Podcast Recommendations
I recently heard someone say that podcasts are like Netflix but for free 🙂 Other than the obvious lack of visuals, it is a good analogy. There are hours and hours of original high-quality content held within podcasts, and like Netflix the offerings can be quite niche and less tightly bound to advertisers and advertisers editorial influence.
Now you have been introduced to the world of Podcasts, here are a few suggestions…
So we’ve established that Head of a Codfish is good quality 🙂 but if this has been your first foray into the world of podcasts you are probably asking “what else is out there worth listening to?”.
Finding new podcasts can be tricky. Searching in podcast listening apps can be hit and miss as they can tend to search mostly on the podcast title. So searching for “kids science” may not lead you to “Tumble”. Podcasts are also quite susceptible to ‘pod fade’ (where podcasts disappear after a few episodes) so results tend to be peppered with content that is no longer being added to.
So to start you off, here is a list of podcasts worth exploring. I have listened to some but not all of these. New podcasts are being launched every day so let me know if you find any other gems to add to the list.
How to find podcasts from this list
The website links are to the website about each of the podcasts, which may or may not have a link to episodes to listen to. Don’t bother clicking on the RSS Feed links!
The best way to listen or subscribe to them is to search for the exact podcast name in your podcast app. If your app doesn’t list it, then go to the RSS feed link, copy the URL of that page (don’t worry, the page will just be a whole heap of tags and it won’t make sense), then paste the URL in the search bar of your podcast app. It should then find the podcast and you can listen or subscribe.
- The No Brainers
- Well-known Australians
- Australian Comedians
- Just Good Quality Podcasts
- Australian Politics
- A bit quirky
- True Crime
- Family/Parenting/Work
- Podcasts for Kids
- Communication/Digital Communication/Technology
- Adelaide Podcasters
- Podcasts for Podcasters
The No-brainers
These are part of the podcast furniture, everyone should have at least one of them on their list
- Serial: Website – RSS Feed – 2 seasons available
- Conversations with Richard Fidler: Website – RSS Feed – The interview master
- Humans of Twitter: Website – RSS Feed – seems to be on a break at the moment
- Mamamia Podcast Network: Website – A network of many women focused podcasts, celebrity heavy if that is your thing
- S-Town: Website – RSS Feed – 1 season
- This American Life: Website – RSS Feed
- Dirty John: Website – RSS Feed
Well-known Australians
- Chat 10 Looks 3 (Leigh Sales and Annabel Crabb): Website – RSS Feed – Come for the intelligent banter and book talk but not for the sound quality (Edit: sound quality is now excellent, long live Brenda!)
- Bang On (Myf Warhurst and Zan Rowe): Website – RSS Feed
- The Osher Gunsberg Podcast: Website – RSS Feed – Long interview format
- Story Club: Website – RSS Feed – short hilarious episodes
- Ten Questions with Adam Zwar: Website – RSS Feed – Short interview format
- The Full Catastrophe: Website – RSS Feed
- Childproof (Tony Martin and Geraldine Quinn): Website – RSS Feed
- Ladies we need to talk (Yumi Stynes): Website – RSS Feed
Australian Comedians
- Wilosophy with Wil Anderson: Website – RSS Feed – hasn’t been a new episode for few months
- TOFOP (Wil Anderson and Charlie Clausen): Website – RSS Feed
- FOFOP (Wil Anderson): Website – RSS Feed
- Free to a Good Home (Ben Jenkins and Michael Hing): Website – RSS Feed – availability is patchy
- Like I’m a Six-year-old (Tom Ballard): Website – RSS Feed
- 2 Guys 1 Cup (Wil Anderson and Charlie Clausen): Website – RSS Feed – AFL Podcast
- Stop the Posts (James Colley and Nick Fischer): Website – RSS Feed
- Can You Take This Photo Please?: Website – RSS Feed
Just Good Quality Podcasts
- It’s Not A Race: Website – RSS Feed – An exploration of race in Australia
- Burn Your Passport (Nazeem Hussain): Website – RSS Feed
- Revisionist History: Website
- The Guilty Feminist: Website
- Tea with Alice: Website – RSS Feed
- Mum says my memoir is a lie: Website – RSS Feed
- Pretty for an Aboriginal: Website – RSS Feed
Australian Politics
- Australian Politics Live: Website – RSS Feed
- The Party Room: Website – RSS Feed
- The Double Disillusionists: Website – RSS Feed
- The Silent Majority: Website – RSS Feed – No recent episodes but an excellent back catalogue
- Is It On?: Website – RSS Feed
A bit quirky
- The Berlin Patient: Website – RSS Feed – The excruciating end of a relationship, analysed and dissected years later
- My Dad wrote a Porno: Website – RSS Feed – Does what it says on the tin
- The Dollop: Website – RSS Feed – Comedy/History, yeah it’s a thing
- Song Exploder: Website – RSS Feed
- Invisibilia: Website – RSS Feed – About the forces and instincts that make us do what we do
- Freakonomics Radio: Website – RSS Feed
- Sleep with Me: Website – RSS Feed – A guy who well…..puts you to sleep
- No such thing as a fish: Website – RSS Feed
- Stuff you should know: Website – RSS Feed
True Crime
- Trace: Website – RSS Feed
- Australian True Crime: Website – RSS Feed
- Phoebe’s Fall: Website – RSS Feed
- Bowraville: Website – RSS Feed
- Black Hands: Website – RSS Feed
Family/Parenting/Work
- Improving the Lives of Working Parents: Website – RSS Feed
- Meaningful Motherhood: Website – RSS Feed
- Work it Out: Website – RSS Feed
Podcasts for Kids
- Short and Curly: Website – RSS Feed – Kids ethics podcast, very very good
- Tumble: Website – RSS Feed – Science podcast
- Brains On: Website – RSS Feed – Science podcast
- Wow in the World: Website – RSS Feed – Science, Medicine and Technology
- But Why?: Website – RSS Feed
- Storynory: Website – RSS Feed
- The Unexplained Disappearance of Mars Patel: Website – RSS Feed
- Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child: Website – RSS Feed – Music for kids that parents won’t hate
- What if World: Website – RSS Feed – Storytelling and inquiry
- Story Pirates: Website – RSS Feed
- The Alien Adventures of Finn Caspian: Website – RSS Feed
Communication/Digital Communication/Technology
- Be the Drop: Website – RSS Feed – Storytelling and communication that connects and engages, from Adelaide
- Hot Copy Podcast: Website – RSS Feed
- Download this Show: Website – RSS Feed
- GrammarGirl Quick and Dirty Tips: Website – RSS Feed
Adelaide Podcasters
- Rooster Radio: Website – RSS Feed
- The Adelaide Show: Website – RSS Feed
- The Badcast: Website – RSS Feed
- The Message Pod: Website – RSS Feed
- The Third Wheel: Website – RSS Feed
Podcasts for Podcasters
- Free Podcast Course (John Lee Dumas): Website – RSS Feed – If you are interested in podcasting, listen to this by all means but please don’t stop here, there are deeper and better resources to chase it with.
- The Audacity to Podcast: Website – RSS Feed – very detailed with the more technical stuff
- Should I Start a Podcast?: Website – RSS Feed – Australian podcasting content!
- The Podcast Producers: Website – RSS Feed – 2 seasons available, season 1 is excellent for the non-technical aspects
- Podcasters’ Roundtable: Website – RSS Feed
- She Podcasts: Website – RSS Feed
- Audiocraft: Website – RSS Feed – More Australian Content, yay!
- Podschool Podcast: Website – RSS Feed