Picks of the week
Dial F for Soccer
Extensively obtainable, weekly from Wednesday
Listeners of Complete Sport FM are used to hosts being white and blokey, so what occurs when administration herald a younger YouTuber? Lolly Adefope (beneath) performs Lisa, the brand new recruit who’s battling for airtime when she’s paired with Des (Fergus Craig). The fast-talking, banteresque satire of sport radio is spot-on and each character is somewhat bit clueless and terrible. Because the producer says: “Hate equals clicks, equals views, equals advert cash.” Hannah Verdier
Miss Me?
BBC Sounds, episodes twice weekly
Lifelong mates Lily Allen and Miquita Oliver have loads of chemistry and materials for a twice-weekly catchup. Humorous tales, 90s recollections involving A-listers, debates on sizzling subjects and musings on the Princess of Wales’ whereabouts are all right here, together with an insider’s perspective of how the movie star world works. HV
Wiser Than Me
Extensively obtainable, episodes weekly
Julia Louis-Dreyfus’s superlative podcast the place she talks to older (and wiser) girls returns for a second season. Billie Jean King, Patti Smith and Sally Subject are among the many sensational topics providing pure inspiration this time. Louis-Dreyfus says it has “unbrainwashed” her ideas on ageing and made it one thing to sit up for. You may see why. HV
Unreliable Witness
Extensively obtainable, episodes weekly
Who’s Ellie Williams? The 22-year-old was jailed in 2022 for making false rape allegations, however this nuanced podcast proves that there’s quite a bit the general public don’t know. Sky Information residence editor Jason Farrell and producer Liz Lane speak to her household and mates, who paint her as an clever, outgoing lady who displayed indicators of abuse. HV
Strike
BBC Sounds, episodes weekly
There’s no scarcity of reflections in regards to the miners’ strike on its fortieth anniversary, but it surely’s the non-public recollections that basically stir emotion. Merthyr Tydfil-born film-maker Jonny Owen, who was 13 on the time, describes the divide between miners who went on strike and people who didn’t – and the way it break up friendships and communities. HV
There’s a podcast for that
This week, Rachel Aroesti chooses 5 of one of the best paranormal podcasts, from a information to American spiritualism to a BBC investigation into the reality a few Nineteen Fifties London poltergeist.
Ghost Story
What begins out as a imprecise anecdote a few probably haunted attic room in south-west London unfurls right into a mesmerising, profound and slightly stunning meditation on reminiscence and the previous on this actually very good podcast from journalist Tristan Redman. The set off for the collection is a loopy coincidence: as a toddler, Redman skilled odd occurrences in his bed room – years later, he found that his spouse’s great-grandmother was killed subsequent door. What follows is a riveting investigation into a really unusual homicide case and a spine-tingling investigation into the possible ghost. May Redman have lived his complete grownup life below the affect of supernatural forces? His conclusion was by no means going to be definitive – however it’s revelatory and transferring as well.
The Battersea Poltergeist
As host of the superb BBC audio collection turned TV present Uncanny, Danny Robins is the king of paranormal podcasting within the UK – but it surely was really his 2021 collection, The Battersea Poltergeist, that first obtained the ball rolling on the comedy author’s late stage profession swap. In an extremely thorough examination of the ghostly goings-on in Wycliffe Street within the Nineteen Fifties, Robins leaves no stone unturned to offer a rational clarification for the noises and flying objects that plagued the Hitchings household and preoccupied the press through the decade and past. However strive as he may, our host is unable to utterly dismiss the concept one thing scientifically inexplicable occurred there – and, by the tip of the collection, you can be too.
Ghost Church
Podcaster and comic Jamie Loftus (greatest often called co-host of the long-running The Bechdel Forged) is our trusty and infrequently hilarious information to American spiritualism – a Christianity-adjacent faith outlined by its perception that the lifeless don’t really die – on this fascinating, humorous and heartfelt collection. As a way to dig into spiritualism’s shaky foundations, in addition to its much less ludicrous fashionable features, Loftus pitches up within the tiny, uber-insular Florida group of Cassadaga, hoping to interview the mediums which have devoted their lives to communing with spirits. She arrives with an open thoughts – however quickly discovers it will take supernatural ranges of seriousness to not chuckle in any respect the mind-bogglingly weird particulars.
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Having made his title with a collection of chilly case investigations, podcaster Payne Lindsey subsequently switched his consideration to the type of hair-raising tales that don’t fairly qualify as true crime, however nonetheless revolve round one thing extremely sinister. After scouring boards for suitably chilling tales – from the story of a girlfriend doppelganger to the evil babysitter that apparently by no means existed – Lindsey tracked down the posters and recorded all of the horrifying particulars of their experiences. The paranormal is just a risk in these accounts, however for as soon as it’s typically the preferable possibility – human wickedness being a much more scary prospect. Oh, and if all of it will get a bit an excessive amount of, Rainn Wilson (AKA Dwight from The Workplace US) is available to interrupt the stress, MCing the entire shebang within the guise of video retailer proprietor Terry Carnation.
Ghosts within the Burbs
Wellesley, Massachusetts is an actual place – but it surely’s not fairly the poltergeist-packed group this podcast would have you ever consider. Ghosts within the Burbs doesn’t initially look like a piece of fiction; our host is a seemingly actual particular person referred to as Liz Sower, a member of the group who has determined to start out collating native ghost tales from her neighbours right into a (real) weblog. But it quickly turns into clear that Sower is definitely narrating a classy cleaning soap opera a few city suffering from paranormal exercise. The tone is each cosy – Sower and her acquaintances give off yummy mummy vibes – and deeply unsettling: after some time, our host good points the flexibility to see ghosts, spirits and demons; not precisely the form of skillset that helps you sleep at night time.
Why not strive …
After Broad and Market examines the 2003 homicide of 15-year-old scholar Sakia Gunn, who was younger, black and queer in downtown Newark. Her killing galvanized LGBTQ+ activism in New Jersey.
In The Y Issues, nutritionist Arina Kuzmina and her professional visitors talk about a variety of well being subjects, together with overeating, work-life steadiness and the connection between thoughts and physique.
Serpentine Podcast: Intimacies asks how we will broaden and evolve our reference to ourselves, others, and the world round us.
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