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Platforms
Apple Podcasts: New Shows
Capital Breakfast After The Show Show (Global)
Christiane Amanpour Presents: The Ex Files (Global)
Spotify: New & 🔥
Service95 Book Club with Dua Lipa (Service 95)
The Louis Thereoux Podcast (Spotify Original)
That Lionesses Podcast (England)
Class Clown (Here Comes Trouble)
Amazon Music: Best Podcasts of the Week
Help! I Sexted My Boss (Audio Always)
The Rest Is Entertainment (Goalhanger)
Pocket Casts: Featured
Mythfits (Pionaire Podcasting)
Staying Alive with Jon Garbus & Adam Pally (SmartLess Media)
Reviews
Fiona Sturges in the FT
- Rylan: How To Be In Love (BBC) - “It is one of the curses of celebrity podcasts that small talk is encouraged and mutual flattery is often considered charming. Mercifully, Rylan gets to the point quickly. He is also a careful listener, following up casual asides with a simple ‘Why?’”
James Marriott in the Times
- The Crisis Room (Global) - “News podcasts are hard to launch. You are at the mercy of events. World affairs will not guarantee you can start with a bang. Nevertheless, on the evidence of this first episode, The Crisis Room is going to be a podcast to listen to. I suspect when fresh disasters hit, the politician, the journalist and the intelligence officer will be the team we turn to. Given the state of the modern world I suspect we will not be waiting all that long.” ★★★★☆
Listings
Clair Woodward in the Sunday Times
- Pipeline — Left To Die (Daily Mail)
- Havana Helmet Club (BBC)
- Boss Class (The Economist)
- CheapShow (Ind.)
- Whisky Wars (Towton Audio)
- Deep Cover — The Truth About Sarah (Pushkin Industries)
The Guardian’s Best Podcasts of the Week
- Missing in the Amazon (The Guardian) - Pick of the Week
- Future Tense (ABC Listen)
- The Holmwood Foundation (Ind.)
- Stories in Colour (National Gallery)
- The Crisis Room (Global)
- Rylan: How To Be In Love (BBC)
In the Radio Times
- Stories in Colour (National Gallery) - Pick of the Week
- Future Tense (ABC Listen)
- The Offcuts Drawer (Speakable)
- How It All Played Out (Global)
- Blood Vines (Wondery)
- Absolute Units (Museum of English Rural Life)
- Big Pitch with Jimmy Carr (Netflix / BBC Studios)
- Everything’s Psychology (Ind.)
In i Weekend
- Bedside Manners (Pixiu Podcasts) ★★★★★
- Pipeline — Left To Die (Daily Mail) ★★★★★
- That’s Just Wild (Fresh Air) ★★★★★
- The Polari Prize Podcast (Ind.) ★★★★☆
Heat’s Top of the Pods
Woman Magazine’s Listen Up section
In Best Magazine
