The Trojan Horse Affair
Onerous to think about any listeners to Brian Reed’s earlier podcast, S-City, predicting that its follow-up would shift focus from a homicide in small-town America to a nationwide British scandal. But this take a look at the supposed 2014 Islamist plot in Birmingham colleges did simply that, leaving no stone unturned in its investigation – to the extent that it ended up dragging an ex-teacher’s dentist to South Africa. Passionate co-host Hamza Syed, in his podcast debut, made the storytelling all of the extra compelling.
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The Superhero Complicated
We knew we’d be in for a wild journey as quickly we met the magnetic topic of this podcast, who dressed up like a comic book guide character, fashioned a group of “real-life superheroes” to battle crime then ended up getting busted for medicine. And from the second we encountered Ben Fodor – AKA costumed crusader Phoenix Jones – that’s precisely what occurred. However he additionally proved a totally unreadable persona. Is he actually working with the FBI? Did he begin stealing gear from his team-mates, as they declare (and he denies)? And is his crime-fighting only a solution to pivot right into a profession as an MMA fighter? With differing accounts coming from all sides, it made for an intriguing internet with extra questions than solutions – and was all the higher for it.
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Wild Issues: Siegfried and Roy
Typically a podcast’s story is so clearly dynamite you possibly can’t consider it hasn’t already been executed. Such was the case with this eight-part exploration of the astonishingly flamboyant lives and careers of Las Vegas magicians Siegfried and Roy. From the arresting opening moments that chronicle a tiger mauling Roy’s neck, to an origin story involving Nazis, cheetah-smuggling and Grace Kelly, it was full of mindboggling element. And identical to the exhibits of the 2 males in query, it was stable gold leisure begin to end.
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28ish Days Later
India Rakusen’s thoughts was “so blown” when she began speaking to specialists concerning the menstrual cycle. The audio producer was type sufficient to share her discoveries through this fact-filled sequence, which covers every little thing from heavy bleeding to hormones, interval monitoring apps to perimenopause. Her bite-size episodes are elevated by various voices, amongst them the primary transgender man to entrance a interval product marketing campaign, and the individuals for whom the “time of the month” is a uncommon incidence certainly.
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Ki & Dee: The Podcast
On this pick-me-up podcast, singer/songwriter associates Chiara Hunter and Diana Vickers (she of X Issue fame) have a hoot chatting with friends equivalent to Drag Race’s Cheryl Gap and pop star Ella Eyre. However the principle motive to plug in are the extraordinarily humorous songs concerning the lives of single millennial ladies – first recorded on social media whereas the pair have been holed up in lockdown and now carried out right here. Matters embrace: the Moroccan oil in Jack Grealish’s hair, the “reside, chortle, love” signal you didn’t anticipate to see in a brand new pal’s hallway, the summer time of no 69s. They’re joined by ditties written particularly for every visitor which might be by no means in need of painfully relatable – and laugh-out-loud humorous.
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Run Bambi Run
This eight-part sequence concerning the homicide conviction of 21-year-old ex-police officer Laurie “Bambi” Bembenek was much less a did she?/didn’t she? procedural, and extra a sympathetic take a look at the lifetime of a lady who turned a nationwide icon after a profitable jailbreak. Host Vanessa Grigoriadis’s give attention to Bembenek’s supposedly supermodel attractiveness initially comes off a bit unusual, till it’s clear that it colored her remedy by the police pressure that will ultimately fireplace her, and influenced the media protection of her trial and almost certainly the decision. In the end, it’s a tragic story of a wasted life which holds up a mirror to the bias of the Eighties and raises critical questions on that period’s Milwaukee cops.
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The Antidote
With an fulfilling don’t-give-a-damn perspective, this podcast tries to seek out the enjoyment in our more and more darkish world. Whether or not it’s the hosts’ decided dedication to swearing, or high-energy visitor interviews on subjects such because the grownup solution to drink tequila, it’s unfailingly humorous. Hardly stunning, on condition that Amy Aniobi and Grace Edwards met as writers on the superb HBO comedy Insecure.
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HeidiWorld: The Heidi Fleiss Story
Author Molly Lambert and a solid of actors deal with hypocrisy and sexual politics in a prescient 10-part sequence about “Hollywood Madam” Heidi Fleiss. It’s a narrative that might be straight out of a blockbuster movie, following the hustling LA brothel proprietor who made lots of of 1000's of dollars per yr organising senators and rock stars with younger intercourse staff, and was later the topic of a scandalous trial to rival OJ Simpson’s.
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Unreal: A Important Historical past of Actuality TV
“The dumbest style in leisure, or the one which tells us probably the most about ourselves?” That’s the query Pandora Sykes and Sirin Kale comprehensively explored on this addictive 10-part sequence about actuality tv. Talking with greater than 60 specialists, commissioners, producers and contestants, the duo fulfil our grasping want for nostalgia by recalling exhibits equivalent to Huge Brother, Pop Idol, The Hills and Made in Chelsea. They then set about scrupulously unpicking the style’s darker aspect. There isn't a judgment or snobbery right here; simply sensible takes on one thing we’ve all engaged in to some extent – whether or not we admit it or not.
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BEING Trans
Lots of of hours of reside conversations, experiences and intimate moments have been recorded for this docu-series following 4 trans individuals who reside in LA. It’s a revealing and eye-opening portrait of the lives it profiles, whether or not wanting on the poor medical recommendation for trans individuals who wish to take testosterone, or the way you navigate a relationship when one associate is transitioning. Stylistically, it has moments that nod to actuality TV (not stunning on condition that it was led by an ex-executive producer of Retaining Up With the Kardashians), nevertheless it’s stuffed with coronary heart, humour and keenness.
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