NewMexiKen never ceases to be amazed at the amount of free material available at the iTunes store in the form of podcasts — ESPN, NPR, PBS, college courses and lectures, and so on. Today I copied a number of free episodes of old time radio programs for my next road trip. I find the old episodes of “Suspense” and “Gunsmoke” and the like to be fast-paced and easier to listen to than audio books [while driving].
Do any of NewMexiKen’s readers have any favorite podcasts they’d like to recommend?
I love Gunsmoke. archive.org has over 500 episodes available. archive.org. also has allowed me to enjoy Suspense, Yours Truly Johnny Dollar, and Orson Welle’s Mercury Radio Theater. For comedy, Stan Freburg, Our Miss Brooks, Lum and Abner, and Fibber McGee are still great. But Gunsmoke is the top of the heap in my mind.
There are some podcasts from the itunes store that I like as well. Radiolab from WNYC, This American Life, The News From Lake Wobegon, Fresh Air, and the frequently amazing Diane Rehm show from WAMU.
There are just not enough years in a lifetime to do more than sample the audio treasures now available.
A couple of iTunes podcast I think are great are:
1) The DFJ Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders Seminar (ETL) is a weekly seminar series on entrepreneurship, co-sponsored by BASES (a student entrepreneurship group), Stanford Technology Ventures Program, and the Department of Management Science and Engineering.
2) The HBR IdeaCast, from the publishers of the Harvard Business Review and the Harvard Business School Press, features breakthrough ideas and commentary from the leading thinkers in business and management.
3) Knowledge@Wharton is the online research and business analysis journal of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Launched in 1999 to disseminate knowledge from the school and other sources to a global business audience, it is published in English, Spanish, Portuguese and Chinese. The Knowledge@Wharton Network has more than 900,000 registered users worldwide.
A continuing business education from Stanford, Harvard and Wharton…for free! Gotta love it.