Les affaires d'un cœur podcastique (a new thread of podcast reviews and recommendations - I am constantly praised for my good taste in, and recommendations of, podcasts so I have decided to yield before the clamouring hordes and start a thread):

Begin with laughter (it's all I've got left) and the @damndanielpod cast - this one is a good introduction to the show and there are still so few episodes that you could go back to the beginning and binge listen your way up to date in no time: https://damndanielpodcast.podbean.com/e/bonus-episod-the-ikea-ep/

That one was a bonus (I think). Here is the most recent episode of the regular weekly show: https://damndanielpodcast.podbean.com/e/episode-6-musical-squares/

. @HellOfAWay is always a reliable listen. This week Nate and Francis say interesting things about time and perspective: https://www.podbean.com/media/share/dir-yiqw7-b915019?utm_campaign=w_share_ep&utm_medium=dlink&utm_source=w_share

Our beloved national treasure @RPCorpIntl helped me make it through the night with this fabulous review of one of the recent books about how the Labour Tories arranged for poor children to starve during the school holidays: https://www.podbean.com/media/share/dir-d2pdz-b99c496?utm_campaign=w_share_ep&utm_medium=dlink&utm_source=w_share

. @damndanielpod is kind enough to give us another bonus episode. I went back to feeling protective towards James during this one: https://damndanielpodcast.podbean.com/e/b-sides-vol-1/

And here is this week's @Haveawordpod, which I always forget isn't a film. It's also available in just sound on your preferred podcast platform:

. @trashfuture saw me through the rainy midday with an update on the Quibi story. Grace Lavery ( @graceelavery)
is the lovely guest and Tories are soon being vilified for starving poor children: https://trashfuturepodcast.podbean.com/e/grace-lavery/ 

And here is a wonderful tribute to David Graeber from the equally wonderful @desolationwales podcast. The guest is Owain ( @HanmerOwain): https://www.podbean.com/media/share/dir-qr8ag-ba180ee?utm_campaign=w_share_ep&utm_medium=dlink&utm_source=w_share

This, from the @damndanielpod cast, helped eliminate any serious thinking today, which was just what the doctor/ vet ordered: https://damndanielpodcast.podbean.com/e/episode-7-ripee/

. @badgayspod cast is very good this week. Because English people are so ignorant about languages I assumed his name was pronounced Libber-Ace (to rhyme with face) and so was very surprised when I first saw him announced on (black & white/2 channels) TV: https://badgayspod.podbean.com/e/liberace/ x

1/2 It's taken me a week to get around to listening to this. I had forgotten about the extremes of detached happiness the Novara FM can carry one to. Last week, James Butler's ( @piercepenniless) guest was Hari Kunzru ( @harikunzru). Mr Kunzru wrote a novel called 'My Revolutions'-

2/2 -a few years back, which had a profound effect on me (don't worry, I can't quite remember why so you are saved) and so I'm going to read it again (as well as the new one). And it's Novara FM day today!!! Unbridled joy!!!xxx: https://www.podbean.com/media/share/dir-24zmk-b98177a?utm_campaign=w_share_ep&utm_medium=dlink&utm_source=w_share

I have to go out so I haven't quite finished listening to this (from @PraxisCast) yet, but 3/4 of the way in it's been a lovely catharsis of fury and hatred directed at Tories everywhere. I'm hoping for a nice climax when I get home and finish itx: https://praxiscast.podbean.com/e/episode-55-big-pamphlet-bigger-dinners/

Go to podcast heaven by listening to this fascinating conversation between Jack and Yair on our fabulous and beloved @RPCorpIntl podcast: https://www.podbean.com/media/share/dir-7wcyg-bd1ed3c?utm_campaign=w_share_ep&utm_medium=dlink&utm_source=w_share

More podcast heaven. I almost burst into tears when it finished. All those questions orbiting your brain at warp-factor wotsit are addressed. Thoughts you didn't realise you were having etc. Thank you, @HKesvani and your lovely friend Phoebexx: https://tenthousandposts.podbean.com/e/postus-part-1/

. @RPCorpIntl sees to it that the Podcast Nirvana starts here with this marvellous conversation between Jack and @DanFinn95. An excellent dissection of the performative horror over antisemitism on the Left of the Labour Party. It needs no hyperbole from me: https://www.podbean.com/media/share/dir-eubu6-be87df1?utm_campaign=w_share_ep&utm_medium=dlink&utm_source=w_share

. @ViewsParallax provides us with the best post-election analysis I've heard so far. I was so happy to find it (and grateful). I was also pleased to be reminded of @newsvandal (sign up for the newsletter on the website): https://parallaxviews.podbean.com/e/jps1120/ 

Some late Stans. Sorry. This episode of the @CHAPOTRAPHOUSE podcast is particularly good for the afterTrump predictions bits, I think: https://www.podbean.com/media/share/dir-mk49n-bef66ae?utm_campaign=w_share_ep&utm_medium=dlink&utm_source=w_share

Another shamefully late one - this weeks free @trashfuturepod, which goes up the gulf to spend petrodollars. Very interesting and filled in one of my many, many lacunae missing links about this and that: https://trashfuturepodcast.podbean.com/e/imams-basement-feat-derek-davison/

I should have done this one last night. My beloved @PraxisCast (Podcasting is Praxis) podcast. Everyone is satisfyingly angry and very well informed about the election. A nicely cathartic moment early in the week to clear you out for the outrages to come: https://praxiscast.podbean.com/e/episode-56-the-road-to-hell-is-paved-with-melts/

And after all that necessary seriousness comes all this necessary giggling with the @damndanielpod cast. They offer a free tattoo and your name (framed) on the wall to their highest tier patrons!: https://damndanielpodcast.podbean.com/e/episode-9-lil-james/

. @HellOfAWay's guest this week is @Milo_Edwards so nothing is even a little bit sacred (not that anyone suggested it might be). In the midst of the giggling there is much sociology & anthro stuff about the armies of the prosaic relationship. Have fun!x: https://www.podbean.com/media/share/dir-f8kgz-bf657e0?utm_campaign=w_share_ep&utm_medium=dlink&utm_source=w_share

1) I happened upon this lovely podcast this morning and discovered that the guest is @huwlemmey talking about his new book 'Unknown Language'. Apart from being reminded that my copy hasn't arrived it was the most pleasant hour or so I've had for some time: https://www.podbean.com/media/share/dir-mmbm5-bf0c21a?utm_campaign=w_share_ep&utm_medium=dlink&utm_source=w_share

2) Comforted by Huw's voice and with my pain meds kicking in it crossed my mind that I hadn't listened to the Bad Gays podcast ( @badgayspod) for a while so I went looking and found 2 I hadn't yet heard! Unbridled joy! The first was about Jeremy Thorpe: https://badgayspod.podbean.com/e/jeremy-thorpe/

3) And the 2nd was about Benjamin Britten. Both episodes led me to have very interesting thoughts as I made my dal. But now the Huwfest is over and I must go to the Health Centre and then the Pharmacy - as old people do. My gravity has failed miserablyx: https://badgayspod.podbean.com/e/benjamin-britten/

This is a very interesting take on fake news. Marcus Gilroy-Ware ( @mjgw) and James Butler ( @piercepenniless) have a fascinating discussion. I was forced to think for myself several times, which was a bit exhausting so I had a nice lie down when it finished https://www.podbean.com/media/share/dir-cqn55-c061fa0?utm_campaign=w_share_ep&utm_medium=dlink&utm_source=w_share

This is a wonderful podcast, which I don't think I've Stanned before. Grace Blakely ( @graceblakeley) has a lovely talk with Rutger Bregman ( @rcbregman) about his new book. I haven't watched any news since: https://www.podbean.com/media/share/dir-kk2rk-bf799b6?utm_campaign=w_share_ep&utm_medium=dlink&utm_source=w_share

And whilst nosing about in that podcast's history list I found this wonderful episode with our beloved Zarah Sultana! ( @zarahsultana) I was so happy! Lots of interesting details of how she became politicised and her daily life as an MP: https://www.podbean.com/media/share/dir-arh3k-bbcaf02?utm_campaign=w_share_ep&utm_medium=dlink&utm_source=w_share

Horror Vanguard ( @HorrorVanguard) is always an entertaining listen. This one is about Shudder (which my husband Lionel subscribed to without my consent) One of the presenters answers questions with 'Yes, No' and 'No, Yes', which I think is rather sweet: https://www.podbean.com/media/share/dir-6mynp-c08e227?utm_campaign=w_share_ep&utm_medium=dlink&utm_source=w_share

I was very grateful to @HorrorVanguard for the interview they did with Richard Seymour ( @leninology) around the time that The Twittering Machine was published. You can listen to it here: https://www.podbean.com/media/share/dir-up46f-6f2114d?utm_campaign=w_share_ep&utm_medium=dlink&utm_source=w_share

I should have given this episode of The Insurgents ( @insurgentspod) a Stan on Sunday, but it will be just as fresh and interesting today: https://www.podbean.com/media/share/dir-39nnt-c0bbf9d?utm_campaign=w_share_ep&utm_medium=dlink&utm_source=w_share

And then there is today's free episode of @trashfuturepod, which explains the local council funding insanity in the time of neoliberalism beautifully, and has Nate sing his version of 'Going Mobile' as well as Milo doing a very good KIETH!!! impressionx: https://trashfuturepodcast.podbean.com/e/midden-s-advente/

I haven't been keeping up with Pope Lonergan (@thedailybumbler). Apart from illness and amnesia, I also have a preference for letting a few build up so I can spend more time in the less defined or predictable universe he takes me into. Listen to a fewx: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9hbmNob3IuZm0vcy8xZDExZmI0NC9wb2RjYXN0L3Jzcw?sa=X&ved=0CAIQ4aUDahcKEwj4xJbJsI3tAhUAAAAAHQAAAAAQAQ&hl=en-GB

Need a mind enema after binge watching The Crown? Look no further than this fabulous episode of the Podcasting is Praxis podcast ( @PraxisCast). Come that glorious day, and so on ... : https://praxiscast.podbean.com/e/episode-57-we-live-in-antony-now/

The Damn Daniel Podcast ( @damndanielpod) gets even funnier by the episode. During this one a story about a lolly nearly finished me off. Couldn't make it up: https://damndanielpodcast.podbean.com/e/episode-10-whats-french-for-wheres-me-bin/

Here's a very interesting hour with Thomas Frank on @ViewsParallax: https://parallaxviews.podbean.com/e/tcfrank2/ 

Talking this up again as I forgot to put the other one in this thread (which I know brings comfort to thousands around the world). The fabulous Sophie Lewis ( @reproutopia) in a marvellously inspiring conversation with Alex of the @poltheoryother podcast: https://www.podbean.com/media/share/dir-xbwig-c1b47cd?utm_campaign=w_share_ep&utm_medium=dlink&utm_source=w_share

This evening we are blessed with a new RP ( @RPCorpIntl) episode. The never ending coup (even though there's no coupable JC now) is exposed for what it is: a massive vat of very sour milk, indeed. This is classic RP - exposing melts & salting slugs:: https://www.podbean.com/media/share/dir-nk8i3-c1f3b80?utm_campaign=w_share_ep&utm_medium=dlink&utm_source=w_share

A new podcast is born ( @bwo_pod)! I enjoyed every minute and feel very brainy and up on Deleuze now. Mr @xenogothic and Mr @hauntonaut drew me in very nicely - my mind was expanded, but I don't have any stretch marks. Unmissable: https://soundcloud.com/buddieswithoutorgans/episode-1-bodies-without-organs

I listened to this lovely Novara FM gazing out onto the busy street as l'heure bleu passed. Mr @owenhatherley and Mr James Butler ( @piercepenniless ) discuss Owen's new book 'Red Metropolis'. It comes (from Repeater) with the ebook included (always nice)x: https://www.podbean.com/media/share/dir-bunww-c1bf1f0?utm_campaign=w_share_ep&utm_medium=dlink&utm_source=w_share

This is so good! @TheSinanKose hosts @KlezmerRouge and @Mc_Heckin_Duff to discuss all the important news from the past week. We really are entirely liberated from that horrid Marr show. I only wish someone had told me it was on yesterday(The Sinan Show): https://www.twitch.tv/videos/811894285

This is very interesting and answers all of the questions I've had on the subject in recent days: @TheSinanKose has a conversation about what's going in Labour with Bristol West activist @isaac_kh - https://www.twitch.tv/videos/813248265

This from @CHAPOTRAPHOUSE helped me through the torment of some particularly soul-destroying housework yesterday. Lots of fascinating recent history: https://www.podbean.com/media/share/dir-2yhey-c22dd1a?utm_campaign=w_share_ep&utm_medium=dlink&utm_source=w_share

I'm very familiar with this story, but I've never heard it told quite so well. The @badgayspod just gets (even) better and better: https://badgayspod.podbean.com/e/truman-capote-1606131502/

Feeling down and finding your tier tedious? Elevate your mood and lose whatever marbles you've got left by listening to The @damndanielpod cast: https://damndanielpodcast.podbean.com/e/episode-11-shook-ones/

I was pleased to discover that you can watch the other night's The Popular Show ( @thepopularpod) on YouTube (very handy if you can't watch the livestream:

(zoomcast)