The Fall of Rome is an excellent podcast. Patrick Wyman, the host, has a PhD (awarded in 2016) in late Roman history with a specialty in the late Roman economy, and he not only weaves a fantastic narrative, he also brings the historiography and debates into that narrative in such a way that it just flows very nicey

Segueing off the original comment, Patrick Wyman has another podcast called “Tides of History” that briefly touched on post-Western Roman Europe before shifting focus to early modern Europe (basically 1300-1600). It’s still going and he bounces around different topics, eras, and geographic areas which makes for a nice variety.

Beyond that, the other gold-standard historical podcaster in my (and likely most peoples’) eyes is Mike Duncan. He made “the History of Rome” from 2007-2012 (roughly 200 episodes from the mythical founding to the fall of the Western Empire). Since then, he started another show “Revolutions” which is broken up into seasons each covering a different revolution (American, French, Haitian, etc.). That one is still going. He’s about to start the Russian Revolution.

Duncan is very much the opposite of Dan Carlin in terms of style. Nearly all of his shows are around 30 minutes long, and he uploads a new episode just about every week. He also focuses on political history rather than Carlin’s “extremes of the human condition” angle, so you don’t end up with hours-long descriptions of gore and suffering (I like Carlin, but it can get gratuitous at times). But you do lose some of the really wide-angle context that Carlin likes to put in his shows.

Finally, just for fun, I really enjoy “Rex Factor.” It’s a sillier, yet still educational, podcast where two British guys rank English and Scottish monarchs on factors like “scandal” and “battley-ness.” It’s surprisingly nuanced when it comes to calling out biased sources or things like that. The hosts have a good dynamic and there’s a large back catalogue of episodes stored up (unfortunately, you cannot participate in the fan voting for the old shows anymore)

Maybe not technically a podcast, but you should check out The Great Courses Plus.

It's a subscription service that allows you to download/stream various "Great Courses"- basically series of lectures by talented professors (usually about 24 half-hour lectures per course). There's about 120 courses for history alone (at least on the phone app, seems to be fewer available from a computer for some reason), as well as others in science, literature, philosophy, etc. Most of them definitely lack the entertainment value of Dan Carlin, but of course the trade off is that they are all done by experts in their fields.

It's not free ($15/month unless you find a sale price)- but still definitely worth it.

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