interesting educational informal podcasts for long car drives?

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which great courses did u like? i'm more willing to check them out than i sound above :p -- i have mcwhorter's story of human language waiting to be listened to

Mordy, Sunday, 4 September 2016 00:01 (seven years ago) link

Ones I've listened to and would recommend...

Robert Caro:
http://www1.cuny.edu/mu/podcasts/2009/10/16/robert-caro-biographer-of-our-time/

Peter Gelb (short):
http://www1.cuny.edu/mu/podcasts/2008/06/25/peter-gelb-take-risks-to-succeed/

Looks like the Stanford one I was thinking of (Seymour Hersh) is gone.

thrill of transgressin (Eazy), Sunday, 4 September 2016 02:31 (seven years ago) link

In our time podcasts from BBC radio 4. Pick any you like the subject of.

poor fiddy-less albion (darraghmac), Sunday, 4 September 2016 02:46 (seven years ago) link

Secret History of Hollywood has long 5 hour eps about Hitchcock, Warner Bros, Universal Horror, lots of good stuff. Well researched & very straight-ahead just the facts stuff, not too precious.

Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 4 September 2016 05:26 (seven years ago) link

The History of Rome podcast started out great but the episodes around the end of the Third Punic War have a high pitched whine via Pocket Casts and I had to bail. I need to try with a different app to see if it's the files that Pocket Cast is downloading.

Kiarostami bag (milo z), Sunday, 4 September 2016 06:39 (seven years ago) link

Seconding In Our Time , also A History of the World on 100 Objects.

an expired coupon for 50¢ off a moon pie (los blue jeans), Sunday, 4 September 2016 07:06 (seven years ago) link

I wanted to like the Stuff casts but I usually feel like they are just reading a wiki. They are just barely engaging enough to be good for falling asleep to though.

an expired coupon for 50¢ off a moon pie (los blue jeans), Sunday, 4 September 2016 07:11 (seven years ago) link


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