[isk517]

You may want to consider checking out Mike Duncan's podcasts the History of Rome and Revolutions as well. History of Rome especially since it was the ending of that podcast at the fall of the west that encouraged the creation of the History of Byzantium podcast.

[eropple]

Duncan in particular gets much better at doing his podcast after a few dozen episodes. I'm pretty attuned to audio issues and almost dropped the podcast about halfway in, but eventually he figured a few things out and it got a lot nicer to listen to.