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Recommendation Engine: Coining It

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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.

Platforms

Apple Podcasts: New Shows

Man Like You (ind.)

No Appointment Necessary (Viral Tribe)

Pottering (ind.)

Move Over Mother Theresa (Drop Dead Generous)

At Home with The Thomas Bros (ind.)

Spotify: New & 🔥

Grand Designs: Deconstructed (Channel 4)

Pottering (ind.)

The State of It (The Times)

Heavyweight (Pushkin)

We Have Notes (The Observer)

Amazon Music: Best Podcasts of the Week

ill-advised by Bill Nighy (ind.)

+44 Podcast (Amazon Music)

History’s Toughest Heroes (BBC Radio 4)

What’s My Age Again? (Bauer)

Evil Genius (Russell Kane)

Pocket Casts: Featured

Assassins (ABC Listen)

Jane Austen Stories (Noiser)

Office Hours with Arthur Brooks (ind.)

WP Tavern (ind.)

Version History (The Verge)

Reviews

Miranda Sawyer in the Observer

  • Coining It (Global) - “Fabulously entertaining: a romp of a series that somehow keeps you on everyone’s side all at once.”
  • Wisecrack (iHeart) - “What is the point of all this? Why did [Jodi] Tovay think going over this horribly sad story was a good idea?”
  • Country Roads (Spiritland) - “Earle has a nice warm approach, and these are a lovely listen; I’m far from a country music fan but found myself drawn in.”
  • Dances for Buildings (ind.) - “One for budding DJs who want to learn how to negotiate their way through the industry.”

Fiona Sturges in the FT

  • WTF with Marc Maron (ind.) - “It’s not overstating matters to say Maron changed the podcasting landscape as scores of celebrities sought to replicate the WTF template and launch their own projects. Many weren’t up to the task, engaging in wilfully banal love-ins with their famous friends.”

Patricia Nicol in the Sunday Times

Gerard O’Donovan in the Daily Telegraph

  • Legend: the Bruce Springsteen Story (BBC Radio 4) - “If you’re one of the few who doesn’t already worship The Boss, you might find yourself converted”
  • Two Women Chatting (ind.) - “An impressive back catalogue of chats with prominent professionals and celebrities such as Dames Judi Dench and Kelly Holmes, Judy Murray and, more recently, bestselling author Elizabeth Day.”
  • The Louis Theroux Podcast (Spotify) - "Today's edition, featuring his broadcasting hero Michael Palin freshly returned from an eventful trip to Venezuela, promises to be one of the best.”
  • The Final Cut (ind.) - “Grace Cordell, host of the long-running REDRUM True Crime podcast indulges her lifelong love of horror, inviting fellow crime podcaster Stuart Blues to join her in unpacking the plots, characters, twists and tongue-swallowing scares of her favourite films”

Listings

Clair Woodward in the Sunday Times

The Guardian’s Best Podcasts of the Week

The Guardian Weekly magazine’s Podcast of the Week

And in the Guardian’s Guide newsletter

In the Radio Times

In i Weekend

Plus Anna Bonet speaks to Elis James and John Robins about their show… Elis James and John Robins (BBC Sounds)

Heat’s Top of the Pods

Woman Magazine’s Listen Up section

Scott Bryan in Great British Podcasts

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