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Where I Listen To Podcasts

My favourite podcast app

Julian Cosky
5 min readOct 20, 2023
Photo by Connor Betts on Unsplash

I love listening to podcasts, almost as much as I listen to music.

Whether a daily radio quiz (Ten To The Top on Radio 2 anyone?) or news programmes, history stories, tv programmes or sport, technology and much more.

There is something for everyone. Bite-sized chunks of entertainment, or hours-long episodes.

I have a number of favourites and I’ll list them at the end of this story.

One of the beauties of podcasts is that you don’t need any sophisticated equipment to listen to them.

No box on a shelf, or wireless radio(!)

All you need is your mobile phone.

There are lots of great apps to download, listen and manage your favourite podcasts.

  • Overcast: Free, but you can pay £8.99 year to remove ads
  • Apple Podcasts: Free
  • Google Podcasts: Free
  • Spotify: Free, but
  • Castro: Free, but there is a premium option of £29.99 year, which unlocks features such as trimming silence, better voice, importing audio files directly, chapter support and more.

My Podcast App Is…

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Julian Cosky
Julian Cosky

Written by Julian Cosky

Husband. Father. Business Analyst. I’m also a Cub Scout Leader. Writing on Medium allows me to be me!

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