to ask for addictive podcast recommendations?

[GoldfishParade]

Podcasts have been around for ages but the concept never really appealed.

Then last week I thought I'd give one a go as a way of making housework less boring and I'm totally hooked! I'm really looking for some more ideas for really good podcasts to listen to. I've only listened to two so far which I can't recommend enough:

• Serial (season one): A teenager in America goes to jail for killing his ex-girlfriend. That was almost 20 years ago now, and he's still there. A journalist sets out to try and figure out whether he really did it. The journalist is so charismatic and fluid, she's a great storyteller. It was just so engrossing.

• S-town: In the deep south, a eccentric genius gets in touch with a New York radio station, asking them to come down and investigate a murder that happened in the local town - a place the man lovingly refers to as 'Shit Town'. The story absolutely doesn't pan out the way you'd expect it to...

I found these podcasts so compulsive and addictive. It was just really fascinating storytelling and a glimpse into different worlds.

Can anyone suggest some new podcasts I can become obsessed with in a similar vein?

Nobody Panic, so funny and so perfect if you don't quite feel like an adult yet

The Black Tapes, totally addictive, rather spooky and amazing voice actors. It’s the best podcast I’ve ever found and I listen to a lot of them.

Limetown, also a brilliant, creepy mystery and very well acted.

The Magnus Archives is very addictive. Each episode is a different creepy, unexplained happening. By series 2 they start to come together into a bigger picture.

Oh god where to start!

Your Own Backyard is really good.
Accused Season 1
Big Savage
Mated & Karen the WVU Murders
Room 20

Some British ones are

The Storyteller: Murder Most Foul
West Cork
Body of Proof but those last 2 are only on Audible

Going by what you've said you like before, I'm currently listening to Direct Appeal which has a similar vibe to Serial 1. Two American women discussing a murder case.

Nothing is really the same as S Town though!

P.S there is a board on Mumsnet about podcasts - it's alongside Films and TV. But I get most of my recommendations from True Crime Podcasts group on Facebook and sometimes from Reddit.

That should be Mared and Karen not Mated!!!

My favourites are self contained episodes of things - so I love No Such Thing As A Fish and Table Manners with Jessie Ware.

Oh and also Missing and Murdered:Finding Cleo
Someone Knows Something- host David Ridgen is lovely to listen to!

@ThorFull Audible do free podcasts as well. Some really excellent ones.

The great thing about podcasts i.m.o is they are free and if you don't enjoy them you just stop listening no guilt! Prepare to become an addict

Serial did a season in Cleveland court system fascinating and depressing

The dream season 1 all about pyramid schemes.

On the media has a 5 part series called Busted: americas poverty myths.

Dynasties - Canadian prominent families and what a bunch of cunts they are. The slum landlord especially angered ne.

Thunder bay Canadian series about indigenous deaths and corrupt mayor and that in thunder bay.

It could happen here looks into various ways the US could destroy itself. Remarkably prescient...

Happy face season 1 about the daughter of a serial killer

@wafflyversatile I was going to skip that season of Serial but maybe you've convinced me to give it a go!

Ah re reading I feel I should have given a one line description!

Direct Appeal - Melanie McGuire's husband goes missing and is later found shot and dismembered in 3 suitcases in Chesapeake Bay. Melanie is convicted. But maintains her innocence. Two criminology professors investigate.

Room 20 - the sign above his bed says Sixty-Six Garage. For more than 15 years he lay there unconscious and unidentified. Joanne Faryon sets out to find out who he is

Your Own Backyard - the disappearance of Cal Poly student Kristin Smart

Someone Knows Something has 6 seasons so far. All quite different stories of murder and missing people that are unsolved. Canadian documentary film maker David Ridgen sets out to find out what happened.

@tobee Those first two appeal - adding them to the list!

Funny how crime seems to lend itself well to podcasting

Case file and small town dicks are 2 of my fave true crime ones.

Also like and that’s why we drink, and morbid.

Table manners is good. A mother and daughter have a different celeb around for dinner, they cook for them and have a chat

@mummy2oneandtwo

In the Dark, season 2 and the case of Curtis Flowers....it's amazing and shows what investigative journalism can do

Season 1 was very good as well.

Following to save this for later!

Great thread. ‘They walk among us’ is UK true crime and my all time favourite.

@Liadan

Not the OP but I think Adnan is guilty. He definitely got an unfair trial, so for that I don't think justice is served but I do believe there is enough circumstancial evidence to convince me that he murdered Hae Min Li

Which circumstantial evidence? The state's timeline is entirely debunked. Adnan has an alibi for the time of the murder, the cell tower data is inaccurate and the lividity evidence proves she couldn't have been killed and buried at the time the state says.

Literally the only evidence against him is Jay's story - which looks very much like it was coached (Jay was a known drug dealer and would have been easy to manipulate in the hours of unrecorded interrogation he experienced before the recording was switched on). Have a listen to Truth and Justice and Undisclosed podcasts if you listened to Serial.

Hae's boyfriend Don on the other hand had been in contact with her just before she died, faked a timesheet to make it appear he was working at the time of the murder (he wasn't), and told everyone she wanted to move to California so had probably gone there...

I know who seems more suspicious to me.

Has anyone listened to Undisclosed on Adnan Syed? If so Is it worth listening to?

OP I loved S-Town too, know what you mean about missing his voice! 😊

Have you tried other Serial seasons? There's one about courts in Cleveland a PP mentioned, one about Iraq, Nice White Parents?

I think Serial have been bought by the NY Times - hoping this means continued quality!

Also enjoyed Dirty John and Sincerely, X.

Annan is guilty as hell.

West Cork
The Untold
Murder Mile
They walk among us
The Shrink next door
Sword and Scale
Cold
Lost in Larimah
Mens Rea

Adnan!

@GoldfishParade

Others have mentioned this but you'd love West Cork - it's on Audible & you need to subscribe but you could cancel after listening, if you wanted.

2 investigative journalists look at the unsolved murder of Sophie Tuscan de Plantier in Schull, West Cork, in 1996. It's so atmospheric & incredibly well-researched - I'm Irish & know the area, and case well, and the 2 non-Irish journalists get the details so right. The real hook in this is that longtime suspect Ian Bailey is extensively interviewed as part of the series, and it's fascinating. I defy you not to binge-listen!

@EarringsandLipstick I used to live in Cork, and think I need to listen to West Cork again! Do you think Ian Bailey was guilty? I think he is guilty as hell, and apparently most of Schull does too.