I listen to a number of podcasts.
My favourite shows are:
- Lives Well Lived with Peter Singer & Kasia de Lazaro Radek. Interviews on the theme of living well. A privilege to hear fortnightly from the great utilitarian philosopher.
- The 80,000 Hours Podcast with Rob Wiblin. This is the principal podcast for Effective Altruism and provides long-form interviews on EA and related subjects.
- The Mindscape Podcast with Sean Carroll. Weekly interviews mainly on fundamental physics and philosophy, made accessible by the brilliant Sean Carroll. The Ask Me Anything episodes are also impressive.
- The Rest is Politics with Alistair Campbell and Rory Stewart. Lively one-hour conversations about UK politics. The ‘Leading’ interviews and US editions are also strong.
- Econtalk with Russ Roberts. Weekly conversations on economics and wider subjects.
- The Joe Walker Podcast. From Australia, very good long-form interviews around economics, psychology and philosophy with a well-informed host. Formerly called the Jolly Swagman podcast.
- Philosophy Bites with Nigel Warbuton and David Edmonds. A large archive of tightly-edited short talks with expert philosophers.
- The TED Interview with Chris Anderson. A high-quality archive of interviews conducted by an excellent host.
- The Making Sense Podcast with Sam Harris. Weekly interviews. Some very good material in the archives, though there is now less philosophy and psychology.
- In Our Time. A BBC show which covers numerous subjects through weekly one-hour discussions with subject experts and has a substantial archive.
And my favourite individual episodes are:
- David Deutsch on The TED Interview.
- Thomas Metzinger on The Making Sense Podcast.
- Peter Singer on The 80,000 Hours Podcast.
- Will MacAskill on The 80,000 Hours Podcast in 2018.
- Joshua Greene on The Mindscape Podcast.
- Anil Seth on The Making Sense Podcast.
- Joseph Henrich on The Jolly Swagman Podcast
- Will MacAskill on Deep Dive with Ali Abdall Podcast.
- Kent Berridge on the Utilitarian Podcast
- Tyler Cowan on The Jolly Swagman Podcast.
- Peter Singer on the Joe Walker Podcast in 2023.
- Rebecca Goldstein on the Panpsycast Podcast.
- David Edmonds on the Mindscape Podcast.
- Rory Stewart on the Hear This Idea Podcast.
- Nick Lane on the Mindscape Podcast.