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Fabro 
Terry O'Reilly's series Age of Persuasion, which is a series on the history and practice of advertising. It's CBC radio at its best. The main page is here:
http://www.cbc.ca/ageofpersuasion/ but you can get the podcasts on iTunes.
I've really enjoyed this one as well.
I feel obliged to mention
my own Jordan, Jesse Go! It's a comedy-talk show. Also
Coyle & Sharpe: The Imposters, which is amazing, surreal put-ons from the early 1960s in San Francisco.
My favorite talk show is
Jimmy Pardo's Never Not Funny. Jimmy's one of the funniest comics in the country, and certainly the quickest. I'd always hoped he'd go into broadcasting (above and beyond the TV hosting he's done), and this is just as good. The show isn't about anything, but it also never lags or droops. Amazing stuff, and hilarious.
I'm also a big fan of
The Best Show on WFMU and
Seven Second Delay, two talk shows from the Jersey Giant, freeform superstation WFMU. The former is a traditional talk show in some ways, though the host, Tom Scharpling (also a writer for Monk) sort of plays a game of "who's the real Tom" with callers whenever he can. The centerpiece of each show is an in-character call from Tom's comedy partner Jon Wurster (who's also the drummer for Superchunk, among other bands). Surreal and brilliant. Seven Second Delay is co-hosted by Ken Freedman (the manager of WFMU) and Andy Breckman (the showrunner of Monk), and it involves complicated "radio stunts." They are two of the highest-concept live radio shows I've ever heard of, and they're both great, though both are also aquired tastes.
