With the news that there’s a new computing education podcast (The Rest is Teaching) I thought I’d put together a selection of podcasts which might be of interest to computing educators. The first set are more specifically about teaching computing, or computing careers but the second set are… a little more random. Perhaps you have some suggestions that could be added, please let me know if so.
Computing-themed podcasts
The Rest is Teaching
A Podcast for Computing Education Practitioners & Researchers, from ACM (Association for Computing Machinery), hosted by Duncan Hull.
https://pod.co/the-rest-is-teaching/
https://uki-sigcse.acm.org/podcast/
Hello World
This podcast from Raspberry Pi accompanies the regular Hello World magazine for computing educators. The last issue was about Digital Literacy and the next issue (out in October) is about teaching programming. https://www.raspberrypi.org/hello-world/podcast
Inside Tech Careers
Discover exciting roles in the tech industry. The host is Harry Wake a 17 year old student who co-founded Mission Encodeable to inspire people to study computing. Their website also includes free coding tutorials (Python). He’s interviewed a range of people from Netflix, Canva, Bank of England and the Royal Institution. https://missionencodeable.com/. Podcast: https://missionencodeable.com/podcast
The Programming Podcast
with hosts Leon Noel and Danny Thompson discussing how to get your first job in tech as a software developer. Listen: Spotify (or Spotify) | Amazon Music | Rephonic | Castbox | Apple podcasts | Podcast republic | Good Pods | iHeartRadio (not available in UK) | Pocket Casts | Leon also runs 100 Devs, a community-taught program to help people land a job in web development.
One-off episodes in podcasts that are otherwise not computing-themed
Really? No, Really?
The US-based Really? No, Really? podcast with Jason Alexander (many will know him as George Costanza from Seinfeld) and Peter Tilden has several episodes relating to computing, including Brain-computer links, Rogue AI + Flying cars (4 April 2023), World War Microchip, Rare Earth Mineral Issues + Suspicious Fires (11 April 2023) and AI…A visionary’s unique take! (9 May 2023).
The podcasts are also available as videos on YouTube.
BBC: Word of Mouth
In this episode of Word of Mouth Michael Rosen talks to professor of computational linguistics, Emily M Bender, about chatbots. She explains “what they do, how they have become so fluent and why she thinks we should be careful with the terminology we employ when talking about them.”
BBC: The Life Scientific
In this episode of The Life Scientific Jim Al-Khalili interviews Anne-Marie Imafidon, founder of Stemettes, about her career in computing / coding. At 25 minutes she tells an anecdote in which a white male colleague struggled to believe that she (a young Black woman) knew what she was talking about, wasting time for the project they were working on.
BBC: More or Less
BBC Sounds (9 minutes) 1 February 2025: Are quantum computers already super-powerful? [transcript]
BBC: Tech Life
BBC Sounds (26 minutes)
15 July 2025: Quantum question time “We step inside a quantum computer lab to answer your questions about technology that promises to revolutionise everything from particle physics to fertiliser production.” [transcript]
Research Unravelled
Catherine Gregory from the Ada Lovelace Institute. “How do you craft consistent communications in a field as rapidly evolving as AI and data? Can we shift the narrative from perceived future existential risk to actual present day harms? What’s the best way of making your messages resonate with policy makers?”
BBC: The Boring Talks
Short talks about subject “that may seem boring, but (are) actually very interesting”.
The Sounds of Computer Games Loading: “The author and video game Keith Stuart remembers the whirrs and clicks that made up the soundtrack of his youth.”
Data Centres: “What do we all use, but never visit? Matt Parker takes us inside the bizarre world of remote Data Centres to understand the impact of cloud computing.”
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