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Podcast recommendation master log!!! :3

I’ve listened to well over 100 hours of podcasts from a lot of different genres so I’m gonna give you some recommendations. These will all be audio dramas so no ttrpgs or conversation podcasts. I’ll include a short description, the amount of episodes they have as I’m writing this (not including bonus content), if it’s finished, and probably my own little thoughts about it cus I have too many thoughts. Please feel free to add any podcasts you recommend that I didn’t include I’m always looking for more!!

Recommendations under the cut. Fair warning there’s a lot

The White Vault

six seasons 52 episodes

a repair team is sent to Outpost Fristed in the vast white wastes of Svalbard and unravel what lies waiting in the ice below. I love you graham casner you grumpy old man

The Silt Verses

three seasons 35 episodes

Carpenter and Faulkner are worshippers of an outlawed god. They travel up the length of their deity's great black river, searching for holy revelations. As their pilgrimage lengthens and the river's mysteries deepen, the two acolytes find themselves under threat from a police manhunt, but also come into conflict with the weirder gods that have flourished in these forgotten rural territories.

Spirit Box Radio

Three seasons 93 episodes [finished]

Sam Enfield, a former postboy with no experience in the arcane arts, takes over the radio show following the disappearance of the previous host. Sam soon discovers there are more than ghosts haunting the show, and finds himself amidst a mystery which threatens everything he knows about the world beyond his tiny basement broadcast studio, and maybe even himself. I listened to all of this in Quebec so to me this podcast is French

Ghost Wax

One season 45 episodes

A horror fiction podcast following the work of the last "reclaimer", investigating a series of unnatural killings by raising the dead and committing their final statements to wax cylinder. Please listen and like ghost wax I want more fanart and fanfics pleassseeeee

Clockwork Bird

one season 30 episodes [finished]

After the disappearance of Robin Jaeger, a man with four metal limbs, Shelly Croft organises recordings taken from the computer of Dr Sophie Bennett, one of the lead scientists on the synthetic limbs project, and uncovers more than just scientific breakthroughs.

The Strange Case of Starship Iris

Two seasons 22 episodes

In 2189, Earth narrowly won a war against extraterrestrials. The Strange Case of Starship Iris is about what comes after. It's a story of outer space, survival, espionage, resistance, identity, friendship, found family, romance, and secrets.

Not Quite Dead

Two seasons 25 episodes

Alfie is a nurse working overtime on the night shift in A&E when a patient comes in with her throat torn out. The girl on the gurney is the first of many, baffling staff and horrifying the public. Eventually, Alfie almost becomes another victim of the walking, but is saved by the same man he saw dripping blood into his patient's eye. He's Casper, and he's a vampire, and now he's saved Alfie's life the two of them are inescapably bound together. Another brush with death later, Alfie must make a choice: death or undeath. I love vampire doctors it’s a real good niche

The Mistholme Museum of Mystery Morbidity and Mortality

Six seasons 58 episodes

An audio tour through the Mistholme Museum of Mystery, Morbidity, and Mortality and learn about the interesting exhibits. Things are going smoothly in the museum until a museum wide lockdown is triggered. I relate so much to the audio tour guide

The Vesta Clinic

One season 15 episodes

Dr Underwood is a doctor on a space clinic she helps patients of many different species and complies them into a diagnosis. Really good character designs I wanna draw all of them

The Kingmaker Histories

Two seasons 14 episodes

On the 19th of February, 1911, Colette Geise experienced a migraine that ruined her life. This is the story of what happened next.

Hello From the Hallowoods

Three seasons 140 episodes

a cosmic narrator follows the increasingly connected residents of the forest at the end of the world. It's a bittersweet story that explores queer identity, horror genre tropes, and finding hope in humanity's last moments.

Jar of Rebuke

Two seasons 25 episodes

Follow Dr. Jared Hel's journey as he works to rediscover his forgotten past and finds his place within the small Indiana farm town of Wichton and the cryptozoological organization he works for called 'The Enclosure. Talk about gay am I right (I love them)

Fawx & Stallion

One season 10 episodes

London, 1889. When the residents of 221B Baker Street leave town for the weekend to solve one of their most famous cases, no one is left to clear a poor housekeeper's name of a crime she didn't commit. Well, no one except for their neighbors at 224B...

Malevolent

Four seasons 37 episodes

Arkham Private Investigator Arthur Lester wakes up with no memory of who he is or what has happened, only a nameless, eerie voice guiding him through the darkness.Blind, terrified, and confused, his journey will lead him towards a series of mysteries in the hopes of understanding the truth of what has transpired.As cosmic horrors seep into the world around, Arthur must ask himself whether this entity truly seeks to help him, or are its intentions more...Malevolent. I love the character relationships in this podcast I love them so much they deserve a break

Victoriocity

two seasons 13 episodes

Even Greater London, 1887, Inspector Archibald Fleet and journalist Clara Entwhistle investigate a murder, only to find themselves at the centre of a conspiracy of impossible proportions.

Desperado

Two seasons 23 episodes

Blood magic, Voodoo magic, old gods, new gods: We've got it all! Follow the story of misfits from all over the world, as they try to survive and protect their heritage from modern-day crusaders.

The Night Post

Three seasons 55 episodes

In Gilt City, conscripted couriers are both respected and shunned. They inhabit the borderlands between a growing industrial society and the untamed, arcane frontier that surrounds it.

Tell No Tales

One season 25 episodes

Leo Quinn works for Better Place, the world leader in ghost removal, but they're having some doubts about the ethics of their work. They're building a device that should let them capture the voices of ghosts, to prove once and for all that Better Place needs to start treating spirits with the humanity they deserve - and to unravel some mysteries in the process. I can’t wait for season two I am INVESTED

Nowhere, On Air

Two seasons 42 episodes

Semi-late night community radio broadcasts from a strange little town in the Crowsnest Pass, Alberta (aka, not just the middle of nowhere, but nowhere itself). Weird happenings and shady government

Elixir

One season 11 episodes

Elsie's sister Lou is missing. The only clue she has leads her to a Hush bar: one of the last remaining—and illegal — establishments where people consume magical elixirs. Vera's family has made elixirs for generations at The Jaded Rose.With her father imprisoned, she is responsible for protecting their traditions...no matter the cost.But as Vera helps Elsie find her sister, a temptation more potent than any elixir arises: risking it all for each other.

Tales From the Low City

One season 8 episodes

Deep beneath the soil of a dead world, there is life.Tales From The Low City is a collection of tales from a strange, bleak, and beautiful world where all creatures great and small, ambitious and content, bipedal and tripedal and quadrupedal must come together and make something like “civilisation" if I get back into dnd I WILL be stealing the creatures from this podcast

Neighborly

One season 40 episodes

Neighbourly follows the residents of Little Street, house by house. What they do, how they interact with each other, and what skeletons are hiding in their closets. This show is so good another one that I’m patiently awaiting season two

The Lost Cat Podcast

five seasons 49 episodes [finished i think]

Man looks for his cat in an odd ass city he drinks a lot of wine. I love imagining what the main character looks like after going through all this shit

The Antique Shop

One season 50 episodes [finished]

A woman finds a job at an antique shop which seems to sell supernatural items that often to more harm than good

In Transit

Two seasons 27 episodes [finished]

Aboard the spaceship Eurus, a series of murders occur onboard - mirroring distressing radio signals from Eurus' sister ship, Notus, Officer Alecto McAlpine finds herself lost in the middle of a conspiracy. With the begrudging help of low-level communications coordinator Cairo, they begin to find that the ship's journey is the least of their concerns.

The Dead Letter Office of Somewhere, Ohio

Three seasons 19 episodes [finsihed]

The Dead Letter Office of Somewhere, Ohio is a horror-comedy fiction podcast set within one of the last remaining Dead Letter Offices in the country. Join Conway, Wren, and the rest as they archive strange, spooky, surreal pieces of lost mail.

The Sound Museum

One season 1 episode

Paris travels the world collecting interesting sound recordings for thier museum. I hope this show continues I’d love to see where it goes but who knows

Bodies in Space

One season 5 episodes

A sci-fi comedy podcast following the misadventures of the ragtag crew aboard the spaceship Eutychia, the captain of which is trying to get out of a hole of debt while ignoring other, bigger disasters unfolding in the background.

Wooden Overcoats

Four Seasons 59 episodes [finished]

Rudyard Funn and his equally miserable sister Antigone run their family's failing funeral parlour, where they get the body in the coffin in the ground on time. But one day they find everyone enjoying themselves at the funerals of a new competitor - the impossibly perfect Eric Chapman! With their dogsbody Georgie, and a mouse called Madeleine, the Funns are taking drastic steps to stay in business. What I imagine the UK is like

Middle:Bellow

One season ten episodes [finished]

A silly guy can travel to the bellow the place where ghosts live and helps them solve odd problems. Very comfy show to me

City of Ghosts

One season ten episodes

Eleanor "El” Rivkin is an information broker who sees and hears real ghosts but also suffers with hallucinations and ends up getting intangled in a mystery of corruption and murder

I am in Eskew

One season 29 episodes [finished]

in the horror-filled and impossible city of Eskew, a man makes recordings of his day-to-day experiences, hoping to reach the outside world. What I imagine the UK is like

Girl in Space

One season 13 episodes

Audio diary of just a girl in space hanging out like normal but then things start to change.

Camp Here & There

One season 33 episodes

Tune in to the loudspeakers of a small midwestern sleep-away camp plagued by supernatural terrors and natural disasters.

Sydney Sargent, resident camp nurse, cheerfully reports on all the dangers just below (and above) our feet. I love this podcast so so much and I wish the creator the best

Do you Copy?

One season 14 episodes

When Red Tail National park shuts down due to a possible ecological disaster, three campers continued their trips, and two park rangers stayed to keep an eye on the radios. Recordings from these individuals were recovered and due to a mistake that cost a lot more than expected, [REDACTED] must sort through the recordings and try to make sense of what happened.

Elaine’s Cooking for the Soul

Two seasons 13 episodes

post-apocalyptic cooking podcast hosted by Elaine Martinez, DDS, in her dental clinic. Each week she brings on a guest to cook up a shelf-stable, nutrient-dense recipe to share with the survivors of the recent nuclear event.i haven’t cooked any of these recipes so idk if they are good but I do plan to try some they seem like cheap things to make

That’s all I’m doing for this one I say as if this isn’t an insane amount. I have plenty more podcast recommendations if needed. Also turns out tumblr has a tag limit and it also just gets extremely glitchy on mobile when you add a lot of tags which isn’t surprising considering this is tumblr

[2023] TOP 20 PODCASTS ON AO3 FOUND IN FANDOMS > OTHER MEDIA

To make this ranking, all series titles in Other Media were copy-pasted to Google Sheets, rearranged according to number of fanworks, and then manually filtered since not all podcasts were marked as such.

The numbers under each rank indicate how much they rose/fell in the rankings based on last year's (Oct. 24, 2023) rankings, which can be found here. The gray numbers in parenthesis indicate how much fanworks it gained since last year.

The data for this year and last year's rankings were taken while logged in, so lcoked fanworks are included in the count.

A few web series like Critical Role and Dimensions 20 released audio-only versions of their works too, but I left them out since they were listed was a web series on ao3 and more known as one too.

Cabin Pressure has also been left off the list this time since its podcast format was only released in 2019, years after it aired on the radio.

All nonfiction podcasts have also been excluded (Not that there were many), because with RPFs, it’s hard to tell if the fic in question is just based on the podcast or because of the things the person has done outside of it. Last year, I accidentally included The Misfits in the list since I didn't realize from its description that it was nonfiction.

The Two Princes (Podcast) ranks 21st in the rankings this year, and actually ranked 20th last year when the rankings are adjusted to exclude Cabin Pressure and The Misfits.

The College Tapes is actually a spinoff of The Bright Sessions.

Thanks for understanding and hopefully I didn’t mess up anywhere! 🙏

Jason Mantzoukas’ story in WireTap about dogsitting in Malibu is very much worth your time.

THANK GOD I'm not the only one

Me listening to true crime podcasts: this is so good, best thing ever

Me trying to get the courage to get water in the middle of the night because I’m afraid of being murdered: this is so NOT good

It's been a while since I've posted so here's my version of Taako from The Adventure Zone

listening to horror podcasts is so silly because ill be having the worst day of my goddamn life and ill be like.. you know what i need? to listen to this sad wet cat british man have an even worse day and ya know what it actually helps

family don’t end in blood

Short problems

I made a server for y’all to chat about podcasts and other stuff too!! Please feel free to join, it’s just my friend and I right now and it’s kinda lonely :/

It is more than just podcasts too so even if you’re not too into podcasts you can still join!!

So far all of the podcasts that have their own channels are mentioned in the tags!! More will definitely be added as time goes on but these are the main ones I’ve got covered so far!!

Is Juno steel really gonna smooch his way out of every bad situation he finds himself in?

I would be interested in it.

My time is limited but I could carve time out to listen and maybe talk a bit about my stuff; toddler allowing

Just a random question: would anyone be interested in listening to a podcast about the host interviewing fanfic writers (in a respectful and fun way)?

I've been contemplating doing something like that to help writers promote their work, talk about trends and fanfic history, and help dispell common fanfic myths... stuff like that.

If you think you'd be interested in either listening to or guest starring on a podcast like that, comment, like or reblog. If this gets 1000 notes, I'll start laying the groundwork for production.

Title says all, just finished up I am in Eskew and need something new to listen too! I will be listening to all of these, and the order will be determined by the number of votes

Rosie's Favorite (currently finished/caught up) Podcasts:

The Amelia Project - silly, quirky, morbid but almost always more jaunty and eccentric than completely dark. Great for anyone who loves 'narrator' or interview type podcasts. If I'm not mistaken, I've posted some of my thoughts on here using the pod's hashtag.

The Mistholme Museum of Mystery, Morbitity, and Mortality - another narrator type podcast, and probably my favorite of all time. The main voice you hear is perfect imo and keeps you engaged in all the right ways, bringing tension where it's needed, and levity where it's funny or odd. Absolutely consumed this podcast with a voraciousness I haven't felt for a bit. Keeps you guessing and always wanting more from every exhibit.

Victoriocity - excellent voice acting, interesting and unique premise and setting, and great plot. One of the podcasts I'm most looking forward to returning :) think steam punk but also it's the 1800s still in weird ways. If you love an old timey British accent, you'll love this haha.

The White Vault - probably my favorite specifically horror podcast, that makes you wait for answers in a craving sort of way, a longing to know what's going on, and not slogging through a bunch of filler to then get answers. It's great, gorey, geographically diverse fun. Interesting mashups of various cultures re: mythology, history, religion(?). Another on my list to watch out for the return of.

Midnight Burger: the quick pitch is - a time traveling diner that always services people in need, no matter what time, space, or dimension they may reside in. Excellent cast of characters, great development, wonderful implementation of a new character(s), and in general a very comfortable vibe to return to (speaking of, once I run out of recommendations I may relisten to this one). Highly recommend if you like sitcoms with time travel splashed with a bit of horror.

Edit: just finished up another one, so time to add it to the list!!

Monstrous Agonies: A radio show advice segment, about, by, and for the Creature Community. If you like WTNV, but find it a bit intense sometimes, or a bit too plot heavy/etc, you'll absolutely love this. Instead of the whole show, you just get the advice segment, but oh ho ho, is it so much more than that. If you're queer, BIMPOC, from a blended/mixed/broken/anything but 'typical' home... I think you'll like it. Very much what I would call 'easy listening', meaning you can just ease into an episode without having to remember a huge cast of characters, a plots b plots C plots meta plots... And it just feels *real*, in that strange and beautiful way WTNV does, but instead of a fictional town, the setting is the real world, with real problems, and real solutions. Sometimes you really do just need to howl or cry or chew on some slippers and that's OK. Highly recommend for ADHD havers or anyone with a short attention span who loves a soothing voice.

Edit: Another absolute banger to add to the list

Wooden Overcoats - how do I even properly describe the experience of this podcast. Let's start with the basics: It's the story of twins who run a funeral parlor on a small island, in a small village. Their family has been running said parlor for hundreds of years, as the only funeral directors on the island. Until one day... They aren't. A man arrives and sets up his own funeral parlor directly across the square, and boy, do things change for those twins. If you've listened to (and loved) Victoriocity, or The Amelia Project, I guarantee you'll enjoy this one. Strange, silly, and interesting things are always happening, except this one doesn't have quite as much drama (well...... Perhaps a different kind of drama. I'd call this an interpersonal dramedy, with emphasis on the comedy). An incredible listen, through and through. I thoroughly enjoyed every single episode, and the ending was quite safisfying :)

Another EXCELLENT addition to this ever increasing list of content!!! I'm not even finished with this one, I just love it so much that I can't help but add it to the list:

Mission Rejected - you know in those spy movies, where the spy gets a secret message from HQ and they say 'your mission, if you choose to accept it...' ok great. Now imagine if 007 said 'no'. This is the story about the backups, the team that takes the missions rejected by the Top Spy Guy. It's got diverse voice acting (in many senses of the word - you can tell the voices apart, it's not exclusively straight cis white dudes, etc etc), wonderful worldbuilding, great pacing, an excellent plot, I really could go on and on. I highly recommend this specific podcast to anyone who wants something light to get deeply invested in, that has a lot of comedy but also develops the characters outside of just their bits. 100/10 no notes

Edit: not sure which podcast/podcast enthusiast rb'ed this yesterday but I'm so glad more folks get to see this list!!! It makes me so happy that lots of folks enjoy this list, a d share their fave ones, and!!!! Aaaggghhhhhhhhh!!! I love podcasts and podcast enthusiasts!!!!!

Also I have another one for yall :3 if you're looking for another improv comedy to add to your list!!!

Hey Riddle Riddle - exactly what you think it is, but also so much more. Three friends/coworkers who also happen to be sensational improv comedians solve riddles and puzzles together, while also introducing bits and skits and reoccurring segments, so it never feels like 'just a Riddle podcast' (whatever that means). I have laughed every single episode, which is a big deal for me (some comedy podcasts only make me laugh every few episodes, and I require at LEAST one laugh per episode). I can genuinely say this is one of the funniest podcasts I've ever listened to, and the absolute best improv I've ever heard. I'm all for committing to the bit, and this one absolutely delivers on both the commitment part and the bit part haha. Seriously can't recommend this one enough if you maybe listen to a lot of drama/horror and need something easy to listen to (easy meaning there's not a plot you have to be intensely listening for, you can just enjoy it casually). 1000/10, please listen and also tell me YOUR favorite riddles :)

another rec list for those of you seeking more audio drama for your ears!! this one is made up of audio dramas that made me want to make audio dramas, and which i reference in the show I make.

The White Vault still holds the title for the only show to ever make me yelp in terror. I fell asleep in the middle of an episode and woke up at the worst possible moment. This show has spectacular writing and performance and is definitely one for those people who find the vast expanse of nothingness at the poles of our planet equally fascinating and terrifying. This show has some queer rep but it's very quiet; everyone is too busy shitting their pants to talk much about their personal lives most of the time. There are five seasons, each with something unique to offer, and it reached it's spectacular conclusion earlier this year. It's available across platforms.

Limetown begins as a sort of fake true-crime documentary about the titular Limetown. If you like your horror with a side of conspiracy, this is the show for you. It's short at just two seasons, and fun fact: I accidentally listened to season two before I listened to season one and had a very wild time. I have since listened to it beginning to end and yes it did make more sense in order. I cannot recall whether it had any queer rep. It also had a facebook visual adaptation, but I have never watched it so I cannot comment on its quality. This show has been around for some time, but it's still a gem, and you can find it wherever you listen to podcasts.

Welcome to Night Vale, a true titan of the audio fiction space, Night Vale has had an influence on so many newer shows that you can feel its echoes everywhere. Queer at heart, and offering a soft, mundane sort of horror, for me what makes Night Vale special is the way that it highlights one of the most terrifying traits of the human race; our capacity to get used to pretty much anything and accept it as ordinary. After ten years, the show is still going, and has over two hundred episodes. You can listen beginning to where the story has reached so far, or take a more eclectic approach and dip in and out as you please. Both listening methods have something to offer. I've listened to Night Vale on and off since about six months after it originally started airing, and it's available in all the places you might expect to find it.

The Magnus Archives, another giant of the audio fiction space, much beloved by many listeners and inspiration for countless fanworks still despite the fact the show has now finished. The show begins as an anthology of horror stories told as reports of sinister happenings to the Magnus Institute, but quickly it becomes much more. The show is a shining example of what can be done with the framing device of a character sitting down and recording himself in semi-private. By the end of its run, the show accumulates a fair amount of queer representation, and all five seasons of the show are available across platforms, ending at the spectacular MAG 200.

I Am In Eskew. I love a story about a world just out of sight. This show has an abundance of subtle weird horror done right, shot through with more straight-forward horrors. It moves slowly, the horrors at hand growing and changing as you listen. There's a quiet calm to the delivery throughout this show which really emphasises the strangeness of the story. The folks who made this show went on to create the Silt Verses, which is another absolutely spectacular ride. It's a fun, unsettling time, and a complete story you can find wherever you listen to podcasts.

The ways these shows influenced the way I made @spiritboxradio are massive. I spent a lot of time thinking about what I loved about each of them and learning what I could about how each of them is put together. There are references to them all scattered through the show, but most frequently I end up making references to the Magnus Archives, mostly because I had severe TMA brainrot at the time of the show's conception in August 2020. It cannot be helped. If you end up tuning into the show, I shall answer you in advance: yes the Tim thing is deliberate, and so are the other the ones. Have fun reference spotting!!

Hey! I saw you mentioning a podcast that was as good as TMA. I recently finished tma and have been desperate to find a radio show like it. Do you have any recommendations?

Heya! I listen to a lot of podcasts so I'm not exactly sure which this would be referring to but some of my favorite pods to listen to are:

The white vault (supernatural/thriller/horror) it's by far my favorite show on this list, I listen to it on repeat, it's based on documents and recording collected from an outpost after the disappearance of the repair team sent there.

The Sheridan tapes (supernatural/mystery) Sam Bailey is assigned to a new police station and he is assigned the case of Anna Sheridan and investigating her recordings.

I have some other that aren't like recording horror but I love them

There's neighbourly (supernatural/horror?), a podcast about a totally normal neighborhood called little street

Monsterous agonies (supernatural) this is essentially Dear Abby but for creatures of the night

Hello from the Hallowoods (post apocalyptic supernatural horror?) Our host nikignik, a hundred eyes in the dark brings us a view of a post apocalyptic world 20~ years after the case, loveable creatures, found family, evil corporations, I don't know how to summarize it but it's gorgeous and please read the blurb for it

I don't know you're preferences but these are all shows I actively listen to and I don't need to pause at any point for second hand embarrassment, I hope this gives you some ideas! And let me know if you enjoy them! :D

Does anybody have good audio drama recs like the Magnus archives??

I'm literally dying over here I need something good to listen to

Apple Podcasts

‎jpeg2000 on Apple Podcasts

‎Arts · 2022

@vivian-fu and @noahkalina made a podcast together. Weirdly soothing.

https://jpeg2000.simplecast.com/episodes/artificial-intelligence-geqfHDGS

Second episode of @vivian-fu and @noahkalina's JPEG2000 is here.

Wonderful.