English. [↩]
- Note that the title is misleading; the show has little to do with America’s youth. [↩]
- Which also happens to have a lively Facebook group [↩]
I'm Newley Purnell, an American journalist in Bangkok. I report for Bloomberg BNA, ABC News Radio, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and more.