Picks of the week
Serial
Broadly accessible, episodes weekly
The OG of podcasting returns for a wonderful fourth season, with Sarah Koenig and Dana Chivvis’s historical past of Guantánamo. It’s a narrative they’ve been wanting to inform for years, however till now haven’t been in a position to get too far past the official line. At the moment, employees and detainees are prepared to speak: whereas the previous report partying their “asses off”, the latter – who every value $13m a yr to accommodate – talk about their fears. Hannah Verdier
To Die For
Broadly accessible, all episodes out now
The point out of seduction and “sexpionage” sounds just like the stuff of male fantasy, however Neil Strauss offers one Russian lady the possibility to inform her story of surveillance and love traps. First, he should work out if she is real, as she claims she was “a sufferer, brainwashed that I used to be a hero”. HV
Historical past’s Secret Heroes
Broadly accessible, episodes weekly
It doesn’t get a lot lovelier than listening to Helena Bonham Carter (pictured beneath) inform the story of Ida and Louise Cook dinner. In an archive interview with Sue MacGregor, Mills & Boon novelist Ida talks about romance, earlier than Bonham Carter explores the lives of the 2 sisters who specialised in socialising with opera stars and serving to Jewish folks escape Nazi Germany. HV
Jockular
Broadly accessible, episodes weekly
Listening to Katie Kershaw, Tien Tran and ER Fightmaster speak about “all issues queer, trans and woman-forward on the earth of sport” is a exercise to your gossip muscle. The trio of buddies are humorous and outrageous as they speak about dangerous coaches, being referred to as dykes by a rival crew and the sporting moments that made them homosexual. HV
Homicide within the Hollywood Hills
Broadly accessible, episodes weekly
Kristi Johnson was 21 years outdated when a person spun her an irresistible pickup line in an LA mall: he stated he was a film producer on the lookout for the following Bond lady. He drove her in his sports activities automobile to a supposed photoshoot, and he or she was by no means seen alive once more. This collection hosted by NBC’s Keith Morrison tells the story of the ladies who banded collectively to search out and lock up the smooth-talking predator. Hollie Richardson
There’s a podcast for that
This week, Ammar Kalia chooses 5 of the very best podcasts on hip-hop, from a Roots founder’s interview with rap stars to Romesh Ranganathan’s ode to the style
Questlove Supreme
Founding father of hip-hop group The Roots and Oscar-winning director Questlove has develop into one thing of an authority on rap. Whereas his Instagram profile incorporates a treasure-trove of tributes to lesser-known and sometimes just lately deceased artists, his podcast collection interviews residing greats about their profession highs and lows. Steering away from the aimless chit-chat of different hip-hop celeb podcasts, Questlove Supreme will get educational with out dropping an enthusiastic aptitude that all the time brings selection anecdotes out of its friends. Highlights embrace a deep dive into LL Cool J’s superstardom, author Dan Charnas on the genius of producer J Dilla, and DJ Marley Marl on 80s hip-hop.
Louder Than a Riot
Alongside its fame for extra and controversy, hip-hop has existed for the previous 50 years as an important technique of social and political expression. Louder Than a Riot explores intimately how this energetic artistry from a few of America’s most uncared for communities has been policed, coincided with the rise of mass incarceration and even expressed prejudices inside its personal ranks. Hosts Rodney Carmichael and Sidney Madden combine partaking reporting with interviews to discover how rappers have typically fallen foul of the prison justice system earlier than analysing the misogyny and homophobia inside hip-hop.
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The Weblog Period
Brothers Jeff and Eric Rosenthal host this fascinating collection that analyses a distinct segment however crucially essential few years in hip-hop historical past. After the start of the web and earlier than the streaming age took off, blogs may make or break rap artists and a few argue that their fevered write-ups even started to affect the kind of music being made itself. On The Weblog Period, the brothers Rosenthal unpick music made between 2007 and 2012 (after which SoundCloud turned the dominant pressure), that includes the rise of everybody from J Cole to Child Cudi, in addition to profiling the destiny of the editors who ran the websites.
Dissect
Stepping away from wholesale histories of the style, this long-running collection from host Cole Cuchna properties in on hip-hop one album at a time. With every collection unpicking the lyrical, musical and contextual data of a special file, Cuchna employs his coaching in composition to discover the specifics of how artists like Kendrick Lamar and Kanye West circulation over their beats, in addition to explaining their lyrical intent. Having already lined the whole lot from Lamar’s To Pimp a Butterfly to West’s My Stunning Darkish Twisted Fantasy and Tyler the Creator’s Igor, Dissect is an exhaustive however important hear for present followers, in addition to a great entry level for informal listeners.
Hip-Hop Saved My Life
Hip-hop may need began out as a distinctly American style however 50 years on from its start, it has a legacy that spans the globe. Taking a joke-filled however equally encyclopaedic method to hip-hop fandom, this collection from comedian Romesh Ranganathan explores his love of the style whereas interviewing fellow British celebs and artists. Episodes to start out with embrace grime star Kano speaking about his distinctly British twist on the style, Mercury prize winner Little Simz on her rise as a lady in hip-hop, and the late Jamal Edwards on his founding of the pioneering grime platform SBTV.
Why not strive …
Chameleon: Gallery of Lies is a six-episode romp right into a world of deceit, fraud, and the potential for redemption.
Inbetweeners actor James Buckley and spouse Clair talk about the nitty gritty particulars of marriage and relationship non-negotiables In Illness and in Well being.
Skilled wrestler Ashley Massaro died by suicide in 2019. Ashley vs WWE, follows occasions main as much as her demise and examines allegations of abuse whereas she was with the corporate.
