Platforms

Apple Podcasts: New Shows

Jacob Reed and Me (Same Name)

Unheard: True Crime in Their Own Words (Ind.)

DOUBT: The case of Lucy Letby hosted by Amanda Knox (iHeartPodcasts)

Spotify: New & 🔥

Iran: The Latest (The Telegraph)

NearlyWeds With Molly & Tom (JamPot)

Oh, Anna! (The Fella Studios)

Amazon Music: Best Podcasts of the Week

This is Why (Sky News)

Could it be Magic? (Folding Pocket)

Bottoms Up! With Alan Carr and Lee Peart (Listen)

Pocket Casts: Featured

Past Lives (Ind.)

Giant Ideas (Giant Ventures)

Wellness Check with Ashly Burch (I’m Happy You’re Here)

Reviews 

Miranda Sawyer in the Observer

• Don’t Say A Word (BBC Radio 5) - “A friendly approach helps those many people who are afraid to discuss such a topic for fear of causing offence. But it also means that nothing in this show goes very deep.”
• Fraudacious (Novel and BBC Studios) - “Yet another true crime series about a scam – we can’t get enough of them! – that, oddly, seems to wrap up in the first episode.”

Patricia Nicol in the Sunday Times

• The Best is Yet to Come (Ind.) - “These interviews offer rewarding listening both for the fascinating figures profiled and their almost century-spanning overview, but also for the frankness with which they admit mistakes, regrets and inevitably creeping infirmities.”

James Marriott in the Times

• Top Comment (BBC Radio 4) - “Most podcasts about internet culture are coated in layers of irony and assume something like PhD knowledge of internet trends. Spring and Shea are unabashed normies about much of what they encounter. They are straightforwardly outraged by trolls.”

★★★★☆

Listings

Gerard O’Donovan in the Daily Telegraph

• Screw This… Let’s Try Something Else (ANTIDOTE and Immediate)
• How Reading Made Us (BBC Radio 4)
• The Food Foundation Podcast (The Food Foundation)
• File on 4 Investigates (BBC Radio 4)
• Matt & Mollie’s Novel Idea (Ind.)
• Inside Counter Terrorism Policing (Counter Terrorism Policing)

James Marriott in the Sunday Times

• How Reading Made Us (BBC Radio 4)
• Top Comment (BBC Radio 4)
• The Life Scientific (BBC Radio 4)
• People Fixing the World (BBC World Service)
• A Family History Of… (Findmypast)
• Real Vikings (Noiser)
• Heated Rivalry — After the Buzzer (Inception Point Ai)
• The Chipping Forecast (Soft Ears Media)

The Guardian’s Best Podcasts of the Week

• Remember Me? With Maisie Adam & Scott Bryan (Mike Drop Studios) - Pick of the Week
• Don’t Say A Word (BBC Radio 5)
• Currently: Sophia Versus AI Slop (BBC Radio 4)
• Real Vikings (Noiser)
• Blood Will Tell (Audible)

The Guardian Weekly magazine’s Podcast of the Week

• Olga, Erika and Me (Ind.)

In the Saturday Guardian magazine

• Logic1000 & Heléna Star Present Therapy (Because Music)

And in the Guardian’s Guide newsletter

• Love Thy Neighbourhood (Time Out)

In the Radio Times

• The Best is Yet to Come (Ind.) - Pick of the Week
• Don’t Say A Word (BBC Radio 5)
• In the Room (The Independent)
• Real Vikings (Noiser)
• A Family History of… Wartime Women (Findmypast)
• Crime Next Door: Anglesey Vampire Killer (BBC Sounds) 
• Table for Four (Good Food)
• Love Bombed (BBC Local Radio) 
• F1: Chequered Flag (BBC Radio 5 Live)

In i Weekend

• NearlyWeds With Molly & Tom (JamPot) ★★★★☆
• Rugby Reunion Weekly (BBC Radio 5 Live) ★★★★⯨
• The Gargle (Team Bugle) ★★★★⯨
• Top Comment (BBC Radio 4) ★★★★☆

Plus Josie Copson speaks to Matt Edmondson about his new podcast Matt & Mollie’s Novel Idea (Ind.).

Heat’s Top of the Pods

• Matt & Mollie’s Novel Idea (Ind.) ★★★★☆
• The Louis Theroux Podcast (Spotify Studios) ★★★★★

Woman Magazine’s Listen Up section

• Josh Widdicombe’s Museum of Pop Culture (Keep it Light Media)
• ADHD Chatter (Ind.)

Lucy White in the Irish Independent

• Ignore That Feeling (Plosive Podcasts)

Scott Bryan in Great British Podcasts

• Catching Up With the Royals (Ind.)
• MF Doom: Long Island to Leeds (Persephonica and BBC Sounds)
• This is Why (Sky News)
• The Best is Yet to Come (Ind.)