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I walk to work and back, about four miles a day. I prefer to, um, edify myself rather than listen to music while I'm walking, so I go through a lot of audio material. Here are some podcasts I like:<\/p>\n

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The Bat Segundo Show<\/a>. Very smart long-form interviews with authors and other cultural figures. I usually seek out the ones I'm especially interested in and skip the others.<\/li>\n
NYT Book Review<\/a>. Interviews with the authors in the Book Review that week, discussion of the bookselling climate, bestseller news. About 20 minutes a week.<\/li>\n
CBC Search Engine<\/a>. A Canadian podcast about social ramifications of internet events; about 20 minutes a week.<\/li>\n
Cory Doctorow's craphound.com<\/a>. Cory podcasts his fiction sometimes, but it's his digital rights and electronic frontier stuff that I really listen for (shhh).<\/li>\n
BBC Digital Planet<\/a> covers similar terrain to Search Engine, but with a scientific rather than social slant.<\/li>\n
The Ethicist<\/a>. This mostly just duplicates content from the written version, but very endearingly: Randy Cohen has trouble pronouncing the name of his column sometimes, and the theme song is delightful. Also, guest readers!<\/a><\/li>\n
BBC Material World<\/a>. I feel like this is the smart version of Radio Lab<\/a>, which everyone else seems to adore and I find to be pandering.<\/li>\n
Stories From the Moth<\/a>. 15 minutes-ish of storytelling each week. I adore about half of these, and the others are at least worth the listen.<\/li>\n
The New Yorker: Fiction<\/a>. Each month, the New Yorker gets one of their contemporary authors to pick a story from the archive, read it aloud, and participate in a discussion about it. The results are sometimes pretty awesome.<\/li>\n
On the Media<\/a>. One hour a week of really smart media analysis.<\/li>\n
PRI Selected Shorts<\/a>. A rebroadcast of live readings held at Symphony Space in NYC, in which famous-ish author's stories are read by famous-ish actors.<\/li>\n
Slate V Videocast<\/a>. This videocast sends out one short video each day, usually entertaining or edifying or both.<\/li>\n
Slate's Culture Gabfest<\/a>. A smart, funny, half-hour conversation about some themed grouping of issues affecting the cultural landscape. A half hour every two weeks.<\/a><\/li>\n
Slate's Political Gabfest<\/a>. A weekly conversation much like the Cultural Gabfest, but focusing on politics. I have a giant crush on this podcast. No, I'm not a Slate groupie at all; why do you ask?<\/li>\n
This American Life<\/a>. Of course.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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MUSIC<\/p>\n
- Long-Form\n