I am a podcast addict, developed over an isolating PhD.... here are my current listens which are brining out regular content.
History
- The History of Rome
- The History of Byzantium (spiritual successor to the former)
- The Rest is History (two British historians discuss a huge variety of historical topics)
- You’re Wrong About (host examines past events which may have been misunderstood by time/the public)
True Crime
- Drunk Women Solving Crime (female comedians have a guest on to solve a historic crime)
DnD Role Play
- Critical Role (hundreds of hours and multiple seasons of content between old friends)
- Dungeons and Daddies (outrageously funny, light on rules their first season is a triumph)
- The Glass Cannon Podcast (rapidly expanding network has multiple games going to fit tastes)
- Not Another DnD Podcast (also multiple seasons in, four friends with fantastic chemistry)
Movies
- The Evolution of Horror (Eight seasons [ghosts, slashers, vampires] exploring the history of horror movies)
- How Did This Get Made (comedians discuss forgotten terrible films and how they came to be)
- You are Good (movie discussions by two and guests)
- Too Scary Didn’t Watch (three US women, two of which are scared of horror films listen to the plot of horror films told by their very brave friend)
Comedy
- Ask Ronna (comedy advice podcast)
- The Bald and the Beautiful - with drag queens Trixie and Katya)
- The Deep Dive - women centred with actress/comedians
- Goosebuds - three nerdy loveable friends review a goosebumps book each episode
- If Books Could Kill (a lawyer and a journalist discuss the terrible books which have influenced modern culture)
- Just the Gist (two australian friends give each other “the gist” of remarkable events
- Sentimental Garbage (Irish millennial novelist discusses the meaningful “garbage from 90’s/00’s culture)
- Stay F Homekins (comedian Paul F Tomekins and his wife Janie give a monthly (often slightly tipsy) intimate chat about nothing at all.
- Three Bean Salad (three british comedians discuss a listener topic from *the bean machine*)
- Threedom (three US comedians shooting thr shit)
Celebrity Memoir Book Club (two New York comedians read and review celebrity memoirs)
- Politics
- 5-4 (about how the supreme court has always sucked)
- The Daily
- Political Gabfest
- Trashfuture (british focused, nihilistic friends discuss the latest start ups coming to ruin humanity)