Top class pod casts. Long form.

[Austin_Metro]

I’ve got a 30h journey coming up tomorrow (and the next day)…

Anyone got any suggestions for compelling long form pod casts - something you thought was really excellent …

Thanks in advance … Austin.

[BlackTails]

The Dollop. Ep 280 & 281, all about opiates in the USA from very easy usage through to fentanyl, and ep 300A and 300B: Donald J Trump.

[Austin_Metro]

BlackTails said:

The Dollop. Ep 280 & 281, all about opiates in the USA from very easy usage through to fentanyl, and ep 300A and 300B: Donald J Trump.

Ta. Will take a look.

[mikiec]

Hardcore history, wrath of the khans by Dan Carlin. From memory that’s 20hrs or so

[jet_noise]

Not longform as episodes but there are so many of them!
- We Have Ways of Making You Talk.

Al Murray & James Holland on WW2.
Themselves, interviews with experts, combatants, visits e.g. aeroplane restorers, tank museum.

[Austin_Metro]

Thanks again. Some more downloading to do.

[FamousPheasant]

I drove around California for three weeks listening to my dad wrote a porno", which is hilarious.

Dan Carlin's history podcasts are also a great (and very different) suggestion.

[Warhavernet]

Crime Weekly, US based deep dive true crime podcasts, they regularly have 5 to 7 100 minute episodes on each case, the adverts are not that intrusive.

[Austin_Metro]

Excellent. Downloaded some more.

[Vtec-yo]

Not a podcast but the full works of Sherlock Holmes read by Stephen Fry is on audible and quite enjoyable. It's about 80 hours so will keep you busy. Enjoy the trip

[Darren-7ypkg]

The Brady Heywood Podcast. He hasn’t done a new one for ages but they are excellent. They focus on engineering failures and disasters and the causes that led to them.

[Ascayman]

The upshot.

Very amusing podcasts about sports ‘characters’ I particularly enjoyed the Boris Becker and sir Ian botham ones.

[Austin_Metro]

Excellent. Downloaded some more.

[Collectingbrass]

jet_noise said:

Not longform as episodes but there are so many of them!
- We Have Ways of Making You Talk.

Al Murray & James Holland on WW2.
Themselves, interviews with experts, combatants, visits e.g. aeroplane restorers, tank museum.

I came here to say this. They're very knowledgable and entertaining at the same time. Others that might be of interest:

The Rest Is History with Dominic Sandbrook and Tom Holland

Joe Marler's Things People Do

British Scandal

Sherlock and Co - brings the stories up to the True Crime Podcast era and is very well done.

And finally, The Car Podcast with Chris Harris & Friends with a thread here https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...

[bloomen]

The most mind boggling one I've listened to recently is a Bloomberg series on John McAfee. First episode here - https://open.spotify.com/episode/5UDg1vBbsZei01OzB...

Squalid, but fascinating.

Edited by bloomen on Saturday 12th July 23:27