podcasts
I have really started to get into Podcasts ever since I started listening to No Such Thing As A Fish after reading their Book of the Year 2017. What I have found in the last few months is that there are a lot of authors either making or appearing on a wide variety of Podcasts and in the case of Malcolm Gladwell's Revisionist History especially they are close to being as good as his books. Now my literary hero Michael Lewis has just released his first called "Against The Rules" and its just brilliant.
Best of all they are all free as long as you can put up with adverts for razers and toothbrushes!!
Best of all they are all free as long as you can put up with adverts for razers and toothbrushes!!
getting started
It couldn't be easier. Simply search for podcast players on the play store on your phone. There are loads of players but I have tried Podcast Player and Castbox as they were Google editors choices. Of the two I prefer the layout and feel of Castbox and it also has some old audiobooks too. Once installed you just need to decide what to listen to and hopefully that's where this page can help
WHAT'S SO GOOD ABOUT THEM? Podcasts have been around since 2004. I think I ignored them for so long because they just seemed like a way to listen to radio shows anytime and while this is no bad thing and still true to a point there is much more depth than I ever realised. As Malcolm Gladwell explains far better than I can "Podcasts are a more personal medium. They allow the caster to literally whisper in the readers ear. This means you can do things which you can’t do in a book”. This is a theme that is also picked up Sean Carroll who feels that podcasts enable him to explore subjects of interest without the expertise needed to write a book on the subject. To go full circle Podcasts have even allowed people to become authors in their own right as “No such thing as a fish” published their Book of the Year in 2017 which I was so impressed by it became the first podcast I listened to. Podcasts have their own genres and structures. The most common appears to be the one on one interview style and the 3-4 group pub debate. But casters and authors like Malcolm Gladwell and Jon Ronson have turned theirs into non fiction documentaries. Malcolm covering a different subject each episode while The Butterfly Affect follows the same story across different the whole series. The BBC Sounds podcast "13 minutes to the Moon" celebrating and detailing the first lunar landing in 1969 is a perfect example. Over 10 hours of content with a lot of interviews both current and archived would not of made great TV or reading but as a podcast it was at times mesmerising. Here are my top podcasts
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Currently Listening To - Nov 19
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