Or radio dramatisations from classic authors including the whole Sherlock Holmes canon, (and some of the stories Conan Doyle did not write), Agatha Christie, Cadfael (with the melodious authentically Welsh tones of Philip Madoc) or Jane Austen?
Or some more modern adapations such as The Number One Ladies Detective Agency? Two of my personal favourites are the two crime drama series Baldi (starrring David Threlfall) and McLevy with the superbly versatile cinema actor Brian Cox.
After dramatising all of Patricia Highsmith's Ripley novels the Beeb is about to broadcast all John le Carré's Smiley stories.
Maybe you prefer SciFi with stories and drama from writers like Asimov, Clarke, Heinlein or Wyndam?
Missing Doctor Who? Check out the audio adventures of Doctor Who with Paul McGann and Sheriden Smith? Including Shada - the last completed work by Douglas Adams of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy fame - a marvelous mix of his trademark zany space humour and wit.
Prefer Horror - Mark Gatis filled Valentine Dyall's shoes as the Man in Black with a set of dark tales.
Surreal Comedy? Try Terry Pratchet's DiscWorld stories adapated as plays, Nebulous, The Reduced Shakespeare Company or the National Theatre of Brent.
Or how about the original series of Goodness Gracious Me, Little Britain , Mitchell and Webb, or The League of Gentlemen? Or the radio versions of Steptoe and Son or Dad's Army. Or the marvelously recreated lost Marx Brothers' Radio Shows Flywheel, Shyster and Flywheel .
There is a massive weekly BBC output of Radio Drama, Audiobooks, Features and Documentaries - but typically only the latter available for download as Podcasts.
A larger selection is available for Listen Again - either online via or through the iplayer - but these options are time limited and restricted to UK only. And some programmes (especially those with music) are not available there ...
What I like about the free Anubis program is that it lets you listen again independently of the BBC iplayer, with no downloads, no restrictions on how long you keep it, and the ability to create mp3 files to play anywhere.
So if you listen to Radio drama, comedy or indeed any broadcasts that you would like to timeshift then Anubis could be for you. OK, it takes more setup than using Listen Again or clicking on an iTunes podcast link - but any audio broadcast can be made into your own custom podcast.
Most examples and detail here cover the main BBC spoken word stations (Radio 4 and Radio 7) - but you can record any audio source you can receive, and associate any schedule of programme times - or just use clock times.
(Listeners may want to acquaint themselves with the terms of the appropriate copyright acts - but timeshifting for personal use is widely regarded to be legal in most countries.)
