Nikesh Shukla’s Top 5 Podcasts

With so many great articles and interviews in Pod Bible Magazine, we thought it was time to make our archive accessible by sharing them here on the website. Here is a For The Love of Pod article from Issue #014 of the Pod Bible magazine.

Could you whittle your favourite podcasts down to a top 5? We asked Nikesh Shukla – Author, Screenwriter and Host of the Brown Baby podcast – to do just that. Here’s his selection…

1. BROWN HISTORY PODCAST

Spinning out of the .Brown History Instagram account, these are in-depth interviews with South Asian academics, thinkers, artists and historians about South Asian diaspora history. Listen now >>

2. GOOD ONE: A PODCAST ABOUR JOKES

The host plays a comedy routine from a comedy writer or performer, and then sits down with them to discuss how they wrote the piece, giving us a real insight into how comedy is written and formed. Listen to Taika Waititi talk about his scripting of Thor Ragnarok. Listen now >>

3. INTO THE ZONE

Novelist Hari Kunzru is a master of super specific research that forms the majority of his work. And here he presents the research as investigations into opposites and borders, taking us on a sometimes trippy journey into fascinating topics like punk rock and stasi, Stonehenge, the originators of MP£ and more. Listen now >>

4. LITERARY FRICTION

Hosts Carrie Plitt and Olivia Bright have in-depth discussions with writers about their books, and find deeper truths in words. These are also followed by booklists related to the main interview. An engaging listen. Listen now >>

5. OFFICE LADIES

I love the US The Office, and any excuse for rewatching it. So this re-watch podcast is hosted by Jenna Fischer and Angela Kinsey who played Pan and Angela on the show, and each week, they deconstruct an episode, talk about how it was written and filmed, and gives us an insight to the making of the best sitcom that ever was. Listen now >>

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We hope you enjoy these podcasts recommended by Nikesh Shukla. Read more For The Love of Pod articles in the Pod Bible magazine, which you can read online or buy in our shop.