In English, I personally listen to and can recommend 99% invisible, no such thing as a fish and stuff you should know.

99% invisible: started as a podcast explaining small design /architectural choices which you never noticed before but are everywhere and why they make such a difference (like marks on windows where it is a good place to enter a burning building with a ladder lift), but is now a bit broader than that. American made so a bit american focused as well.

No such thing as a fish: factbased talk with 4 hosts, most of them comedians, based around facts, from the team who created/creates? the questions for QI on the BBC. Always good fun to listen to.

Stuff you should know: two men explaining random stuff which you probably have heard of but don’t know the fine details about, like how vaccines work, how gerrymandering works, … American made so focus on America again, and quite heavy on adds, so keep that fast-forward-button of antennapod nearby! ( I’ve had antennapod configured to that pressing next song button skips 20 seconds, makes it very easy to skip commercials in the car or on bike.)

Those podcasts all are still active, I’ve also listened with pleasure to a couple of series which were just a number of stories:

• Uncharted with Hannah Fry: stories on how math solved a big problem, from BBC sounds so very nice audio
• I started with the missing Cryptoqueen , also from BBC sounds, but stopped listening after a while because I had less time to listen. Audio was great again, so I recommend checking out BBC sounds.
• The others were in dutch :-)

46% for 42 minutes of background use is pretty wild though.

I’ve also had some high usage from antennapod, not sure if it is still happening. I’ve seen some threads online about but I’m not sure if it was fixed by now.