Martina Pugliese

Martina Pugliese

Data, adventures and a 1000 wonderful things

The podcasts list

AFAIK there isn’t a tool you can use to review podcasts (something à la goodreads) so I use this page to list podcasts I really enjoy/enjoyed (if they’re finished). Note: I exclude those I listen to for language learning. Lists are for English and Italian podcasts.

Culture & miscellanea

  • Planet Progress (spring 2021, finished): the winners of the Google Impact Challenge, organisations and small businesses who are working towards a sustainable future. Narrated by H Fry
  • Desert Island Discs: I’m sure this is very well known by anyone in the UK - a very enjoyable and fun conversation between host and guest about 10 tunes they love
  • Today, Explained: from the Vox team of the Explained Netflix documentary show, dissects news and current affairs
  • Cautionary Tales, narrated by Tim Harford, is about historical scams, frauds, intrigues & people’s gullibility. Delightful.
  • [ITA] Certe Cose (terminato?): podcast di C Alessi realizzato con il Post, storia d’Italia attraverso oggetti trovati in elenchi che caratterizzano alcuni eventi
  • [ITA] Cose molto umane - di G Kesten, io lo support su Patreon perchĂ© fa un lavoro eccellente. Kesten ne fa anche altri, tra parentesi, di podcast
  • [ITA] Avanti Veloce, sempre di G Kesten e prodotto per RadioRai (sta su tutte le piattaforme), un podcast per capire meglio l’ADHD

History & Stories

  • The big steal (finished?): by G Esler, a very interesting reconstruction of the aftermath of the fall of the Soviet Union that led today’s plutocracy
  • Wind of change (2020, finished): a bit out there but I went with it as it’s by P Radden Keffe, whose investigative journalism work I read and appreciated. It follows a crazy rumour whereby Scorpion’s “Wind of change” was written/commissioned by the CIA for propaganda. Interesting listen - I really hate conspiracy theories so would have never chosen this but despite the wild story you can learn a lot of things about those times
  • Empire - by A Anand & W Dalrymple, this is great. The history of empires, in seasons
  • [ITA] quelli della serie “Hai presente?”: Hai presente il 25 aprile?, Hai presente la marcia su Roma?, Hai presente l’8 settembre?

Science

  • More or Less: behind the statistics: BBC Radio 4 show hosted by T Harford, it debunks statistical myths, talks about how to interpret data correctly in a very lighthearted way
  • The curious cases of Rutherford & Fry (finished? I think it’s coming back): hosted by A Rutherford and H Fry on BBC Radio 4, science’s most curious facts
  • Complexity by the Santa Fe Institute, I especially recommend the series on AI

In Italiano

Cultura & cose varie

  • Radio3Scienza (in corso): storico programma di Radio 3 ideato da R Panarese, discute di argomenti scientifici con ospiti
  • [ITA] Tu che sei un fisico (terminato, per ora): di M Delmastro, che risponde a domande di fisica ricevute da ascoltatori, molto molto gradevole

News/current affairs

  • [ITA] Stories, di C Sala - episodi brevi sull’attualitĂ , lei va sul posto e intervista gente, e fa un bellissimo lavoro
  • The David McWilliams podcast: exploring and explaining economics via the analysis of current news

Sport

  • [ITA] Rimbalzi (un altro bellissimo podcast di Chora Media, finito?): storie di sport e sportiv*, intrecciate al contesto storico

Tech