Desert Island Podcasts

What 3 podcasts would you choose to subscribe to on a desert island?

I think my initial selection would be:

Coverville - for the best of both worlds, old songs played by other (often emerging) artists

For Immediate Release - for news from both sides of the pond!

Six Pixels of Separation - for social network news and, Mitch is a cool guy!

This may all change but, that's my thoughts for now.

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Permalink Reply by Paul Hutchinson on February 15, 2008 at 11:55am

The Vobes Show - for frequency, cheesiness, and partial lunacy.

The Bitterest Pill - for depth with humour, and something I can relate to.

The Mr. Nice Guy Show - for bitterness and rancour, in a bite size piece.

(limiting it to 3 is artificial though, isn't it?)

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Permalink Reply by fatBuzz on February 15, 2008 at 1:42pm

Ah, the Bitterest Pill...and The Hollywood Podcast, they'd need to be on my backup list, for sure.

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Permalink Reply by Gordon on February 15, 2008 at 12:03pm

Let's make it 3 (ish)

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Permalink Reply by fatBuzz on February 15, 2008 at 1:41pm

Bit disappointed the tartanpodcast isn't on there, boss, but I forgive you....

Mine would be;

This American Life (it's always great hearing how wonderfully messed up the most developed nation in the land is. No offense).
Football Weekly from Guardian Unlimited (always good to hear James Richardson's puns).
Top of the Pods (when it was being regularly produced late 2005).

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Permalink Reply by Brad P. from NJ on February 15, 2008 at 4:23pm

Hmmmm.... three....

Coverville This was I get a really wide selection of tunes (sorry, Mark)

Escape Pod This way, I get a really wide selection of new science fiction/fantasy stories

NPR's Wait... Wait... Don't Tell Me I get news of the world, but with a twist to keep in interesting

Of course, if anyone starts a desert island survival PodCast, one of these would get dropped... probably Wait... Wait...

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Permalink Reply by fatBuzz on February 15, 2008 at 4:53pm

Brad is officially banned from the show.

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Permalink Reply by Brad P. from NJ on February 15, 2008 at 5:54pm

If Brian goes off-Pod, you're in there... before CC, PodCast Paul, Vic Galloway... or t'other ones.

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Permalink Reply by fatBuzz on February 15, 2008 at 6:08pm

To be fair, if the tartanpodcast was your desert island podcast, you'd soon be chewing your own fingers off for lack of regular new content!

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Permalink Reply by Gabor Kovacs on February 15, 2008 at 6:49pm

3? That's tough.

A music podcast. Three From Leith - www.threefromleith.com - or the tartanpodcast if Mark can recapture the buzz .. and the signs are good.

Something for the brain. Am I allowed to say the BBC Radio 4 In Our Time or is that heresy on these pages?

The World's Tech podcast

Some of my favourites have faded - John Buckley's excellent Citizen Scoop or Dissident Vox, politipunk, Top of the Pods. So trying to choose 3 different things, and not 15, was hard.

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Permalink Reply by Brad P. from NJ on February 15, 2008 at 7:00pm

Oooooohhhhhh.... In Our Time. When Melvin Bragg's not arguing with his panel, it works well.

I agree that this 3 thing is way too difficult. I'm a packrat by nature, and getting rid of stuff is emotionally wrenching.