My 2025 top nine podcasts/audiodramas

[shipperslist]

I've been a happy Overcast user for years. Last September I switched phones and the newer version of Overcast offers cool listening stats and collages.

In total, I listened 307 hrs of audiodrama and podcasts last year. Up until the end of May, most of it happened when I walked the dog, but after she died, the time I spent listening dropped quite a lot. (As a comparison: my 2024 total was 538hrs and 2023 was 531hrs)

1. Stories from Among the Stars: an audiobook feed (The Last Watch by J.S. Dewes, Fate of the Fallen by Kel Kade)
2. MIDST spin-off series UNEND
3. REALM: Adrenaline (The Triangle, Memory Lane, Echo Park)
4. Shadow Publications aka Paul E. Cooley's audiobooks (The Black: Evolution and Neptune Scars)
5. BBC4 Limelight
6. The Godfrey Audio Guide
7. Madame Magenta
8. Parkdale Haunts
9. Fool and Scholar Productions

Comments

[merrileemakes]

Thanks for posting! I've tried Woodbine following your rec, and I'm definitely going to give Madame Magenta another go.

Edit: Omg, how good is Steal the Stars!? The latest story in Amongst the Stars. That ending is 🤯

[shipperslist]

Oh, story time!

Steal the Stars is what the feed was originally called and it was about that story. There was S2, too...or talks about it, I think? At some point they did a complete 180° and now Steal the Stars is the only audio drama permanently available, and the feed offers audiobooks (MacMillan, to be specific) as each new "season." Arkady Martine's A Memory Called Empire, Becky Chambers' A Psalm for the Wild-Built, Travis Baldree's Legends & Lattes, and T. Kingfisher's Nettle & Bone are just some that have appeared there. I recommend subscribing to the feed and setting downloads for automatic.

[merrileemakes]

Ohhh, I love a podcast story! Thanks for sharing.

I'll keep my eye on the feed and download anything that looks good. :)