On my hour-plus each way commute, along with my knitting I listen to my MP3 player . Sometimes music, sometimes audio books and quite a lot of radio podcasts.
The current commuting project is a lacy sweater called Chevron by Kim Hargreaves.
As you can see it is a tad fiddly. Yesterday I noticed that I made a lot of progress listening to a BBC debate on attitudes to religion and to a Michael Connolly thriller but made a vast number of mistakes during a science podcast discussing “quantum information theory”.
This got me to thinking about what I listen to when knitting and so a few (mainly UK-based podcasts).
Knitting
The Electric Sheep- really enjoying this London-based podders take on knitting. Each episode features thoughts on a topic (a thought for the week) and reviews of yarns and patterns I really like the detail in her reviews and comments and usually find something useful.
From the US Knit Science - also has a lot of technical detail and thoughts on garment construction
Media
Media Talk from the Guardian - humourous take on the week's media events from the Guardian Media team. I usually learn something interesting even if it is very broadcast focused.
The BBC's Media Show is a bit more serious but contains plenty of interest for those with an interest in UK media.
Science and Tech
The Guardian has two great offerings in this area Science Weekly and Tech Weekly - there are always high level interesting guests and plenty of science and tech news.
Occasionally the BBC broadcasts a series called More or Less which looks at stats and figures in an entertaining, nay funny, but intelligent way. Excellent for the ever-so slightly numerate but pedantic amongst us.
Arts and Literature
Two classics from the BBC, Start the Week and FrontRow - all that's best about intelligent broadcasting from Radio 4.
Film
Last but not least the fabulous, wonderful, unsurpassed Film podcast - Kermode and Mayo's Film reviews. Such a cult it has spin-off facebook pages following stands or jokes from the show.
And thinking about all of these, I wonder if I might need a longer commute...
