February 15th, 2008 - Podcatching: National Geographic World Talk
National Geographic World Talk is my most FAVORITE podcast. When I first subscribed, every single episode (about 3/month for 3 years) downloaded. I was overwhelmed and deleted anything that didn’t sound REALLY interesting. After listening to the first few, I was hooked. When I’m done with the ones I saved, I’ll unsubscribe and re-subscribe so that I can listen to all the ones I missed.
Each episode is an interview with someone who’s been featured in National Geographic Adventure (at least, I think they are always in Adventure, that’s the one I remember, maybe other magazines from NG as well). So we hear from mountain climbers, arctic explorers, wildlife photographers (okay, I deleted some of these because I thought it would be pretty boring to listed to someone talk about taking pictures. I kept one about someone who photographed mountain climbers. It was so interesting!), elephant vocalization researcher, journalists, philanthropists….and the list goes on. I think I saved 20 of them and have found every single one fascinating. I listed to all my other podcasts each week just so that I can savor these and make them last as long as possible.
The only drawback is that each is only 15-25 minutes, far too short!
Their blurb says it all: “Take an electrifying journey around our planet, exploring the latest discoveries and embark on the world’s greatest adventures with some of the most fascinating people on earth. Get back in touch with the explorer in you.” And explains why I love it so much!
February 16th, 2008 at 12:54 pm EST
Thank you for posting this, I have been wanting to add more podcasts to my list and this will fit in nicely. :D