Podroll
Search for these wherever you get your podcasts.
Technology
- This Machine Kills: critical tech analysis and interviews
- Tech Won't Save Us: critical tech interviews
- Trashfuture: anti-tech comedy + interviews
- Cory Doctorow's Podcast: It's Cory Doctorow
Philosophy
- Very Bad Wizards: philosopher and psychologist discuss various topics, often humorously
- Philosophize This!: Entertaining and punchy summaries of philosophical texts and concepts.
- What's Left Of Philosophy?: Philosophy discussion podcast. Like "The Partially Examined Life", except they're all Marxists.
Ecology and environment
- Planet: Critical: Interviews about our predicament
- The Great Simplification: Interviews, hosted by a stockbroker-turned-ecological-economist who predicts the end of the fossil fuel age must necessarily be accompanied by a "great simplification".
Video games
- Resonant Arc: A video games "book club" in which the hosts play through classic games over several episodes and discuss the literary/storytelling aspects
- Cane And Rinse: They pick a game and discuss it
British politics
- Novara Media and Novara Live: left wing British current affairs
- Owen Jones Podcast: left wing current affairs, currently majorly focused on the crimes of Israel
- Gary's Economics: economic analysis from City trader-turned-inequality campaign Gary Stevenson
Others
- Behind The Bastards: Backstories of historical and contemporary "bastards", from Pol Pot to Peter Thiel
- Decoding The Gurus: Absurdly long breakdowns of other podcasts featuring contemporary "gurus" such as Jordan Peterson
- Strong Songs: A multi-instrumentalist breaks down classic pop and rock songs and explains why they're good.
- The Quiz Cupboard: A fun quiz with interesting twists in each round
- Jason Scott Talks His Way Out Of It: Internet Archivist Jason Scott chats about his projects and interests. Relaxing.
- Sleep With Me: Meandering bedtime stories. Deliberately extremely low-stakes, as mild as possible. I don't use it much at the moment but during periods of insomnia it is always welcome.