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  • Friday Night Comedy from Radio 4. Download the best satirical comedy from Radio 4, every Friday. Features The News Quiz, The Now Show and Dead Ringers. Link here .... Radio 4 Comedy
  • The Frank Skinner Show. Frank Skinner's on Absolute Radio every Saturday morning and you can enjoy the show's podcast right here. Radio Academy Award winning Frank, Emily and Alun bring you a show which is like joining your mates for a coffee. Link here.... Frank Skinner
  • The Graham Norton Show. Graham Norton entertaining the nation, with a vibrant mix of celeb guests and chat. From BBC Radio 2. Link here ..... Graham Norton
  • Steve Allen – The Whole Show. No one is safe from this man's tongue - Steve Allen takes to the airwaves on LBC every Sunday to Friday morning from 4am. Hear all of Steve's show with the news, travel and breaks taken out. Link here .... The Whole Show
  • The Murder Police Podcast. True Crime, as told by those that catch the Killers!
  • Amateur Traveler. Up to Episode 475! The award-winning travel podcast Amateur Traveler talks about a different destination every week. Why should you go there and what should you do. The Amateur Traveler started in 2005 and comes out pretty much every Saturday morning California time, so we have covered a lot of destinations. Each episode of Amateur Traveler focuses on a different travel destination. As a rule, we focus a one-week itinerary. What should you see? What should you do? What should you eat?
  • Getting off the Beaten Path - More into Travel? Especially as we can’t do any at the moment! Why not listen to Getting off the Beaten Path: A discussion with Travel Writing Legend Joe Cummings
  • Interested in learning more about Faraway Places? Here is a 80 Days: An Exploration Podcast Every episode we take you to a little-known country, territory, settlement or city and explore the history, culture and people of each place over approximately an hour and a half. This episodes is about Trinidad and Tobago.
  • Fancy a bit of true crime? Listen to The Orange Door, part one of a 7-part series called The Orange Tree. Jennifer Cave doesn’t show up for her first day of work. Find out how the story developed. Link here... The Orange Tree
  • Do you like True Crime stories? Here is the first of five episodes of Season 6 of Somebody Knows Something. This Canadian podcast works alongside family members of victims to investigate cold cases. The show looks into the disappearance of Donald Izzett Jr., who's been missing for 25 years. The last time his mother heard from him was when her son called crying, asking for money while on a road trip. Before she could respond, the call went dead, and she never heard from him again. Link here....Somebody Knows Something
  • Historian Bettany Hughes presents the first in a series of three discussions tracing the development of feminist ideas from the 1960s onwards. Call Yourself a Feminist
  • First of all, one from the Mind Your Language Group Newsletters has a link to a podcast episode entitled Hey no problem. Bye. The social dance of Phatics, which is episode 46 from a Podcast series called Lingthusiasm. How are you? Thanks, No Problem. Stock, ritualistic social phrases like these, which are used more to indicate a particular social context rather than for the literal meaning of the words inside have a name in linguistics – they’re called phatics! The link to have a listen is here The Social Dance of Phatics
  • Here is a Podcast series from BBC Sounds called The Boring Talks. Here is episode 53, about Car Boot Sales
  • Multilevel Marketing Companies (MLMs), those ubiquitous enterprises that ensnare people in schemes to push products like makeup, banana-print leggings, jewelry and essential oils to their friends, families, social media networks and basically anyone they come in contact with. Here is episode 1 of a Podcast called The Dream, this one is entitled Wanna Swim in Cash?
  • LBC presenter James O’Brien has had many interesting personalities in his interview series Full Disclosure. Here, he interviews David Mitchell