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.