Podcasts I love

My iPod and radio transmitter (and bud earphones, and shell earphones, and $100 computer speakers and sub woofer) are daily companions of mine, providing the kind of on-call entertainment that the radio's unforgiving schedule never can!

Below is a list of my faviourite podcasts. You can search for any of these by name in iTunes.

So many shows from ABC's Radio National. I love our Australian public broadcaster!

• Background Briefing


• Big Ideas


• In Conversation


• Late Night Live


• Movie Time


• Music Show, The


• Philosopher's Zone


• The Law Report


• The Media Report


• The Night Air


• The Religion Report


• The Science Show

Technical podcasts, can be Java specific or not.

• Aussie Tech Head


• DrunkAndRetired.com Podcast. Usually on topic Java talk, sometimes amusing off topic talk, sometimes "I wish they were retired - from podcasting!"


• The Java Posse. Excellent chat about everything Java from guys who sound like they know what they are talking about!


• this WEEK in TECH. Wide variety of coverage for anything tech related (rarely programming related though. Cool range of panel members, sometimes annoying when they all talk over each other.

Comedy

• Kasper Hauser Comedy Podcast


• The Chaser's War on Everything - another ABC product, this time from ABC the TV Station


• triple j Raw Comedy - another ABC product, this time from our "youth oriented" Radio Station

Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Horror!

• British Science Fiction Podcast


• Escape Pod - brilliant, excellent podcast for sci-fi short stories


• Pseudopod - brilliant, excellent podcast for horror short stories


• Sci Fi Saturday Night


• Sci-Fi and Fantasy Podcast


• The Sci-Fi and Fantasy Podcast


• Variant Frequencies

Gaming.. as in computer games or RPG's

• Have Games, Will Travel


• One Life Left

Writing

• Grammar Girl's Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing