Mind-reading for TikTok teens
The podcast Influenced with Joel M pulls off an impossible trick: an illusionist show in an audio format.
Bypodcasts
From Jeffrey Dahmer to Adnan Syed: can true crime as entertainment ever be ethical?
Real life crime stories have long been treated as entertainment, but with the rise of global phenomenons like Serial and…
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True crime’s legal pay-offs give it a righteous gloss – but it’s still only shallow, manipulative entertainment
The thrill of the genre is that it lends a factual story a dramatic twist. In fact, it is as…
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What Emily Maitlis did next
The News Agents sees former BBC presenters finding their voice – and also their feet – in the world of…
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Iain Dale’s Diary: My week at the Edinburgh Fringe, and a spellbinding chat with Angela Rayner
Still recovering from a bad fall, I hosted live podcast shows at the festival wearing a rather magnificent burgundy suit.
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“We’re losing the war against disinformation”: This American Life’s Ira Glass
The host of the influential radio programme and podcast on the success of his show – and competing with Joe…
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What can be done to challenge Lukasheko’s regime in Belarus?
Emily Tamkin in Washington, DC and Ido Vock in Berlin host the New Statesman's weekly global affairs podcast, World Review
Could Brexit have been stopped?
Could the Brexit referendum have been run differently to avoid a Remain defeat?