THE SCRIPTURES //
PODCASTS WITH BACK CATALOGUES THAT ARE ALL KILLER, NO FILLER SOME PODS YOU DIP IN AND OUT OF, OTHERS YOU LISTEN TO RELIGIOUSLY. HERE’S OUR LATEST SELECTION OF PODCASTS THAT ARE WELL WORTH YOUR SUBSCRIPTION. 60 SONGS THAT EXPLAIN THE 90'S
MUSIC The ongoing 90s nostalgia-thon shows no signs of abating, and there’s no better way to understand the never-ending decade than through the music it gave us. Music critic Rob Harvilla goes under the bonnet of a different mega-hit each time, from ‘You Oughta Know’ to ‘Whoomp! (There It Is)’ via Chumbawumba’s ‘Tubthumping’, to try to understand a different part of the cultural landscape of the time. It’s a touch America-centric but it's still fun, enlightening stuff.
NOT THE TOP 20
FOOTBALL If you’re frustrated by the cursory nods to anything outside of the Premier League on the biggest football podcasts, head toward the back of the terraces with Ali Maxwell and George Elek as they run through everything that’s going on in the rest of the Football League. The 72 clubs get their due focus here, with all the mininarratives and emerging heroes which are often missed in the nonstop churn of the back pages debated and dissected at leisure.
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FICTION A series of original audio horror stories that, while hosted and produced by author and film critic Anna Bogutskaya, are each written by someone different. A well produced and beautifully paced anthology show with superb story telling and sound design. The acting and production of the second episode in particular hits enough realistic touch-points through it's ‘found-footage’ (or ‘foundaudio’?) to make us terrified to listen to voicenotes from now on… 18 //