This week I have been listening to a host of new podcasts while I’ve been going about my everyday business of putting things about coffee on twitter and how I am finding it difficult to get creative for my next world service commission.

I started my listening with getting fed up with Zoe Ball (sitting in for Ken Bruce) interrupting Jimmy Webb on Radio 2 and not letting them speak for himself. Personally I would like a blanket ban on the phrase “Bless you” it consistently sounds insincere. Quote of the week for me is “An ounce of intuition is worth a pound of tuition.”  Shevers says: 2 stars.

Free Talk Live: http://freetalklive.com/ – did an amazing chat on Swine Flu – it makes you feel mad about government, mad about statistics and mad about scientists.  They stand for common sense in a time when you need some.  Take a listen and join the debate. Shevers says: 4 stars.

For something on movies I moved away from my usual Filmspotting and chose to listen to Mondo Movie (http://www.mondomovie.com/).  Seeing as it is in London it makes perfect sense for me. Listening to Dan and Ben talk about their new website for five minutes at the beginning of the podcast left me wishing – GET ON WITH THE MOVIE CHAT.  Once they indeed started talking about film they had some really good stuff to say especially about the Fright Fest season in London at the moment.  But please get on with the movie stuff before hitting the housekeeping news. If I was being especially picky they could do with taking out some of the err’s in the post-production – it doesn’t take long and saves the listener getting bored. I think that I’ll stick to Filmspotting.  Shevers says: 2 stars.

If you want to listen to something very unusual try out the iPod Witch (http://ipodwitch.webs.com/).  There is something very basic about this site that makes me think that this is how podcasts should be.  Brook is an amazing communicator with some wacky ideas that makes me glad that there are people out there having great fun with the medium. This is something that you would never hear on the BBC! Shevers says: 4stars.

Keep Podcasting and let me know if you would like me to listen to yours.

Pete