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Cherry-picking The Rest is History

It turns out I quite like podcasts. This isn’t a surprise: for decades I have enjoyed “talk radio”, whether CBC Radio back in earlier days, or BBC Radio 4 after embarking on life as an ex-pat in the UK. Really, podcasts are just radio-on-demand, of course. Not really a new thing at all, even if podcasting is rather trendy now, and a new source of income generation (for some).

My all-time favourite is In Our Time, hosted by Melvyn Bragg. I quite like perusing the 1000+ episodes now via the quaintly-named Braggoscope (and interesting backstory on its coding). Recently, The Rest is Politics has claimed quite a lot of my listening time (along with its spin-off, Leading). But one that was a slow-burn for me was The Rest is History. It has been around for a few years now (launched in November 2020, I see), and I had listened to the odd episode, sometimes on recommendations of friends. However, one of the presenters (unnamed) fairly consistently got up my nose, and I didn’t return for more.

In the past few weeks, though, I’ve begun to pick the odd more recent episode ... then another, then another. I don’t know whether it’s me or them, but the annoyingness factor has subsided if not entirely, then at least appreciably—enough for it not to be a deterrent, anyway. So I thought I’d keep track of the episodes that I have most enjoyed, partly because I can imagine myself returning to these for a second listen.



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