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📣 vintageclothldn

Best Podcasts of 2024?


It's that time of the year again. The Economist has released their best podcasts of 2024 list - https://archive.ph/Bh2Y0#selection-977.4-977.25

Personal favorites:

Conversations with Tyler - Tobi Lütke on Creating Shopify for Americans as a German in Canada (Ep. 221). I found Tobi's viewpoint as a European who has set up a business in North America to be particularly interesting and unique.

The Rest is Politics - Trump Returns: What Now? I was not pleased by the result but this podcast helped me process it and understand some of the reasoning behind it.

The Social Radars - Dan Siroker. First time coming across the Optimizely story and found it a fascinating one.

What's on your list?

  👤 BMc2020 Accepted Answer ✓
The best podcast of 2024 ran from 2007 to 2012

https://thehistoryofrome.typepad.com/the_history_of_rome/200...

I listened to all 179 episodes of the History of Rome podcast.

From a simpler time before advertising.

179- The End The history of The History of Rome...Why the Western Empire Fell when it did...Some thoughts on the future...Thank you, goodnight.

178- Not With A Bang But A Whimper In the last few years of the Western Empire a series of Emperors came and went. The cycle finally ended in 476 with the exile of Romulus Augustulus.

177- The Burning Ships In 468 the two halves of the Empire combined forces to dislodge the Vandals from North Africa.They failed spectacularly.

👤 lbhdc
Fall of Civilization is my favorite each year. They only released one (very long) episode in 2024. Each episode is pretty dense, and I end up listening to each one a few times. Can't recommend it enough.
👤 hk1337
I have really enjoyed a new one that has popped up.

Unbiased by jordanismylawyer

She gives a rundown of a days events, gives context, and legal analysis

👤 fiftyacorn
We have ways of making you talk - ww2 podcast also have some great walking thr field youtube videos
👤 jhickok
I have no idea when these podcasts began, but currently listening to:

Hard Fork by the NYT

Robert Wright's NonZero

The Lovecraft Investigations

Within the Wires

Ctrl Alt Azure

Animal Spirits

Effectively Wild

The Changelog

👤 qwytw
Tides of History is probably the best history podcast I've ever listened to. Instead of a sequential retelling of events it focuses much more on cause and effects and presents a holistic analysis of archaeological findings, anthropology, genetics etc. merged with historical sources/texts.

I really loved the episodes on Ancient Rome and Italy that came out earlier this year. A completely opposite approach of History of Rome (which is also great but the early episodes on the "prehistorical" period were pretty meh.. of course it massively improved by the time it reached the mid/late Republic and especially during the Imperial period).

👤 kamaitachi
In no particular order:

Unhedged

The Rest is Politics

Witness History (BBC)

The Rachman Review

Late Night Linux

The Foreign Desk (Monocle)

Behind the Lines with Arthur Snell

[edit : reformat]

👤 Crier1002
i found Soft Skills Engineering Podcast this year and i'm enjoying it!