Richard Scott
The Podcast Hour for Saturday 3rd August 2019
A chance encounter fom the past in 'All The Best', tech show 'Reply All' solves online mysteries and tells stories of internet life, find otherworldly laughs in 'This Paranormal Life', and 'The… Audio
The Podcast Hour for Saturday 27th July 2019
'When We Got To The Seventh' is a quirky fiction show [1:54-13:57], having fun with self improvement in 'Personal Best' [14:01-25:19], celebrating life's simple pleasures in 'The Pleasures of Brecht'… Audio
The Podcast Hour for Saturday 20th July 2019
'Paradise': The unsolved murder of 2 British backpackers [1:45-13:30], 'The Cut on Tuesdays': Family money [13:31-29:38], Word nerds? Try 'Something Rhymes with Purple' [29:39-39:15] and designing a… Audio
The Podcast Hour for Saturday 13th July 2019
Visiting a threatened Hawaiian ecosystem in 'Offshore', 'Judge John Hodgman' litigates domestic squabbles, classical music mysteries are uncovered in 'Case Notes', and the 'Outside' podcast considers… Audio
The Podcast Hour for Saturday 6th July 2019
A true crime parody in 'This Sounds Serious', 'Extremities' takes you to the world's most isolated places. Solving screen time struggles in the ABC's 'Parental As Anything', and reviewing every Black… Audio
The Podcast Hour for Saturday 29 June 2019
Featuring 'The Shrink Next Door', 'Inside The Comedian with David Reed', 'True Crime New Zealand' and 'Borrowed'. Audio
Critic: Podcasts with Richard Scott
Podcast critic Richard Scott reviews The Shrink Next Door and Have You Heard George's Podcast with Jesse. He also mentions True Crime New Zealand, a new locally produced show scaling the podcast… Audio
The Podcast Hour for Saturday 22 June 2019
'Revisionist History' challenges conventional wisdom. Then what humans can learn from the animal kingdom in '30 Animals That Made Us Smarter', 'The Beautiful Brain' investigates the link between head… Audio
The Podcast Hour for Saturday 15 June 2019
Getting to grips with death and bereavement, the problem with tiki bars, why parole fails, an obsession with escalators, and the challenge of designing Indian army rations. Audio
The Podcast Hour for Saturday 8 June 2019
Overthinkers unite in 'Adrift'. 'A Way With Words' explores interesting words and phrases. 'Brexitcast' gives you a behind-the-scenes view of Brexit. And 'Here Be Monsters' offers an anxiety-laden… Audio
The Podcast Hour for Saturday 1 June 2019
The podcast poet: 'Have You Heard George's Podcast?' aims for social change. 'Backlisted' brings new life to old books. 'Conversations With People Who Hate Me' introduces online haters to their… Audio
The Podcast Hour for Saturday 25 May 2019
'The Document' explores how to cover a free solo climb of a 1000 metre vertical rockface, and speaks to the doco maker who profiled a homicidal African dictator. 'The Untold' takes listeners right… Audio
The Podcast Hour for Saturday 18 May 2019
50 years on, '13 Minutes to the Moon' reconsiders the moon landing. 'Studio 360' presents the life of an opera extra. 'Running from COPS' asks if the world's longest running reality TV show can really… Audio
The Podcast Hour for Saturday 11 May 2019
Searching for scientific consensus on 'Science Vs', investigating the male domination of the tech industry in 'A Job For The Boys', and 'The Intersection' records life from a street corner in Silicon… Audio
The Podcast Hour for Saturday 4 May 2019
'Scene on Radio' presents a powerful history of Whiteness and race; audio rich stories from the Middle East in 'Kerning Cultures'; 'The Food Chain' from the BBC looks at the history of product… Audio
The Podcast Hour for Saturday 27 April 2019
Freddie Mercury is one of the inspiring figures explored on 'Great Lives', 'WTF with Marc Maron' hits 1000 episodes, 'Movie Reviews in 20Qs' is a film podcast made in a Bay of Plenty garage, and 'The… Audio
The Podcast Hour for Saturday 20 April 2019
'Blackout' presents a fictional world without power, 'Wild Dunedin' meets the animals of Otago, 'Against The Rules with Michael Lewis' examines fairness in modern society (and why referees are getting… Audio
The Podcast Hour for Saturday 13 April 2019
Going into a downward spiral on the BBC's Short Cuts, Out of The Blocks is telling street stories from a gritty city, and ordering dream dishes in an imaginary restaurant in Off Menu. Audio
The Podcast Hour for Saturday 6 April 2019
Getting to grips with language in 'The Allusionist', the 'IRL' podcast asks how technology's changing the way we read, and 'Switched On Pop' goes deep on today's biggest pop hits. Audio
The Podcast Hour for Saturday 30 March 2019
Stories in sound from Twenty Thousand Hertz, broadcasting banter from Chat 10 Looks 3, The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, and a story of DIY alternative diplomacy in Spacebridge. Audio