The Pod Files - Sunday 7 December 2025

 

The ‘casts -

(Notes spoken to Siri, and edited later if I remember

(Changed tactic now where starred dialogue denotes quoting from the show’s own notes

Cassette Culture - 27 November 2025: *Deleted Records & The Instant Automatons - Underneath the safety pins, television expletives and bondage trousers that came with Punk in 1977, there was a coded message for those ready to hear it. Resolutely independent, the Instant Automatons and their label Deleted Records tuned in from the North of England and got that message of DIY independence, creativity and confidence that followed "Here's Three Chords, Now Form A Band" / We trace the birth of the UK cassette underground - from isolated bedrooms to West London squats, from hand-dubbed tapes to Rough Trade shelves. It's the story of how a handful of young people, with almost no resources, built a national community through shared idealism, cheap technology, and an unstoppable desire to create. / Finding their tribe with the Labroke Grove hippie-punks circulating around the Here & Now/Frestonia/free festival scene and building their community under the Westway. / Here & Now drummer, Kif Kif Le Batteur made his sentiment about the established record industry clear when he named his cassette label F.O. Records. Recognising that the Instant Automatons and their label Deleted Records got it too, they connected to collaborate on cassette and vinyl releases, gigs and tours. And in doing, forged a template that was adopted and amplified from there on. / Hosted by Martin Franklin. 

The Daily Quiz Show - 20 October 2025: General Knowledge 

The Best 5 Minute Wine Podcast - episode 8: 22 April 2020: Ports of New York Winery - Ithaca, NY Pt. 3 - Welcome to Part 3 of our conversation with Frédéric Bouché. Can't wait to get into it. So many fascinating stories with Mr. Bouche. Imagined having a winery with your style and the way that you're so personable that you hear some interesting stories from your patrons had something to do. 

I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue - Series 84 episode 4: 01 Dec 2025: Hospital Radio Songbook - The godfather of all panel shows returns to the Hull New Theatre. On the panel are Rory Bremner, Tony Hawks, Lucy Porter and Henning Wehn with Jack Dee in the umpire's chair.

The Afternoon Tune - 2 December 2025:  Moana (2026) Live Action Teaser Trailer / REACTION! REACTING to the Moana Live-Action Teaser Trailer! | First Impressions & Breakdown / In today's video, I'm checking out the brand-new Moana live-action teaser trailer, is it the same old Disney live action remake slop?

BirdNote Daily - 1 July 2023: *Wetland Birds Thrive - While nearly a third of North American bird species are in decline, many birds that depend on wetlands are thriving. Duck breeding populations in 2009 were an estimated 25% above historical averages. / Conditions on the breeding grounds have improved since the drought years of the 1980s, but human action has also made a huge difference. You can help by purchasing a duck stamp every year. Adam Grimm's painting of a pair of Canvasbacks won the contest for the 2014-2015 duck stamp.

Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day - 7 December 2025: enigmatic

7 Good Minutes - 28 September 2025: Why Every Day Deserves a Fresh, Clear Start

StarDate - 6 December 2025: Moon, Jupiter, and Gemini

A Murder Most Foul: The Life of a Hitman - season 1 episode 23: 3 August 2025: *Chapter 23: THEN: 1973, LIKE A COMPLETE UNKNOWN

7 Good Minutes - 28 September 2025: 7 Good Minutes: Extra - Each dawn offers not just...

Seaside pod review - episode 69: 29 February 2024: “where is your wife?” Intro. “Have you got any stories for me?” Randy moans that Kev never lets him know that they’ve actually started recording. Randy in Smellford.  Deep freeze in Saskatchewan. The boss over the floss. “That really spins my donut!” People complaining about Mary Austin selling the house of Freddie Mercury. After the catch-up chat, they look at feedback from listeners about the previous episode’s song, the John Deacon written You’re My Best Friend. Knitphobia. 🧶 Keanu Reeves. After all of this they go into the randomly chosen song for this week, which is the Roger Taylor written hit single the invisible man, from the album the miracle. Yeah, i think it’s a song that not a lot of people like? I don’t mind it, and certainly don’t skip it, but I’m going to guess now that Kev and Randy are both going to say that this is a dust. Saying that though, it still gets a dust from me. Kev mentioned the book the invisible man by HG Wells, which I have read, and I have seen a few television and film interpretations of. Not the most recent version though. That can go f*** itself! Shawshank Redemption mention. Kev asks about songs where the band announce each member in the song, which makes me think of Ant Rap by Adam and the Ants - “Marco, Merrick, Terry Lee, Gary Tibbs, and yours truly…” 

The Stupid History Minute - 7 December 2025: The Razor Scooter

Daily Dad Jokes - 19 July 2025

5 Minute Advice for Authors - season 1 episode 37: 3 July 2024: *Strategies to Lead Effective Change with Gregg Brown - In this episode of "5 Minute Advice for Authors," Gregg Brown, author of "Spark Action: How to Lead Change That Matters," shares his perspectives on creating impactful change in today's rapidly evolving landscape. / He talks about the need for organizations and individuals to become 'change ready' in a post-pandemic world. Gregg also offers advice to aspiring authors, emphasizing the importance of just starting the writing process. He encourages writers to abandon rigid, traditional writing models in favor of discovering and embracing their unique creative processes, whether that involves brainstorming, outlining, or diving straight into writing. He ends by delving into creating his audiobook with Twin Flames Studios, the positive experience he had with his audiobook director, and how he learned to adapt his energetic stage presence for the intimate medium of audio.

Christmas Pop-up Channel - 16 November 2025: Even More Christmas Movies for you to watch

Science Quickly - 11 February 2015: *Preindustrial Pollution Pestered Peru - Ice cores show a sudden rise in heavy metal air pollution in South America 240 years before the industrial revolution, probably due to metallurgy and mining. Karen Hopkin reports. 

Sounds Profitable - 3 December 2025: *Gen Z's News Problem, Advantages of Audio Podcasting, & More - Today in the business of podcasting: Gen Z has a news trust problem, video podcasters might be missing the advantages of audio, and podcast ad loads.

MinuteEarth - 15 April 2025: The Problem With Concrete 

The Slowdown - episode 1228: 30 October 2024: Today's poem is Shelf Life by Nathan Xavier Osorio.

Uber's Lost and Found - is that your chainsaw?

5 Good News Stories - five good things in the news

29 April 2025: 

Podnews Daily - 4 December 2025: *Spotify Wrapped for Creators 2025 - The data Spotify has for your podcast - and how to find it. 

Womanica - 21 May 2021: Tidye Pickett

Skipping Through Theatre - series 2 episode 3: 2 February 2025: *With Jake Hodder - Join Nathan, Maddie and Jake for the funniest episode ever!!!! Hear Jake sing parts of songs from the Wicked movie and hear his obsession with Wine Gums!!

Composers Datebook - 28 November 2025: Rachmaninoff and Hanson get romantic

Composers Datebook - 29 November 2025: New York City 'firsts' of Rossini and Cole Porter

Composers Datebook - 30 November 2025: Massenet (and Laurie Anderson)

Composers Datebook - 4 December 2025: Tchaikovsky and North endure unkind cuts

Composers Datebook - 5 December 2025: Janácek's 'Glagolitic'

Composers Datebook - 6 December 2025: Brubeck's birthday

Composers Datebook - 7 December 2025: The New York Phil and Pearl Harbor

The Daily Poem - 13 October 2025: *The Weary Architect of Shadows: A Solitary Pilgrimage Through the Ruins of the Heart - Today's poem is about Frustration in the style of Robert Frost. / Poems generated from OpenAl ChatGPT API with proprietary prompts. / This podcast is produced by Klassic Studios. 

7 Minutes For Yourself - 8 June 2024: The Resilient Way: How to Weather Life's Storms and Flourish

BirdNote Daily - 2 July 2023: *Megapodes - Mound-Builders - There's a group of birds that lay their eggs underground - in geothermally heated burrows, or warm sands, or even mounds of organic material warmed by the heat of decomposition. These megapodes or mound-builders — like this Australian Brushturkey — are found in Australia, New Guinea, and nearby islands. The male builds a mound and adjusts the amount of material to maintain a constant temperature. After a long incubation, the eggs hatch and the chicks claw their way to the surface. They never know their parents, but emerge fully feathered and capable of flying and feeding themselves.

Daily Shower Thoughts - 8 October 2025

Wiser Than Me with Julia Louis-Dreyfus - season 3 episode 4: 30 October 2024: *Julia Gets Wise with Catherine O'Hara - On this episode of Wiser Than Me, Julia sits down with 70-year-old comedy icon - and star of Beetlejuice and Schitt's Creek - Catherine O'Hara. Catherine and Julia share their improv origin stories and reminisce about the freedom and experimentation of their early comedy careers. They also swap stories about visiting the Vatican, over-apologizing, and how they both find laughter incredibly sexy. Plus, Judith, Julia's 90-year-old mom, tries very hard to tell a joke.

Question of the Week - episode 539: 10 November 2023: *What's the magnifying strength of my marble? - James Tytko took on this question with the help of the University of Glasgow's Richard Bowman...

Daily Facts - 26 October 2025

BirdNote Daily - 3 July 2023: *Clean Beach Week - This week is Clean Beach Week. Many busy beaches are also where declining species such as Piping Plovers and Least Terns have their nests. Keeping litter off the shore helps make sure that birds don't pick up plastic and other waste and try to feed it to their young. / Staying out of dunes and marked-off areas where birds are known to nest ensures that people can share the beach with birds and their young for years to come.

Radio Headspace - 13 May 2021: A Telling Tale

Daily Life Pro Tips - 24 October 2025

Naked Scientists In Short - episode 180: 4 September 2012: *BSF 2012: Caring Technology and Colourful Fossils - In this, the first of a series of special podcasts from the British Science Festival, we discover the Wang Particle, find out how technology can help people stay more able until later in life, and how fossils are revealing their true colours...

Christmas Pop-up Channel - 23 November 2025: The best Christmas Books for 2025

7 Good Minutes - 29 September 2025: How Your Morning Ritual Transforms Your Entire Mindset

The Daily Quiz Show - 21 October 2025: Sports and Leisure 

Sounds Profitable - 4 December 2025: *Global Podcast Advertising Report, Creators Leaving Podcasting, & More - Today in the business of podcasting: 1/3rd of creators who try making podcasts leave the medium entirely, new Global Podcast Advertising Compass study, and the advertising industry looks forward to 2026.

7 Good Minutes - 29 September 2025: 7 Good Minutes: Extra - The mind you cultivate at...

Adrift - Season 1 Episode 7: Savages - 8 December 2025: *The arguments between Dougal and Lyn get worse and worse as exhaustion and reopened old wounds push the couple to the brink. In their darkest hour, the castaways perform something close to a miracle. But then Robin makes a blunder that puts them all in serious jeopardy.