Melvyn Bragg steps down from presenting In Our Time

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291 points aways | 2 comments | 04 Sep 25 06:18 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source

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mellosouls ◴[04 Sep 25 07:49 UTC] No.45124731[source]▶

Its odd that when places like HN or Reddit ask for favourite podcasts the amazing resources of BBC radio (that precede all modern internet podcasts and the best of which still wipe the floor with most of them) are often forgotten.

In Our Time represents the best of the form, and the BBC, and that's significantly down to the excellence of Bragg.

The archive (you may need a VPN outside the UK):

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qykl/episodes/player

Some curated lists:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/2Dw1c7rxs6DmyK0pMR...

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1. physicsguy ◴[04 Sep 25 20:20 UTC] No.45131799[source]▶

>>45124731 #

I'm British and live in the UK so BBC is a big part of my radio listening anyway, but I agree, the quality both in terms of content and recording quality is largely miles ahead of most podcasts.

Excluding things like political things which wouldn't land the same to international listeners, my favourites are:

The Kitchen Cabinet You're Dead To Me Crowdscience Inside Science Just a Minute The Unbelievable Truth Nature Table Take Four Books Witness History Last Word Gardener's Question Time A Good Read (I wrote a blog post a while ago about scraping the books using LLMs to extract from the text of the descriptions: https://rpep.dev/posts/a-good-read-extracting-books-with-llm...)

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2. zapzupnz ◴[04 Sep 25 21:32 UTC] No.45132465[source]▶

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