Re: [silk] Two history podcasts to top them all

2017-10-16 Thread Alok Singh
There is a series[1] produced by Shekhar Kapur on YouTube which I found quite illuminating. I wouldn't say that it is a serious historical work but it does have some interesting nuggets of information in it. Footnotes: [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_3i0Hf8KMI=ELYR5txmTpa_c -- Alok

Re: [silk] Two history podcasts to top them all

2017-10-16 Thread Thaths
On Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 8:17 PM Sidin Vadukut wrote: > > Y > ​up production restarts this week. Have a few academic commitments till > the end of the year. So episode releases maybe a little slow. But otherwise > a new episode should be out in a week or so. > Woohoo!

Re: [silk] Two history podcasts to top them all

2017-10-16 Thread Sidin Vadukut
Y ​up production restarts this week. Have a few academic commitments till the end of the year. So episode releases maybe a little slow. But otherwise a new episode should be out in a week or so. ​ On Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 4:18 AM, Thaths wrote: > On Mon, Dec 5, 2016 at 8:21 AM

Re: [silk] Two history podcasts to top them all

2017-10-15 Thread Thaths
On Mon, Dec 5, 2016 at 8:21 AM Thaths wrote: > On Fri, Dec 2, 2016 at 9:30 AM Sidin Vadukut > wrote: > >> ​Happy to inform that podcast will resume production in 2017. I will >> hopefully finish a bookproject by then and focus on the podcast and some

Re: [silk] Two history podcasts to top them all

2016-12-01 Thread Sidin Vadukut
On Thu, Dec 1, 2016 at 9:49 PM, Thaths wrote: > On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 1:12 AM Sidin Vadukut > wrote: > > Incidentally, and do excuse this unsolicited advertising, I've started > work on a podcast history of the Indian constitution as well. This is a

Re: [silk] Two history podcasts to top them all

2016-12-01 Thread Thaths
On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 1:12 AM Sidin Vadukut wrote: Incidentally, and do excuse this unsolicited advertising, I've started work on a podcast history of the Indian constitution as well. This is a non-hardcore history meant to be interesting to curious amateurs like me.

Re: [silk] Two history podcasts to top them all

2013-01-15 Thread Srini RamaKrishnan
On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 5:02 AM, Sean Doyle sdo...@gmail.com wrote: I agree. Bragg is often surprised at what his guests say (e.g., that Malory of Le Morte Darthur was a thug) - he obviously prepares for his podcast but he doesn't try to script/control his guests too much (except in in the

Re: [silk] Two history podcasts to top them all

2013-01-15 Thread Sidin Vadukut
Hello all. I am a rather avid consumer of podcasts and listen to literally dozens each week. My two history-ish podcast recomendations--accounting for the ones already recommended here--are: 1. Radiolab. (http://radiolab.org) A superbly produced series of stories built around themes that almost

Re: [silk] Two history podcasts to top them all

2013-01-15 Thread Sidin Vadukut
Ahem. (Sheepish grin.) I forgot to recommend a podcast I wished existed. 1. A factually accurate, detailed podcast telling the history of India's military conflicts since independence. Both internal and external. On Tuesday, January 15, 2013, Sidin Vadukut sidin.vadu...@gmail.com wrote: Hello

Re: [silk] Two history podcasts to top them all

2013-01-15 Thread Srini RamaKrishnan
On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 7:45 PM, Sidin Vadukut sidin.vadu...@gmail.com wrote: Ahem. (Sheepish grin.) I forgot to recommend a podcast I wished existed. 1. A factually accurate, detailed podcast telling the history of India's military conflicts since independence. Both internal and external.

Re: [silk] Two history podcasts to top them all

2013-01-14 Thread Sean Doyle
On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 9:49 PM, Ashwin Nanjappa ashwi...@outlook.comwrote: At today's Chennai silk list meetup the topic of history podcasts came up. I offered to post to silk list asking everyone for recommendations. 1. What are two (history or other) podcasts that are the best in your

[silk] Two history podcasts to top them all

2013-01-13 Thread Shoba Narayan
1. What are two (history or other) podcasts that are the best in your opinion? UC San Diego's Podcasts. Especially recommend the Making Of the Modern World series. http://podcast.ucsd.edu/ BBC History Magazine's History Extra Podcast http://www.historyextra.com/ A History of the

[silk] Two history podcasts to top them all

2013-01-12 Thread Thaths
At today's Chennai silk list meetup the topic of history podcasts came up. I offered to post to silk list asking everyone for recommendations. 1. What are two (history or other) podcasts that are the best in your opinion? 2. What is a podcast that you wish existed but does not? I'll kick this

Re: [silk] Two history podcasts to top them all

2013-01-12 Thread Srini RamaKrishnan
1. historyofoil.typepad.com the history of rome (the LSE lectures though not only about history do have some excellent history talks) 2. Too many to list and at the same time nothing to list. On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 4:05 PM, Thaths tha...@gmail.com wrote: At today's Chennai silk list meetup

Re: [silk] Two history podcasts to top them all

2013-01-12 Thread Chandrachoodan Gopalakrishnan
On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 4:05 PM, Thaths tha...@gmail.com wrote: At today's Chennai silk list meetup the topic of history podcasts came up. I offered to post to silk list asking everyone for recommendations. 1. What are two (history or other) podcasts that are the best in your opinion? UC

Re: [silk] Two history podcasts to top them all

2013-01-12 Thread Ashwin Nanjappa
At today's Chennai silk list meetup the topic of history podcasts came up. I offered to post to silk list asking everyone for recommendations. 1. What are two (history or other) podcasts that are the best in your opinion? My vote is for In Our