Platforms
Apple Podcasts: New Shows
Spotify: New & 🔥
Amazon Music: Best Podcasts of the Week
Pocket Casts: Featured
- Big Lives (BBC Studios and Pushkin)
- Funny You Ask With Barinholtz (Ind.)
- History’s Greatest Fails (Sony Music Entertainment)
Reviews
Miranda Sawyer in the Observer
- The Epstein Files (NBN) - “Aside from the odd mispronunciation (“en-tiss-ments” instead of “en-tice-ments”), the hosts are realistic, chiming in with each other or offering seemingly personal opinion.”
- The British Monarchy (Inception Point Ai) - Though any panicking GCSE student could use the six-part series The British Monarchy as a quick summary, it would be no use for proper revision.
- Where Should We Begin? (Esther Perel Global Media) - “Perel is impeccable: kind, insightful, but pointed.”
- Crime Next Door: The Beast of Birkenhead (BBC Sounds) - Perhaps modern IT techniques would have helped to solve this awful crime. But Graham is local and human (that word again!). No chatbot could ever replicate the glory of a scouse woman in full sail, with a wrong to right and the bit between her teeth.”
Patricia Nicol in the Sunday Times
- Life Changing (BBC Radio 4) - “Recently I was stopped short by an episode of Life Changing with Dr Sian Williams on Radio 4 in which a woman from Glasgow, Karine Burns, described the emotional turmoil of trying to trace her birth parents.”
- Foundling: Tortoise Investigates (The Observer) - “This is a raw, gripping tale of secrets, longing and lies. But it also stirs questions: about people’s actions in the past and their reactions in the present.”
Listings
Gerard O’Donovan in the Daily Telegraph
- Mind Your Business with Sara & Helen (Ind.)
- Crossing Continents (BBC Radio 4)
- Bridging Divides (The British Red Cross and Bird Lime Media)
- What Could Go Right? (The Progress Network)
- Why Are You More Successful Than Me? (Yes Yes Media)
- Screenshot (BBC Radio 4)
Clair Woodward in the Sunday Times
- The Royalist (The Daily Beast)
- Uncanny Cold Cases (Radio 4)
- Vintage Politics (Ind.)
- Foundling: Tortoise Investigates (The Observer)
- Fraudacious (Novel and BBC Sounds)
- The Fame Formula (Borkowski PR)
The Guardian’s Best Podcasts of the Week
- Why Are You More Successful Than Me? (Yes Yes Media) - Pick of the Week
- Pretty Tough (VOX Media)
- The Big Five (CBC)
- World of Secrets: Searching for Soldier Dad (BBC)
- Ethically Questionable (Ind.)
The Guardian Weekly magazine’s Podcast of the Week
In the Saturday Guardian magazine
And in the Guardian’s Guide newsletter
In the Radio Times
- Sport is History (SpiritLand)
- Family Lore (Audacy) - Pick of the Week
- Why Are You More Successful Than Me? (Yes Yes Media)
- Love and Radio: Blood Memory (Love and Radio and Daylight Media)
- Outward Bound And Me (The Outward Bound Trust)
- Cloud 9 (Kobold Blue Productions)
- History for the Reckoning (Ind.)
- Deeply Unimportant: Sleep Stories for Racing Minds (Ind.)
- Soccer Moms (iHeartPodcasts)
- CrimeLess (iHeartPodcasts and Smartless Media)
In i Weekend
- Dreaming Against the Machine (Multitude) ★★★★★
- Queens, Kings and Dastardly Things (Daily Mail) ★★★★⯨
- Two Per Cent With Michael Easter (iHeartPodcasts) ★★★★⯨
- Sara & Cariad’s Weirdos Book Club (Plosive) ★★★★★
Yolanthe Fawehinmi in the Independent
- Hormones & Heroines (Ind.)
- To Be A Boy (Ind.)
- Between Mothers and Daughters (Ind.)
- Why Do I…? (I.A.M Podcasts)
Heat’s Top of the Pods
- The Rise and Fall of Madchester (BBC Radio 6) ★★★★☆
- Northern News (Plosive)★★★★☆
Woman Magazine’s Listen Up section
Lucy White in the Irish Independent
Scott Bryan in Great British Podcasts






