Favourites:

• NPR: Latino USA — High quality podcast (well, actually a weekly half-hour radio show available as podcast) and the way I keep up with Latino news. Focused (not surprisingly) on America, but also great summary of news in Central and South America. If you go to the NPR site, you can find over two hundred other shows available as podcasts.
• Notes From Spain — I’m addicted to this weekly podcast! It’s by a British guy (Ben), who moved to Madrid and has lived there seven years (and married a local chica named Marina). They do weekly podcasts about all kinds of different aspects of life in Spain, travel notes, food, culture, language…mostly in English. During January 2006 they are doing 31 podcasts in 31 days — y todos en español, ¡qué bien! — to help raise funds for a charity trip Ben is taking part in. These Spanish episodes are available as a separate podcast feed.
• KCRW’s Bookworm — This one is golden. Also taken from a weekly radio show on the great station KCRW from Santa Monica College. Sure, host Michael Silverblatt has a voice that sounds slow and sleepy, but one listen will convince you of his genius. He’s the reader every writer wants, I think — that or their worst nightmare. His observations are remarkably deep and precise and he seems to tackle any kind of literature with generosity and insight. Gush, gush…just take a listen for yourself!

Some of the others I subscribe to:

• Tartanpodcast — Highlighting independent Scottish music. You won’t find any Celtic stuff here; I’ve yet to hear a bagpipe, bodhran or fiddle… But almost anything else! Very prolific…host Mark Hunter puts out several shows per week, including a “Sleepy Sunday Show” and the regular Tartanpodcast.
• MobyLives — I’m guessing the name refers to the whale and not the musician. It’s a literary blog with lengthy daily podcast (interviews with authors, critics, publishers). Well, it was daily before Christmas, but now is much more sporadic, once a week or less often. Interesting news with “correspondents” reporting on publishing from around the world — when you can get it.
• I Should Be Writing — Weekly-ish podcasts “by a wanna-be writer for wanna-be writers”. Some interesting observations and practical tips from the trenches. Sometimes a bit focused on games, sci-fi and fantasy writing, but mostly useful and applicable to all fiction writing.
• The Bookcast at Powells.com — Short (12-13 minute) monthly podcasts produced by this American bookstore (from Oregon). They have frustatingly short snippets with good guests (excerpts from talks and readings they’ve given in-store) and lots of “book news”. Short, not of the highest quality, but neither totally useless. I am newly subscribed (and they’ve only put out four podcasts in the past four months) so I’m also reserving my judgment until I hear a bit more… Update: Feb. 21 — episode number five was a great one with John Hodgman.
• Writer’s Voice — Not what one would call prolific; only a few podcasts so far, so it’s wait-and-see… Supposedly from a weekly radio show on WMUA radio at the University of Massachusetts, but so far the available podcasts are far from weekly.
• La Historia de Quien Soy — Some of the episodes of this radio (melo)drama are available as podcasts (use this link if you can’t locate the RSS feed via the site). A bit too soap opera-esque for my taste, but still a great listening resource when learning Spanish!