Podcasts
- The Storyteller Squad
- A TTRPG "actual play" podcast using the Monster of the Week system. Exciting, cute, and with compelling characters.
- Worldbuilding for Masochists
- Informational podcast that's mainly focused on worldbuilding for fantasy/sci-fi novels, but a lot is applicable to other genres and media as well.
History Podcasts
- Backstory
- Hosted by historians, each episode focuses on exploring a particular topic throughout American history. The hosts can only go so in-depth in the space of a podcast episode, of course, but it's a very good launching-off point for things you might not otherwise think about.
- Revolutions by Mike Duncan
- Fairly detailed histories of revolutions throughout history. Explores the societal and structural causes as well as the ways in which individual choices shaped events.
Season 11 is a fictional Martian Revolution, which is an engaging narrative that draws details and patterns from the other revolutions he's covered.
- Tides of History and Past Lives by Patrick Wyman
- Wide-ranging, but generally focuses on social history, and particularly later on in Tides there's a lot of exploration of cutting edge archaeological techniques. Tides is done (but still well worth a listen), Past Lives is his new podcast.