Culture How an Olympic swimming coach accused of child abuse hid in plain sight for 30 years A new podcast series from BBC Sounds looks at how George Gibney abused his power and then disappeared unpunished. By Antonia Quirke
Culture The Michelle Obama Podcast shows the former First Lady’s adroitness as a broadcaster By Antonia Quirke
Bloodsport, a podcast exposing the drug scandals of the 2012 Olympics Spies in labs, bootless medical commissions, meaningless victories. By Antonia Quirke
Radio 4’s “Rethink” season began with an inauspicious start The festival of “essays, programmes and provocations” on the world post-Covid-19 launched two weeks ago with a Zoom discussion… By Antonia Quirke
Slate’s new podcast series about David Duke is perfectly calibrated This is a monologue interspersed with flashes of archive recordings – most fascinating of which are clips of Duke… By Antonia Quirke
More Or Less: BBC Radio 4’s never-ending number-crunching show The myth-busting show with more episodes than Star Wars. By Antonia Quirke
Why BBC Radio 4’s Aids documentary hits home today With countless sharp and memorable remarks on both activism and a public health crisis, ten-part series A Big Disease… By Antonia Quirke
When the lockdown came to Ambridge The Archers is "corona-proof" because it can't get any more boring than it is already. Fans simply cannot lose. … By Antonia Quirke
A new BBC radio documentary offers an original, disturbing look at life on death row “I am in every way an ordinary guy,” says the narrator of the BBC World Service's The Documentary: The Death… By Antonia Quirke