Podcasts - making each walk more enjoyable

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Haven’t read a book by this John Higgs, but I am pretty sure someone from this forum already has. His books are pretty diverse in the topics covered, so I expect this episode with him and Andrew Thompson from H&S to be amusing.

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His KLF book is superb. So well done.

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Yeah I’ve read that a couple of times, pretty mad in it’s scope. That whole piece about Bill and Jimmy whilst shooting The White Room being told by a total stranger they’d been followed by a gun assassin sent by the Illuminati, which the guy himself had shot…

Freaked them out so much they went home :rofl:

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I like Questlove’s podcast. He just changed up the name and format this year, but there are tons of great episodes of Questlove Supreme with some amazing guests.

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Highly recommend Conflicted if you have an interest in geopolitics, the Middle East, terrorism (state and non-state) and the histories of many of the conflicts of recent years, and those still ongoing. Some very good analysis and history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that quite a few people on both sides, who view it all with the intellectual and moral depth of a Star Wars film.

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Found this episode after RA shared that there’s a comedy film being recorded based on it.

BTW it’s a pretty American take on Berghain.

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Gripping. But fucking terrifying.

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The Rest Is History are currently running a series on Jack The Ripper. Really good, gives a great sense of the squalor and degradation of Whitechapel at that time

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its ace
Cant wait for next episode

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The Fela Kuti podcast is going down well in our house…

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Irish poet David Whyte with Rick Rubin. He’s very wise, he answers almost all questions by reading one of his poems or essays.

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Oh right up my street.
Will listen

Fun fact, family lore says my great-great(?) grandmother was a suspect, if not officially at least suspected by local people.

I went on a Ripper tour in London and mentioned this to the guide, she was like, well, loads of people claimed to have done it. That wasn’t what I said!

One of my pods of the year:

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Jah Wobble talks to scientists and Buddhist monks about bass. I didn’t understand a lot of it if I’m honest

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Amazing fela kuti podcast! Loads of interviews with key people around him at the time.

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Ben Cardew’s interviews are pretty good. Here’s the great Matthew Herbert pontificating about life, music and his Beatport despair

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You’ve triggered me back into my on and off ripper obsession again…

This is brilliantly made- most of the docs on YouTube are either very dated or speculative
but this really sticks to known facts and gives a really good visual perspective on the murders

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Rest is History have just done a 4c parter of JtRioper - v good

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