chocolateoatmilk asked: Hi, I'm always on the lookout for new podcasts and am therefore wondering whether you have any other recommendations than the one from Freakonomics? Anything else within 'the ossuary'-theme you'd feel comfortable to share? (: Other than that I'd like to say that I'm a conservation student, and I really enjoy your tumblr!
Thank you for your kind words, and: why, yes! I do have some podcast recommendations. However, they generally don’t satisfy my morbid urges, just my general curiosity and nerdiness. Here are some lists.
Informative and/or Entertaining (many of these are simply NPR shows that are available in podcast format):
- Radiolab
- This American Life (I highly recommend their iPhone app; it’s only $3 or so and it lets you stream all their programs)
- On The Media
- Stuff You Should Know (co-host Josh seems fascinated with death, dying, and corpses, and a number of their shows reflect that—see my additional list below)
- Stuff You Missed in History Class (they alerted me to the existence of Henry IV’s severed and partially mummified head)
- Stuff Mom Never Told You
- BBC’s History of the World in 100 Objects
- Planet Money
- Marketplace Money (nerdy personal finance stuff)
- The Moth
- Studio 360
- Ricky Gervais
As I mentioned above, Stuff You Should Know has a number of death-related episodes. Here’s a list of those, along with their dates so that you can find them more easily on iTunes:
- Cryonics, 8/30/11
- How Shrunken Heads Work, 6/23/11
- Do You Stay Conscious After Being Decapitated?, 4/26/11
- How Mummies Work, 3/15/11
- How Crime Scene Photography Works, 2/17/11
- How Blood Pattern Analysis Works, 2/15/11
- How the Black Death Worked, 2/10/11
- How Crime Scene Clean-Up Works, 9/7/10
- How Cremation Works, 8/31/10
- How Near Death Experiences Work, 12/3/09
- How Jack the Ripper Worked, 10/29/09
- Do Zombies Really Exist?, 9/24/09
- What Is a Body Farm?, 7/16/09
- Is Spontaneous Human Combustion Real?, 5/28/09
- What Causes Rigor Mortis?, 5/12/09
- Bizarre Ways to Die, 4/2/09
- Are There Dead Bodies on Mount Everest?, 3/26/09
- Can People Really Die of Fright?, 2/24/09
- What Can Be Done with a Dead Body, 12/18/08
And, finally, here are some music podcasts I like:
- Werdemup (podcast of Isaiah Toothtaker and other members of Machina Muerte)
- Mad Decent
- Low End Theory (especially the installments featuring Gaslamp Killer)
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