Definitely my favourite podcast. The only other comparable one Revolutions by Mike Duncan.

Revolutions podcast was too in-depth for me (think, hundreds of episodes for each revolution). But I've been listening to his podcast-closing appendix (12 appendix episodes, that tells you something about being verbose), and it's fun :)

Now wondering what the boundary between "BBC radio programme on Sounds" and "podcast" is. Could the BBC have been said to invent the "podcast" format with https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letter_from_America ? (2,869 episodes! "The series ran from 24 March 1946 to 20 February 2004, making it the longest-running speech radio programme hosted by one individual")

(Very strictly, a podcast requires an RSS feed and the ability to download to an iPod, but those criteria have been eroded to "any audio programme that is not on the radio")

Many programmes on BBC Sounds have RSS feeds, you can subscribe using any podcast client.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/help/questions/features/subscri...

> Now wondering what the boundary between "BBC radio programme on Sounds" and "podcast" is.

This thread is teaching me that people would even draw a boundary there at all. It's clear from the people posting here that many really think of podcasts as "couple of guys sitting around shooting the shit", but there's a hell of a lot out there outside of this one genre.

It's a bit "I tried a bunch of science fiction books, but I didn't like them so reading isn't for me."

Ever heard the term 'The medium is the message?"

BBC Radio podcasts are not representative of podcasts, nor is it the reference point for most people that start one. Those people very likely have the image of two friends shooting the shit in front of a mic.