for your listening pleasure

You don’t have to have an iPhone to listen to podcasts. You don’t even need an iPod.

All you need is a way to download them (I use iTunes of course), and a way to listen.

Here are the ones I listen to regularly and recommend. Please note that the links here are directly to RSS feeds, if you click on them, it may not do as you expect. The best thing to do here if you wish to subscribe is to right click on the podcasts below, choose to “Copy URL”, then open your podcast app (say, iTunes) and find the option to subscribe to a feed and paste the URL there.

• This American Life, a weekly podcast with one or more stories based on a theme. Sometimes funny, sometimes haunting, always moving.
• WNYC’s Radiolab, a semi-regularly updating podcast. Like This American Life, Radiolab is a collection of stories.
• NPR: Planet Money, a twice-weekly podcast centered around the economy.
• The History of Rome, a roughly weekly podcast that is a long-running history of Rome. Amazingly interesting, with strong correlations to the modern world. Start from episode 1, and listen in episode order (they are a bit confused in the earlier episodes, so pay attention).
• KEXP Presents Music that Matters, a weekly production of KEXP (Seattle). Each episode is about an hour of music, compiled by one of the KEXP dj’s.
• KEXP Song of the Day, a daily podcast featuring a song KEXP finds to be special in some way. The song of the day is described in the KEXP Blog.
• NPR: Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me! and Friday Night Comedy from BBC are both weekly podcasts looking at the week’s news from a comedic perspective.
• The athletics department of Washington State University publishes short interviews with coaches and the Athletic Director.
• Car Talk. Do I really need to describe Car Talk?