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Beatles music is, for the first time, available for download in a podcast from Norwegian Broadcasting.
[This of course begs some dumb puns about Norwegian Wood. Isn't it good? But we digress.]
Norwegian Broadcasting (NRK) made a 2007 documentary series on “Norgesglasset” radio, which explored “the [...]

William R. Patterson, financial advisor, author and host of the XM Radio show “The Power,” talks about the correlation between debt and depression (the emotional kind, not the economic kind) with host Bill Grady in the current episode of the You Are The Guest podcast.
Much of the conversation is common-sense (i.e., anyone reading the news [...]

Here in Iowa, in December, we are having predictably treacherous winter weather. A balmy 40-degree (F) day melts the snow, which freezes to a sheet of ice as soon as the sun sets.
I not-so-gracefully slipped on my way into the grocery store Monday night. Lovely. I wasn’t hurt (well, not too much), just bruised my [...]

Rise and Shine.tv is in the midst of a daily holiday songwriting project, and everyone is invited to help create the songs, via the Internet. The exercise in spontaneity and creativity is the brainchild of Dean Whitbread, co-founder of the UK Podcasters’ Association (and a talented songwriter and musician in his own right).
Rise and Shine [...]

Throughout the month of December, we’ve been (very) intermittently profiling some of the end-of-year holiday podcasts we enjoy. One favorite, that is actually produced by someone we know in real life, is Podsafe Christmas.
Podsafe Christmas is the creation of Kansas City-based meteorologist and musician (and weather and music podcaster) Ed Roberts. The show runs daily [...]

IODA, the Independent Online Distribution Alliance, has a nice mix of new independent holiday music on the latest episode of its IODA Promonet Podcast.
IODA is a digital distributor of independent music of every genre, from thousands of different record labels, and promotes that music to retailers, distributors, bloggers, and podcasters through its Promonet service. Its [...]

For about fifteen years, our family has had a tradition of a shared Advent calendar. Every day from December 1 - 24, the children take turns opening the little packages, one for each day of the Advent season.
After a disastrously messy first year’s (chocolate) calendar when our boys were toddlers, we’ve had many years’ enjoyment [...]

I recently discovered that the University of Oxford offers quite a few interesting podcast series. I was looking for some resources on Beowulf for one of our children, but was pleasantly surprised to find an incredible variety of topics presented in podcast format.

Some of the 99 podcast feeds offered:
refugees and forced migration around the world
philosophy [...]

Want to see a great example of a podcast audio tour?
The Friends of the Public Garden in Boston have launched a Public Garden Audio Tour podcast, a self-guided audio walking tour. The audio tour is available as a free download at the Friends of the Public Garden website, and as a podcast on iTunes. Visitors [...]

Eclectic local podcast New Orleans Podcasting calls itself “an uplifting smorgasbord of short audio interviews featuring an array of vital and interesting individuals”. It is the brainchild of Craig Kraemer of Kraemer Advertising, a New Orleans advertising agency.
Although each guest has a different perspective on post-Katrina New Orleans, all share an unshakable faith in the [...]