Teaching Company vs Modern Scholar

How are the Modern Scholar series of audio lectures? I see they are becoming more popular in my local libraries. Any recommendations?

I have listened to A History of the English Language and I loved it. I also have Heaven or Heresy: A History of the Inquisition and Odyssey of the West - A Classic Education through the Great Books: Hebrews and Greeks in my TBR pile.

I've enjoyed several of them as well. My area libraries also tend to have more of the Modern Scholar series than the Teaching Company.

I thought Global Warming, Global Threat was probably the best overview of the climate change issue I've ever encountered. I also really liked James Kaler's two sets of lectures on Astronomy (Earth, Sky and Planets and Stars, Galaxies, and the Universe) and Terence D'Altoy's Incas: Inside an American Empire

As with any large set of works by different authors on different topics there are some duds, but overall I think they're good quality. All the ones I've listened to have exactly 14 lectures and run for a similar length of time. On occasion, I think forcing this structure leads to either padding or to cutting an interesting topic short.

fleela, thanks for the tip on A History of the English Language. Drout's lectures on fantasy literature were good and he was an engaging (and likable) presenter. I didn't know about the language one.

I'm currently listening to Yale's Harold Bloom's Modern Scholar lectures on The Tragedies of Shakespeare.

#3, lucien,

I'm finishing up on Global Warming: Global Threat now. Excellent.