Audio distraction: podcasts, audio books, radio on demand

Sarah94 said:
Ravenclaw! Though I'm also a bit of a Hufflepuff.

Favourite book - 7.

And yourself?
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I’m hufflepuff although perhaps a bit of Ravenclaw too, I love Luna Lovegood!

I would have to say book 5. It really left an impression on me - I remember reading it well into the night and crying so much when Sirius died. But the book was so long and so detailed, I loved it. The whole order of the Phoenix, room of requirement!

This is my wizarding world “passport” you can make online of your favourite things - I love dobby and hagrid
 

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lunarainbows said:
I love Luna Lovegood!
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I guessed. ;)

lunarainbows said:
I would have to say book 5. It really left an impression on me - I remember reading it well into the night and crying so much when Sirius died. But the book was so long and so detailed, I loved it. The whole order of the Phoenix, room of requirement!
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Aww yeah. I was pretty young (8) when I read OotP, so I didn't really appreciate the grief thing, but now I cry whenever I read that scene with Harry in Dumbledore's office at the end.
 
Sarah94 said:
I guessed. ;)


Aww yeah. I was pretty young (8) when I read OotP, so I didn't really appreciate the grief thing, but now I cry whenever I read that scene with Harry in Dumbledore's office at the end.
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Aaw yes. And then book 6 and book 7 were very sad as well. Dobby :cry:
Jk Rowling apologies each year for someone she killed in the books but didn’t this year.

I can recommend Mugglecast as a Harry Potter podcast if you like audio and don’t listen to that one already. I try to get my Harry Potter fix every day - so either I re listen to the audiobooks, podcast, or read a few pages of one of the many new HP scrapbooks or pop up books they’re coming out with now!
 
For the last 2 days I've been trying to get audio books to 'work'.

I don't mean technically, I can get them to play.

They were just annoying, irrelevant noise through my phones speakers, so I tried headphones, which were no better.

Maybe it's coz I find headphones uncomfortable I thinks, so today I had a little bluetooth speaker turn up.

It is much better, but audiobooks still don't do anything, it's still just noise.

I remember, sort of, when books were 'fun' but it seems now, even when I remove the difficulty with reading, they do nothing.

This is 'disappointing'.
 
Wonko said:
For the last 2 days I've been trying to get audio books to 'work'.

I don't mean technically, I can get them to play.

They were just annoying, irrelevant noise through my phones speakers, so I tried headphones, which were no better.

Maybe it's coz I find headphones uncomfortable I thinks, so today I had a little bluetooth speaker turn up.

It is much better, but audiobooks still don't do anything, it's still just noise.

I remember, sort of, when books were 'fun' but it seems now, even when I remove the difficulty with reading, they do nothing.

This is 'disappointing'.
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My daughter has to " do something" when listening , she can't simply listen. ( Ironically she says it doesn't go in if she just listens)
 
Anyone got any recommendations for Science Fiction audio books? I enjoyed the Martian, and suspect I would enjoy Ted Chiang ( he wrote the short story on which the film "Arrival" was based) if only he did audio books.
 
BBC Radio crime allows for online listening of shows that are currently running. Right now they have a Paul Temple play, I also enjoy their versions of Hercule Poirot and Mrs Marple when they show up, and also the two Cordelia Gray plays (they could be found on youtube not too long ago), and Charles Paris.

For norwegians: NRK radioteateret har mye bra. Gamle klassikere som "God aften mitt navn er Cox" og "Dickie Dick Dickens", endelig alle Julia Tindberg hørespillene (fem stykker!), alt av Sherlock Holmes skulle være ute nå også (bortsett fra "Fryktens Dal". Den slet jeg veldig med å høre i begynnelsen, da han som spiller Lestrade er stemmen til Sherlock i noen av de andre). "Tordivelen flyr i skumringen" er også fin. Det eneste norske Paul Temple hørespillet som har overlevd NRK arkivene (de andre ble mistet i en brann tror jeg) er også ute, samt et med Cordelia Gray. De er dessverre av sin tid så veldig mange har få/ingen kvinnelige karakterer, så setter spesielt pris på Julia Tindberg og Cordelia Gray.
 
OverTheHills said:
Anyone got any recommendations for Science Fiction audio books? I enjoyed the Martian, and suspect I would enjoy Ted Chiang ( he wrote the short story on which the film "Arrival" was based) if only he did audio books.
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I loved “The long way to a small, angry planet” by Becky Chambers. There are 2 more books in the series, as well.
 
The TV version of The Handmaid's Tale would be far too intense for me, but I read the book some decades ago and thought it was very good. You can hear a reading of Margaret Atwood's just-published sequel "the Testaments" on radio 4 iPlayer/Sounds App for the next month. I enjoyed it a lot, though I didn't think it was an original like the first book.
 
This thread has gone a bit quiet. Let's see if we can revive it.

I'm currently binge-listening to the "Subtitle" podcast.
Language unites and divides us. It amuses and mystifies us. We care deeply about it, whether it’s apostrophe abuse, speech discrimination, or the sweetness of a mother tongue. Subtitle tells stories of our obsessions with language, from comedians, writers, and researchers; from speakers of endangered languages; from speakers of multiple languages; from anyone who shares these obsessions.
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Just a few of the topics, the range is wide and the concept of 'language' interpreted loosely:
Are you repelled by certain words? Do you get that fingernails-on-chalkboard feeling when someone says ‘moist,’ ‘dollop’ or ‘fascia’?
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Gullah Geechee is a creole language developed by enslaved Africans and still spoken today.
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Susanna Zaraysky, speaker of nine languages [...] is she cognitively predisposed to attaining fluency in so many languages? We follow her to an MIT lab where researchers put her through a series of tests.
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Many ecologists now believe that trees are in constant communication with their surroundings. Linguists may roll their eyes at claims of ‘talk,’ or ‘language.’ But observing how trees interact helps us understand the limits of language.
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The COVID-19 wave of anti-Asian harassment has made things [racist taunts] worse. Also, Stanford professor Seema Yasmin tells us why pandemics bring out the language of war.
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If there are extraterrestrials out there, what kind of messages might they be sending us? How might we decipher those messages? And should we hit reply?
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"Subtitle" is part of the Hub & Spoke stable of podcasts (https://www.hubspokeaudio.org). Some of the other podcasts there sound interesting, too. I've already subscribed to "The Constant: A History of Getting Things Wrong". How could I not, with this description:
Did you know that Europeans used to believe that sheep grew from Mongolian trees? Have you heard about the army that lost a battle against itself? Ever seen the gleaming Las Vegas hotel that accidentally shoots heat rays at poolside guests?
The Constant is a science and history podcast about getting things wrong. From ancient science to contemporary blunders, we take you on journeys of misadventure and misapprehension, filling your brain with juicy nuggets of the sometimes comical, sometimes tragical and always fascinating ways people mess things up.
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It isn't included here, but I want to mention that since I'm so severe I can't concentrate on neither audio books nor shows/movies, music is the only thing that keeps me alive, and specifically hip hop and electronic for the most part! Seriously don't know how I'd survive without it.
 
This is a beautiful podcast from Melissa Harrison, a novelist and nature writer. Ever episode is like a step into the Suffolk countryside. It’s very quiet, relaxed & human with lots of nature sounds, a bit of poetry, a guest, a bit of this and that. Some chill background music, not jarring. Doesn’t require much concentration & love it as a bit of background I can tune into/out of depending on how I’m doing.

Every episode start, ‘how’re you doing’ which I love as an opener.
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-stubborn-light-of-things/id1506585676?i=1000488346378
 
FicaR94 said:
It isn't included here, but I want to mention that since I'm so severe I can't concentrate on neither audio books nor shows/movies, music is the only thing that keeps me alive, and specifically hip hop and electronic for the most part! Seriously don't know how I'd survive without it.
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https://www.s4me.info/threads/music-and-other-videos.16/
Welcome to the forum @FicaR94!

I’m sorry you’re not able to enjoy audiobooks and films/ tv. For me it’s the other way round these days as I can’t listen to much music. I miss it.

Perhaps sometime you would like to share a video or two of music you enjoy in this thread -https://www.s4me.info/threads/music-and-other-videos.16/
 
My daughter is currently enjoying my Scribd subscription ( I opened an account a couple of years ago to access a few technical papers before I found Sci-hub). She thinks it's brilliant as there is no limit to how many things you can access per month, you don't have to wait for some audio and ebooks ( unlike library) , there are magazines available too and you can organise things in lists. She has a subscription for " Listening books" which she uses too- but you have to wait for some things and that means the urge goes.

With Scribd you also get free access to MUBI which is a film geek site which I am enjoying, and a comic art/ graphic novel site- all for less than £10/month.
 
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