Welcome to this week's Recommendation Engine from Podcast Rex, rounding up the week in podcast reviews. Get this in an email each week by signing up to be a supporter of Podcast Rex from £3.99.
Apple Podcasts New & Noteworthy:
Spotify New & 🔥
- Rylan.. How To Be In The Spotlight
- Gratitude is the Attitude
- How We Fix This
- The Pink House with Sam Smith
- The Turnout
- Fesshole
- Famously… On Trial
- The Money Trench
Fiona Sturges in the FT
- Buried The Last Witness - "There is much here that will make you gasp, not just at the human and environmental impact of PCBs but at the brazenness of those responsible."
Miranda Sawyer in the Observer
- Limelight - The Skys are Watching - "Tautly written over five episodes, beautifully recorded and really well acted, this is the latest in the reliably excellent Limelight slot, which proves that Radio 4 dramas can be properly good."
James Marriott in the Times
- The Six Billion Dollar Gold Scam - "Furrow your brow, pay attention and there’s lots of rewarding listening here. The surfeit of superfluous detail is a problem endemic to the long-form narrative podcast."
Patricia Nicol & Clair Woodward in the Sunday Times
- Famously… On Trial - “I just feel so sorry for her. I love her,” Dooley says tearfully. But to me this just felt like rubbernecking clickbait."
- Power of Jazz (Goldblum), Jim Kerr at the BBC (65th Birthday), Slow Burn (gay rights), Harry and Paul are... Devious (failed crimes), Served (Andy Roddick), The Official Marvel Podcast (Kevin Feige-fest), Sonic Fields (just, er, fests) and Hysterical (mass).
The Guardian’s Hear Here column recommends
- Widening the Lens: Photography, Ecology, and the Contemporary Landscape - "Venus Williams hosts this thoughtful series from the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh"
- Harry and Paul are... Devious - "What this... lacks in accurate facts, it makes up for in infectious energy"
- Buried - "wild, horrifying investigation"
- Sonic Fields - "a beautiful, cross-generational celebration"
- Alison Moyet – 40 Moyet Moments - "the lovable and charismatic Alison Moyet as she looks back over her 40-year career"
Highlights from the Radio Times
- Broomgate: A Curling Scandal - "The way the host keeps it moving is worthy of the sport itself"
- Harry and Paul are... Devious - "There are moments of genuinely witty observation, but it's all pretty mindless fare"
- Goonpod - "A treat for admirers"
- On The Record - "The National Archives provides rich, real-life pickings, for this illuminating podcast"
Heat’s Top of the Pods
- Black Box - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
- Harry and Paul are... Devious - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Scott Bryan in Great British Podcasts
- Transmissions: The Definitive Story of World in Motion - "a new four minute mini episode looking at the surreal history of World in Motion, the football that New Order released with the England team"
- Harry and Paul are... Devious - "Each episode looks at a notable crime that didn’t go to plan and fell off the rails, starting with the infamous Millennium Dome diamond heist at The Dome"
- Goal Diggers - "the UK’s first black female led football podcast"
- Music Uncovered: Genius – The Story of Coldplay - Greg James on the band
