By David McCandless
Mon 11 December 2006

• Wiggly Wigglers

  

  Imagine The Archers wasn't full of middle-aged people, huffing and puffing in the fields and spouting ill-informed nonsense about world events. Imagine instead an Ambridge populated with nice, normal people, all of them well informed and talking about sustainable farming, responsible cultivation and other such interesting things. Imagine they also had a sense of humour.
  
  Well done - you've just imagined Wiggly Wigglers, a weekly look at all things green and earthy. This podcast is pure rural joy, evoking thoughts of Sunday walks through the countryside, the smell of the soil and the rich texture of the manure you just trod in. Perfect for when you're running for that Monday morning bus.

  http://wigglywigglers.blogspot.com/
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• The Big Squeeze

  

  Georgina Sowerby and Brian Luff's weekly UK comedy podcast, live from a pub in North London, has apparently been downloaded over two million times. It's not a sketch show and it's not stand-up comedy - so what is it, and why is it so popular?
  
  Well, Georgina and Brian talk fluent twaddle. That's it. Like all the best kinds of reality radio, it's the fizz between the couple that provides the entertainment.
  
  In the current webisode: hens who live on volcanoes and 18,000 mummified cats. Plus, Georgina plays "text roulette", the art of sending expletives or love notes to random people from her contacts list. How very punk.

  http://www.bigsqueeze.co.uk/
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• Podcast Paul

  

  Podcast Paul (aka Paul Nicholls) is the perfect modern British podcaster. By day he's a lawyer, but by night he's a silky voiced chat lothario and music maestro. Every week since 2004 he's haunted the airwaves with an entertaining combo of swishy talk and easy listening unsigned rock, pop and folk. It's like Jeremy Vine left BBC Radio 2 and went solo.
  
  This week, for example, Paul unravels the life and death of Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko, alongside an interview with and live performance by a band called Slashed Seat Affair. Where else but on the internet can you hear such contrasts?

  http://www.podcastpaul.com/
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• Imagine Games Network

  

  Christmas is coming and that can only mean one thing in the video games world: the launches of the next-generation of video games consoles. The best place to hear the nitty gritty on those hi-tech boxes is on IGN, a worldwide gaming news network, and its hyper-kinetic 3D podcast is currently reveling in the glories of the PlayStation 3 and the Nintendo Wii.
  
  Gamers are mad for this kind of stuff. In fact, it's all gone a bit pathological already. When the Wii was launched, the podcast reports, eager shoppers were given special wristbands and told to come back at a specific time of night to get their consoles. But these wristbands needed to be intact in order to get the console, so gamers were forced to go without showering, changing or sleeping for up to 24 hours. And that's headline news in the gaming world.

  http://www.ign.com/
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