It also helps in his pleasant delivery, and I like the personal touch – I’d prefer to listen to someone a bit colourful and with opinion than a machine spewing facts and stats. They include the diamond snatched from an impregnable vault in Antwerp, a rare book taken from a university by a desperate student, and a $150 million job landed without ever stepping inside the bank itself. It's not just a straight radio play either. Seventy-five years on from the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, we’re still living in the new age which the invention of the atom bomb heralded. Vox’s excellent Explained digested news strand was a hit on YouTube and Netflix, and it drops new 20-minute podcast episodes every day. Sorting out a side-hustle and becoming a multi-hyphenate business powerhouse is probably something you made a resolution to crack on with in January, and which given how dicey pretty much everything is right now, you might be looking at again. East Grinstead in West Sussex seems like your average outer-outer London town, but for centuries it’s been a haven for alternative religions: nonconformist Christians, Scientologists, Mormons, Opus Dei and Pagans.
Tupac or DMX for president? But everything isn’t always negative and the vast majority of people are very kind in their reviews. The centenary episode features Buxton's Louis Theroux and former comedy partner Joe Cornish, who've all known each other since school immediately revert to extremely entertaining mid-teen silliness, but after that dig back into the archives for more: Kathy Burke, Bob Mortimer, Greta Gerwig, Sir Michael Palin and Steve Coogan are among many highlights. In the artificial light of the carriage, it almost looked black. ( Log Out / Its recent The Sound of Anger strand, which won gold in the Wellbeing category at this year’s British Podcast Awards, takes an experimental and multi-layered approach to what anger means and why we need it. The third series of Anthems (you can read about the last, themed around Pride month, below) is another collection of manifestos, poems, speeches and stories in sub-10 minute minisodes, this time exploring life in 2020 for Black Britons. There used to be 11 clubs in London alone, but now they're all gone. Berlin-based duo Musa Okwonga and Ryan Hunn talk about football, primarily the Bundesliga, and pretty much everything else besides. People went mad for it. Where are they? So I thought I would share it here today: : I recently came to a realization that I need more true crime podcast under 30 minutes in my life.
The first is about the football tournament at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, where the spectre of fascism loomed large but farce wasn’t far away. It Burns explores the scandal-hit world of competitive chilli-eating and the race to breed the world's hottest chilli, taking in accusations of doping and theft, and asks what drives so many people to warp nature in this way and to hurt themselves in the pursuit of glory. You need a David Attenborough to point the way through the undergrowth and stop you wasting time wandering down dead ends.