A luxuriously long list for your next train or plane journey.
ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT
Global Arts and Entertainment on the BBC World Service
openculture
Jane Austen’s books, Walt Whitman’s poetry. Download a free copy of Pride and Prejudice at Oculture and more besides:
COMEDY
LEARN A LANGUAGE
openculture
French, German, Spanish, Japanese and even Arabic lessons can be found here
Basic German lessons from The Guardian
MUSIC
Lifestyle Chill
A releaxing soundscape of chillout downtempo tracks from the Lifestyle PodNetwork.
NPR
Lou Reed, Tom Waits, Spiritualized, The Ting Tings live in concert
Times Sounds Podcast
David Bowie, Paul Weller, Fatboy Slim, Jarvis Cocker, Scissor Sisters, Rufus Wainwright and more…
BBC Music
Joe Strummer, The White Stripes and The Stone Roses are just some of the acts profiled in music documentaries on the on BBC6 Play it Again menu.
Indie Heaven at XFM
Arctic Monkeys, Kaiser Chiefs and more.
Old School Rock Classics
Fantastic Elvis Costello, Elvis Presley, Bob Dylan, Beach Boys,
John Lennon documentaries + Blues, Jazz and Classical:
The Scissor Sisters Official Podcast
COOKING
Jamie Oliver
The official Jamie Oliver podcast!
MEDITATION
Isolation Pod
Guided visualisations to promote wellbeing and spiritual awareness
POLITICS, RELIGION AND HOOCHIES
Australian comedy/doco cult broadcaster John Safran
PEOPLE
Interviews and talks with
Rupert Everett, Armando Iannucci, Doris Lessing, Julie Walters, A.A. Gill, Griff Rhys Jones, Will Self.
TRAVEL
openculture
National Geographic, Lonely Planet and Frommer’s travel podcasts are linked on one page (with many more on offer) at Oculture
The Alternative Guide to Holland – Curious Orange
CBC Podcasts
The Best in Canadian Music, Books, Comedy and Culture at CBC
LIFESTYLE PODNETWORK
You can find more great podcasts, on a wide variety of topics at the Lifestyle PodNetwork
