Rec me a podcast?

[gritkitty]

I got earbuds for my phone.

Rec me a podcast? I like stories (like Steal the Stars, Welcome to Night Vale, Wolf 359) and I listen to Writing Excuses and 99% Invisible. True crime doesn't interest me, and I'm not a fan of horror. But drop me a suggestion if podcasts are your thing.




(Crossposted to King Touchy)

Comments

[dorinda]

I listen to a few, and what your list makes me think of is Nate DiMeo's podcast "The Memory Palace" (in fact, I think I might have first heard of it via 99% Invisible?), which started in 2008. It's a short-form narrative history format, where he tells a true story from history, in a thoughtful and often touching style, backed with music.

It has a website here, https://thememorypalace.us/ where he mentions that it's not serialized so you can start anywhere (and in fact starting from episode 1 will take you through some of its early growing pains, so you might want to come back to that later).

There's a wikipedia article here, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Memory_Palace with links to various good reviews and descriptions.

Its distributor, Radiotopia, has a page for it here, https://www.radiotopia.fm/podcasts/the-memory-palace where it describes The Memory Palace as "a storytelling podcast about the past".

I really enjoy it. Sometimes I like to let a bunch of them stack up so I can fall into a mesmerized headspace while I'm walking around.