Indicast - All Podcasts
Indicast is India's longest running and most popular Indian podcast network. This is the mother feed of all the shows produced by Indicast including a current affairs new show, a business news show, a tech show from an Indian perspective, a bollywood movie review show and a conversational interview show. Expect a good discussion with few laughs in our special India focused content. Individual show feeds are available at http://www.theindicast.com
- Update frequency
- every 8 days
- Average duration
- 31 minutes
- Episodes
- 165
- Years Active
- 2005 - 2025
Rooted in History: Unearthing the Stories of Twelve Trees with Daniel Lewis
There are around 3trn trees on Earth, 400 for every living person. And yet arguably the arboreal world is not talked about in as much detail as the animal kingdom. Dr Daniel Lewis, a historian at the…
00:48:11 |
Sun 19 Jan 2025
Sir David Spiegelhalter on the art of uncertainty
How did Barack Obama, former American president know for sure whether Osama Bin Laden was in that compound in Abbottabad? Are football matches largely determined by luck? How can you measure coincide…
00:50:50 |
Tue 14 Jan 2025
Rollo Romig on Gauri Lankesh and the fight for free speech in India
Rollo Romig talks about his book "I'm on the Hit List: A Journalist's Murder and the Rise of Autocracy in India". The book focuses on the life and murder of journalist Gauri Lankesh and its impact on…
00:59:59 |
Tue 14 Jan 2025
Indicast #257: Stock market gambling soars
India's young adults are gambling their savings way in the stock markets. Researchers in Japan have figured out a way to regrow teeth. This month also saw the birth of the world's youngest dart champ…
00:37:40 |
Sun 12 Jan 2025
Ben Yagoda on the British invasion of American English
Ben Yagoda is the emeritus professor of English at the University of Delaware. Relying on his rich experience of having lived both in the US and the UK, Ben's new book, "Gobsmacked! The British Invas…
00:44:08 |
Sat 04 Jan 2025
Truth and lies with Alex Edmans
In his book “May Contain Lies: How stories, statistics and studies exploit our biases - and what we can do about it”, Dr Alex Edmans urges us to pause and reflect before we trust any article or a fac…
00:32:41 |
Sat 04 Jan 2025
Dr Duvvuri Subbarao, former RBI governor on his life and career
In “Just a Mercenary? Notes from My Life and Career”, Dr Subbarao describes his eventful journey as a kid from Sainik School in Korukonda, some 50 km from Visakhapatnam to becoming the 22nd governor …
00:59:59 |
Sat 04 Jan 2025
Paul Seabright on religion, wealth and economics
What is religion? How is it intertwined with economics? Why do people who are below the poverty line feel the need to contribute some portion of their meagre income to temples or churches? What is in…
00:54:01 |
Sat 04 Jan 2025
Indicast #256: Welcome 2025
We pay tribute to tabla maestro Ustad Zakir Hussain and former Indian prime minister, Dr Manmohan Singh who passed away recently. In sports, Dommaraju Gukesh becomes the youngest world Chess champion…
00:38:51 |
Sat 04 Jan 2025
Charles Dallara on EuroShock: the tough negotiations that shaped Greece’s future
Charles Dallara is the author of "EuroShock: How the Largest Debt Restructuring in History Helped Save Greece and Preserve the Eurozone". The former managing director of the Institute of Internationa…
00:45:52 |
Sat 04 Jan 2025
Gray Matters: Exploring the Brain with Dr. Theodore Schwartz
The human brain is a marvel of mysteries, holding answers that we are still uncovering. Dr Theodore Schwartz's book “Gray Matters: A Biography of Brain Surgery” is filled with anecdotes to help us re…
00:55:16 |
Sat 04 Jan 2025
Timothy C. Winegard on how horses shaped human civilisation
Human history is also the history of the horse, says Dr Timothy C. Winegard in his superb book, “The Horse: A Galloping History of Humanity”. He charts the story of the four legged human companion li…
00:59:59 |
Sat 04 Jan 2025
Lawrence Booth on Bazball
Bazball is a term that describes England cricket team’s aggressive brand of Test cricket championed by Brendon “Baz” McCullum. Lawrence Booth who writes for the Daily Mail has co-authored a brilliant…
00:59:00 |
Sat 04 Jan 2025
Marcia Bjornerud on how rocks share secrets of our planet’s past
In “Turning to Stone: Discovering The subtle wisdom of rocks”, Dr Marcia Bjornerud brings us the fascinating story of how rocks and stones “speak” to us if we’re willing to listen. Rocks are alert, r…
00:30:08 |
Sun 10 Nov 2024
Andrew Leigh on economics and why it matters
In this podcast Andrew Leigh talks about economics to someone unfamiliar with the subject, all drawn from his book, "How Economics Explains the World: A Short History of Humanity". Andrew touches upo…
00:43:28 |
Sun 10 Nov 2024
The future of our oceans with Helen Scales
What mysteries do the world underwater hold for us? Dr Helen Scales, a marine biologist, has dedicated her life to find out. Her most recent book “What the Wild Sea Can Be: The Future of the World's …
00:56:21 |
Sun 10 Nov 2024
Jean Martin Bauer on world hunger and what we can do about it
Jean Martin Bauer is the author of The New Breadline: Hunger and Hope in the 21st Century. It is a brilliant account of why hunger is ravaging the world and what we can do about it. In this podcast J…
00:59:00 |
Sat 09 Nov 2024
Nicola Twilley on how refrigeration has changed the world
Among the many things that we take for granted in the age of indulgence is refrigeration. In “Frostbite: How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet, and Ourselves”, Nicola Twilley brings us the h…
00:56:14 |
Sat 21 Sep 2024
Untold stories of unsung Maths legends with Kate Kitagawa and Timothy Revell
What are the human stories behind mathematics? How did mathematicians collaborate over centuries to further its cause? “The Secret Lives of Numbers: A Global History of Mathematics & its Unsung Trail…
00:55:27 |
Sun 15 Sep 2024
Nobel Laureate Thomas R. Cech on why Ribonucleic Acid rocks
Dr Thomas R. Cech shared the nobel prize in chemistry with Sidney Altman in 1989. Their work showed that RNA is not only a molecule that carries genetic information but can also act as a catalyst in …
00:45:13 |
Sat 07 Sep 2024
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