Podcasts

I've been expanding, and broadening, my Podcast listening recently. I now listen to 22 podcasts, although I do not listen to some of them with great regularity.

Of those about six are roughly concerned with current affairs, all from the BBC.

Four are religious.

About seven concern some academic or semi academic matter (from Melvyn Bragg to a lecture series from Oxford).

I'd quite like to review some of these, if only to set out in words what I think I am getting from them. In the meantime I will do a short write up of a small, semi-random selection, lets say seven - God likes sevens. All come recommended, all can be best found by searching for them on iTunes, surely everyone uses iTunes now?.

1) Prayer from the Taizé community
Only just started listening to this, it contains music and readings from that Community. First impressions are that the music is divine. I may try using this when I cannot be bothered to pray the office. I try to pray the office a couple of times a day, but recently I have been failing.

2) The Archers
An everyday tale of country folk.

3) Oxford University: Podcasts of Medieval English Lectures
An excellent series of lectures, with extra material, by one Stuart Lee. I am working my through from the beginning. One to go in the old Learning Diary. (Must start a learning Diary)

4) The Methodist Podcast
Just what it sounds like.

5) The Friday Night Comedy
I no longer have to make any effort whatsoever to catch The Now Show/The News Quiz.

6) In Our Time
The first Podcast I started listening to properly, if you memorised every In Our Time you would be pretty well informed about most things.

7) Women's Hour
Women's Hour is brilliant, they actually put out a couple of podcasts, sadly none of them are the same experience as listening to the real thing. The best thing about Women's Hour is the way it can segue from Genital Mutilation to an on going series on regional Cakes (actual segue).