Wednesday, November 19, 2008

Time to Kill - Podcasts

BBC is indisputably the god of 'podcasts' with their
"World Book Club" (to get to know quality thoughts from really good novelists, who also read from their own excerpts), "Wake Up to Money" (UK-specific Business commentary), "Test Match Special" (after any ODI or Test which England plays, the BBC commentators give their views on the match), "From Our Own Correspondent" (geo-political news reviews), "Documentaris" (best ever documentaries - assignment style), "Fighting Talk" (hilarious sports talk show) and some more..
some links where you can catch podcasts:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/factual/radio4choice.shtml
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/default.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/file_on_4/default.stm
http://www.bbc.co.uk/fivelive/programmes/fightingtalk.shtml
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/documentaries/index.shtml

Am now a fan of "The Office" and "Saturday Night Live" hosted by nbc.com (if you visit this site, you can see the streaming videos of their latest and old episodes) - really good initiative.

One can see movies/tv serials in "surfthechannel.com" too, amazing treasure house this site.

Also, lately am impressed with "KQED" (http://www.kqed.org/) radio/tv shows. The quality of their tv/radio programs are as good as BBC's.

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