There’s been a string of new podcasts announced this week.
Following the success of Rylan: How to Be a Man, the in demand broadcaster will be back with a new BBC Sounds series called Rylan: How to Be in Love. In each episode he speaks to experts and celebrities including Philippa Perry, Munroe Bergdorf and Louis Theroux about how to have a long-lasting, fulfilling relationship. New episodes will be out from Wednesday 4th June. The BBC also announced a new series of Marianna in Conspiracyland, where she investigates the UK health conspiracy movement.
Elsewhere Tortoise (the new owner of The Observer newspaper) and Sky News have announced a new series called The Wargame. Deborah Haynes oversees a cast of experts including former defence secretary Ben Wallace responding to a Russian attack on the United Kingdom. From the premise alone, I can’t imagine that such a scenario would work out well for us, but the simulation at the heart of the series is based on real wargames that are “played” within government. The series launches on June 10th.
Also, happy anniversary to Mark Kermode and Simon Mayo who started podcasting their film reviews 20 years ago this week. No longer on 5 Live, Kermode and Mayo’s Take remains one of the most successful subscription based podcasts out there. There’s a great read in The i Paper about how their witterings became a podcast juggernaut and paved the way for many others.
Finally, last week we also featured Page 94: the Private Eye Podcast, who were interviewing the finalists of their coveted Paul Foot investigative journalism prize. Their latest episode spoke to this year’s winners, The Guardian’s Patrick Butler and Josh Halliday, for their work on the carer’s allowance scandal.
