Myth-busting, trivia and fact-checking podcasts are a genre all of their own: from the QI Elves’ No Such Thing as a Fish to Malcolm Gladwell’s Revisionist History to Radio 4’s More or Less. One such show is You’re Wrong About, which started in 2018 and has since released more than 100 episodes, building up a devoted audience. Each week the American journalists Michael Hobbes and Sarah Marshall choose a person or event – anything from the Millennium bug to Yoko Ono to the Jonestown Massacre – and rifle through history books, contemporary media reports and pop culture depictions to unpick our assumptions and misunderstandings about that story. The two hosts take it in turns to research: in each episode, one takes on the role of expert, the other the average guy on the street who only knows the headlines. They are conversational and digressive, making light-hearted analogies and deadpan jokes throughout.
Though Hobbes and Marshall usually jump from topic to topic, they have done longer multi-episode deep dives (most notably on the OJ Simpson trial). Now, they are embarking on a series about the life of Diana, Princess of Wales – just in time for the fourth season of Netflix’s The Crown (available 15 November), which covers the 1980s and the Charles-Diana marriage.
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