How true crime became “victim-centred”
The genre can no longer justify itself in terms of entertainment value alone. Enter the ubiquitous invocation of the victim.
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Sadiq Khan plays the everyman
On the High Performance podcast the mayor of London trades in chirpy platitudes.
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Sarah Koenig: “I’ve never been a missionary for true-crime podcasts”
The Serial creator on ten years of the podcast that changed the medium forever.
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A new history of the Brighton bomb attack
This podcast series about the most brazen attack on British politics since the Gunpowder Plot is not a comfortable listen.
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Life after retirement at the BBC
Also this week: savage cuts at Radio 4, and woman as temptress.
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The Coming Storm returns ahead of the US election
The BBC Radio 4 podcast about conspiracy thinking is back, and things are even weirder.
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Can the country house survive?
Tristram Hunt’s Radio 4 documentary The Grand House: Boom or Blight? charts the English manor’s contested legacy.
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Steven Bartlett’s empire of bluff
The podcaster-entrepreneur is the perfect hero for the LinkedIn age.
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