[tomkinstinch]

I get enough tech in my daily life, so I look to podcasts to enrich my life in other dimensions and teach me new things. Here are some of my favorites:

* Cooking, food, and molecular gastronomy; Cooking Issues: http://www.heritageradionetwork.org/programs/51-Cooking-Issu...

* Outdoor adventure; Dirtbag Diaries: http://dirtbagdiaries.com

* Music and poetic music breakdown (uniquely well-suited to audio as a medium); Song Exploder: http://songexploder.net

* History; the Memory Palace: http://thememorypalace.us

* Design; 99% Invisible: http://99percentinvisible.org

* Electic subjects: http://loveandradio.org

* RadioLab: http://www.radiolab.org

I'd love to find a good fiction podcast, with either short form stories or episodic long form arcs in the fashion of old-school radio shows.

[DanBC]

> I'd love to find a good fiction podcast, with either short form stories or episodic long form arcs in the fashion of old-school radio shows.

Afternoon drama: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qrzz

15 Minute Drama (15 minutes per weekday, total 1hour 15mins per drama) http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qy2s

Book of the week: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qftk

Book at bedtime: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qtlx

[sranso]

The Truth http://thetruthpodcast.com/The_Truth.html is really good! You could start with http://thetruthpodcast.com/Story/Entries/2013/10/13_The_Talk.... Radiotopia in general is good for this kind of stuff.

[manish_gill]

I've heard good things about Welcome to Night Wale: http://commonplacebooks.com/

[long]

A fiction podcast I listen to: http://thetruthpodcast.com/The_Truth.html

[tensorproduct]

Somebody already mentioned Welcome to Night Vale, which is a serial fiction podcast in the form of public radio news announcements from a town where all the weirdness of the world is true.

Also, there is The Thrilling Adventure Hour. This is a comedic take on old-school radio serials. There are multiple ongoing series within the show. This is a really funny show, with great production values, and some high profile guest stars.

[sjs382]

Agreed. I listen to very few tech podcasts, for the same reason: I'm exposed to it so much elsewhere (HN, RSS etc).

But yeah, as you'll see by this list, I LOVE podcasts.

Here's what's in my 'Listen First' feed, which I listen to as soon as they're published:

  * Do You Link Prince Movies?
  * The BS Report w/ Bill Simmons
  * Grantland NFL Podcast
  * Grantland Pop Culture
  * Grantland Sports
  * Here's the Thing with Alec Baldwin
  * Hollywood Prospectus
  * Jalen & Jacoby 
  * Rembert Explains
  * Serial
  * Startup
  * Adam & Drew Show (Adam Carolla & Dr Drew)
  * Upvoted by Reddit
  * This American Life

And here are the others that I've subscribed to and listen to when I don;t have anything in the "Listen First" feed:

  * 1 Day Business Breakthrough (haven't listened yet, but it's in my feed)
  * 99% Invisible
  * Bret Easton Ellis Podcast
  * Criminal (haven't listened yet, but it's in my feed)
  * Deadcast (Sports, from deadspin.com)
  * Entreprogrammers (haven't listened yet, but it's in my feed)
  * Here Be Monsters (haven't listened yet, but it's in my feed)
  * Kalzumeus Podcast (patio11 & others)
  * Mixergy (I mark a lot of these as listened without listening)
  * NPR Fresh Air (I mark a lot of these as listened without listening)
  * NPR Invisibilia (haven't listened yet, but it's in my feed)
  * PO'd with Dennis Miller & Adam Carolla (probably going to remove this soon)
  * Reply All (haven't listened yet, but it's in my feed)
  * Startups for the Rest of Us (I mark a lot of these as listened without listening)
  * Adam Carolla Podcast (I mark a lot of these as listened without listening)
  * Andy Greenwald Podcast (I mark a lot of these as listened without listening)
  * Dr Drew Podcast (I mark a lot of these as listened without listening)
  * The Silicon Valley Astronomy Lectures
  * WTF w/ Mark Maron (I mark a lot of these as listened without listening)
  * You Made it Weird w/ Pete Holmes (I mark a lot of these as listened without listening)

[zhoux]

If you are looking for sci-fi/fantasy/horror, would definitely recommend the Escapepod (http://escapepod.org/), podcastle (http://podcastle.org/), pseudopod (http://pseudopod.org/) trio. Their webpages also link to some other good fiction podcasts of the same genre. Podcastle's Paper Menagerie (http://escapepod.org/2012/05/17/ep345-the-paper-menagerie/) made me cry.

[vijayr]

These are good too (non tech)

http://inspiringadventurer.com/

http://www.richroll.com/category/podcast/

http://www.londonreal.tv/episodes/

[mintplant]

If you like horror, you might be interested The NoSleep Podcast: readings of the cream of the crop of short stories from reddit's NoSleep forum. Really good voices and sound design, and it won a Parsec Award for speculative fiction in 2014.

http://thenosleeppodcast.com/

[jordw]

If you like Song Exploder, a friend of mine and I started a music production podcast where we dissect one song each week that you might also like: http://songaweek.net/

[stevendaniels]

The Memory Palace is so good. I wish Nate DiMeo had more time to produce it. I love how Roman Mars from 99% Invisible ripped off Nate's intro.

[leoh]

The New Yorker fiction podcast is quite good