1. The BBC's newspod: 30 minute morning news bulletin from the Beeb. All the depressing news of the day in an easily digestible form.
2. The Guardian Science Weekly: exactly what it says on the tin.
3. The Kevin Pollak Chat Show. A long weekly interview show with - usually - someone pretty interesting. He used to start the show with a great corny joke but alas he doesn't do that anymore.
4. The BBC's Start The Week: Monday morning BBC arts show.
5. Hardcore History: an intermittant history podcast, usually pretty good.
6. In Our Time: Melvyn Bragg and a panel of experts look at one particular event in history.
7. Mark Kermode & Simon Mayo's Film Reviews: can be quite fun or very irritating. Or both.
8. The Bugle: John Oliver and Andy Zaltzman do a satirical news roundup for The Times.
9. Doug Benson's I Love Movies: His name is Doug and he loves movies.
10. What Would Herzog Do?: I've just started listening to this one. Its a monthly and pretty good so far. Two geeks try to live their life as Herzog would wish them to do.
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I love audiobooks. There's no way I could listen to one riding my bike, though. I'd either crash, or miss big parts of the book. I listen to audiobooks while doing tasks that don't engage my mind, like folding laundry, doing dishes, working out at the gym, or walking.
Speedskater
Crashing is not a problem for me. I dont go fast and I ride a heavy gearless reconditioned bike from the 30's.
But what about the people who might crash into you?
The Herzog podcast sounds fascinating, if, uh, slightly terrifying.
I actually can do very little while listening to anything, because I inevitably end up just sitting in a chair listening. I am not much of a multi-tasker. I suppose I could possibly ride a bike, but I'd probably end up somewhere unfamiliar.
Of course, that might be good if I was listening to WWHD? at that point.
My favourite at the moment is the Barry from Watford podcast which almost made me literally wet myself the other morning. I'm glad I was at home listening to it and not on public transport.
Seana
I only really cycle in the cycle lanes so I dont have to worry about honking horns etc.
Perhaps I should also mention that I've been listeing to iTunes University a lot these days. Tons of good stuff on there.
Rob
I shall check it out this very day.
I wonder how they might feel at work if I just listen to my Ipod while ringing up sales?
Sure, I'll probably make a lot of mistakes, but I'll be more cheerful, and definitely better informed.
Jonathan Franzen was on Oprah yesterday--I was wrong about that previously. It went pretty well for him, but wasn't very substantive, given the format. I'm not sure how he felt, sitting in the audience afterwards, when the next book club "book" was announced--Charles Dickens but a Tale of Two Cities and Great Expectations in one volume, and everyone got both the book and a free Kindle. Lot of ecstatically screaming women there, let me tell you. I think he may have had some second thoughts about making it up with Miz Winfrey.
Seana
I finished the book this morning and I'm going to post a mini review tomorrow.
I know he's a friend of yours and he seems like a perfectly nice person but for me Freedom was a bit of an artistic failure. Certainly not a disaster or anything like that just not up to his own high standards.
I am certainly not one to get on a high horse as I basically write hardboiled detective fiction but even so I think Freedom is somewhat flawed.
Anyway I'll blog further about this tomorrow.
actually failure is too strong a word.
I'll write my review and then go read that one you linked to.
I doubt that you'll run into a lot of opposition from me. I think the Corrections is a lot better.
But I think he did what he set out to do, which was to reach out to a broader readership in a declining literary age. And there are plenty of people who responded to this book in a way that didn't happen for me, so it heartens me somewhat that it did work for them. It's probably the weirdest stance I've ever taken on a book, or at least the most interested while being detached.
Don't put yourself down as "just a crime writer". I don't really see the distinction. Besides, you're an excellent critic so of course we want to here what you have to say.
Seana, what's a few dollars here and there if it makes the work day easier.
Adrian, I'm looking forward to the review. I've been on the fence about reading Freedom for awhile though I'll probably get to at some point.
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