All good stuff. To the book list, I'd also add J.D. Sawyer's Antithesis and Nathan Lowell's Solar Clipper books. Nathan is voicing my protagonist in Cowry Catchers. His work is a lot more gentle and literary that most other podiobooks, but still delightful.

Escapepod and Pseudopod are short fiction (sci-fi and horror respectively)...not really talk, although they do have chatter at the beginning and end. I sometimes fastforward through that, although I like Alistair Stewart's voice. He sounds like Neil Gaiman. :) The Dunesteef has a _lot_ of chatter, but always at the end. There's a story in there somewhere, I promise. Short fiction is not everyone's bag. You'll find stories you love and also stories that kind of wasted your time.