The week in audio: Sara & Cariad’s Weirdos Book Club; The Coming Storm; Proms 2024
A winning double act provide revealing literary insights; Gabriel Gatehouse dives back into American conspiracy culture; and Florence + the Machine are top of the Proms
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Best podcasts of the week: How Joni Mitchell changed music – and America
In this week’s newsletter: Radio host Carmel Holt explores the singer’s cross-generational impact in The Road to Joni. Plus: five of the best podcasts about the future
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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
August 2024
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Best podcasts of the week: Pacino, De Niro and more celebrate The Godfather at 50
The movie megastars contribute to Rebecca Keegan’s irresistible show, A Film We Can’t Refuse. Plus: five of the best outdoors podcasts
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Podcasts of the week: Get set for the Paris Paralympics with tales of true grit
Olympic hero Michael Johnson and archer Matt Stutzman interview stars including Kadeena Cox in Rising Phoenix. Plus: five of the best podcasts about classic movies
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Cash, cartels and controlling scores in Confessions of a Match Fixer
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Podcasts of the week: Spooky stories of the possessed from the stars of Paranormal Activity
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The brains behind QI bring you an Olympic-sized quiz show
July 2024
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The Rock ’n Roll birder wants you to take a walk – and look up
‘Nobody can be entirely impartial’: Lewis Goodall on poverty, politics and the BBC
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Best podcasts of the week: Esther Perel’s love letter to romance
California woman pleads guilty to running $8m cosmetics retail theft ring
Book of the day
The History of Ideas by David Runciman review – big thinkers with visions of a better world
How the ex-Obama aides of Pod Save America lost faith in candidate Biden
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Best podcasts of the week: Aminatou Sow and co settle burning pop culture debates
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Best podcasts of the week: Tennis ace Venus Williams serves up a show all about art
June 2024
Euro 2024 podcast wars spill over into traditional BBC v ITV battle
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Relive (and relitigate) celebrity courtroom scandals, with Stacey Dooley and friends
Comfort Eating with Grace Dent
S7, Ep 3: Golda Rosheuvel, actor
‘Please come and see me because I’ll be dead soon’: how Michael Sheen got sucked into a forever chemicals exposé
