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Interesting podcasts?

Postby Vedun » Wed Mar 20, 2019 6:23 pm

What are some interesting podcasts in your target languages? I have nothing to do at work for hours on end and listening to radio gets repetitive quickly.
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Re: Interesting podcasts?

Postby Kraut » Wed Mar 20, 2019 8:39 pm

Two of my favourites:


IN OUR TIME

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the history of ideas

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qy ... /downloads
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Belles Lettres Deutsch für Dichter und Denker

https://www.belleslettres.eu/podcast.php

https://www.belleslettres.eu/video/appo ... tribut.mp4
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Postby Sayonaroo » Wed Mar 20, 2019 9:04 pm

have you looked into your library?? There are lots of audiobooks available in English as well as in other languages for some libraries ie the bigger ones like the ones in NYC (queens,brooklyn, New york public library).
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Postby Axon » Thu Mar 21, 2019 1:07 am

PULS.de has Die Frage, an unfortunately no-longer-updated yet brilliant and thought-provoking podcast in German. It's one of the only TL things that I really feel disappointed I can't show to my monolingual friends.
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Postby Doitsujin » Thu Mar 21, 2019 7:49 am

Axon wrote:PULS.de has Die Frage, an unfortunately no-longer-updated yet brilliant and thought-provoking podcast in German. It's one of the only TL things that I really feel disappointed I can't show to my monolingual friends.
If you're interested in German popular science podcasts, check out the following podcasts, which both cover a large variety of topics:

radioWissen RSS iTunes (recent topics: Hitler's early years, Sophocles, smog, sun screen)
SWR2 Wissen RSS iTunes (recent topics: E.T.A. Hoffman, private schools, chat bots, solar power in Africa)
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Re: Interesting podcasts?

Postby Jinx » Wed May 05, 2021 8:55 pm

I'd like to revive this moribund thread and request more recommendations, from anyone and everyone. I've only recently gotten into podcasts, and I notice that I spend much more time trying to find decent-quality ones than I do... actually listening.

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Re: Interesting podcasts?

Postby Longinus » Thu May 06, 2021 12:34 am

"Eesti lugu" immediately comes to mind.
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Re: Interesting podcasts?

Postby Araminta » Thu May 06, 2021 1:18 am

Kraut wrote:IN OUR TIME

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the history of ideas

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qy ... /downloads


This looks fantastic.
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