The weekly UK True Crime Podcast, hosted by Adam, is the home of UK true crime. The prime-time polymath turns his hand to classical music for children in this exuberantly silly educational series: think Horrible Histories with harpsichords. Stig Abell, TLS editor, lends his blokey enthusiasm to rounding up the week in books and the arts more widely. An oddball trio of BBC Radio 1 DJ Greg James, England fast-bowling titan Jimmy Anderson and indie guitarist Felix White of the Maccabees indulge their love of cricket and all its quirks.
Guests include Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Sebastian Faulks, Olivia Laing and Gina Miller, and the failures recounted range from broken-down relationships to disappointing cricket matches. Have listened to others and drifted away but I never miss Adam’s podcasts. He went the other way, with other plans. It was a normal night out for Craig Keogh with lots of alcohol and drugs. Prolific podcaster Alice Fraser (again!)
Helen Zaltzman’s long-running podcast about language is always enlightening and often very funny.
Secrets of Serial Killers talk to 500 people 30 January with Mike from the Murder Mile Podcast at the amazing Genesis Theatre in Whitechapel and to 250 people at Dingwalls, Camden. Three storytelling stand-up shows from one of Australia’s most intelligent comedians, in binaural 3D sound: close your eyes, and it’s just like being in the comedy club. Adam Jones . This strange, fascinating story relates what happened in 1989 when Patrick Lau, a TV director living in London, was contacted by two Chinese strangers seeking asylum in the light of the Tiananmen Square Massacre. Could A Very Fatal Murder kill off the true-crime podcast. Start with Season 2, Cassette 1: Tate Modern (1971).
But when it clicks – usually when impressionist Paul F Tompkins is doing his Andrew Lloyd Webber or Werner Herzog act – there’s nothing funnier.
The weekly style podcast of American GQ is a quick-witted dissection of trends, ideas and fashion news. The presenter of this podcast, Adam Jones, is immensely likeable. Think Twin Peaks-meets-Under Milk Wood, as rewritten by H P Lovecraft. Chrome, Comedian David Reed skewers the format: in his interviews with fellow comics, the only rule is that every answer must be a lie.
The talk is compelling, the sartorial advice sound – and style, as opposed to fashion, is the watchword. Whoever the guest of the week happens to be, you will feel better-read just for having eavesdropped. Restorative and beautiful. By continuing to browse or closing this banner, you consent to our. Julia Davis and Vicky Pepperdine’s perverted middle-aged agony aunts are easily the filthiest comedy duo since Derek & Clive. This is unashamedly pitched at Waits superfans. Comedy?
But there was just one problem: Elaine's ex kept sending them abuse. Read my account of this event here, ‘Secrets of Serial Killers’ talks, with top-selling author, Geoffrey Wansell to audiences of 200+ in London/Manchester in April/May 2019. From pre-code puritanism to Manson-era excess, LA journalist Karina Longworth combs Hollywood history for scandal, long-forgotten cautionary tales and epic power struggles.