Pod Trawlers - we trawl through podcasts so you don't have to
32 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 3 years ago -There are millions of podcast episodes out there in the world.Our aim is to trawl through at least some of those podcasts and to tell you, every week, about the podcasts that we loved (or even hated).
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Pod Trawlers Episode 5 of 2021 – Mother Teresa in The Turning, the latest theories on the true origins of Covid via the Munk Debates, the genius that is Dr. Katalin Kariko, and Dr. Shanna Swan on Joe Rogan, and finally, The Charge of the Light Brigade, an
July 02, 2021 22:00 - 44 minutes - 30.7 MBOur choices of brilliant podcasts to listen to are: The Turning: The Sisters Who Left Thousands of women gave up everything to follow Mother Teresa, joining her Catholic order, the Missionaries of Charity. This is their story. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-turning-the-sisters-who-left/id1566966691 The Munk Debates - Be it resolved, the preponderance of evidence suggests COVID-19 leaked from a laboratory, with guests Dr. Steven Quay, Dr. Daniel Griffin https://munkd...
Pod Trawlers Episode 4 of 2021 - Adam Buxton with guests Torvill and Dean, and Kazuo Ishiguro, then Dr Bruce Grayson and Near Death Experiences and MORE
April 17, 2021 22:00 - 27 minutes - 18.6 MBIn this episode Veronika’s first and second choice is: Adam Buxton – and Guests In an episode recorded in July 2020 Adam talks with British sporting legends Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean. https://www.adam-buxton.co.uk/podcasts/7-bfk9m-4l8kp-blcga-jwabs-blbb8-b9mjx-fj3gr-j4lyp-9jlhe-a4bhm-c67yy-szhgm-m8pcd-l376z-zjb32-wh9dr-za87b-c8l3j-byyhb-segba-hlsc6-5m648-aef2d-2n3wg-tpcha-fsb4a-stlxm-7hb5z-ekrdd And in an episode from December 2020 Adam talks with British writer, and Nobel pri...
Pod Trawlers Episode 3 of 2021 - No Filter with Celeste Barber, how we fall prey to Scam Calls, The Battersea Poltergeist, and the fantabulous Esther Perel
March 28, 2021 23:00 - 40 minutes - 27.7 MBIn this episode Veronika’s first choice is No Filter – Celeste Barber Will Accept Your Challenge No Filter is a podcast hosted by Mia Freedman Her guest on this episode is the very funny Celeste Barber, actress, writer and comedian, who recreates celebrity photos on Instagram. https://www.podbean.com/media/share/dir-uh48j-3a58c78 Veronika’s second choice is The Daily Podcast - Sunday Times read - Scam Call Centres As many as 56 million Americans have fallen foul to scam calls, los...
Pod Trawlers Episode 2 of 2021 - The Cloud Appreciation Society, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, Covid Vaccine Conspiracies, Your Sense of Smell, & MORE
February 22, 2021 09:00 - 49 minutes - 34.4 MBVic’s first choice is: Headliners with Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall Hugh F-W, chef, campaigner, and writer, talks about how small changes to what we eat can make a big difference to our wellbeing. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p093x0xd Vic’s second choice is: Two podcasts that dealt with conspiracy theories and the outcry against the UK’s supposed withholding of vaccines from the rest of Europe. 1) The Guardian’s Today in Focus How the EU’s vaccine effort turned into a crisis htt...
Pod Trawlers Episode 1 of 2021 - Two Million Years in 2 Hours, Yuval Noah Harari, Intelligence Squared, The Daily, For the Many& MORE
January 31, 2021 23:00 - 33 minutes - 23.4 MBHere are our choices for 2021 so far: Vic’s First Choice: Your Undivided Attention #28 Two million years in 2 hours : A conversation with Yuval Noah Harari https://www.humanetech.com/podcast/28-two-million-years-in-two-hours-a-conversation-with-yuval-noah-harari Yuval Noah Harari explains how technology and democracy have evolved together over the course of human history, from Paleolithic tribes to city states to kingdoms to nation states. So where do we go from here? We push beyond ...
Pod Trawlers Boxing Day SPECIAL - The Best Podcasts of 2020
December 28, 2020 11:00 - 37 minutes - 25.5 MBHere is our selection of THE BEST (in our humble opinions) podcasts of 2020: GOLD MEDAL Adam Buxton Podcast This was Vic’s TOP pick, and Veronika’s 2nd TOP pick, so altogether Adam Buxton gets the Pod Trawlers Gold Medal, for making us laugh and also cry, throughout 2020. For making us believe that men, and humans in general, but especially our four legged besties, are really THE best. https://www.adam-buxton.co.uk/ There are so many episodes to recommend, and so many seasons to...
Pod Trawlers Episode 24 - Unknown Warrior, Armistice Day, #freebritney, The Crown & MORE
November 20, 2020 22:00 - 27 minutes - 19 MBToday we begin with: Vic’s first podcast recommendation: Dan Snow’s History Hit - The Unknown Warrior – Armistice Day Special 100 years ago the Unknown Warrior, a common soldier and an unidentified casualty of war, was buried in Westminster Abbey. This is the story of the Unknown Warrior. https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-unknown-warrior/id1042631089?i=1000498182891 And, staying on topic, Vic’s second recommendation: Witness History - World War One in Africa The story of the ...
Pod Trawlers Episode 23 - The HALLOWEEEEEEEEN Podcasts Episode Special
October 29, 2020 21:00 - 34 minutes - 23.9 MBToday we recommend some podcasts to help get you into the Lockdown Halloween spirit of things, beginning with: Andrus Sheldrake Dialogues Podcast This is a quick look at the origins of Halloween, via Veronika’s choice which is a podcast hosted by Rupert Sheldrake. It’s called the Andrus Sheldrake Dialogues and the episode Veronika has selected is about the origin of Halloween (and All Saints’ and All Souls’ day). https://www.sheldrake.org/audios/dialogues-with-bishop-marc-andrus-at-grace-...
Pod Trawlers Episode 22 - how to save a planet, japanese women's rights, Sir Terence Conran, and MORE
October 08, 2020 20:00 - 39 minutes - 26.9 MBHello! Welcome back! Here are some great podcasts to see you through the rest of this Friday and the weekend, beginning with Vic’s choices of great podcasts, all three of which have a little bit, or a lot, come to think of it, to do with climate change: 1) The Daily – a New York Times podcast hosted by Michael Barbaro The episode which Vic has chosen is called A Self-Perpetuating Cycle of Wildfires. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/11/podcasts/the-daily/wildfires-california-fire-zone...
Pod Trawlers Episode 21 - the Druids (kind of), the Guinea Pigs (kind of), bodies, adoption, orgasms, and MORE
September 28, 2020 07:00 - 43 minutes - 30.2 MBPodtrawlers is a podcast about the podcasts we (Vic and Veronika) have loved listening to during the week. In this episode we begin with: Into The Zone - hosted and written by Hari Kunzru A podcast about opposites, and how borders are never as clear as we think. With a novelist’s eye for the unexpected, host Hari Kunzru takes the listener around the world https://www.pushkin.fm/show/into-the-zone/ Vic recommended Druids Like Me (the first episode) as a great intro to the podcast. Heavy...
Episode 20 - Michelle Obama, DNA, Cottonopolis, Art, the Biology of Sex, This Is LOVE and LOTS more
September 09, 2020 22:00 - 52 minutes - 36.4 MBOnce again we have some cracking podcast recommendations for everyone and anyone. Beginning with: 1) The Michelle Obama Podcast The former First Lady needs no introduction, so here she is, into conversations with loved ones—family, friends, and colleagues—on the relationships in our lives that make us who we are: https://open.spotify.com/show/71mvGXupfKcmO6jlmOJQTP 2) Ways to Change the World presented by Krishna Guru-Murthy Krishna Guru-Murthy is a British broadcaster...
Pod Trawlers Episode 19 - Jens Stoltenberg, Wasps, Native American Land Claims, Child Soldiers, Tara Westover and Oprah, the origins of Covid, the Menopause, Dying for Sex, Ennio Morricone, & MORE
August 10, 2020 13:00 - 53 minutes - 36.9 MBHere is our quick-fire smorgasbord of podcast recommendations to get you through the week. Enjoy! 1) Outlook BBC - The unmaking of a boy soldier When Ishmael Beah was 13, he was forced to join the army in Sierra Leone. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p08kn0rd 2) Desert Island Discs with Jens Stoltenberg With Lauren Laverne. Jens Stoltenberg is the Secretary General of NATO and a former Prime Minister of Norway. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07dx75g 3) The Curious Cases o...
Pod Trawlers Episode 18 - The Dollop does Trump, One of the Family (and canine friends), Male Friendships via Adam Buxton, Joe Cornish, Louis Theroux and Chris O'Dowd, Cautionary Tales and MORE
July 14, 2020 08:00 - 44 minutes - 30.7 MBThis week our choices of podcasts we loved listening to are, in Vic’s words, “fluffy and uncontroversial”: One of the Family - Making the case for cats with Ricky Gervais Our own lives and those of our canine companions are intertwined. In this Podcast, with the help of special guests and other family members [human and canine], Nicky Campbell explores their world in our world and how they make the world an infinitely better place. https://podtail.com/en/podcast/one-of-the-family-a-nicky...
Pod Trawlers Episode 17 - Sam Harris, Bristol and Edward Colston, the Slave Trade, The British Empire, Humanity Rising, Extinction Rebellion, and MORE
June 30, 2020 16:00 - 45 minutes - 31.4 MBHello! So, well, it’s been ANOTHER month. In our last episode we talked about the background to BLM via the 1619 podcast, then the background to BLM in the UK background via the About Race podcast. This week we have returned to the BLM theme with just a couple more podcasts, and a few more perspectives. Beginning with: Making Sense with Sam Harris – Episode 207 Can We Pull Back from the BrinkSam Harris is one of our favourite podcasters. In this episode he “flies solo” and talks his wa...
Pod Trawlers Episode 16 - "1619", About Race, The Patdown, Trevor Noah, the Purple People, Baked Beans and MORE
June 13, 2020 16:00 - 48 minutes - 33.1 MBHello Everyone! Social media is awash with black squares and arguments about how to best deal with RACISM. We thought it was a very simple subject, really: Just Don't be a Racist! But it turns out that as with all things in life, there are so many levels of complexity....so here are our recommendations of podcasts that have helped us get a mental grip on it all. It's a long episode, but we blame Gyles Brandreth and his discussion about the culinary delights that are Baked Beans. So here...
Pod Trawlers Episode 15 - Natalie Haynes, the Classics, the Amazons, Joel Salatin, the future of farming, George the Poet, the Wind of Change, and so much MORE
June 01, 2020 16:00 - 38 minutes - 26.7 MBHello, welcome to the first week of the not-really-a-lockdown anymore: This week Veronika's 1st choice is: Natalie Haynes Stands Up for the Classics https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b077x8pc This is a BBC podcast written and presented by Natalie Haynes, who "takes a fresh look at the ancient world, creating stand-up routines about figures from ancient Greece and Rome." Series 6 (the current series) features Classical mythical women. Moving on, Vic’s 1st Choice is: Joe Rogan with Joe...
Pod Trawlers Special Episode - The Webby Awards for Podcasts Nominees; best writing and best mini-series, and MORE
May 17, 2020 14:00 - 44 minutes - 30.3 MBHello everyone! Welcome to our Webbies Special! For the last two weeks we have been chatting about some of the Webby Awards Podcast nominees. The winners will be announced on Tuesday. We can't wait to see if the judges agree with our own choices. Here are the 2020 nominees, in no particular order) for: BEST WRITING Fool Me Twice: by the Auscast Network https://www.foolmetwicepod.com/ Bear and a Banjo: by Jingle Punks https://bearandbanjo.com/ The Dream: by Little Everywhere https...
Pod Trawlers Episode 14 - What is the Internet doing to us, Megan Phelps-Roper, Thanks a Million and MORE
April 30, 2020 22:00 - 31 minutes - 21.5 MBThis week we begin with: Rabbit Hole This podcast is all about what the internet is really doing to us. It's presented by Times tech columnist Kevin Roose, and his mission is to discover what happens when our lives move online. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/16/podcasts/rabbit-hole-internet-youtube-virus.html Then we move on to Vic’s first choice is: Unfollow – a BBC Podcast This is the story of Megan Phelps-Roper about what it was like to be raised in a religious sect aggressive ...
Episode 1X - Crimetown, The Daily, Tom Hanks, Reasons to be cheerful, Plasma, and MORE
April 17, 2020 17:00 - 39 minutes - 27.4 MBHere are our podcast recommendations for the weekend and for Week 4 of the Lock Down: We begin with Vic’s first choice: Crimetown – Season 2 Crimetown explores crime and corruption in the heart of the Rust Belt: Detroit, Michigan. Expect stories of police shootings, the drug trade, and political scandal from a city divided by race. https://www.crimetownshow.com/episodes-2 then my first choice, one of our regular favourites: The Daily Podcast: Tom Hanks Mr Nice Guy A really great f...
Pod Trawlers - The Good Friday Episode - Michael Rosen's These Are The Hands, 20 Tools to help you cope in these pandemic times, Adam Buxton, and a whole lot more
April 10, 2020 12:00 - 34 minutes - 23.5 MBWe hope that it is, indeed, a Good Friday everyone. This week we begin, and end, with a very special poem by Michael Rosen. It's called These Are The Hands, and it is dedicated to the NHS. Michael Rosen is quite ill at the moment, so this is by way of our love and good vibes to him, and also the good people of the NHS who are taking care of him, and thousands of others, as they have done for over 60 years. If you would like to donate money to their cause, here is a link (all profits go...
Pod Trawlers Episode 11 - Self Isolation, The Other Latif, Isabelle Alende, Sam Harris & Paul Bloom, & MORE
April 01, 2020 18:00 - 34 minutes - 23.4 MBVic’s first choice this week is: Conversations Against Living Miserably – episodes 35 & 36, the Self Isolation Special which see different guests talking about how they are coping with self-isolation. https://podtail.com/en/podcast/conversations-against-living-miserably/ My first choice is: For the Many with our favourites Iain Dale and ex-home secretary Jacqui Smith. https://www.lbc.co.uk/radio/presenters/iain-dale/for-the-many-subscribe-lbc-brand-new-podcast-now/ Vic’s second choi...
Episode 10 - Maria Montessori, People's Stories, the World's fattest parrot, Mary Shelley and so much more
March 24, 2020 15:00 - 38 minutes - 26.7 MBThis week we begin with Vic’s first choice: The Moth https://themoth.org/podcast The Moth Podcast features re-airs of new episodes of The Moth Radio Hour, plus additional stories from their vast archive recorded over the past two decades. then my first choice: You’re Dead to Me (sorry about the name, but that’s history for you) The history podcast for people who don’t like history… and those who do. Greg Jenner brings together the best names in comedy and history to learn and laugh ...
Episode 9 - Adam Rutherford on racism, International Women, Ice Man Wim Hof, Jordan Peterson & Bret Weinstein, and Hilary Mantel
March 17, 2020 17:00 - 34 minutes - 23.9 MBHere are our recommendations for Week 1 of Corona-19 Isolation, since we have already covered that topic (see last episode). And we begin with: 1: How to Argue with a Racist Adam Rutherford Adam Rutherford is a geneticist at the University College London. In his book, How to Argue with a Racist, Adam shows that what we understand as race doesn’t really hold up with the genomic data. Unfortunately the BBC Podcast episodes that Vic listened to are not available anymore (they have disappeared...
PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT - the latest and BEST podcasts on the Coronavirus
March 11, 2020 21:00 - 5 minutes - 3.68 MBIn the spirit of Sam Harris, and in gratitude to Sam Harris, we’ve decided to “interrupt normal service” as they say, to make a public service podcast. So this podcast is only about the corona virus and about podcasts that will help you negotiate the endless media and public panic information about the virus. Here are the links: Sam Harris' Making Sense Podcast: Episode 190 (if you are going to listen to only one podcast, listen to this one) Episode 191 https://samharris.org/all-episod...
Pod Trawlers Episode 8 - Fi & Jane and Marian Keyes, Princess Kate (aka: the Duchess of Cambridge), the Gossipmongers, the Coronavirus, Michael Bloomberg, Privacy, Child Pornography epidemic, and Sir David Attenborough and The Peregrinethis we talk about
March 01, 2020 14:00 - 51 minutes - 35.7 MBIn this episode our favourite podcasts were: FROM VIC: Fortunately with Fi and Jane and with guest, author, Marion Keyes https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p082lwrc The Gossipmongers https://play.acast.com/s/gossipmongers And The Peregrine read by the cultural icon that is David Attenborough https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p07xn9lc AND FROM VERONIKA: Princess Kate (aka: The Duchess of Cambridge) The Duchess of Cambridge opened up about being a mother, and her childhood, and her...
Pod Trawlers Episode 7 - we talk about the dreaded Goop, Joe Rogan with Daryl Davis, Call Jane on Seriously, a great dollop of Dollop, and deconstructing Theresa May via Iain Dale and Anthony Seldon
February 21, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 42.1 MBHello Everyone! Welcome back! Here are our recommendations for the weekend: 1) We begin with what is actually only a half hearted recommendation: Fortunately with Fi & Jane - Internal Balls and Spooning with Clara Amfo https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p081ynf0 And unfortunately it’s another rant! You will have to listen to the podcast to find out why, buy the clue is in the title. 2) Then Vic recommends: The Best Thing Since Sliced Bread Special – Goop Lab Special by BBC h...
Pod Trawlers Episode 6 - we remember Auschwitz, we go walking with some Folk on Foot, we join Marc Maron in his garage, we rant about celebrities and we learn about our wonderful language via Something Rhymes with Purple,
February 07, 2020 17:00 - 48 minutes - 33.4 MBHistory Hits with Dan Snow This week our Pod Trawl begins with Dan Snow's History Hit podcast and learns about a real hero of a man, a member of the Polish resistance, who was sent as an agent to Auschwitz concentration camp, to find out what was actually going on there. https://play.acast.com/s/dansnowshistoryhit/d3b486a2-f332-4427-b818-e2ae5aba4859 Folk on Foot Then we join Matthew Bannister on his walks through our beautiful British landscape with the UK's best folk musicians. It's a...
Top of the Pods ! Looking for 2020 podcast suggestions? Here is a list of our favourites for 2019
January 01, 2020 13:00 - 32 minutes - 22 MBWe've trawled through our favourite podcasts of 2019 (and there have been a lot of favourites ) to tell you about podcasts that we think you should be listening to in 2020. PLUS, the two cherries on the top of the Top of the Pods, we have included snippets from our favourite podcasts that really made us laugh this year. So watch out for those. And thank you Fi & Jane and Adam Buxton for not giving us permission to share. So without further ado: Vic’s 3rd Choice: Sex Power Money, by Sarah...
Pod Trawlers Episode 4 - Dr Walker on SLEEP, Fortunately with Fi and Jane, Living Wills, Eddie Mair, best books of 2019 and George the Poet
December 17, 2019 23:00 - 33 minutes - 23.2 MBFirst, an apology: We are still relatively new to the technology of sound, so in today’s podcast Vic still sounds like as if she is sitting in a trawler, and we now both sound like as if that trawler is in a cave. But we are working on it and hope to get it all right in the next week or so. Here are our choices for this week: 1) Dr Walker on Joe Rogan (this one was the best) and on Dr Chatterjee http://podcasts.joerogan.net/podcasts/matthew-walker https://drchatterjee.com/why-sleep-is-t...
Pod Trawlers Episode 3 - The ELECTION Podcast! GO VOTE!
December 10, 2019 02:00 - 24 minutes - 16.7 MBIf you are still undecided about the way you will vote, or indeed, whether or not you will bother voting, we've got some podcasts for you that may help make up your mind. Here are our choices: 1) Women and Power - the story of the women's vote National Trust Podcast about the women's vote, presented by Kirsty Wark. https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/features/our-womens-suffrage-podcast-series-presented-by-kirsty-wark 2) Political Thinking with Nick Robinson - BBC https://www.bbc.co.uk/...
Pod Trawlers Episode 2 - Esther Perel, Adam Buxton, Darren Brown, Teacher's Pet & MORE
December 06, 2019 00:00 - 28 minutes - 19.9 MBVIC'S FAVOURITE PODCASTS OF THE WEEK 1) The Adam Buxton Podcast: https://adam-buxton.co.uk/podcasts particularly his interview with Derren Brown https://adam-buxton.co.uk/podcasts/ep110-derren-brown 2) The Good Life Project Podcast: particularly the episode with Kyle Carpenter https://www.goodlifeproject.com/podcast/kyle-carpenter/ 3) No Body Recovered BBC Podcast When a child goes missing there is one thing worse than finding a body – and that’s not finding a body. https://ww...
Pod Trawlers Episode 1 - Dolly, Grief, The Berlin Wall, Life Altering Trauma, FGM, Genetics & MORE
November 24, 2019 05:00 - 37 minutes - 26.1 MBTHIS WEEK VERONIKA'S FAVOURITE PODCASTS WERE: Dolly Parton’s America In this intensely divided moment, one of the few things everyone still seems to agree on is Dolly Parton—but why? That simple question leads to a deeply personal, historical, and musical rethinking of one of America’s great icons. Join us for a 9-part journey into the Dollyverse. https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/dolly-partons-america Tunnel 29 - a BBC Podcast and part of the Intrigue series Helena Merriman tel...