Podcasts & Vodcasts
As I often get asked what podcasts/vodcasts* I subscribe to, I thought I’d provide my current list. Last updated 29 November 2009.
My daily commute means I have 8-10 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:
Podcasts (audio only):
- 4 Feet Running: Friends in Fo Rivva (*ahem*), who podcast their runs together.
- Astronomy Cast: I love astronomy and, well, Pamela’s voice… ’nuff said.
- Astrophysics & Supercomputing at Swinburne University (iTunes).
- Binge Thinking History: Covers topics of historical interest.
- BlogTalkRadio’s Lifehack Live: Out of production, but useful productivity podcast.
- Coffee Break French: Excellent weekly learning French podcast.
- The Creative Penn: Excellent writing podcast with interviews.
- Dan Carlin’s Hardcore History: Another excellent history podcast.
- Freelance Radio: Self employment tips, contractor life, etc.
- Geologic: The maestro and comedian, George Hrab, speaks!
- Grammar Girl’s Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing
- The History Network’s Military History
- Humanist Network News: American Humanist Association’s podcast.
- I Should Be Writing: Writing tips, etc, by Mur Lafferty.
- Inside Oxford Science: Feeds the knowledge monster.
- The Jodcast: Jodrell Bank Observatory’s own podcast – with character.
- Litopia: Writing podcast consisting of the short Litopia Daily and longer, weekly Litopia After Dark.
- Little Atoms: Skeptical interview-based podcast.
- Naked Archaeology
- Naked Scientists: Feeds the knowledge monster.
- Podrunner: Contiguous running music – each episode has a set BPM.
- Point of Inquiry: Weekly interview-based skeptical podcast.
- The Secrets – Podcasts for Writers: Out of production but interesting resource for writers.
- 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.
- World Archaeology News from The Archaeological Box: Weekly podcast containing the week’s top archaeological news around the world.
- Writing Excuses: Fantastic show by SF&F authors on how they approach their work.
- The Writing Show: Seems to have suffered recently, but the archives are excellent.
Vodcasts (video or combined):
- Diggnation: The week’s top Digg articles.
- Drawing Tutorials Online
- J.C. Hutchins: One of my two favourite podcast authors.
- Scott Sigler: The other of my two favourite podcast authors.
- Tiki Bar TV: Occasional bizarre but clever cocktail recipe show.
The list changes periodically as I discover new shows and need to trim some of the fat. 
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, or using an RSS reader or podcatcher software such as iTunes.
