Hurtling Through Space

My daily commute is about 50 minutes each way – giving me over 8 hours of listening time each week – so rather than listen to the same music each day or listen to one-eyed opinion radio, I prefer to listen to podcasts on topics that interest me.

As I often get asked what podcasts/vodcasts* I subscribe to, I thought I’d provide my current list — last updated 16 April 2009:

Podcasts (audio only):

• 4 Feet Running: Friends in Fo Rivva (*ahem*), who podcast their runs together.
• Archaeology Channel
• Astronomy Cast: I love astronomy and, well, Pamela’s voice… ’nuff said.
• The Atheist Experience: Cable access show by the ACA in Austin, Texas. (New).
• Binge Thinking History
• Dan Carlin’s Hardcore History
• Dr Karl’s Science on Mornings: Dr Karl covers great “citizen science” topics.
• Freelance Radio: Self employment tips.
• Geologic: The maestro and comedian, George Hrab, speaks! (New).
• Grammar Girl’s Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing
• The History Network (Military)
• Humanist Network News: Occasional humanism news.
• I Should Be Writing: Writing tips, etc.
• Inside Oxford Science: Feeds the knowledge monster.
• The Jodcast: Jodrell Bank Observatory’s own podcast.
• Naked Archaeology
• Naked Scientists: Feeds the knowledge monster.
• New Humanist: Another infrequent podcast, but normally worth it.
  
• The Non-Prophets: Atheist radio show by loud, opinionated people. Reminds me of home!
• Podrunner: Contiguous running music – each episode has a set BPM.
• Point of Inquiry
• Reasonable Doubts
• The Skeptic Zone: Australian podcast for science and reason.
• Skepticality: Official podcast of Skeptic Magazine.
• Skeptics’ Guide 5X5: 5 minutes on a skeptical topic.
• Skeptics’ Guide to the Universe: A frankly brilliant skeptical podcast.
• Skeptoid: Covers a skeptical topic each episode.
• Slacker Astronomy
• Survival Guide to Writing Fantasy
• Thinking Allowed: Interesting topics discussed and analysed.
• World Archaeology News
• Writing Excuses: Fantastic show by SF&F authors on how they approach their work.
• The Writing Show

Vodcasts (video or combined):

• After the Flag: The official MotoGP summary show.
• BBC Sky at Night Magazine
• Diggnation: The week’s top Digg articles.
• Drawing Tutorials Online
• Hak5
• J.C. Hutchins: One of my two favourite podcast authors.
• Scott Sigler: The other of my two favourite podcast authors.
• Systm
• Tiki Bar TV: Occasional bizarre but clever cocktail recipe show.

The list above changes periodically as I discover new shows or existing shows turn out to be low quality, irrelevant to my interests or just simply go to that podcast site in the sky.

I also listen to/watch a number of others at work, but these are my main subscriptions.

So what interesting podcasts do you listen to?

* If you’ve been living under a rock, a podcast is a periodic MP3 ‘show’ and a vodcast is a periodic  video ‘show’ – both usually via an RSS feed, and obained via visiting the show’s website, an RSS reader or using podcatcher software such as iTunes.