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Platforms
Apple Podcasts: New & Noteworthy
Tays and Ginge Off Stream (Upload)
Paulaâs Marathon Run Club (Viral Tribe)
Spotify: New & đĽ
Tays & Ginge Off Stream (Upload)
The Room Where It Happened (High Performance)
Amazon Music: Best Podcasts of the Week
Whatâs My Age Again? (Bauer)
Limelight: Discretion (BBC Radio 4)
When Banksy Comes to Town (BBC Radio 4)
Pocket Casts: Featured
Itâs Storytime with Wil Wheaton (ind.)
No One Saw It Coming (ABC listen)
Reviews
Miranda Sawyer in the Observer
- Whatâs My Age Again? (Bauer) - "Although Whatâs 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 âcringeâ. Like getting older, really.
- Vine: Six Seconds that Changed the World (Global) - âYou 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?â
Fiona Sturges in the FT
- Windows (Transmission Roundhouse) - âTheir idea is simple: to go into peopleâs homes and ask them what they see out of their window. Itâs 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.â
James Marriott in the Times
- Titanic: Ship of Dreams (Noiser) - âWe 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.â
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Anna Leszkiewicz in the New Statesman
- Titanic: Ship of Dreams (Noiser) - âOne talking head suggests there is only one story that is more popular âin the history of mankind, and that is the story of how Jesus was crucified.ââ
Lucy White in the Irish Independent
- Bandsplain (The Ringer) - âThis part one episode is a real investment at three-and-a-half hours, but itâs fizzy and funny.â
- Instrumental: Black British Trailblazers (BBC) - ââBlack musicâ 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 ÂSamuel ÂColeridge-Taylor and Chevalier de Saint-Georges.â
- Sad Song Queens (ind.) - âItâs 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/Âsongwriters about why and how their heartstrings were sufficiently plucked.â
Listings
Clair Woodward in the Sunday Times
- Vine: Six Seconds that Changed the World (Global)
- Dig Up Your Mam (ind.)
- Insiders â The TV Podcast (Expectation/Hat Trick)
- I Formed a Band (ind.)
- The Rest is Football: Daly Brightness (Goalhanger)
- Studio Radicals (dCS Audio)
The Guardianâs Best Podcasts of the Week
- In It Together: The Joint Enterprise Podcast (EarWorm/Centre for Crime and Justice Studies) - Pick of the Week
- The Mangione Trial (BBC)
- Uncovering Roots (ind.)
- Studio Radicals - (dCS Audio)
- Legacy (Wondery)
The Guardian Weekly magazineâs Podcast of the Week
In the Saturday Guardian magazine
âStories that end with a bangâ
- Quiet Part Loud (Monkeypaw/Gimlet)
- Believe in Magic (BBC)
- Hot Money (Pushkin/Financial Times)
- Dancing with Shadows (Stak)
- Finding Quantum Quest (Du Vide)
And in the Brain Food column
And in the Guardianâs Guide newsletter
In the Radio Times
- Embedded: Alternate Realities (NPR) - Pick of the Week
- Crime Next Door: The Golden Toilet Heist (BBC)
- The Savoy Originals (The Savoy/Rethink)
- The Rest Is Football: Daly Brightness (Goalhanger)
- I Formed a Band (ind.)
- The Problematic Gaze (ind.)
- Bone Valley (Lava for Good)
- Titanic: Ship of Dreams (Noiser)
- All Across America (ind.)
In i Weekend
- The Affair (ind.)
- Climbing the Walls (Understood)
- Bone Valley (Lava for Good)
- When Science Finds a Way (Wellcome Trust/Chalk and Blade)
Plus Emily Cope speaks to Russell Kane about his new series of Pack Your Bags (Tui/Chalk and Blade)
Heatâs Top of the Pods
- The Savoy Originals ââââ
- Titanic: Ship of Dreams ââââ
Woman Magazineâs Listen Up section
Scott Bryan in Great British Podcasts