I've listened to many factual podcasts, daily, over the years. They mainly fall into: the various BBC Radio 4 podcasts; Stuff You Should Know; Radiolab & now Recycled Electrons, which is by far my favourite. Their intelligent humour just fits my cheeky, slightly nerdy professional self, who loves all science.
But this podcast is more than that. It's certainly been accessible to someone like myself who had no prior astrophysics experience at all. I have learned through following the excellent links on Tumblr. Through them I have: become a citizen scientist on the Zooniverse project, improved how I communicate science to my patients & to children, & they have given me ideas for my own medical podcast & already helped me achieve communication through local radio & TV by giving me confidence & advice. I love them in a total groupie way (& they know that ;) but it's because I share a similar vision: science should be accessible to all, & this podcast is a good place to do that & get ideas. Do listen.