Excellent podcast, though episodes are out of order
Ditto to everything JKoepke wrote in his previous review. However, note that episodes sharing the same release date (e.g., 7/2/09 for the first four episodes) cannot be relied upon to play in order. I don't know if there's any way to fix this (I'm not sure how the nuts and bolts of podcasting work), but one easy workaround would be to number each episode by renaming them (e.g., "001: How to Read Tolkien and Why") so that listeners would have a field with which to reliably sort episodes into their intended order. For more complete content (currently 65 episodes instead of 27), use the podcast version rather than the iTunes U version. (Though the podcast version doesn't order the episodes correctly either.)
AlpacaLips via Apple Podcasts · United States of America · 11/14/10
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