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[nolly]

Recommend me some free audio fiction -- something from Podiobooks, LibriVox, etc.

On-going podcasts OK, but here's what I already listen to:

Between the Covers from CBC Radio
Clarkesworld Magazine
The Classic Tales
clonepod (though they're not updating currently; I don't know if they plan to come back to it.)
ComicWeb Old Time Radio
Cory Doctorow's podcast
Decoder Ring Theater
The Drabblecast
EscapePod
Jim Kelly's Free Reads (hasn't updated in a while)
Lakeshore (ditto, understandably)
Metamor City
New Yorker: Fiction
Pinnkwater Podcast
Podcastle
PRI: Selected Shorts
Pseudopod
Relic Radio
The Seanachai
StarShipSofa
Theme and Variations (complete?)
tor.com podcast
Transmissions From Beyond
Variant Frequencies



APM: American RadioWorks (documentaries)
BTR: Personal Finance Hour (but I'm kinda unimpressed, and likely to drop this one)
The FuMP
History According to Bob
New Yorker Animated Cartoons
NPR: CarTalk
NPR: Planet Money
NPR: StoryCorps
Off the Map's podcast (religion, hasn't updated in months, but I've been working through the archives)
Studio 360
This American Life
WWdN


I left off a couple of obscure and quiescent ones, but that's the bulk of it. I have a long commute, and I'm running low on listening material. I've listened to a lot of the classic novels already, but suggest away.

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[erik]

Podiobooks:
Space Casey and Nina Kimberly The Merciless by Christiana Ellis were both pretty good.
The Case Of The Singing Sword by Tee Morris was very good.

Audiobooks:
The guy who seems to be reading his way through the H. Beam Piper catalog at Librivox is pretty good. If you like Piper I would recommend those.

We seem to have a lot of overlap on podcasts, except you have no BBC:
Friday Night Comedy from BBC Radio 4
The timeslot is shared by two shows: The Now! Show, which is people making fun of the news; and The News Quiz, which is people making fun of the news in a quiz show format similar to Wait, Wait...Don't Tell Me!

In Our Time
Each week the moderator gets expert guests and they take some event or person in history (especially but not exclusively the history of science) and discuss it in detail for an hour.

Thinking Allowed
A Sociologist gets guests each week to talk about current developments in the social sciences.

Material World
A hour-long look at some current research in physical sciences

Start The Week
This is a pretty amazing feat, really. Each week there are three or four guests, all with some currency (like, just has a book out that they're flogging), but in totally unrelated fields (this week it was a guy reviving The Beggar's Opera, a woman who has just finished a biography of Montaigne, a geneticist, and Will Self). And then they all and the moderator discuss all of their topics and how they relate to each other. And somehow the guests are always erudite enough to actually have informed opinions about the others' topics.

Besides the BBC:
Wait, Wait...Don't Tell Me!
Onion Radio News
Scientific American 60-second Science
the memory palace
...those last 3 will not help much; for the most part they're under 3 minutes each.