Hudson Valley Podcasts

Podcasts help you get to know a culture, an area, a region.

For Rural Intelligence, I recently did a round-up of locally produced podcasts in the Berkshires, Litchfield County, Connecticut and the northern parts of the Hudson Valley.

I thought I would build on this with podcasts about the Hudson Valley itself. As more people move here and visit, podcasts are a great way to get to know this beautiful and rich area, rural and urban.  

Hudson Valley & Catskills Regional Podcasts

• Cidiot®: Learning to Live and Love Life in the Hudson Valley - My show uses my journey moving from the city to the country and helping others acclimate …and not be a cidiot.
• Kaatscast: The Catskills Podcast - The other award-winning podcast, a biweekly series featuring Catskills culture, history, sustainability, local interviews, literature, and the arts. Produced by Silver Hollow Audio and hosted by Brett Barry (who is a guest editor of Cidiot). We did a crossover for Episode 77.
• Valley Girls Podcast -Jennifer and Jenny take on the valley one story at a time. They were on Episode 102.
• Hudson Valley Unleashed - A chef and a DJ go looking for the soul of the Hudson Valley
• Hudson Valley Storycatcher - New interview podcast out of Red Hook, NY with Jen Lee
• The Jiffy: Stories from Upstate New York - local culture and life upstate
• Nature Calls: Conversations from the Hudson Valley - Produced by Cornell Cooperative Extension, it’s about gardening, ecology and nature.
• Mid-Hudson Daily News - Daily news update for parts of the Hudson Valley
• Murder in the Hudson Valley - looks into notorious homicide cases from around the region. Spooky and fun.  
• We Be Griots - A series of conversations about the Black experience in our region. The name of this podcast comes from a poem of the same name from Ulster County's first poet laureate, Kate Hymes. 

Hyperlocal

• Beaconites! - Interview show with folks from Beacon, NY.
• The Claverack Podcast - Interviews with Claverackians of all stripes who care about the future of this little town.
• The Rhinebeck Scoop - Great gossipy show about Rhinebeck, NY produced at Radio Rhinecliff. Cidiot was a guest. 

If you have shows to add to this growing list, please send them in via the Contact form.