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24 alternatives to The Podcast History of our World
4000 years of history in an entertaining format.
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. The Podcast History of our World launched in 2016; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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First in an amazing series of podcasts about World War One.
2015 · dancarlin.com · its alternatives →
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I'm a big fan of the BBC podcast In Our Time -- and (like most people) I've been playing with the OpenAI APIs. In Our Time has almost 1,000 episodes on everything from Cleopatra to the evolution of teeth to plasma physics, all still available, so it's my starting point to learn about most topics. But it's not well organised. So here are the episodes sorted by library code. It's fun to explore. Web scraping is usually pretty tedious, but I found that I could send the minimised HTML to GPT-3 and get (almost) perfect JSON back: the prompt includes the Typescript definition. At the same time I…
2023 · genmon.github.io · its alternatives →
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Parasocial▲204Listening to podcasts should be a joy. So let's get started.
Aug 2026 · parasocial.fm · its alternatives →
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Curating the resurgence of the spoken word
2017 · inside.com · its alternatives →
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This episode honors the 150th anniversary of Abraham Lincol…
2015 · its alternatives →
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Building a blog empire from New Zealand.
2016 · internethistorypodcast.com · its alternatives →
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A hybrid podcast network and production house
2017 · thepodglomerate.com · its alternatives →
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A weekly conversation with a non-fiction writer or editor.
2014 · longform.org · its alternatives →
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Discussing podcast discovery & community w/ PH & Roman Mars
2015 · soundcloud.com · its alternatives →
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The stories behind wonderful old school businesses
2015 · thedistance.basecamp.com · its alternatives →
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A new podcast from TIME Magazine & Panoply
2016 · overcast.fm · its alternatives →
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Cyphercast, the podcast within a podcast
2015 · w.soundcloud.com · its alternatives →
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A pre-launch experiment for their new politics podcast
2015 · soundcloud.com · its alternatives →
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A Biweekly German Podcast About RPGs and Storytelling
2016 · 3w6-podcast.com · its alternatives →
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This is the best podcast out there for science enthusiasts
2016 · theskepticsguide.org · its alternatives →
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A podcast created entirely by a computer program
2016 · sleepybandit.github.io · its alternatives →
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