Podcasts

Active IF Podcasts

Probably active. More or less.

Eaten By a Grue - Infocom, text adventures, and interactive fiction. Kay Savetz and Carrington Vanston.
Gold Microphone - Reviewing all the Infocom text adventures. Drew Cook and Callie Smith.
The Interactive Fiction Club Podcast - Playing a game each month, alternating between classic and modern games. For those avoiding Spotify, it's also available on most podcast syndication sites, e.g. rephonic. Jonathan Meyer and Nick ?
The Retro Adventurers - Explore classic text adventure games from legendary publishers and authors including Magnetic Scrolls, Level 9, Infocom, Scott Adams, and Interplay. A podcast for fans of GET LAMP, Eaten By a Grue, The Classic Adventurer, Renga In Blue, and Quest For Clues. Ben Collier, Jason Compton, and Dave Hawkins.

The Short Game - covers video games under 10 hours. Usually does several IFComp episodes each year. Raygan Kelly, Shane Kelly, Nate Heininger, Laura Nash.
Script Lock Episode 72: George Lockett and Mary Gooden - Script Lock is about narrative in games in general but they occasionally interview folks who have done IF: Ep. 57 has Duncan Fyfe and Jon Ingold, Ep. 40 has Laura Michet and Cat Manning, Ep. 15 has Rob Morgan and Emily Short.
The Adventure Games Podcast covers basically only adventure games, but you could argue that they're sort of adjacent?

Clash of the Type-Ins - Playing text adventures out loud, with their authors, with frequent digressions and occasional recriminations. Jenni Polodna and Ryan Veeder.
Inklecast - Inkle Studios.
Radio K - Adam Cadre discusses IF with various people who are generally familiar with the medium.
Titans of Text - Interviewing MUD creators and interactive fiction people. Eric Oestrich and Danny Nissenfeld.
Verb Your Enthusiasm - Covered IFComp 2019 and 2020. Ian Michael Waddell and Elizabeth Smyth.
TEXTLASTIG - Podcast playing largely German IF?

Ludology 217 - Interview with Andrew Plotkin.
Stay Forever: Anchorhead - Interview with Michael Gentry: English interview after German intro.
Stay Forever: Sherlock - Interview with Bob Bates.
Stay Forever: A Conversation About Text Adventures - Interview with Bob Bates.
Stay Forever: Guido Henkel - This one's in German.
Relatively Prime: A Beauty Cold and Austere - Interview with Mike Spivey.
The Video Game Generations Podcast supposedly has some IF episodes but I haven't gotten a chance to go through and link to specific ones...