What's the best podcast you've listened to?

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I'll start: Natalie Haynes Stands Up For The Classics. Hilariously funny and I've learned so much, she's brilliant.

Anyone been so impressed with a podcast they'd like to recommend it?

Have you listened to My Therapist Ghosted Me? Vogue Williams and Joanne McNally, can be very random at times but the two of them chatting shit is very funny!

I like chatty podcasts although I’m trying to listen to the more educational ones.

My fave is the Wittering Whitehalls

Parenting Hell - the guest last Friday was hilarious (chef Gino something)

Uncanny
Bang to rights
Shattered lives
Ireland crimes and mysteries
The missing
Things are about to get weird
Real
Paranormality uk
The kings and queens

Serial, the first one about the Adnan Syed case.

Life changing on BBC Sounds

My dad wrote a Porno was brilliant and as I listened in work (factory at the time) it was a bit awkward when people kept asking what I was listening too lol

I recently listened to one called who killed Emma on bbc sounds. Very sad and thought provoking podcast

real survivor stories

Dead man running

The cross bow killer

oh and uncanny

theres so many more

Kill List was good wasn't it!!

Electoral Dysfunction
Political Currency
The Rest is Politics US
The Rest is History
Politics at Jack and Sams

Also a fan of Melvyn Bragg's In Our Time podcast series.

Crash course pods: the universe - absolutely fascinating, the story of the big bang basically. Told through conversation between a novelist who knows very little about science and an astrophysicist. There are some truly amazing moments and the storytelling is wonderful.

For general interesting mixed topics I enjoy Stuff you should know and You're Wrong About.

Lateral, for a quiz/comedy mix (more puzzle than comedy but it's both).

If Books Could Kill is a great one if you enjoy snarky type humour.

Favourite parenting one is either Motherkind or Raising Good Humans. Just consistently brilliant, both of them. Not preachy or annoying.

And for pregnancy/birth/newborn stuff I adore The Midwives Cauldron, to the point I still listen despite having finished breastfeeding and not planning any more babies.

As well as several mentioned here (Natalie Haynes is my all-time favourite) I also like Sideways (Matthew Said, BBC) and Revisionist History (Malcolm Gladwell), both about different ways of looking at things, and also Shedunnit (Caroline Crampton), about Golden Age detective fiction.

Uncanny and my favourite murder

I love true crime , I thought west cork very
good

Will check out your recommendation. The Mariah episodes are classic, was never a big fan but HCS filled me with admiration for what she'd overcome. And the Eminem thing, had no idea!

It's new! And they are doing 2 a week. You can access them here podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/frank-off-the-radio-the-frank-skinner-podcast/id308800732

My absolute favourite used to be the high low but now that's long gone shameless has replaced that for me.

I listen to podcasts every day on Spotify and on BBC Sounds. My favourite was the very first one I listened to back in 2017 - Dirty John, and I also loved the epic drama, Home Front.
Currently I enjoy Americast, The Trial of Lucy Letby, Good Bad Billionaire, scamfluencers, and Diss and Tell.

Non-Fiction:
The News Agents
Origin Story
Tortoise Slow News
The Coming Storm
Killer in the Kremlin

Fiction:
Undertow (from Realm)
Station 151
The White Vault
Tower 4
Lovecraft Investigations

Great thread

Here are some I like...

The rest is politics
How to Fail
Adam Buxton
The organic Growers podcast

Oh yes this too

My podcast listening is pretty low brow and this has only been reinforced by my excitement at hearing there’s a sweet valley podcast! I’ve just downloaded some for my journey to the office tomorrow 😂 when I wfh I usually have one playing, same for going out for a walk on my own.

I can't have podcasts when I'm working or I just start listening to them and work grinds to a halt . Same with music - it has to be something instrumental that I can't sing along to.

My therapist ghosted me. I just love them

'The poisoner's cabinet' is great - poison and cocktails!

STUFF PODCASTS
The lakes
The commune
Collapse

TELEGRAPH
bed of lies
Tell bethel

BBC
The shamima begum story
The boy in the woods
Believe in magic
Girl taken
Where is George gibney
Fairy meadow
Bloodlines
Vishal
Undercover spycops

The grenfell tower inquiry podcast (about 200 episodes - top class podcast , best ever journalistic reporting I’ve ever heard )

The gift
Bodies in the garden
The cows are mad
A thief at the British museum
A very British cult
Death in ice valley
The kidnapping of Stephanie slater
The banksy story
The missing Madonna
The great post office scandal
Hometown a killing
Troy deeny my story

SERIEL
The Trojan horse affair
S-town
The retrievels