Ben Franklin's World - Podcast Rankings and reviews

This show does exactly what it promises - puts you in the rough timeframe that Ben Franklin would have lived in, and tells you what life is really like. It accomplishes it through discussions with authors with detailed knowledge of a very specific topic. Loved the History of Maine, Race in New Orleans, Hessians, and Texas in Spanish Empire. Liz asks soid questions and keeps the show moving well.

If you are interested in well researched history, this is a podcast for you. I love that many of the episodes cover interesting topics that were not on my radar.

Enlightening, Interesting and important… I’m not sure if there is another resource on early American history that is this well researched and accessible.

Each succeeding episode seems like the best one I’ve listened to yet. I only “discovered” BFW some 43 podcasts ago but your format is eminently “binge-able.” Super guest list. I want to matriculate with a major in American History all over again.

The prisoner of war story interested me greatly, however I got very little out of the podcast due to terrible audio from the guest/expert. I was in my car and the hum and so on from the road coupled with garbled quality of the guests words (not to mention his accent), made it so I could hardly make out the content, prompting me to finally just give up. There are other podcasts which similarly don’t take their listeners into proper consideration. There should be a minimum standard to be met with regard to the guests ability to provide adequate audio quality. By the way, I recently had my hearing checked and the results were normal.