Some More Podcasts

Those otherwise blank hours of sitting on trains, walking round the park and household chores I continue to fill with podcasts. Many remain the same as earlier years' posts on this page, so I'll limit myself to a few new additions:

• When it Hits the Fan, from a couple of experienced journalists / public relations guys, comes via BBC. It always provides an interesting take on contemporary scandals in the news, and the kinds of often transient stories that we obsess about at the time, but have forgotten a few months hence.
• Smart Cookies is a niche podcast where the urbane host quizzes in-depth a guest on all kinds of subjects, often based on a recently published book. I don't listen to them all - many episodes exceed an hour - but am feeling it's maybe time I became a patron.
• Law and Disorder is an independently produced podcast addressing contemporary and sometimes historical subjects where law is at the heart of the issue. It's fairly high-brow I suppose, but I'm no lawyer and follow most of it without difficulty.
• Page 94 is another alternative take on recent events from the long-lived and estimable Private Eye team.
• Unhedged is a twice-weekly FT podcast about finance and the markets. They do a great job making sense of what could easily be a dull-dull subject.
• PC PRO is roughly an hour a week about computers and related stuff by a group of tech journalists. This is either down your street or it isn't.
• The Angry Clean Energy Guy tries to make his audience feel optimistic about the coming climate catastrophe. Maybe some of us can escape, after all.

One podcast that's now wrapped up for good is Uncle Jim's World of Bonds, which was an excellent potted summary of the bond market once or twice a week. Alas now, the podcaster has retired from financial markets.