# Yet another podcast thread, with a specific request: weekly news shows **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 14, 2009, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-podcast-thread-with-a-specific-request-weekly-news-shows/506401 "2009-08-14T14:05:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![lazybratsche](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ba8739/32.png) [@lazybratsche](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lazybratsche)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2009, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-podcast-thread-with-a-specific-request-weekly-news-shows/506401/1 "2009-08-14T14:05:17Z")
I normally listen to the BBC Global News podcast for my news, but it’s really not meshing with my listening habits. Usually I switch, over the course of a week, between listening to a mass of queued up podcasts and some audio book. Which works great with all of the weekly podcasts I listen to, but not so much when I’ve got ten solid hours of daily updates accumulated. With the Global News show in particular, there isn’t a lot added to each new podcast, so there’s a lot of redundancy. Plus the BBC includes a good deal of British domestic news, and a few godawful “silly” pieces at the end of each one. In other words, I think I get about 5-10 minutes of new and interesting stuff out of each 30 minute podcast. Is there a good, in-depth, and weekly news podcast out there? And in the spirit of sharing, a list of the other podcasts I listen to, vaguely categorized. Science podcasts: Cell Podcast (WAAAY technical. Which is fine when they hit a field I’m acquainted with, but I’m mostly lost at least half the time.) Nature Podcast (Good, but uneven. The interviewed scientists variously assume an audience of scientists in their field, or a completely clueless lay audience.) Nature Neuropod Science Magazine Podcast (Same complaint here as for the Nature podcast). WNYC’s Radio Lab (one of my absolute favorites) Science Friday (via the Talk of the Nation podcast) News/Politics: The Economist BBC Global News NPR Talk of the Nation (though usually I skip at least half of these if I’m not interested in the topic at hand) Entertainment: Savage Love (I’ll skip strait to this whenever the new podcast comes out) Car Talk Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me I recently gave up on the All Songs Considered podcast, since their tastes rarely line up with my own, and I thought I had escaped indier-than-thou-hipsters when I graduated college. I do miss finding music that I would otherwise never known about… ---
**Author:** ![lazybratsche](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ba8739/32.png) [@lazybratsche](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lazybratsche)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2009, 11:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-podcast-thread-with-a-specific-request-weekly-news-shows/506401/2 "2009-08-17T11:49:53Z")
Monday morning _bump_. Anybody? ---
**Author:** ![Ca3799](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9f8e36/32.png) [@Ca3799](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ca3799)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2009, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-podcast-thread-with-a-specific-request-weekly-news-shows/506401/3 "2009-08-17T14:38:07Z")
More NPR podcasts- link here: [NPR Podcasts & Shows : NPR](http://www.npr.org/rss/podcast/podcast_directory.php) and NYT Podcasts here: [Audio - The New York Times](http://www.nytimes.com/ref/multimedia/podcasts.html) I just recently discovered how to use my MP3 player and am searching around for interesting podcasts, too. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2009, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-podcast-thread-with-a-specific-request-weekly-news-shows/506401/4 "2009-08-17T19:45:07Z")
> [@lazybratsche](#): > > I recently gave up on the All Songs Considered podcast, since their tastes rarely line up with my own, and I thought I had escaped indier-than-thou-hipsters when I graduated college. I do miss finding music that I would otherwise never known about… Have you tried [Sound Opinions](http://www.soundopinions.org/)? There’s also Paste Magazine’s [Culture Club podcast](http://www.pastemagazine.com/cultureclub/archives.htm), though it appears to have been discontinued/inactive since January. ---
**Author:** ![Kal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9de053/32.png) [@Kal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kal)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2009, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-podcast-thread-with-a-specific-request-weekly-news-shows/506401/5 "2009-08-17T20:08:43Z")
The BBC’s [Americana: inside the USA](http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/americana) is quite interesting. ---
**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2009, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-podcast-thread-with-a-specific-request-weekly-news-shows/506401/6 "2009-08-18T03:18:18Z")
Not a weekly news podcast, but the Bloomberg podcasts are quite interesting and seem similar to some of what you’re listening to. I listen to the economics one every day. [Bloomberg](http://www.bloomberg.com/tvradio/podcast/)