Platforms
Apple Podcasts: New Shows
Crime Next Door: The Vanishing Cyclist (BBC)
Two Nottingham Lads (The History Podcast)
Intrigue: Ransom Man (BBC Radio 4)
The Bomb (BBC News World Service)
The History Bureau (BBC Sounds)
Spotify: New & 🔥
Museum of Pop Culture with Josh Widdicombe (Keep it Light Media)
The History Bureau (BBC Sounds)
The Brian Badonde Bodcast (Ind.)
Amazon Music: Best Podcasts of the Week
Hanging Out With Ant & Dec (Belta Box, Listen)
The Missing Cryptoqueen (BBC Sounds)
Leave a Message with Aly & G (Audio Always)
Museum of Pop Culture with Josh Widdicombe (Keep it Light Media)
Pocket Casts: Featured
Strange Health (The Conversation)
The Secret World of Roald Dahl (iHeart Podcasts)
The Hand in the Window (ABC News)
Reviews
Miranda Sawyer in the Observer
- The History Bureau: Putin and the Apartment Bombs (BBC Sounds) - “Investigative journalists often talk about pulling on a thread to uncover the truth; this series tugs at a huge web that stretches from 1999 to today. An excellent series, well worth your time.”
- In Our Time (BBC Radio 4) - “ Assumes intelligence in the listener – a good thing – though this assumption also led to rather a few too many “of courses” from Glenny when referring to other writers and philosophers.”
Patricia Nicol in the Sunday Times
- Empire: World History (Goalhanger) - “I wholeheartedly recommend the early episodes on Cyrus, Darius and the Greek pushback.”
- The Rest Is History: Revolution in Iran (Goalhanger) - “An enthralling listen, this succeeds both as a basic briefing on Iran and rip-roaring historical storytelling. Although occasionally smirk-inducing”
- The Rest Is Classified (Goalhanger) - “Launched with a tale of western interference in Iran…two insightful episodes analysing the contemporary situation.”
James Marriott in the Times
- Autocracy in America (The Atlantic) - “It’s much to Applebaum’s credit that she doesn’t just waffle into the microphone like other journalists turned podcasters. Every episode features conversations with witnesses and expert guests.”
★★★★☆
Listings
Gerard O’Donovan in the Daily Telegraph
- Lady Killers with Lucy Worsley (BBC Radio 4)
- The Savoy Originals (The Savoy)
- The Artificial Human (BBC Radio 4)
Clair Woodward in the Sunday Times
- Unmissable: Explosive Lies (Global)
- The Conversation (BBC World Service)
- Sweet or Salted? (Ffilm Cymru Wales)
- Lady Killers with Lucy Worsley (BBC Radio 4)
- People Fixing the World (BBC World Service)
- The Savoy Originals (The Savoy)
- The Business (The Times)
- Adventure Diaries (Ind.)
- The Documentary (BBC World Service)
- The History Bureau (BBC Sounds)
- Boss Class (The Economist)
The Guardian’s Best Podcasts of the Week
- Do I Detect a Problem? (Sync Clap) - Pick of the Week
- Eras: Phil Collins (BBC Sounds)
- The Missing Cryptoqueen (BBC Sounds)
- The History Bureau (BBC Sounds)
- The Harry Hill Show (Off The Kerb Productions)
The Guardian Weekly magazine’s Podcast of the Week
In the Saturday Guardian magazine
And in the Guardian’s Guide newsletter
Yolanthe Fawehinmi in The Independent
- Codename Badger (Always True Crime)
- A Moment with Murphy (Murphy’s Sketches)
- The Harry Hill Show (Off The Kerb Productions)
- On Tour with Sport 24 (IMG Audio)
- The Mr MoneyJar Show (Ind.)
In the Radio Times
- Five Brilliant Things (Avalon) - Pick of the Week
- War Hall: A Theatre of the Mind (Ind.)
- Listen with Other (Ind.)
- Other Lives Are Available (Ind.)
- Screw This… Let’s Try Something Else (ANTIDOTE, Immediate)
- Tond (Cheese & Pickle)
- Atonement: the John Paulk Story (iHeart Podcasts)
- Which Side of History? (Ind.)
- Super Sorry (Ind.)
In i Weekend
- The Harry Hill Show (Off The Kerb Productions) ★★★★⯨
- The History Bureau (BBC Sounds) ★★★★⯨
- The Walkers: The Real Salt Path (The Observer) ★★★★⯨
- A Moment with Murphy (Murphy’s Sketches) ★★★★★
Plus Anna Bonet speaks to Gorka Márquez about his new podcast Lost in Translation.
Heat’s Top of the Pods
Woman Magazine’s Listen Up section
Scott Bryan in Great British Podcasts
