Wednesday, August 29, 2007

The Word Nerds gave me a plug...

...and talked about inside language, using many examples from bicycling, which is very good in itself isn't it? The Word Nerds is a podcast about words, language and why we say the things we do - or so it is presented in the opening tune. As so many other podcasts you have the opportunity to give a shout out through mychingo. I had completely forgotten I had taken that opportunity.

I gave a mild persiflage of the opening sentences and without any comment whatsoever, show #91 opens with exactly that clip. And a link to this blog is put on the show notes. My statcounter reports a significant surge in visits and a considerable portion of the visits are redirects from the Word Nerds home page.

So, welcome to my humble blog, dear Word Nerds, Word Nerd listeners and Word Nerd affiliates. But now that we are talking. Do you also feel a bit gigglish about the opening formula 'say the things we do' and the rating? I just had to make fun of that. Did you notice?

Another thought: hopping on the show like that and comfortably draw some web attention, isn't that a bit 'wheel sucker'-ish by me? Hehehe.

Wednesday, August 22, 2007

Marathon interview J. A. A. van Doorn

Arend jan Heerma van Voss zoekt naar woorden. Er is een zekere passie in de interviewer. Ik heb het gevoel dat hij niet alleen ongelofelijk veel respect voor de geinterviewde Van Doorn heeft. Hij is ook geinspireerd, maar nog op zoek om zijn gedachten te ordenen. Van Doorn wacht het geduldig af.

Zo gaat het interview. Heerma van Voss zoekt en Van Doorn blijft geduldig. En zo zoeken we onze weg. Door de vaderlandse politiek, door het Duitse Socialisme (opnieuw) en de ontwikkeling van de sociologie. Wat mij betreft mag het nog wel langer dan drie uur duren. Wat ben ik blij dat deze radio ook als podcast uitgebracht wordt.

Tuesday, August 21, 2007

The Byzantine Empire on podcast

The history of the Byzantine Empire has greatly escaped me on the whole. Only podcasts and a book by Umberto Eco (Badolino) have bring it closer to me and I have begun to understand its tremendous importance. One podcast series is entirely dedicated to the Byzantines: 12 Byzantine Rulers.

Lars Brownworth, who presents the podcasts, is a lecturer of History at the Stony Brooks School on Long Island, New York. In order to squeeze in the podcasting with his other duties and still maintain a professional level of the show, he puts them out about once every two months. As a consequence, the series is still running after 2 years - though the last episode is expected by the end of the summer. He conducts the lectures in a straightforward monologue style producing episodes taking twenty to thirty minutes. In spite of his great diction, sound level and text, it makes for the more demanding sort of podcast. Tougher to listen to, but in its style, the very best I have met.

So if you are in for a light and easy introduction to Byzantine History, the series is far too heavy. Too long, too many details, too slow a pace. This is the stuff for the discerning. You wanted the history of the Byzantine Empire? You will get it all. In 15 lectures, going from the third century, step by step, touching on all the leaders up to the fifteenth century, without too much analysis, mostly the facts.

Monday, August 20, 2007

Douwe Draaisma bij Simek 's Nachts

Simek was weer eens echt heel goed. Misschien heeft de vakantie hem goed gedaan. In ieder geval had hij het soort gast dat hem ligt: Douwe Draaisma. (Andere voorbeelden waren Daniel Lohues en Harry Muskee; zit het hem in de pretentieloze, nuchtere en tegelijk openhartige, tentatieve noorderlingen en oosterlingen?) Het zijn de mooiste uitzendingen, waarin de gast en Martin geconcentreerd aan het spreken zijn en er ter plekke een ontdekking wordt gedaan.

In deze uitzending wordt het verband tussen arrogantie en verlegenheid ontdekt. De aanleiding is ook al mooi. De uitleg van Draaisma dat verlegenheid een vorm van narcisme is. Degene die verlegen is, is eigenlijk teveel met zichzelf bezig en dat inzicht gaf hem de uiteindelijke drijfveer om zijn verlegenheid op te geven. Het ging samen met het verdwijnen van de arrogantie, de etterige, verveelde middelbare scholier. En dan zien ze het verband. Dat zijn de krenten in de pap.

Het heeft me teruggebracht bij mijn liefde voor dit programma. Daarom houd ik van Simek 's Nachts. Daarom is het de eerste podcast die ik ooit beluisterde en zal ik ook altijd blijven luisteren. Daar heeft hij zijn krediet verdient en kan ik hem zijn gestuntel vergeven. Want, ach, wie niet probeert die zal niet stuntelen, maar ook niet slagen. Wie stuntelt, grijpt tenminste naar de kans. Alles beter dan de veilige weg. Ik denk dat Martin Simek daar hartgrondig mee zal instemmen.

Sunday, August 19, 2007

Simek bij Sickesz

Is mevrouw Sickesz een kwakzalver? Ik heb eerder geschreven van wel. Ik kreeg gelegenheid om die gedachte te toetsen doordat ze geinterviewd werd door Martin Simek. Hijzelf begint de uitzending met te vertellen dat hij bevooroordeeld is, omdat hij zo goed geholpen werd door een leerling van mevrouw Sickesz. We beginnen dus allebei met een vooroordeel, zij het het tegenovergestelde.

Later in de uitzending mag regisseur Gijs Groenteman meepraten, maar ook die blijkt bevooroordeeld te zijn. En zoals zo vaak, van vooroordelen kom je niet gemakkelijk af. Daar waar Simek en Groenteman een zekere adoratie voor de oude mevrouw blijven houden, ga ik door de grond van opgestapelde ergernis. Ik heb nog geprobeerd om het wetenschappelijk gehalte van haar artikelen over de orthomanuele geneeskunde (OMG) te peilen, maar dat is gewoon mijn vakgebied niet. We gaan daarom af op wat ze in de podcast gezegd heeft.

In de podcast gaat het even over de OMG, maar dan vooral in een sfeer waarin de uitgangspunten van deze therapie volkomen vanzelfsprekend zijn en de gevestigde medische orde totaal belachelijk naief is; 'daar kijken ze helemaal niet naar.' Waar het in veel sterkere mate over gaat is Mayita (Maria) Sickesz' spirituele ervaring en overtuiging. Ook daar is de sfeer er een waarin haar ervaringen en inzichten volkomen vanzelfsprekend zijn en daardoor kritiekloos over de luisteraar uitgestort worden. Met pregnante en passants als 'en de big bang, daar is natuurlijk ook helemaal niets van waar'.

Voor Simek is ze oprecht. Ik denk dat ze misschien oprecht is, maar daarmee dan ook een beetje gek. Gek in die zin dat ze haar eigen kronkels veel te serieus neemt en a priori stelt boven wat gevestigde inzichten zijn. Misschien goed voor een stevige persoonlijkheid, maar als je het allemaal op een rijtje zet, wel een onafgebroken reeks van zeer boude beweringen die volstrekt oncontroleerbaar zijn. Met een ding kan ik het eens zijn: ze is inderdaad een mystica. En een mystica is veel eerder een kwakzalver dan een oprechte arts. Daar kunnen een paar artikelen niet veel aan veranderen.

Saturday, August 18, 2007

Economics Podcasts

Economics 100B (Berkeley) Economic Analysis--Macro (review , site , feed )
Now is a particularly interesting time to study macro-economics. Not only in the light of the upcoming elections, where the suggested economic policies can be measured with what you learn on the podcast. Also because of the stormy developments in the global economy and national economies.

Harvard Business IdeaCast (review , site , feed )
Innovative business ideas laid out in short podcasts.

Friday, August 17, 2007

Arts and Culture Podcasts

This post is regularly updated. It gives a list of cultural podcasts with the accompanying thoughts I have about them.



Inspired Minds, (review, site, feed).

The Deutsche Welle cultural podcast, in each episode paying attention to one artist.



Times talks, (review, site, feed).

Times Talks is a podcast of the New York Times. It is a recording of a talk before a live audience at the Times Center with figures from American Culture.



Celtic Myth Podshow, (review, site, feed).

A wide variety of stories from the Celtic traditions, that is Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Cornish and from Brittany. The way the show brings the tales is traditional: by telling them. The way they phrase it themselves is: 'bringing the tales and stories of the ancient Celts to your fireplace.' 



Irving Poetry podcast, (review, site, feed).

The Irvings read their amateurish poetry like characters from (the real) John Irving's A prayer for Owen Meany. John Irving and Chris (Christine) Irving, are like the Rev. Dudley Wiggin and his wife Barb (Barbara) Wiggin, only they left the Episcopalian Church to become pagans. And they are no longer reinventing the Christmas Pageant, but instead engage in bland, free verse, they call poetry. Just as the Rev. Wiggin, Mr. Irving is a former pilot and has a warring influence in his language.



Forgotten Classics (review, site, feed)

Listen to Julie reading from her classics and other selected texts.



Namaste Stories (reviewsitefeed)

A total immersion podcast. The host makes the music, writes the (very literary) text and reads it, with a restrained passion that is mesmerizing.



New World Orders (reviewsitefeed)

A thriller and conspiracy plot brought to audio by a team that alternately seem to take the genre seriously and then seem to mock it a bit by using all the cliches of the trade.



Entitled opinions  (reviewsitefeed)  

From Virgil to the Virgin Mary, from the historical Jesus to Athenian Democracy; Entitled Opinions, with its braggadocious title, earns it.



Behind the Black Mask (reviewsitefeed)

Shannon Clute and Richard Edwards sit down with Crime/Mystery/Noir authors and dissect their work.



Out of the past (reviewsitefeed)

An examination of films influenced by the Film Noir movement.



Science Fiction and Politics (reviewsite, feed)

Political Science course using ideas in SciFi novels as illustration.



Welcome to Mars (reviewsitefeed)

Creator Ken Hollings collects non-fiction oddments about the fantastic futuristic world of the fifties.



Red Panda (reviewsitefeed)

Audio drama full of kung-fu and snappy dialog. You will love it most for the wonderful characters and their dialog.



Night's Knights (reviewsitefeed)

A gritty piece of fiction effectively working the art of horror.



7th Son (reviewsitefeed

A thriller trilogy so compelling I couldn't stop listening.



Naxos Classical Music Spotlight Podcast (review, site, feed)

Promotional podcast for Naxos records.



Schlaflos in Muenchen (review, site, feed)

The legendary audio blog  by Annik Rubens. (German Language Podcast)



Oy Mendele! (review, site, feed)

A discontinued podcast ironically subtitled Jewish Media Conspiracy



Sonic Society (review, site, feed)

Podcast dedicated to audio drama. The style is very cartoonish - you have got to like that.



Writing Show (review, site, feed)

The podcast where writing is always the story. All angles and aspects on writing, getting published and making a buck out of your greatest passion.



Midwest Writer (review, site, feed)

Here is a podcast that will help you write your novel. Writer Jean Tennant takes you step by step through the process. There is nothing specifically Midwest about this, other than that Tennant is from the Midwest.



English 117S, (review, site, feed).

Professor Charles Altieri very passionately introduces Shakespeare by means of the most important works.



In Our Time, (review, site, feed).

BBC four's program about the history of thought. Show host Melvyn Bragg meets weekly with three outstanding academicians to discuss subjects varying from historic persons and occurrences to scientific and philosophical issues in their historical perspective, giving a deep insight in culture. As far as quality is concerned this podcast ranks among the very best. The only drawback comes from it being a radio program: it is not flexible to the length. It is also a pity the feed offers no more than the last show. But the on line archives disclose every show.



Africa Past and Present (review, site, feed)

A podcast from Michigan State University acquainting us by means of interviews with interesting people with the continent and cultures of Africa.



Geography of World Cultures, (review, site:Stanford on iTunes U, feed).

Enhanced podcast (maps are added to the audio) about the spread of languages and religions in the world. We see that the political and cultural boundaries are not the same as the boundaries of language and religion.



Simek 's Nachts

Interviewprogramma van Martin Simek. In de podcast wordt in verband met de rechten de muziek weggeknipt. In de stream volledig te beluisteren.









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Thursday, August 16, 2007

Geography Podcasts

This post is regularly updated. It gives a list of Geography podcasts with the accompanying thoughts I have about them. All my reviews on these podcasts can be found under the label geography.

Geography of World Cultures, (review, site:Stanford on iTunes U, feed).
Enhanced podcast (maps are added to the audio) about the spread of languages and religions in the world. We see that the political and cultural boundaries are not the same as the boundaries of language and religion.

Global Geopolitics (review, site:Stanford on iTunes U, feed).
Martin Lewis systematically discusses, in nine lectures, all areas on the globe and disclose the problems in geopolitics. Enhanced podcast (maps are added to the audio).

Geography 130 (Berkeley) Natural Resources and Population (review, site, feed)
Lecture series that explains how our earth is populated, why it is populated the way it is, how we use our resources and in the process we come to understand how the system is strained.

Africa Past and Present (review, site, feed)
A relatively new podcast from Michigan State University acquainting us by means of interviews with interesting people with the continent of Africa.

Iran Podcast (review, site, feed)
Three minute installments telling tidbits of Iranian culture, mostly about the festival of Noruz.

From Our Own Correspondent (review, site, feed)
Weekly podcast by the BBC. Correspondents from all over the world give a monologue about the place where they are stationed.

Africa (Stanford, Travel)
Lecture series preparing for a journey to various African countries. The first on the list: Morocco.

Asia (Stanford, Travel)
Lecture series preparing for a journey to South Asia. Insights about the cultures, languages and economy of the south of India.



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Wednesday, August 15, 2007

Philosophy and Thought Podcasts

This post is regularly updated. It gives a list of Philosophy podcasts with the accompanying thoughts I have about them. All my reviews on these podcasts can be found under the label philosophy.

Philosophy Bites (review, site, feed)
David Edmonds and Nigel Warburton talk a wide array of philosophical subjects and interview philosophers on their specialized terrains.

The Philosophy Podcast (review, site, feed)
Excerpts from philosophical classics read out on podcast (in English).

Philosophy 103 - Introduction to Philosophy (review, site, feed)
A podcast from York College, the city university of New York. An introduction to philosophy by Professor Howard Ruttenberg.

Philosophy 7 (Berkeley) on Existentialism (review, site, feed)
The course will be organized around various attempts to reinterpret the Judeo/Christian God, and to determine in what sense, if at all, such a God is still a living God. We will study Dostoevsky's and Kierkegaard's attempts to preserve a non-theological version of the God of Christianity, as well as Nietzsche's attempt to save us from belief in any version of God offered by our tradition. We will view and discuss three films that deal with related issues.

Legal Studies 103 - Theories of Law and Society (Berkeley) (review, site, feed)
Professor David Lieberman taking the listener from human and civil rights through thinkers Maine, Marx, Durkheim and Weber.

Haring Podcast (review, site, feed)
Dutch podcast. Filosoof Bas Haring op radio (en TV?) bezig met het populariseren van filosofische vraagstukken. Mag je masturberen in de trein, bijvoorbeeld.

Bioethics podcast (review, site, feed)
A podcast about ethics in the realm of medical technology and bio-technology with a clear fundamentalist Christian signature.

In Our Time, (review, site, feed).
BBC four's program about the history of thought. Show host Melvyn Bragg meets weekly with three outstanding academicians to discuss subjects varying from historic persons and occurrences to scientific and philosophical issues in their historical perspective. As far as quality is concerned this podcast ranks among the very best. The only drawback comes from it being a radio program: it is not flexible to the length. It is also a pity the feed offers no more than the last show. But the on line archives disclose every show.

Big Ideas (TVO), (review, site, feed)
TV lectures about various subjects on podcast.

Zencast (review, site, feed)
Dharma teachings by Gil Fronsdal and others. Live from a Buddhist center in California.

Your Purpose Centered Life (review, site, feed)
Life coach Eric Maisel presents his philosophy for Authentic Living; a life in which one chooses and defines meaning actively rather than find or receive it externally.



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Tuesday, August 14, 2007

News & Politics podcasts

This post is regularly updated. It gives a list of News and Politics podcasts with the accompanying thoughts I have about them. News and Politics are not my main interest and as a result I have (not yet) assigned a specific label in this category. Some issues can be found under Israel, others under Law and Society, but neither label is definitive.



Fresh Air

NPR's rubric as a podcast.



On the Media

New York Public Radio's (WNYC) rubric as a podcast. A program presented by Brooke Gladstone and Bob Garfield.



University Channel Podcast

University lectures held at various academies all around the world, mostly engaging in subjects pertaining current News and Politics. This podcast is also known as UChannel.



CFR podcast

Podcast with lectures and interviews from the Council of Foreign Relations. Frequently the lectures are also released by UChannel.



UCLA Israel Studies

Lectures held at the center of Israel Studies.



Economist

On a weekly basis, the upcoming issue of The Economist magazine is previewed in a podcast and in addition, there are subject related podcasts.



Dan Carlin's Common Sense

Dan Carlin's political commentary



Interview op Vrijdag

Dutch language podcast. Podcast van Het radio 1 programma De Ochtenden, meer in het bijzonder het Vrijdagse gedeelte van de VPRO. In principe een interview, maar in de praktijk meer dan dat.



NRC FM

Dutch language podcast. Nieuwe podcast van NRC Handelsblad met forumdiscussies over actuele zaken.



ICT Update

Dutch language podcast. Dit is een panel stijl cast die min of meer wekelijks uitkomt met een klein uur gesprek over allerlei nieuwsfeiten in de ICT (high tech noemen we dat in Israel) die in Nederland de koppen hebben gehaald. Met Mark Baars, Jasper Kimmel en Maurice Zondag.









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Monday, August 13, 2007

Science Podcasts

This post is regularly updated. It gives a list of Science podcasts with the accompanying thoughts I have about them. All my reviews on these podcasts can be found under the label science.

Distillations (review, site, feed)
Chemistry podcast. Varied program with Chemistry Education, Chemistry facts and history.

Engines of our Ingenuity (review, site, feed)
Short podcasts shedding an ironic light on progress, technological and otherwise

Are we alone? (review, site, feed)
Scientific musings around extraterrestrial life. That is, astrobiology.

Bioethics podcast (review, site, feed)
A podcast about ethics in the realm of medical technology and bio-technology with a clear fundamentalist Christian signature.

Talking Robots (review, site, feed)
A podcast about robotics and Artificial Intelligence. Talking Robots podcasts take around 20-30 minutes and contain interviews, very proficiently conducted by Sabine Hauert with specialists from the field.

Biota Podcast (review, site, feed)
A collection of interviews, conference lectures and conversations with artificial life developers, academics and users.

Ape Reality (review, site, feed)
Ape Reality is a free 10-15 minute audio podcast relating to the Noble Ape development and the Noble Ape Simulation recorded by Noble Ape creator, Tom Barbalet.

Physics for future Presidents (review, site, feed)
Also known as Descriptive Introduction to Physics. What every world leader needs to know about physics. Professor Richard Muller shows an amazing talent translating physics to daily practice.

Radiolab (review, site, feed)
WNYC's radio program about science.

Skeptics' Guide to the Universe (review, site, feed)
Discussion Panel style Podcast dedicated to the promotion of science and reason, the investigation of paranormal and pseudo scientific claims, improved standards of education for science and critical thinking skills.

Science Friday (NPR), (review, site, feed)
Popular science program

Replaceable You (Stanford) (reviewsitefeed)
Stanford's third lecture series about stem cell research and all that is involved in the field. This series concentrates on the subject of regenerative medicine.

Stem Cells: Policy and Ethics (Stanford), (review, site:Stanford on iTunes U, feed)
Five lectures covering the techniques, the research, the law and the ethical issues of stem cell research.

Straight talk about stem cells (Stanford) (review, site, feed)
Technology, law and ethics around stem cell research.

In Our Time, (review, site, feed).
BBC four's program about the history of thought. Show host Melvyn Bragg meets weekly with three outstanding academicians to discuss subjects varying from historic persons and occurrences to scientific and philosophical issues in their historical perspective. As far as quality is concerned this podcast ranks among the very best. The only drawback comes from it being a radio program: it is not flexible to the length. It is also a pity the feed offers no more than the last show. But the on line archives disclose every show.

The Missing Link, (review, site, feed).
A history podcast that delivers two essays per issue. The aim is to portray the history of science, but does not do so in a programmatic way, the essays are stand alone subjects.

Wise Counsel, (review, site, feed).
Dr. Dave has been hired by Mental Help Net, to do the interviews with professionals or clients and within a professional and academic version of psychology.



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Sunday, August 12, 2007

Dutch podcasts - podcasts in het Nederlands

Deze post wordt regelmatig bijgewerkt. Het geeft een overzicht van de Nederlandstalige podcasts die ik ken en mijn gedachten erover. Alle recensies over Nederlandse podcasts (en ander Nederlandstalig materiaal op dit blog) is te vinden onder het steekwoord Nederlands, of NL radio.

Bommel Hoorspel
De verhalen van Bommel verwerkt tot een hoorspel voor kinderen. Helemaal niet slecht gedaan, maar voor de volgroeide lezertjes geen luistervergelijk met het leesplezier.

Haring Podcast
Filosoof Bas Haring op radio (en TV?) bezig met het populariseren van filosofische vraagstukken. Mag je masturberen in de trein, bijvoorbeeld.

Interview Vrijdag
Podcast van Het radio 1 programma De Ochtenden, meer in het bijzonder het Vrijdagse gedeelte van de VPRO. In principe een interview, maar in de praktijk meer dan dat.

Marathon Interview
Een van de meest succesvolle uitvindingen van de VPRO radio. Bestaat al sinds 1986. De nieuwe interviews zijn tot podcasts verwerkt, maar stuk voor stuk, wordt ook het archief ontsloten. Inmiddels zijn de jaargangen 1986 - 1989 beschikbaar, met onvergetelijk materiaal daar tussen.

OVT
Het radioprogramma over de onvoltooid verleden tijd. Het beste zijn de thema-uitzendingen. Nu net is er een serie gestart naar aanleiding van het onvolprezen boek van Geert Mak In Europa. Daarnaast hadden we boeken die de wereld veranderden en vele andere rubrieken.

Simek 's Nachts
Interviewprogramma van Martin Simek. In de podcast wordt in verband met de rechten de muziek weggeknipt. In de stream volledig te beluisteren.

Geschiedewistjedatjes (reviewsitefeed)
Zeer simpele geschiedenis podcast. Kleine weetjes in minder dan twee minuten per podcast.

Sterke Geschiedenis (reviewsitefeed)
Kris kras door de wereldgeschiedenis met Tom Tacken, een groot verteltalent.

Veertien Achttien (reviewsitefeed)
Tom Tacken vertelt de eerste wereldoorlog in korte biografietjes

Hoor! Geschiedenis (review, site, feed)
Elke dag een stapje verder in de chronologie van de geschiedenis van Nederland en de Nederlandse cultuur. Podcasts van ongeveer vijf minuten, uitgebracht op elke werkdag door de ervaren verteller Feico Houweling.

De Geschiedenis Podcast (review, site, feed)
Podfaded geschiedenis podcast in door Hugo Teerds. Er zijn maar drie episodes. Het meest de moiete waard vind ik de aflevering over de Wetten van Hammurabi.

Volkskrant Podcasts
Zoals buitenlandse kranten doet ook de Volkskrant aan podcasts. Bij gelegenheid van Het WK en de Tour heb ik de podcasts geprobeerd en ben er danig op afgeknapt. Maar er is meer.

NRC FM
Een wekelijks gesprek, opgenomen in Felix Meritis in Amsterdam.

Podcasts van en met Maurice Zondag:
Sunday Sundown en Podsafe Sec
Over en met podsafe muziek.

F1Cast en F1MiniCast
Over autosport.

Zoem
Pyschologie podcast waarin Rob Zondag aan het woord komt en de ins en outs van de IMET techniek bespreekt, een behandelmethode voor mensen die lijden aan angst-, dwang-, eet- of identiteitsproblemen. De stichting IMET heeft ook een betaalde audio voor cursisten in de IMET opleiding.

ICT Update
Dit is een panel stijl cast die min of meer wekelijks uitkomt met een klein uur gesprek over allerlei nieuwsfeiten in de ICT (high tech noemen we dat in Israel) die in Nederland de koppen hebben gehaald. Met Mark Baars, Jasper Kimmel en Maurice Zondag.











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Hebrew Podcasts - פודקאסטים בעברית

Hebrew podcasts:

Making History - עושים היסטוריה (review, site, feed)
Hebrew podcast about history, with an emphasis on the history of science and of technology.

קטעים בהיסטוריה (review, site, feed)
Pieces of History, a Hebrew podcast. Selected topics in history.


מה שהיה היה (review, site, feed)A Hebrew podcast from the Hebrew University's radio station 'Har Hatzofim' in Jerusalem. What is supposed to be a history podcast, turns out to have an special artistic quality.

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German Podcasts - Podcasts auf deutsch

Skythen-Podcast (review, site, feed)
Very extensive promotional podcast for an exhibition on the Scythians.

Leben und Überleben mit 45+ (review, site, feed)
Audio-blog of life after having had cancer

Junggesellenblog (review, site, feed)
Audio-blog of a student who tries to get some studying done in between watching TV and making podcasts

Meiky's Podcast Show (review, site, feed)
Comedy podcast which includes an audio-play, but around the play delivers hilarious insights and reaction to listeners

Das Rätsel der verschollenen Schatulle (review, site, feed)
The audio play that goes with Meiky's Podcast

Geschichtspodcast (Chronico) (review, site, feed)
Promotional podcast of Chronico Magazine, focussed on the Middle Ages as wide as they come.

Volkis Stimme (review, site, feed)
Last week's news recounted with a comical touch.

Schlaflos in Muenchen (review, site, feed)
The legendary audio blog  by Annik Rubens.

Saturday, August 11, 2007

Psychology, Political science and Sociology podcasts

This post is regularly updated. It gives a list of Psychology, Political Science and Sociology podcasts .

Shrink Rap Radio, (review, site, feed).
A podcast series hosted by Dr. David van Nuys, who interviews mainly psychology professionals and the occasional client, or other non-professionals somehow involved in the field of psychology. In addition, on every edition of Shrinkrapradio contains Dr. Dave addressing his audience establishing a community feel to the regular podcast listeners. The podcast represents Dr. Dave's personal preferences in psychology subjects, heavily leaning on Jung and spiritually characterized psychology.

Wise Counsel, (review, site, feed).
Wise Counsel is a spin off from Shrinkrapradio. Dr. Dave has been hired by Mental Help Net, to do the interviews with professionals or clients and within a more stringent professional and academic version of psychology, if compared to SRR. Also there is no community investment.

Jung Podcast
A monologue style podcast featuring Canadian psychologist John Betts, teaching the psychology of Carl Gustav Jung.

Zoem
Dutch psychotherapy podcast. Rob Zondag komt aan het woord over de ins en outs van de IMET techniek, een behandelmethode voor mensen die lijden aan angst-, dwang-, eet- of identiteitsproblemen. De stichting IMET heeft ook een betaalde audio voor cursisten in de IMET opleiding.

Psychology courses at Berkeley; recorded lectures.
General Psychology Fall 2004, Fall 2006, Fall 2007
Psychology of Personality Fall 2004, Fall 2005
Buddhist Psychology Fall 2005
Clinical Psychology Spring 2006, Fall 2006
Social Psychology Fall 2006, Spring 2007 (I tried this one, but dropped out)
Drugs and Behavior Fall 2006
Human Emotion Fall 2006, Fall 2007
Research and Data Analysis in Psychology Spring 2007
Developmental Psychology Fall 2007

Podcasts that touch upon psychological subjects, or have psychological implications
In Our Time The history of thought
Prosperity show Your relation with money
The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe Panel podcast dedicated to taking on superstition, pseudo-science and the gullibility of the public.
Simek s'Nachts Dutch Podcast. Martin Simek interviewt en legt de nadruk op de psychologie van de geinterviewde. Sinds enige maanden is dit geen podcast meer, maar wel als stream te beluisteren.
UC Podcast University lectures held at various academies all around the world, occasionally engaging in psychology.
Your Purpose Centered Life Podcast about how to establish meaning in your life.
zencast Buddhist podcast.




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Friday, August 10, 2007

Religion and Spirituality podcasts

BMS World Mission (review, site, feed)
A show made for the partners of the Baptist Mission world wide. A rather light radio style program with items related to missionary work.

Chronicles Radio Dispatches (review, site, feed)
Interview podcast from Shambala Buddhist center in Canada.

KMTT Torah Podcast (review, site, feed)
From a yeshiva in Israel, KMTT delivers podcasts in both Hebrew and English on a wide variety of Jewish subjects. Teachings are delivered by different rabbis.

Muscular Judaism (review, site, feed)
A podcast delivering the recordings of five lectures delving into the story of Samson and trying to interpret this unusual figure in Judaism.

Only in America (review, site, feed)
Larry Josephson's podcast series containing to threads, one is the history of American Jewry and the other is a set of interviews with leading Jews today, such as Peter Geffen and Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

Rav Dovid (review, site, feed)
New York rabbi David Bendory lectures on a wide variety of Jewish subjects; Halachah, Kashrut, Torah and so on.

Speaking Of Faith (APM) (review, site, feed)
APM's nondenominational radio program with Krista Tippett, touching on religious and spiritual subjects, mostly in interviews with very interesting guests.

Time Out for Truth (review, site, feed)
New Age philosophy on how to live the good life, by examples of a lot of movies

What is Judaism? (review, site, feed)
An old podcast, which unfortunately has podfaded. Journalist Larry Josephson speaks with Rabbi Ismar Schorsch about Jewish Holidays, tradition and spirituality.

Wynyfryd's Meditation Room (review, site, feed)
Pagan Wynyfryd collects meditations from all sources and turns them into audio mixed with appropriate music. A podcast that delivers irregularly, but each meditation is (of course) intended for repetition.

Your Your Purpose Centered Life (review, site, feed)
Life coach Eric Maisel presents his philosophy for Authentic Living; a life in which one chooses and defines meaning actively rather than find or receive it externally.

Zencast (review, site, feed)
Dharma teachings by Gil Fronsdal and others. Live from a Buddhist center in California.

Church History (review, site, feed)
A podcast by Covenant Seminary (a theological institution of the Presbyterian Churches of America (PCA)) on Church History, which covers the history from the early apostolic period until the Reformation.

From Israelite to Jew (review, site, feed)
Bible Scholar and religious Jew Michael Satlow in a podcast series revealing the history of the Jewish people in the pivotal transitional post-exilic period in which they transformed from being a nation (Israelites) to a religious ethnic group (Jews). There is also a very loosely related episode about the Talmud in this series.

Historical Jesus (review, site, feed)
Lecture series, including syllabus and link to the central book, by theology professor Thomas Sheehan about the Historical Jesus. Sheehan carefully takes the listener through the intricacies of dissecting Scripture to the most authentic sources to Yeshua of Nazareth himself.

Introduction to the Old Testament (Hebrew Bible) (review, site, feed)
A lecture series that manages to reveal a world of investigations and interpretations of the Bible's content, covering an enormous amount of it. Each story could receive an entire course in itself.

Pope podcast (review, site, feed)
An amateur podcast that covers the history of the papacy pope by pope.

Religion and Law in US, HIUS 155A - UCSD (review, site, feed)course, taught by Professor Michael Parrish, teaches the legal and religious foundations of the American Society until the Civil War.

Religion and Law in US, HIUS 155B - UCSD (review, site, feed)course, taught by Professor Michael Parrish, teaches the legal and religious foundations of the American Society from the Civil War until the present.

Religions of the Ancient Mediterranean (review, site, feed)
Canadian professor Philip Harland analyzes Paul's letters, Acts and the Gospels and other sources where available in a historical reconstruction

Bio-ethics podcast (review, site, feed)
A podcast about ethics in the realm of medical technology and bio-technology with a clear fundamentalist Christian signature.

Prosperity show (review, site, feed)
A suspended podcast about money in our lives.

Thursday, August 9, 2007

Writing and Language Podcasts

This post is regularly updated. It gives a list of literary podcasts with the accompanying thoughts I have about them. Most reviews on these podcasts can be found under the label language, fiction, creative writing, or TWN (specifically about The Word Nerds) or Writing Show (specifically about the Writing Show).

7th Son (review, site, feed)
A thriller trilogy so compelling I couldn't stop listening.

University of Arizona: Intro to Language (review, site, feed)
Lecture series for undergraduate students to be had through iTunes U. You can subscribe to the feed, but it takes iTunes to lead you to the URL.

University of California San Diego: Language (review, site, feed)
A language course focusing on formal logic. Note that the first 7 lectures were not podcast.

Rhetoric 10 (Berkeley) (review, site, feed)
Daniel Coffeen tries a provocative approach to get you to know rhetoric, not just by learning it, but also by experience. Coffeen is not a regular university professor and the style and form of the course this is tangible and make a refreshing impact.

Oy Mendele! (review, site, feed)
A discontinued podcast ironically subtitled Jewish Media Conspiracy

Sonic Society (review, site, feed)
Podcast dedicated to audio drama. The style is very cartoonish - you have got to like that.

The Word Nerds (review, site, feed)
The ultimately relaxed podcast about language and why we say the things we do.

Writing Show (review, site, feed)
The podcast where writing is always the story. All angles and aspects on writing, getting published and making a buck out of your greatest passion.

Midwest Writer (review, site, feed)
Here is a podcast that will help you write your novel. Writer Jean Tennant takes you step by step through the process. There is nothing specifically Midwest about this, other than that Tennant is from the Midwest.

English 117s (Berkeley) (review, site, feed)
Lecturer Charles Altieri has a voice with frequent upper pitches. He is very passionately introducing the Shakespeare course, but the high squeak is tough to suffer on an MP3-player. I like the enthusiasm, I like how he explains we must read (at least twice) in order to understand. So I will stick around and accept the pitch.

Grammar Girl (review, site, feed)
Tips, tricks and short lessons about writing correctly.

Structure of English Words (Stanford) (review)
William Leben about the English Language

Tolkien Professor (review, site, feed)
Professor Corey Olsen from Washington College teaches the works by J.R.R. Tolkien in a way, as he claims, would have been approved by Tolkien himself.

Wednesday, August 8, 2007

History Podcasts

This post is regularly updated. It gives a list of History podcasts with the accompanying thoughts I have about them. All my reviews on these podcasts can be found under the label history.

Since this is the most sizable of all my directories. I intend to cut this one up into twelve sub-categories. Each of these will take me some time to make and post on the blog, but as they are posted, I will link to them from here:
1- Ancient History (containing not just the classics, but also pre-history and history of other ancient cultures)
2- Medieval History (history between, roughly, 500-1500 CE)
3- American History (history of the US and other parts of the Americas)
4- European History (containing British History, history of other European countries and of the World Wars and the Cold War)
5- Asian History
6- General (containing history podcasts that cover all other subjects or cannot be fit anywhere else)
7- History and Religion (Historical views on religions, religious texts, religious communities and traditions)
8- History of science and ideas (Histories of specific sciences, of science and scientific theory in general, of technology and of the underlying concepts in science and philosophy)
9- Social History (how people lived through the ages; about food, drink and more)
10- Genealogy
11- Military History
12- Art History

12 Byzantine Rulers, (review, site, feed).
Sixteen monologues covering the history of the Byzantine Empire from the 8th century to its fall in 1453 and beyond.

All Things Medieval, (review, site, feed)
Podcast on whatever is related to the late Middle Ages - not just dry history.

American Environmental and Cultural History or: ESPM 160AC (Berkeley) (review, site, feed)
Local American history taken from environmental perspective. Excellent lecture series to get acquainted with the idea of an environmental history.

American History before 1870, (review, site, feed).
Dr. Gretchen Ann Reilly at Temple College, Texas, turned her lectures into privately read 15 minute podcasts. This enhances the clarity and structure in comparison with recorded live lectures. She delivers her history in a very insightful and accessible way.

Ancient and Medieval Podcast, (review, site, feed).
7 charming episodes with befitting music, travel tips (accounts of relevant excursions the hosts did themselves) and more. I especially liked the issues about Robin Hood (Robyn Hode), Charlemagne and Beowulf.

Ancient History - Alternative Theories (review, site, feed)
Esoteric reconstruction of ancient history.

Ancient Rome Refocused (review, site, feed)
An excellent new history podcast. It is not just about Roman history, which is grippingly narrated, but it is also about contemporary parallels.

Antisemitism (USHMM) (review, site, feed in iTunes)
Scholarly lectures about antisemitism, held at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum.

Archaeo News (review, site, feed)
Promotional and informative podcast from a general website about archeology called The Stone Pages. The podcast digs into news items in archeology and does so in a very engaged and lively fashion.

Armistice Podcast (National Archives) (review, site, feed)
Extracts from the National Archives read on podcast. Documents pertaining to the Great War in general and to the armistice in particular. One of the highlights is an unofficial witness account of the peace negotiations in 1918.

Backstory (review, site, feed)
A panel of historians discuss the background story of an item in the news.

BBC History Magazine, (review, site, feed).
A promotional podcast containing teasers to the monthly hard copy magazine.

Big Ideas (TVO), (review, site, feed)
TV lectures about various subjects on podcast.

Binge Thinking History, (review, site, feed).
Tony Cocks' monologues about history. Starting off with the British roots of the American constitution and following up with the Battle of Britain.

Biography Podcast (review, site, feed)
Chris Gondek interviews biographers about their subject.

Biography Podcast (Learn Out Loud) (review, site, feed)
Various biographies attended to by readings from original sources.

The Biography Show (TPN), (review, site, feed).
Other biographies by the makers of the Napoleon 1O1 podcast.

Birth of the Modern (Arizona State University), (review, site, feed)
Podcast course covering elements of history from late Middle Ages to the early modern age.

A brief history of mathematics (BBC) (review, site, feed)
In ten easy to digest episodes Marcus du Sautoy introduces us to the history of modern mathematics.

British History 101, (review, site, feed).
Monologue style podcast that jumps back and forth in British History. The scripts as they are read are available through the British History 101 blog.

Byzantine Empire (UCSD) (review, site, feed)
History lecture series by Professor Matthew Herbst about the Byzantine Empire.

Cambridge Alumni Podcast (review, site, feed)
Podcast of events for Cambridge Alumni. Among others this series contains a number of lectures dedicated to the history of Cambridge mathematicians's contribution to British intelligence and computer technology.

CAT 2 - Culture, Art & Technology II (review, site, feed)
Cultural history series that tries to show the dialectic of knowledge and society. Professor Tal Golan

CATS 2 Culture and Technology Studies (UCSD) (review, site, feed)
The history of science and showing the relationship between what we know and how we organize the world. (podfaded)

Center for Jewish Studies Podcast (Duke) (review, site, feed)
The audio that sits in the feed reflects the sessions of a conference that was held at the center on the subject of Archaeology, Politics and the Media.

Center for Near Eastern Studies (review, site, feed)
Lectures at UCLA concerning history and politics of the Middle and Near East.

China History Podcast (review, site, feed)
Laszlo Montgomery's history of China.

Church History, (review, site, feed)
Denominational history of the medieval Christian Church

Ciencia y Genios (mention, site, feed)
A podcast in Spanish about geniuses in science

Conspiracy Podcast (RTE) (review, site, feed)
History podcast about political trials in Ireland

Dan Carlin's Hardcore History, (review, site, feed).
A History podcast, commenting and reflecting on history more than delivering the facts. (recommended)

David Kalivas World History, (review, site, feed).
A very charming if incomplete lecture series on World History. This podcast acquainted me with Indus Valley and Chinese civilization more than anything else.

De Geschiedenis Podcast (review, site, feed)
A podfaded history podcast in Dutch by Hugo Teerds with a particularly worthwhile episode about the Code of Hammurabi.


Chemistry podcast with a lot of historical perspective


Drinking matters (Warwick) (review, site, feed)
The history of early modern pubs in Europe and their influence on the history of Europe.

Early American Social History (Warwick) (review, page in iTunes, feed in iTunes)
Extensive lecture series about US History before 1870. Mind the low audio that comes with live recorded lectures.

East Asian Thought (UCSD) (review, site, feed)
Victor Magagna's introduction into East Asian history and thought - mostly Confucius

East Asian Thought (UCSD) (review , site, feed)
Excellent Professor Magagna does it again. Your access road to understanding East-Asian philosophy and culture.

En Akademisk Kvart (mention, site, feed). An academic podcast in Swedish delivering concise talks (15 minutes on average) about a wide variety of topics, many of which are historic.

Environmental History Videocast (review, site, feed)
A vodcast that goes along with the audio podcast Exploring Environmental History. The videos are not playable on iPod.

Europe from its origins (reviewsitefeedExcellent
A very commendable enhanced podcast and vodcast that is made by an amateur, but displays professional quality to form as well as content. Host Joe Hogarty explores Europe's roots into the Roman empire and meticulously follows them through to the Middle Ages. This podcast not only tells the tale in a very good way, it also attempts to make the argument that Europe never slid into such level of uncultured backwardness that would justify the treatment of the early Middle Ages as a Dark Age and could contribute Europe's eventual delivery from this alleged barbarian phase solely to intermediaries to the Classical world such as Byzantium and the world of Islam. Part of this argument is also a strong defense against the modern description of the Crusades as the pinnacle of cruelty and destructiveness. And in addition to all this, there is a fine supply of contemporary, if reconstructed, music.

European Civilization 1648 to 1945 (Yale) (reviewsitefeed)
General modern western history lecture series by Professor John Merriman.

Everything Lincoln, (review, site, feed).
A history podcast that digs up anything that has to do with Abraham Lincoln. Much in the way of Tudorcast does for the Tudors. there is no didactic build in order to pass understanding of the person, but rather an unstructured stream of episodes. Charmingly done however. So far there are three podcasts in the feed.

Exploring Environmental History, (review, site, feed).
A podcast about the history of man and his environment, with environmentalist undertones.

Fact or Fiction (review, site, feed)
History stuff for the history buff.

Family History - Genealogy made easy (review, site, feed)
Podcast for beginners in the field of genealogy.

Flavius (review, site, feed) -Dutch-
Jewish history and Culture on Dutch radio. By the makers of OVT (VPRO).

France since 1871 (Yale) (review, site, feed)
History lecture series by Professor John Merriman about France in modern times.

From Israelite to Jew (review, site, feed)
Bible Scholar and religious Jew Michael Satlow in a podcast series revealing the history of the Jewish people in the pivotal transitional post-exilic period in which they transformed from being a nation (Israelites) to a religious ethnic group (Jews). There is also a very loosely related episode about the Talmud in this series.

Genealogy Gems Podcast (review, site, feed)
A professional podcast for anybody who is taking genealogy seriously.

Geography of World Cultures, (review, site:Stanford on iTunes U, feed).
Although this podcast is mostly about geography, in effect it is filled with history - one cannot talk about the spread of languages and religion, without entering history. The focus is on maps and the maps are added as visuals, which means, this is an enhanced podcast. (Wikipedia on enhanced podcasts)

Georgian Britain (Warwick) (review, page in iTunes, feed in iTunes)
Series of thematic monologues about Britain during 1714-1830.

German Cultural History  (review, site, feed)
fascinating musings about Medieval German Culture and its earliest roots.

Geschichtspodcast (Chronico) (review, site, feed)
Promotional podcast of Chronico Magazine (German) with general focus on the era from little before until little after the Middle Ages (German Language podcast)

Geschiedewistjedatjes (reviewsitefeed)
Dutch podcast. Zeer simpele geschiedenis podcast. Kleine weetjes in minder dan twee minuten per podcast.

Gilder Lehrmann history podcast (reviewsitefeed)
History lectures on US history, with recurring themes such as lectures about Lincoln and about Slavery.

Guns and Rubles (Warwick) (review, page in iTunes, feed in iTunes)
A couple of short podcasts about the Soviets and their military industrial complex.

Hank's History Hour, (review, site, feed).
This podcast is a high school student's guide through the course material of AP European History.

Hannibal, (review, site:Stanford on iTunes U, feed).
Stanford University delivers some phenomenal audio, but you have to have iTunes in order to get there. This lecture series about Hannibal gives insight in the history of Hannibal, his trip over the Alps and Professor Patrick Hunt's efforts to reconstruct Hannibal's route over the Alps.

Hidden Heritage (review, site, feed)
Three podcasts about Irish history

Historical Jesus, (review, site:Stanford on iTunes U, feed).
The very best of Stanford is a lecture series, including syllabus and link to the central book, by theology professor Thomas Sheehan about the Historical Jesus. Sheehan carefully takes the listener through the intricacies of dissecting Scripture to the most authentic sources to Yeshua of Nazareth himself.

Historicast (review, site, feed)
A short monologue style podcast with inserted audio fragments.

History 106B, (Berkeley) The Roman Empire, (review, site, feed).
Professor Isabelle Pafford deals in a few lectures with early Roman history and dedicates the bulk to the history of Rome as of the moment it becomes an Empire.

History 131 (University of Alaska Fairbanks) (review, site, feed)
History of the Americas before 1870

History 132 (University of Alaska Fairbanks) (review, site, feed)
US History after 1870

History 151c - The Peculiar Modernity of Britain (Berkeley) (review, site, feed)
Professor James Vernon lectures about recent history of Great Britain.

History 162A (Berkeley) (review, site, feed)
A very instructive course into the geopolitics of Europe from the late seventeenth to the early twentieth century.

History 167B (Berkeley) The Rise and Fall of the Second Reich, (review, site, feed).
History lectures by the talented professor Margaret Anderson about the history of Germany between 1820 and 1919. Some lectures are missing and a couple are of horrible audio quality, but nonetheless, thanks to ms. Anderson's qualities, a great academic podcast.

History 181B (Berkeley) Modern Physics: From The Atom to Big Science, (review, site, feed).
Lecture series about the history of Physics in the last two centuries.

History 1c (UCLA) (review, site, feed)
Very valuable modern western history lecture series on podcast. Professor Lynn Hunt from UCLA makes up for the lack of History 5 from Berkeley this semester.

History 2311, (review, site, feed).
The history of Western Civilization up to 1600, by Gretchen Ann Reilly, also known from the podcast American History before 1870. This is a quality monologue style podcast in 15 minute editions. The entry level is high school / college.

History 2312, (review, site, feed).
Also by Ms. Reilly is the follow-up, Western Civilization from 1600 on. I would recommend this course for AP European History students, rather than Hank's History Hour.

History 4A (Berkeley) The Ancient Mediterranean World, (review, site, feed).
Professor Isabelle Pafford's lecture series, rapidly taking the listener through the Mesopotamian and Egyptian civilizations and then landing in detail on the Greeks and Romans.

History 5 (Berkeley) In my opinion the best history podcast.
Margaret Lavinia Anderson: The Making of Modern Europe, 1453 to the Present, (review, site, feed).
Usually in the Spring this course is taught by Professor Anderson. She systematically takes you through history from the Renaissance until today, handing many data, but also transferring the most insightful explanations I have come to meet in history podcasts.

History 5 (Berkeley) In my opinion the best history podcast.
Carla Hesse: European history from the Renaissance till today (review , site , feed )
With the personal, somewhat thematic, touch of Professor Hesse.

History 5 (Berkeley) In my opinion the best history podcast.
Thomas Laqueur: European Civilization from the Renaissance to the Present, (review, site, feed).
Usually in the Fall, History 5 is taught by Professor Laqueur. Laqueur's series is of the same high level, but carries his signature of course, for example his version is more visually oriented. It is well advised to contact Berkeley and get access to the presentations.

History 7B (Berkeley) US History: from Civil War to Present, (review, site, feed).
Professor Jennifer Burns lays out American History in 39 lectures lasting less than one hour each. The lecture series is 'old' (begin 2006) but is still kept alive through Burns' personal website.

History according to Bob, (review, site, feed).
Bob Packett is a college history professor who simply cannot stop talking. He delivers history lectures, with sources, on a daily basis, touching on all corners of history.

History Compass Blog (review, site, feed)
Writers are telling in short about what article they have written in the History Compass

The History Faculty (review, site, feed)
British Academic history podcast on a large variety of subjects.

History Network, (review, site, feed).
A monologue style podcast on military history.

History of British India (UCLA) (review, site, feed)
History lecture series by Professor Vinay Lal about the history of India under British rule from the 17th to the 20th century.

Librivox - History of Holland, (review, site, feed).
Read aloud version of History of Holland by George Edmundson (1922)

History of India (UCLA) (review, site, feed)
Lecture series by Professor Vinay Lal taking us through Indian History from Indus Valley civilization to the modern day.

History of Iran (Columbia) (review, site, feed)
A 2008 history course by Richard Bulliet. Iranian history from prehistory to the Safavid period (18th century).

History of Jerusalem (UCLA) (review, site, feed)
All you needed to know about the Middle-East in a 3000 year span nut shell is offered in this course.

History of Medicine (Oxford Brooke University) (review, site, feed)
A podcasts of 'Moments in Medicine'. Issues in the science of Medicine are put in their historic perspective.

History of Rome, (review, site, feed).
This podcast is entirely dedicated to Roman History. It goes through Roman history in chronological stages, by means of weekly 20-30 minute podcasts, monologue style.


History of the American Revolution (reviewsitefeed)
Kurtis Ford, retells the American history in quite extensive detail and with great narrative power with a very personal touch.


History of the International System, (review, site:Stanford on iTunes U, feed).
This is a course, not just in history, but in a sense also in geopolitics and political science. Starting around 1870, the lecture series takes the audience through global history and observes and explains how the international relations wobbled from stability to disruptiveness back and forth.

History of the World in 100 Objects (BBC) (review, site, feed) Excellent
Radio program on BBC 4 with the director of the British Museum Neil MacGregor telling man's history by means of the things he made and used.

History on the run (review, site, feed)
Musings about history and about politics by two students that are either finishing high school or have just entered college.

History Podcast by Jason Watts, (review, site, feed).
Monologue style history podcast with no special era interest.

Historypod, (review, site, feed).
Short history podcasts about various historic trivia.

Historyzine, (review, site, feed).
Jim Mowatt's enthusiastic talks about the War of the Spanish Succession and about other history podcasts.

Hoor! Geschiedenis (review, site, feed)
A very adequate and from the onset complete history of the Netherlands, going back to the earliest roots of Dutch culture and coming into existence of the state. (Dutch language)

HUM 4 - Enlightenment, Romanticism, Revolution (UCSD) (site, feed) a lecture series in the humanities, trying to map the cultural development since the 17th century. Professor Eric Watkins.

HUM 4104 (Virginia Tech) (review, site, feed)
Professor Matthew Gabriele's podcast that accompanies a lecture series about Medieval Heroes. The podcast gives very brief guidance to the texts about the heroes.

In Our Time, (review, site, feed).
BBC four's program about the history of thought. Show host Melvyn Bragg meets weekly with three outstanding academicians to discuss subjects varying from historic persons and occurrences to scientific and philosophical issues in their historical perspective. As far as quality is concerned this podcast ranks among the very best. The only drawback comes from it being a radio program: it is not flexible to the length. It is also a pity the feed offers no more than the last show. But the on line archives disclose every show.

Institut für Alte Geschichte und Altorientalistik - audio (review, site, feed)
Lectures at the Institute. Most of these are in German.

The International Institute (review, site, feed)
Lectures at UCLA concerning history and politics.

Introduction to Ancient Greek History (Yale) (review, site, no feed)
Open Course on Yale delivering the history of the Ancient Greeks tracing the development of Greek civilization as manifested in political, intellectual, and creative achievements from the Bronze Age to the end of the classical period.

Introduction to German Politics (Oxford) (review, site, feed)
A good podcast (enhanced podcast) in political science and also interesting for history buffs.

Introduction to the Old Testament / the Hebrew Bible (Yale) (review, site, feed)
Excellent course about the Bible by professor Christina Hayes - now also syndicated!

Irish Hedgerow history Lessons (review, sitefeed)
Irish roots podcast with assorted items about Irish history.

Irish History Podcast (review, site, feed)
New podcast that takes on the history of Ireland in chronological order, starting in Roman times and quickly proceeding to the Middle Ages.

Islamic Medicine (review , site, feed)
The University of Warwick's series by Professor Peter Pormann about the Medieval Medicine as it was received from the Greeks, influenced by other cultures and preserved in the Islam world, before it was received by the West.

It was 20 years ago today (review, site, feed)
Jamie Lawson takes us back 20 years and gives her personal view on history back then.

Korea Society Podcast (review, site, feed)
Lectures recorded by the Korea Society containing a lot of Korean history content as well as contemporary Korean issues.

La Resistance (review, site, feed)
A charming amateur podcast about France in World War II.

La Rosa de los vientos (mention, site, feed)
A three hours radio program in Spanish, about history, archeology, astronomy, science, secret services and much more.

Letters and Science 140D (Berkeley) (review, site, feed)
Interdisciplinary lecture series by history professor Thomas Laqueur about development and implementation of the idea of human rights.

Long Now podcast (review, site, feed)
Lectures held at The Long Now, an institute which takes a long term vision.

Lyrics Undercover (review, site, feed)
Brian Ibbott initiates us into the world behind your favorite pop songs. The meaning of the lyrics, the origin of the music and the intentions of the artists.

Making History with Ran Levi - עושים היסטוריה (review, site, feed)
Hebrew podcast about history, with an emphasis on the history of science and of technology.

Matt's Today In History, (review, site, feed).
Matt is a history amateur who delivers a daily talk on what happened on the same date in history.

medicalhistory (review, site, feed)
Amateur podcast exploring aspects of the history of the medical profession and the medical science.

Medieval & Renaissance Studies Events (Fall 2008), (Virginia Tech) (review, site, feed)
Virginia Tech's lecture series about the Crusades. As far as I can see only one of the lectures is available on podcast.

Medieval & Renaissance Studies Events (Spring 2008), (Virginia Tech) (review, site, feed).
A podcast series with public lectures held at Virginia Tech on historical subjects.

Medieval Podcast, (review, site, feed).
Podfaded show featuring several issues about England in medieval times and about monasticism.

the Memory Palace (review, site, feed)
Nate diMeo tells historic tales in the most poetic way.

Metropolitan Museum of Art - Medieval Art (review, site, feed)
Lectures at the Museum about or related to new exhibitions.

Military History Podcast, (review, site, feed).
George Hageman started this podcast when he was only 15, 16 years old. He loves military history and tells what he knows in short episodes.

The Missing Link, (review, site, feed).
A history podcast that delivers two essays per issue. The aim is to portray the history of science, but does not do so in a programmatic way, the essays are stand alone subjects.

MMW 1 by Tara Carter (UCSD) (review, site, feed)
Inspired course at UCSD in human evolution, anthropology and prehistory.

MMW 2 - The Great Classical Traditions, (UCSD) (review, site, feed)
History of the classical era covering not just the west. Professor Charles Chamberlain

MMW 3, the medieval heritage (Chamberlain) (review, site, feed)
A history lecture series explaining the middle ages mostly from the perspective of religions.

MMW 3, the medieval heritage (Herbst) (review, site, feed)
A parallel series choosing a more traditional perspective, but exceptionally good no less.

MMW 4 (UCSD) (review , site, http://podcasts.ucsd.edu/podcasts/rss.aspx?PodcastId=249)
The Making of the Modern World part 4, about the period 1200 - 1750 AD.

MMW 5 - Revolution, Industry & Empire (UCSD) (review, site, feed)
Professor Heidi Keller-Lapp lectures about world history during the period 1750-1914. A lot of emphasis is given to the development of political thought, especially on the subject of the social contract.

MMW 6 (UCSD) (review, site, feed)
World war 1 until today.

Napoleon 1O1, (review, site, feed).
Lengthy biography of Napoleon

National Archives, (review, site, feed).
The lectures organized at the National Archives in the UK are recorded and put on line as a podcast. The listener is subject to the varying quality of the speakers and the dependency on visuals during the lectures.

New Books In History (review, site, feed) Excellent
The one and only and most outstanding interview podcast in the history podcast genre. Marshall Poe interviews historians about their recent books. Lively, varied and intelligent content.

Norman Centuries (review, site, feed)
The comeback of history podcast veteran Lars Brownworth. This series will tell us the history of the Normans.

Oxford Biographies (review, site, feed)
Spoken biographies in seven to fifteen minutes, mostly on on lesser known people.

Only in America, (review, site, feed).
350 years of the Jewish experience in America. Journalist Larry Josephson delivers historical episodes taking us through the entry of Jews in the Americas to contemporary Jewry in the US. He combines these exposes with interviews with leading American Jews on Jewish subjects.

OVT, (review, site, feed).
Dutch language history podcast. Een programma over de onvoltooid verleden tijd. Wekelijkse radio uitzending van de VPRO uitgebracht als podcast.

Parnell's History Podcast, (review, site, feed).
Monologue style history podcast with no special era interest.

Pasajes de la historia (mention, site, feed)
History rubric in the Rosa de los Vientos program as a separate podcast in Spanish.

Peopletalk's Podcast,, (review, site, feed).
An audiobook style podcast that delivers historical texts being read to the listener.

Podcast history of cooking (review, site, feed)
Jesse Browner's fascinating journey through the history of our diet, from prehistory until today.

Podcasts on Medieval Texts, (review, site, feed).
Short introductions to certain specific medieval texts like Beowulf and the Malleus Maleficarum. The same series is on iTunes U, Virginia Tech, under the title HUM 1214 - Spring 2008.

Political Science 10 (UCLA) (review, site, feed)
Political science course with great attention to the classical era.

Politics 114B (UCLA) (review, site, feed)
UCLA's political science introduction, kindly reviewed by Saeed Ahmed

Politics and Warfare (UCSD)  (review, site, feed)
Political science course exploring explanations of the first world war and others.

Pope Podcast (review, site, feed)
A one by one, pope by pope history of the papacy.

Rear Vision (ABC) (review, site, feed)
Program on ABC radio giving the background of selected subjects whether in the news right now or some time ago.

Redborne History Podcast, (review, site, feed).
History podcast of a British school teacher in preparation of his students. Two issues in the feed.

Religion and Law in US, HIUS 155A (UCSD) (review, site, feed)
Professor Michael Parrish teaches the legal and religious foundations of the American Society until the Civil War.

Religion and Law in US, HIUS 155B (UCSD) (review, site, feed)
Professor Michael Parrish teaches the legal and religious foundations of the American Society from the Civil War until the present.

Religion in history (Open University) (review, site, feed)
Assorted dialogs about religion and diversity accompanying a much wider (paid) course at the Open University.

Religions of the Ancient Mediterranean, (review, site, feed)
History of Christianity in the early apostolic phase.

The ripple that drowns (review, site, feed)
Lecture about famines in China and Bengal.

Romanticism (Open University) (review, site, feed)
Six useful audio essays delineating critical aspects of nineteenth century Romanticism.

Russian Rulers History Podcast (review, site, feed)
The history of Russia, told by means of going through its rulers successively.

Sex History Show, (review, site, feed).
A panel of three hosts doing sex education by use of history lessons. The dialog is noticeably scripted. Every show ends with a cliffhanger towards the next.

Short History of Ireland (BBC) (review, site, feed)
Very charming daily podcast taking the listener through the history of Ulster and Eire in 5 minute issues.

Short history of Japan (review, site, feed)
Cameron Foster's history of Japan.

Skythen-Podcast (review, site, feed)
Very extensive promotional podcast for an exhibition on the Scythians. (German Language)

Sparkletack (review, site, feed)
Richard Miller tells the history of San Francisco.

Stanford U History, (review 1, review 2 site:Stanford on iTunes U, no feed).
Guest lectures and discussions on various historic subjects at Stanford.

Sterke Geschiedenis (reviewsitefeed)
Dutch podcast. Kris kras door de wereldgeschiedenis met Tom Tacken, een groot verteltalent.

Stuff you missed in history class (review, site, feed)
Very light history podcast by How Stuff Works dot com. Every week a short dialog about a wide variety of history subjects such as Marco Polo, the Plague and revisionist history.

Teaching American History, (review, site, feed).
University lectures on various subjects of American History; a project of the Ashbrook Center for Public Affairs at Ashland University.

Teaching Company (review , site, feed)
A promotional podcast from the Teaching Company, a company that sells high quality lectures on audio.

Things We Forgot To Remember (BBC and Open University), (review, site, feed)
History podcast on how history is construed.

Tudorcast, (review, site, feed).
The approach host Lara Eakins takes, is to bring out a monthly podcast and relate to the listener various tidbits of the history connected to the specific month we are in. She takes from original sources and brings us to the finest details of the history.

US History since 1877 (Temple College) (review, site, feed)
Gretchen Reilly's straightforward monologue podcast about American History from 1877 until today

Veertien Achttien (reviewsitefeed)
Dutch podcast. Tom Tacken vertelt de eerste wereldoorlog in korte biografietjes

VIS 22 - Formations of Modern  Art, (UCSD) (review, site, feed)
Recurring course in art history from the 17th century until early 20th century. Especially enchanting are the courses delived by Professor Bryson.

We the People Stories, (review, site, feed).
A podcast of the US National Constitution Center addressing constitutional issues with lectures and forum discussions on a very high level.

Witness (BBC) (review, site, feed)
Nine minute issues paying attention to an occurrence in history close to this date. Combined with historic narration are the words of one or more witnesses to the event.

World Religions (Eastern Michigan) (review, site, feed)
A general and easy to access introduction in the five major religions

Your History Podcast (review, site, feed)
A podcast engaging in story-telling where the story is historically backed up.

קטעים בהיסטוריה (review, site, feed)
Pieces of History, a Hebrew podcast. Selected topics in history.

Two other history podcast inventories:
Collection of History Podcasts,
Favorite History Podcasts.

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