Each month, The New Yorker invites a writer to read something from the archives of the magazine. This month, Ms Adichie reads Jamaica Kincaid’s Figures in the Distance, first published in the May 9, 1983 issue of The New Yorker. It is a great choice. Check out the podcast here. While you are at it,… Read More »
The list of podcasts I download just increased by one. Last week’s edition of This American Life, really great podcast, had a story about how hookworms helped someone overcome allergies (Chris Blattman blogged it here). Since the story is taken from a Radiolab episode, I decided to try Radiolab out. Just finished listening to the current… Read More »
Great BBC programme on ‘the history of ideas’ hosted by Melvyn Bragg. Past topics have included Pythagoras, The Samurai, The Library at Alexandria, Thoreau and the American Idyll…. You can subscribe to the weekly podcast here. You can also check out to the list of podcasts I listen to on the podcasts page.
If you like movies, or if you are in any way interested in them, you should be listening to Mark Kermode‘s film review on BBC 5 live. Kermode wrote a PhD thesis on horror fiction, and his best movie is The Exorcist. The passion with which he rants about movies he hates is matched by… Read More »
1. Daniel Kaufmann and Mushtaq Khan debate the role and importance of tackling corruption as part of a development strategy – Development Drum podcast. Also see this discussion of the podcast on the Aid Thoughts blog 2. Dating and the facebook 3. What your phone might do for you two years from now. H/T Marginal… Read More »
A couple of weeks ago I discovered the National Public Radio’s This American Life podcast. Through that, I discovered the NPR’s pool of podcasts. I personally find the Jazz Profiles and Planet Money podcasts very nice. Of course, you can listen to them live if you live in the US. I find their model very… Read More »
I have added a page with links to some podcasts I often listen to. It is going to continually updated. If anyone has any podcast that they think I might add to the list they should please let me know.