Best podcasts of the week: New Order’s rise from the ashes of Joy Division
In this week’s newsletter: Transmissions, which plots the story of Joy Division and New Order, returns for a second run. Plus: five of the best sci-fi podcasts
‘Crime doesn’t pay’: drug gangsters turned podcasters send message to Rio’s youth
A group of Brazilian ex-criminals with many grisly stories have made life lessons into a startling listen
‘More emotionally involved’: why podcasters are TV crime-dramas’ hottest new detectives
From Only Murders in the Building to Bodkin, television increasingly uses audio producers instead of maverick coppers. Is it because of falling trust in the police?
August 2024
Miranda Sawyer on podcasts and radio
The week in audio: Radio 2 Remembers Steve Wright; The Grand House: Boom Or Blight? – review
Weekend
Actor Michael Sheen on leaving Los Angeles, presenter Alison Hammond’s rise to fame, and Philippa Perry on empty-nest syndrome – podcast
Best podcasts of the week
Best podcasts of the week: Pacino, De Niro and more celebrate The Godfather at 50
Killer asks to return to UK to help find victim’s body 55 years after murder
The week in audio: The Opinions; Grenfell: Building a Disaster; Scripts; A Year in the Life of the Swinging Sixties – review
Sarah Koenig on 10 years of Serial: ‘People treated it as a puzzle to be solved. I felt bad and responsible’
Best podcasts of the week
Podcasts of the week: Get set for the Paris Paralympics with tales of true grit
‘We’re not trying to rival the Prodigy’: how podcasters took over music festivals
The week in audio: Bad People; Conspiracy, She Wrote; Confessions of a Match Fixer; Rising Phoenix – review
Best podcasts of the week
Cash, cartels and controlling scores in Confessions of a Match Fixer
His socialist podcast became a surprise hit. Now he’s an uncommitted Democratic delegate
Miranda Sawyer on podcasts and radio
The week in audio: Policing Protest; Dream Space; Sing It Pink; Prom 21; Hip-Hop Is History – review
On my radar
On my radar: Ade Adepitan’s cultural highights
There are a lot of bad podcasts by annoying people. But here’s why I still love the format
Rebecca Shaw
Best podcasts of the week
Podcasts of the week: Spooky stories of the possessed from the stars of Paranormal Activity
Miranda Sawyer on podcasts and radio
The week in audio: The Lost Archive of James Baldwin; Extreme: Muscle Men; Paris Olympics – review
Best podcasts of the week
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