The Trapped: inside Britain’s social housing scandal
This eight-part series reveals the council homes unfit for human habitation – in horrifying detail.
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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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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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The mass psychogenic illness that started with the cheerleaders
The investigative series Hysterical provides a compelling listen about the mind, the body and girlhood in small-town America.
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Julia Louis-Dreyfus wants older women to be heard in Wiser Than Me
The second season of the podcast has a stellar guest list, including Billie Jean King, Patti Smith and Julie Andrews.
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The strange history of the pill
On the podcast Jam Tomorrow, the story of the contraceptive pill begins with American GIs stationed in England and ends…
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Evgeny Lebedev’s vanity podcast
The media mogul and lord of the realm dabbles with psychoactive substances in the latest episode of Brave New World.
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A strange and intimate Ghost Story
This podcast mixes true crime, family history and the paranormal – to intriguing effect.
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BBC radio’s Gangster is true crime without the tawdriness
The story of the Burger Bar Boys is recent history as seen through the eyes of a Birmingham community living…
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Should Britain pay slavery reparations?
Laura Trevelyan and Clive Lewis represent “two sides of a horrible shared history” in Heirs of Enslavement.
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How the culture wars infiltrated the countryside
Wander out into England’s green and pleasant land and it won’t be long before you come across evidence of the…
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Ghosts in Barratt Home Britain
The phenomena in Uncanny mirror more quotidian troubles: break-ups, bereavement, even a wicked step-parent.
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Heavyweight: a podcast full of humanity
The eighth season of Jonathan Goldstein’s show tells real-life stories that are compelling, empathetic and full of character.
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Ed Balls and George Osborne’s banal centrism
Their podcast Political Currency is a howl of nostalgia for a bygone era: backseat driving from two men whose own…
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The Immortals takes a sceptical look at “longevity research”
This series tracks attempts at immortality from vampire myths to a global industry now worth $25bn. Is it any more…
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The Daily Mail’s Lucy Letby podcast makes for queasy listening
Its pious concern masking voyeuristic excitement, the in-depth trial coverage is typical “true crime entertainment”.
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Sharing Plate gives a taste of refugees’ histories
This podcast shares the foods and experiences of those who have fled conflicts to make their home in the UK.
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The Rest is Football should be sent off
Gary Lineker’s new podcast offers a stale standard of analysis that barely hovers above that offered by the drunkest bar-propper…
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What happens when women’s pain is dismissed
The Retrievals, a new podcast from Serial, tells the disturbing story of widespread patients’ suffering at the hands of a…
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Can we please give ex-politicians something to do other than podcasting?
Politicians can now have fully fledged political careers that still end about 25 years before they’re due to retire. What…
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