I posted earlier about Excelgate, which is perhaps the most important controversy related to economic history research in recent years.
In this video, a left-wing US radio host named Mike Konczal discusses the controversy over the Carmen Reinhart – Kenneth Rogoff research. This video certainly isn’t an academic podcast, but it may be useful in teaching as a way of kick-starting a classroom discussion.
You might want this a bit more balanced
http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2013/04/19/177999020/episode-357-how-much-should-we-trust-economics