I have been listening to podcasts for years. I have several I create playlists from and put on my iPod and listen to off and on throughout the day.
I love the medium – using audio to get information. There are a ton of really good podcasts out there, too.
I listen to mostly sports or podcasts about writing, but I have looked around quite a bit for a good English language podcast to recommend.
I usually don’t recommend podcasts specifically for learning English, and usually recommend students just listen to podcasts about topics they are interested in learning or knowing more about. That’s the purpose of learning a language anyway, right? — to be able to use it to do something.
I have one learning podcast I can recommend though. It’s the English as a Second Language Podcast at ESLPod.com It has a wide variety of topics, and usually scripts are presented at a slower rate of speed and then after some explanations given again at a normal native speaker speed.
The information is interesting in the English Cafe Episodes and the conversations are usually funny and interesting along with consisting of useful topics and vocabulary.
If you’re looking for a podcast for yourself or to recommend to your students, this is a good one:
https://www.eslpod.com/website/index_new.html