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Plus the new Titanic series continues to sink in 🚢

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Platforms

Apple Podcasts: New & Noteworthy

Working Hard (ind.)

Gold Minds (High Performance)

Wednesdays (JamPot)

Tays and Ginge Off Stream (Upload)

Paula’s Marathon Run Club (Viral Tribe)

Spotify: New & 🔥

Punchin’ (Fellas)

What’s My Age Again (Bauer)

Tays & Ginge Off Stream (Upload)

The Room Where It Happened (High Performance)

Working Hard (ind.)

Amazon Music: Best Podcasts of the Week

RedHanded (Wondery)

The Girlfriends (Novel)

What’s My Age Again? (Bauer)

Limelight: Discretion (BBC Radio 4)

When Banksy Comes to Town (BBC Radio 4)

Pocket Casts: Featured

What We Spend (Audacy)

This Guy Sucked (Multitude)

It’s Storytime with Wil Wheaton (ind.)

Close All Tabs (KQED)

No One Saw It Coming (ABC listen)

Reviews

Miranda Sawyer in the Observer

  • What’s My Age Again? (Bauer) - "Although What’s My Age Again? is trying its best to have a fun time, there are bits that creak, slow things down and are what the youngsters call “cringe”. Like getting older, really.
  • Vine: Six Seconds that Changed the World (Global) - “You might need a break from his breathlessness, but this is a fascinating story: how did such a brilliantly popular invention never make any money and close before its third birthday?”

Fiona Sturges in the FT

  • Windows (Transmission Roundhouse) - “Their idea is simple: to go into people’s homes and ask them what they see out of their window. It’s a question that invariably leads to reflections on community, domesticity and the cheek-by-jowl nature of city living… The series is also full of the sounds of an urban home: a boiling kettle, a teapot being filled, plus birdsong, aircraft passing overhead and voices drifting in from outside.”

James Marriott in the Times

  • Titanic: Ship of Dreams (Noiser) - “We hear from the great-granddaughter of the assistant deck engineer Tommy Miller. Before the ship steamed off to meet its destiny, Miller gave each of his two children a 1912 penny with the instruction not to spend them until the family were reunited. Miller drowned and the coins were never spent. They have been handed down in the family.”

★★★☆☆

Anna Leszkiewicz in the New Statesman

  • Titanic: Ship of Dreams (Noiser) - “One talking head suggests there is only one story that is more popular ‘in the history of mankind, and that is the story of how Jesus was crucified.’”

Lucy White in the Irish Independent

  • Bandsplain (The Ringer) - “This part one episode is a real investment at three-and-a-half hours, but it’s fizzy and funny.”
  • Instrumental: Black British Trailblazers (BBC) - “‘Black music’ is commonly associated with the blues, R&B and hip-hop but Mia Thornton reminds us of the bigger picture via the acts and activists who challenged the status quo, such as classical composers ­Samuel ­Coleridge-Taylor and Chevalier de Saint-Georges.”
  • Sad Song Queens (ind.) - “It’s co-hosted by two award-winning music supervisors, Lindsay Wolfington and Laura Webb, who geek out with fellow musos about what makes a song sad, and dig deep with singer/­songwriters about why and how their heartstrings were sufficiently plucked.”

Listings

Clair Woodward in the Sunday Times

The Guardian’s Best Podcasts of the Week

The Guardian Weekly magazine’s Podcast of the Week

In the Saturday Guardian magazine

“Stories that end with a bang”

And in the Brain Food column

And in the Guardian’s Guide newsletter

In the Radio Times

In i Weekend

Plus Emily Cope speaks to Russell Kane about his new series of Pack Your Bags (Tui/Chalk and Blade)

Heat’s Top of the Pods

Woman Magazine’s Listen Up section

Scott Bryan in Great British Podcasts

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