Today, I thought I’d share a list of the podcasts I’ve subscribed to in the last year or so.  I love, love, love podcasting.  Yes, I recognize that 2003 would like to let me know this is old news but I feel like, as someone who spends 90+ min on the bus in a given day, the podcast is a critical link to the news.  Honestly, I spend almost all my time listening to podcasts now.  It is patehtic in a “who actually listens to podcasts” way.  So, without further ado:

• NPR’s Planet Money: Convincing me, about a half hour at a time, that I can and do understand the financial news.  Really.  These guys also contribute to This American Life (below)
  
• Craft Sanity: Because it is nice to hear hour long interviews with women (and sometimes men) who’ve made crafting their life’s work.  Often inspiring, usually interesting, seldom dull.  This podcast is not “professional” in that it isn’t a part of NPR/Conde Nast/NBC etc. and the production value does show…
• The New Yorker’s Fiction podcast: I can’t quite bring myself to subscribe to the New Yorker, I don’t know why.  Especially since I really, really like this podcast of short stories followed by a 5-10 min discussion with a contemporary author.
• NPR’s On the Media: Fact checking, analysis, and watching the guys who are supposed to watch the politicians and CEOs.
• This American Life: Does this even need an explanation?  Who doesn’t listen to this podcast?
• CBC’s Search Engine: unpacking the Internet, technology, and censorship every week from a Canadian perspective, so you’ll sometimes learn a bizarre amount about Canadian telecom policy.
• Poetry Off the Shelf: Contemporary poems read and discussed by people who are much more qualified than I’ll ever be to “understand” and explain poems.