Podcast Radio Hour

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

Sam Shetabi joins us from Acast to look back on the trends of 2021 in podcast.

Tim Harford and Sandra Kanthal from Radio 4's 'How To Vaccinate The World' reflect on their podcast and it's influence on vaccine reporting in 2021.

Plus James Cator from Spotify looks ahead to what listeners might expect going forward.

Plus we'll hear snippets of

Call Me Mother

Stolen Goodbyes

Human Resources

Frank Film Club with Maisie Williams

Masala Podcast

Chris Pearson, Laura Grimshaw and Greg Cochrane reflect on the podcast year so far.

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

For starters: a selection of food documentaries, including a chat with Simon Tulett, one of the producers on 'The Food Chain' from the BBC World service.

And for main course: food conversations, from panel programmes to interviews. We hear from Suzy Chase, presenter of 'Cookery By The Book'.

Then finishing off for dessert, a quick taster of some food comedy podcasts.

Featured podcasts:

Eat Drink Asia Podcast

Gastropod

The Food Programme

The Slow Melt

Home Cooking

The Kitchen Cabinet

Lecker

Toasted Sister

The Chickpeeps

Hoovering

Off Menu

Lunchwatch with Johnny White Really-Really

Table Manners with Jessie Ware

Out To Lunch with Jay Rayner

Amanda and Chris serve up a selection of food podcasts from around the globe.

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

Discover how a podcast inspired the Peasants' Revolt of 1381, why King Henry VIII launched his interview series, and hear an early advert recorded by Charles Dickens, recently uncovered from the BBC archive.

Written and presented by Amanda Litherland for BBC Radio 4 Extra.

Amanda Litherland presents a history of podcasts, with Pirla Loof and Sef Waken.

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

As Jon himself is adopted, we delve into podcasts from comedians, performers and entertainers to explore whether there is a link between performance and adoption. We speak to Twayna Mayne about her podcast Loco Parentis and her Radio 4 series Black Woman, to Mark Steel about his audiobook Who Do I Think I Am?, and to Lemn Sissay about the importance of adoption and his Radio 4 series Origin Stories.

We also feature expert advice and personal stories the podcasts #YouCanAdopt, Truth Be Told from Adopt Cymru, Adoption, Fostering and Tea from The New Family Social, and BBC Radio 4's The Adoption.

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

This week they chat to Alex's occasional comedy partner Dan Skinner – famous for playing Angelos Epithemiou - about his latest podcast Brian & Roger, Chris Shaw from I am the EggPod, and encounter the spoof supernatural in Clinton Baptiste's Paranormal Podcast.

Angelos Epithemiou creator, Dan Skinner, joins Alex Lowe and Stuart Ross to talk podcasts.

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

Each week, Amanda Litherland and a guest presenter recommend one or two podcasts from the BBC and beyond. From some of the most popular series, to lesser-known hidden gems, they feature their favourite finds and speak with the people who make them.

This week's guest, Anna Sale, host of WNYC's Death Sex and Money, beams in from sunny California for an all-American episode including Death Sex and Money and NPR's Rough Translation.

Death Sex and Money' and 'Rough Translation'.

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

Firstly, some bingeworthy documentary and real life podcasts:

The Town That Didn't Stare (Nick Hilton & Podot)

Rabbit Hole (The New York Times)

Real Dictators (Noiser)

The Reality of Reality TV with Fleur East (Planet Radio)

We hear from Shade podcast creator Lou Mensah about her series of discussions around creativity and anti-racism.

And a selection of other notable new listens:

The Joe Wicks Podcast (BBC Sounds)

When Someone Great Is Gone (Izzy Lee-Poulton and Transmission Roundhouse)

The Harrowing (Storyglass)

Crossbread (ABC)

Amanda Litherland and Scott Bryan recommend new listens and chat to podcaster Lou Mensah.

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

Featuring:

Jessica Fostekew on Wheel of Misfortune

Arthur Smith on My Time Capsule

Rob Deering on Films To Be Buried With

Isy Suttie on Cuddle Club

Lou Conran on Joan & Jericha

Harriet Kemsley on The Year Is...

Paul Garner on I Can't Believe It's Not Buddha

Angela Barnes on Crash Bang Wallop

Athena Kugblenu on The Receipts Podcast

Iain Lee on Clinton Baptiste's All-New Paranormal Podcast

Jon Holmes on The Jordan B Peterson Podcast with guest Jimmy Carr

Laura Lexx on The Complete Guide To Everything

Sarah Campbell on Las Culturistas with Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang

Jake Yapp on The Problem with Jon Stewart

Radio 4 Extra's Comedy Club presenters offer their funny podcast recommendations.

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

They recommend podcasts with diverse, global perspectives: Coming Out Stories, Tell Them I Am and Historically Black.

Coming Out Stories is hosted Emma Goswell and will take you to one the most important moments in many people's lives.

It will perch you on sofas in suburban sitting rooms, stand you in front of officials' desks, put you at the centre of a crowd in a noisy classroom, everywhere where these conversations have happened. A podcast by What Goes On Media.

Tell Them I Am is about the small moments that define who we are and who we are not. The stories are universal. The voices are all Muslim. Host Misha Euceph opens a window into the lives of Tan France, Alia Shawkat, Ramy Youssef, Reza Aslan, Mercedes Iman Diamond and others.

It is a production of Southern California Public Radio.

Objects hold history. They're evocative of stories stamped in time. As part of The Washington Post's coverage of the Smithsonian's new National Museum of African American History and Culture, people submitted dozens of objects that make up their own lived experiences of black history, creating a 'people's museum' of personal objects, family photos and more. The Historically Black podcast brings those objects and their stories to life through interviews, archival sound and music. A podcast from APM Reports, a production of Minnesota Public Radio.

Chrystal Genesis recommends podcasts with diverse, global perspectives.

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

We speak to Eleanor McDowall, the producer behind 'Field Recordings', an international collection of ambient recording from locations around the world.

And Michelle Macklem talks about the podcast 'Constellations', which offers sound artists a platform to experiment in. We hear an extract from Phoebe Wang's piece 'Isn't it lovely?'.

Other podcast recommendations include:

Cities and Memory

Field Trips

The Stubborn Light of Things

Random Tape

Walking

Songbirding

The Radio Birdsong podcast

Recommendations of podcast soundscapes, audio art and found sound.

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

Dirk Maggs joins us to discuss Audible's The Sandman: Act 2, as well as his venerable career in adapting other works for audio.

Plus Realm Productions on Orphan Black: The Next Chapter. Senior producer Marco Palmieri and head of Audience Development Tara Sonin tell us about the pressures of continuing the television show in podcast form.

And we'll hear extracts from

Marvel's Wolverine

Team B: A War Robots Story

Rebel Robin: Surviving Hawkins

Children of the Stones

The Phenomenon

Chris Pearson and Ella Watts with audio fiction spin-offs, adaptations and prequels.

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

The Bright Sessions is a science fiction podcast that follows a group of therapy patients. But these are not your typical patients - each has a unique supernatural ability. The show documents their struggles and discoveries as well as the motivations of their mysterious therapist, Dr. Bright.

The show is written and directed by Lauren Shippen.

Set in the 24th Century in a world where forests have been erased from history, Forest 404 is an immersive sci-fi thriller starring Pearl Mackie, Tanya Moodie and Pippa Haywood – with original music by Bonobo. The series is accompanied by a series of talks and soundscapes which further explore questions and themes of technology, nature and climate change.

The Magnus Archives is a podcast by Rusty Quill. It is an ongoing long-form anthology details the supernatural cases under investigation by the Magnus Institute and its archivists and boasts a dedicated cult following in addition to multiple award nominations. The series has more than 125 episodes in its catalogue and releases a new episode every week.

The show is written and performed by Jonathan Sims (along with guest actors) and directed by Alexander J Newall.

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

Brexitcast's Chris Mason begins, recommending RadioMoments - Conversations, a podcast by David Lloyd which tells the life stories of some influential people in radio. He also recommends Media Masters and 13 Minutes To The Moon.

Amanda chats to Fi Glover and Jane Garvey about Fortunately, before they suggest some of their own favourite downloads: The Archers, Talking Politics, The Times Red Box, For The Many, The High Low, The Teachers Pet and Murder In The Graveyard.

Caitlin Benedict, host of NB: My Non Binary Life recommends Gender Reveal, Someone Knows Something and Uncover.

And Linda Adey from The Next Episode asks - Have You Heard George's Podcast? She also suggests The Receipts, The Sista Collective and Ear Hustle.

Podcast recommendations for the long weekend, as picked by BBC podcast stars.

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

Alison Hindell, BBC Radio 4's Commissioning Editor for Drama joins to discuss the history of the awards, and to share her thoughts on great audio drama.

And we hear Jeffrey Nils Gardner and Eleanor Hyde, producers of Unwell: A Midwest Gothic Mystery - the winning entry in the category of Best Podcast or Online Audio Drama.

Podcasts recommended this week:

Children Of The Stones (BBC Radio 4)

Fake Heiress (BBC Radio 4)

The Sink (BBC Sounds)

Tribulation (Audible)

Murmurs (BBC Sounds)

Unwell: A Midwest Gothic Mystery (HartLife NFP)

Seancecast (Hat Trick)

Passenger List (Radiotopia)

Recommended radio dramas - The Voyage Of The St Louis, Magnitsky The Musical, Eight Point Nine Nine, The Grey Man and Other Lost Legends, The Kubrick Test, Cigarettes and Chocolate, Under Milk Wood, The Diary of Samuel Pepys, The Cazalets

Find out more about the BBC Audio Drama Awards here:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/48H1z30d4WLLz345v4BddQ1/audio-drama-awards-2021-the-finalists

Highlights of the shortlisted podcasts at this year's BBC Audio Drama Awards.

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

Talia Randall discusses the urban nature series 'Blossom Trees and Burnt-Out Cars

Hamza Salmi talks about the series profiling someone described as 'the Forrest Gump of black power in the UK' - 'Who Was Michael X?

Adam Zmith takes us back to the early 20th century for a reality that didn't quite happen 'The Film We Can't See

Hanna Adan curates a sonic museum tour- 'The Museum of Bad Vibes

Tomi Dixon discusses the series charting the life stories of influential Britons of colour, 'Colouring In Britain'.

And Jade Scott presses play on an audio mixtape contemplating the messier aspects of human experience, 'The Reset

Plus the BBC Sounds Audio Lab Commissioning Executive Khaliq Meer reflects on the programme as a whole, and discusses what's next for Audio Lab.

~Podcast Radio Hour meets the 2022 Class of BBC Sounds Audio Lab

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

Each week, Amanda Litherland and a guest presenter recommend one or two podcasts from the BBC and beyond. From some of the most popular series, to lesser-known hidden gems, they will feature their favourite finds and speak with the people who make them.

Amanda and this week's guest, journalist Ben Hunte, listen to some LGBT-themed podcasts including Nancy and Homo Sapiens.

With Homo Sapiens hosts Will Young and Chris Sweeney.

Homo Sapiens', 'Nancy' and a chat with Will Young.

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

Each week, Amanda Litherland and a guest presenter recommend one or two podcasts from the BBC and beyond. From some of the most popular series, to lesser-known hidden gems, they feature their favourite finds and speak with the people who make them.

This week's guest is presenter, Ben Hunte.

Podcasts featured: Stance, and a chat with its presenters Heta Fell and Chrystal Genesis - and activist DeRay McKesson talks about his podcast Pod Save The People.

Stance' and 'Pod Save The People'.

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

We'll hear interviews with:

Evanna Lynch, from The Chickpeeps

Grace Dent, Gabriela Jones and Leah Green from Comfort Eating

Penny Green, presenter of The Knepp Wildland Podcast

Laura Lexx and Will Duggan, hosts of National Treasures

Ken Bruce and his producer Phil McGarvey, talking Popmaster

The Taskmaster Podcast presenter Ed Gamble

Bryony Gordon, from Bryony Gordon's Mad World

Athena Kugblenu presenter of Keeping Athena Company

Madeleine Baran, host of America Public Media's podcast In The Dark

Jesse Lawson and Lynette Norah, from VENT Documentaries.

Laura Grimshaw and Chris Pearson showcase highlights from the Podcast Radio Hour archives.

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

Featuring:

Nicola Coughlan and Camilla Whitehill from Whistle Through The Shamrocks

Pandora Sykes from Pieces of Britney

Repeat Beat Poet from Lunar Poetry Podcast

Danny Robins from The Battersea Poltergeist and Uncanny

Karen Rice from Stolen Goodbyes

Justin Rowlatt - the BBC's Environment Editor and presenter of A Pyrotechnic History of Humanity

Caro Mincks from Seen and Not Heard

Nicky Campbell from One of the Family

Benbrick from Have You Heard George's Podcast?

Tom Price from My Mate Bought A Toaster

And guest presenters Jessica Fostekew, Jon Holmes, Scott Bryan, Shivani Dave, Salena Godden, Isy Suttie, Greg Cochrane and Ella Watts.

Laura Grimshaw and Chris Pearson look back at some of the podcast highlights of 2021.

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

Plus we hear clips from

Mercury: A Broadcast Of Hope

Poem-a-Day

Nipe Story

Probably True

Anthems

My Life in the Mosh of Ghosts

Sliced Bread

Short & Curly

5 Minutes On

The Savvy Psychologist's Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Mental Health

If you have recommendations, do send us an email to PodcastRadioHour@BBC.co.uk

Arielle Free discusses her new Radio 1 documentary, plus we recommend more short podcasts.

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

Featuring whole episodes and extracts from:

Quid Pro Euro (Felix Trench)

Marscorp (Definitely Human)

The Unseen Hour (James Carney)

North West Footwear Database (Tim Foley)

To make you laugh during lockdown, four brilliant comedy drama podcasts.

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

Firstly, the awards co-creator Matt Deegan takes up behind the scenes at the virtual ceremony, which involved 19 outside broadcasts.

Then we hear from the team behind Best New Podcast, The Log Books. Tash Walker, Adam Smith and Shivani Dave discuss how they used the archive logs of Switchboard - the LGBTQ+ helpline, to tell stories from the community in the 70s and 80s.

Helena Merriman, creator of Best Radio Podcast and Moment Of The Year winner Tunnel 29, gives tips on successful storytelling.

And we speak to Podcast of the Year and Best Sex & Relationships podcast - Brown Girls Do It Too.

Presenters Poppy Begum and Rubina Pabani, and producer Rayhan Rahman talk about how their podcast has opened up conversations around sex in the British-Asian community.

Interviews with winners and the co-founder of the 2020 British Podcast Awards.

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

The British Podcast Awards ceremony takes place on Saturday 23rd July at Kennington Park in London. There are 30 awards being presented including Best New, Best Comedy, Best Current Affairs, Best Fiction, the Climate Award, and the Rising Star Award. Plus one of the winners will be crowned Podcast of the Year 2022. For Podcast Radio Hour, we will chat to the winners, hosts and judges at the ceremony to bring the awards to you.

Laura Grimshaw and Jon Holmes present highlights from the British Podcast Awards.

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

She is joined by chair of judges, The Observer's radio critic Miranda Sawyer, alongside award co-founders Matt Hill and Matt Deegan.

George The Poet was the stand out winner of the night, taking home five gold awards including Podcast Of The Year for his show 'Have You Heard George's Podcast'. Amanda speaks to George and his podcast partner Benbrick at their studio in North London.

Amanda Litherland discusses the winners of this year's British Podcast Awards.

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

Matt Hill and Matt Deegan, the awards organisers and co-founders, discuss putting the awards together. We'll hear about the long process to whittle down over 1500 entries to the eventual winners, and they tell us what it meant to bring together some of Britain's top podcasters after last year's virtual event.

VENT Documentaries took home three awards- Smartest Podcast, Best Documentary and the prestigious Podcast of the Year. Senior Producer Jesse Lawson tell us how the producers gave young people a platform to explore ideas and topics of their choosing. Plus Lynette Norah, host of the award winning VENT Documentaries episode 'Problem Kids', tells us about her relationship with podcasting.

Chris Pearson and Laura Grimshaw report on the British Podcast Awards.

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

Sarah Wade and her guest: comedian, actress and podcaster Cariad Lloyd listen in to 'Standard Issue' from the UK and 'Heavyweight' from the USA.

Standard Issue' from the UK and 'Heavyweight' from the US.

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

This week, they recommend two independent podcasts and speak to their creators.

The Lonely Palette is an art history podcast by Tamar Avishai. In each episode Tamar focuses on one work of art and looks into the movement, the social context, the anecdotes, and anything and everything else that will make it as exciting to you as it is to her.

Flash Forward is a podcast about the future by Rose Eveleth. Each episode takes on a possible (or not so possible) future scenario — everything from the existence of artificial wombs, to what would happen if space pirates dragged a second moon to Earth.

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

Molly Bloom discusses the debate show Smash Boom Best, and tells us why it's important to introduce children to debating at an early age.

And Rebecca Sheir talks about her global storytelling podcast Circle Round, which introduces children to stories from around the world.

Plus we'll hear clips from

But Why?

Kids Law

Million Bazillion

CBeebies Radio Podcast

The Story Seeds Podcast

Chrystal Genesis and Chris Pearson suggest podcasts for young listeners.

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

We'll also hear mouth-watering chunks of:

You're Dead to Me

The Food Programme

Well Tempered

The Slow Melt

Chocolate on the Road

The BBC Good Food Podcast With Tom Kerridge

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

Also regular guests such as Cariad Lloyd, Olly Mann and Luke Jones will suggest the best podcasts for festive situations –chopping sprouts, long winter drives, surviving the boredom of Crimbo Limbo and more.

Amanda Litherland presents a Christmas special, with seasonal episode recommendations.

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

Featuring:

Arthur Smith on Fake Heiress

Athena Kugblenu on Have You Heard George's Podcast?

Jon Holmes on Wild Things: Siegfried & Roy

Isy Suttie on Chameleon: Wild Boys

Angela Barnes on Easy German

Harriet Kemsley on Whenever It Kicks with Jesse Ware

Rob Deering on Griefcast with Cariad Lloyd

Jake Yapp on Where Should We Begin? with Ester Perel

Jessica Fostekew on Maintenance Phase

Iain Lee on Nothing is Real

Paul Garner on A-Ha: Ranking Highs and Lows

Lou Conran on Casefile

Sarah Campbell on You Must Remember This: The Manson Family

Laura Lexx on Criminal with Phoebe Judge

Radio 4 Extra's Comedy Club presenters offer their podcast recommendations.

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

We'll hear clips from

Trusty Hogs

Wheel of Misfortune

Evil Genius with Russell Kane

Why is Harriet Crying

Desert Island Dicks

Stars In Your Ears

Songs In The Key Of Laugh

The Horne Section Podcast

Daddy Look At Me

A Lovely Time

Cuddle Club

The Sink

Poppy Hilstead Has Entered The Chat

SeanceCast

St Elwick's Neighbourhood Association Newsletter Podcast

SoundHeap

If you have a podcast you want to recommend to us, our email address is podcastradiohour@bbc.co.uk

Chris Pearson and Laura Grimshaw present a gift-wrapped selection of funny comedy podcasts

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

Laura Grimshaw and Jake Yapp discuss three new comedy podcasts.

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

Shaun and Laura are joined by the actor Russell Tovey and the gallarist Robert Diament to discuss their podcast Talk Art - and taking inspiration from pretty things; by the actors Amrita Acharia and Sagar Radia to talk about their podcast Rule Not The Exception about perseverance and giving a platform to underrepresented voices; and by Claire Waite Brown who talks about her podcast Creativity Found about finding - or re-finding - creative outlets later in life.

Laura Grimshaw and Shaun Keaveny present podcasts on creativity - or lack of it.

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

And The Paris Review podcast. The revered quarterly literary journal now has a podcast drawing on a treasure trove of interviews, readings and manuscripts from an archive stretching back 64 years.

If you would like to recommend a podcast , please email your suggestion to: podcastradiohour@bbc.co.uk.

Poet Daljit Nagra and Sarah Wade recommend podcasts.

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

Firstly, Olympic champion Dame Kelly Holmes discusses her new series 'What Do I Do?

Having experienced her own difficulties with depression and self-harm, in this podcast Kelly sets out to discover how other people cope, talking to TV personalities, writers, comedians, journalists and more about their mental health. Including Davina McCall, Eddie Izzard, Alastair Campbell and Munroe Bergdorf.

After that Caitlin Benedict and Amrou Al-Kadhi join Amanda to talk about their BBC series 'NB'.

You might have heard the term non-binary. This is how it feels. Join Caitlin and Amrou as they ask the big questions about gender and identity.

Amanda Litherland chats podcasts with Dame Kelly Holmes, and NB's Caitlin and Amrou.

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

To celebrate Amanda is joined by PRH's first ever guest Deborah Frances-White to recommend more of her favourite podcasts and chat to their creators.

Featuring Best Pick - a podcast where Tom Salinsky, John Dorney, and Jessica Regan watch discuss every Academy Award Best Picture winner in no particular order.

Also How To Fail With Elizabeth Day, a podcast that celebrates the things that haven't gone right. Every week, a new interviewee explores what their failures taught them.

Amanda Litherland and Deborah Frances-White recommend the best podcasts.

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

Firstly, some great new series:

How I Found My Voice (Intelligence Squared)

Fashioned (Audible)

Strippers In The Attic

Life Of The Party With Jodie Harsh

In Strange Woods (Atypical Artists)

Former MP and Deputy Leader of the Labour Party Tom Watson joins us to discuss his new interview show Persons Of Interest. What lead him from politics to podcasting?

And a round up of some favourite Christmas specials:

The Santa Daily (FunKids)

My Dad Wrote A Porno

Table Manners With Jessie Ware - Dolly Parton

Bah Humbug: A Christmas Movie Podcast with Helen O'Hara

Macabre London - Abhorrent Advent Calendar

Amanda Litherland and Scott Bryan recommend new listening for December

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

Award-winning investigative reporter Madeleine Baran talks to us about her show In The Dark, and tell us how to her, the least interesting part of reporting on criminal activity is the crime itself.

Plus, we'll hear how the Victoriocity writers Jen and Chris Sugden were influenced by early detectives when creating their story set in 1887.

We'll also hear about:

The Tuesday Night Mystery Club

Meddling Adults

Up The Creek

Murder, We Spoke

Veronica Mars Investigations

Detective Trapp

Chicano Squad

The Casebook of Max & Ivan

Dead Drunk Detective

The Amelia Project

The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio

Chris Pearson and Caroline Crampton investigate the best detective listening.

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

They chat to the actor Alec Baldwin about his podcast Here's the Thing, conversations with artists, policy makers and performers about what makes them tick.

They also listen to Ear Hustle - stories of life inside prison, shared and produced by those living it.

Dolly Alderton and Amanda Litherland share their favourite podcasts.

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

Amanda Litherland and Ella Watts explore Actual Play podcasts - where people play board games (often DnD) in real time. Episodes are often multiple hours in length, with some shows reaching 100+ episodes per season. This format has seen huge success, with the most popular series boasting millions of fans all over the world, selling out huge arena live shows, and even inspiring graphic novels and animated adaptations.

~Podcast Radio Hour speaks to stars from two of the most popular series - Critical Role's Marisha Ray, and The Adventure Zone's Travis McElroy. What are the challenges of delivering such a complex, improvised show, week after week?

And just what is it about these super long form podcasts that makes them so appealing to fans? Ella is a self-proclaimed 'Critter', as is Radio 4 & 4Extra Assistant Producer Chris Pearson, who joins to discuss his experience in the Critical Role fan community, and to answer Amanda's most important question - where do you find the time?!

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

We speak to the environmental activist Danny Kennedy about his new podcast series that he co-hosts with the Academy Award-winning actor Cate Blanchett – Climate of Change. And we'll be joined by Amy Westervelt from the Critical Frequency Podcast Network to talk about their range of climate-focussed podcasts: Drilled, Rigged, Damages, Inherited, Hot Take

Plus, short bursts of

Earth Day Live!

The Last Movie Ever Made

Islands on Alert

TIL Climate from MIT

BBC Radio 4's Costing The Earth

Produced for BBC Radio 4 Extra by Laura Grimshaw.

For Earth Day 2022, Laura Grimshaw and Greg Cochrane look at planet-saving podcasts

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

BBC Religion and Ethics journalist Sophia Smith Galer suggests some of her favourites, including:

Keeping It 101

Unorthodox

Interfaithish

Catholic Stuff You Should Know

Elizabeth Oldfield from the religion and society think tank Theos speaks to Amanda Litherland about their podcast series The Sacred

You can hear Sophia's series on Religion In The Digital Age for the BBC World Service by searching for Heart and Soul on BBC Sounds.

And Amanda recommends a few other podcasts to keep you informed and entertained over the weekend:

The Walkers Switch

Bitch Bitch Bitch - Radio 2

99% Invisible - episode 397 Wipe Out

Make A Difference - BBC Local Radio

If you'd like to suggest any podcasts you can email podcastradiohour@bbc.co.uk

Happy Easter!

How can podcasts help religious communities connect during the coronavirus crisis?

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

Jenny Turner Hall talks Marvel's Wastelanders: Wolverine, and discusses the pressures of working on a Marvel property, as well as the stakes that come from writing stories starring young characters.

Plus Kc Wayland discusses We're Alive: Descendants - the latest iteration in the We're Alive universe, which brings to a close a story that began in 2009. We'll hear how Kc's military background influenced writing the show, and ask how has the podcast audio fiction landscape changed in the last thirteen years.

And we'll recommend:

- The Last Station

- This American Wasteland

- No Place but the Water

- The Program Audio Series

- Hello From The Hallowoods

- Out of the Ashes

- Spaceships

- The Liminal Lands

Apocalyptic listens, including Marvel's Wastelanders: Wolverine & We're Alive: Descendants

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

Recommended this week:

James Acaster's Perfect Sounds (BBC Sounds)

Dom Joly's Earworm (Audible)

Prison Bag (Falling Tree)

Son of a Hitman (Spotify)

True Spies (Cup & Nuzzle)

Over The Road (Radiotopia)

Parenting Podcasts:

Crib Notes

Nappy Days

Rob Beckett and Josh Widdicombe's Lockdown Parenting Hell

Eurovision/European Podcasts:

Vision Again

Second Cherry

The Nordic Podcast

Britalian

Amanda Litherland and Greg Cochrane recommend a selection of listenworthy new podcasts.

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

This week Amanda Litherland and Imriel Morgan recommend evergreen podcasts - shows which have been well established, but you might not have got around to listening to yet.

Firstly, some series which you can hear in their entirety:

Bronzeville

Capital

Fight Night (iHeartRadio)

Edith Bowman tells Podcast Radio Hour about her movie music podcast Soundtracking, which boasts over 200 episodes. Each week she speaks to guests from the world of film about the emotion evoked by the score.

She'll tell us how she's bagged interviews with Bruce Springsteen, Terence Blanchard and many more musical icons, but there's one composer in particular who has eluded her so far...

Other suggestions of great long running series include:

The Comb (BBC World Service)

Reply All (Gimlet)

Scene On Radio - season 4 The Land That Never Has Been Yet

The Anthill (The Conversation)

Nancy (WNYC)

email your recommendations to podcastradiohour@bbc.co.uk

Oldies but goodies - well established podcasts. Edith Bowman discusses Soundtracking.

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

Dr. Gordon Walker talks about the role of social media in sharing high quality information about fungi, Dr. Merlin Sheldrake tells us about the importance of amateurs in the field of Mycology - and the Podcast Producer, Katharine Kerr reveals the things that she learned about 'zombie-ants' whilst creating a podcast in association with The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

Along the way, we'll hear clips from podcasts including...

Cultures For Health

The Mushroom Revival podcast

Fascinated By Fungi

StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson

Unherd

The Bioneers: Revolution From The Heart Of Nature

The Mushroom Hour

Unearthed: Mysteries From An Unseen World

Wes Butters and Kerry McCarthy tell us about the best podcasts on... Fungi.

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

The fashion guru Susannah Constantine joins to chat about her series My Wardrobe Malfunction, where conversations about clothes lead to much more emotional discussions.

And hair and beauty entrepreneur Jamelia Donaldson discusses her podcast She's Obsessed.

Recommended shows this week:

On Reflection Beauty with Funmi Fetto

Breaking Beauty

The Beauty Brains

Snatched Edges Podcast

Articles of Interest

Beauty Fix with Naomi Shimada

Layers

Conversations about identity and beauty. Susannah Constantine discusses her fashion series

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

Lauren Kaye discusses her podcast 'She Plays Games', which aims to showcase and highlight women working behind the scenes in video game development.

Plus, we'll hear clips from

Safe Space

History Respawned

The Back Page

Sound of Gaming

The Psychology of Video Games Podcast

The Knowledge Project - episode interviewing Jane McGonigal

Game Till Five

Not Your Mama's Gamer

The video game journalist Ellie Gibson joins Chris Pearson for gaming podcast picks.

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

Each week, Amanda Litherland and a guest presenter recommend one or two podcasts from the BBC and beyond. From some of the most popular series, to lesser-known hidden gems, they feature their favourite finds and speak with the people who make them.

This week's guest is broadcaster and podcaster, Geoff Lloyd.

Featuring new BBC podcast Unpopped, and the duo chat to Scroobius Pip about his podcast, Distraction Pieces.

Distraction Pieces' and 'Unpopped'.

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

Also, Stephen Fry joins Amanda for an exclusive interview. They discuss his latest podcast, 'Victorian Secrets', which offers a surprising new perspective on the era.

Amanda Litherland is joined by Geoff Lloyd and Stephen Fry.

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

This week Amanda Litherland is joined by Chrystal Genesis to recommend podcasts that make you feel better, including:

-A comic look at self help in By The Book

-Understanding what our feelings are telling us, with Philippa Perry in Fearne Cotton's Happy Place

-Why silver medalists are nowhere near as happy as bronze medallists! Dr Laurie Santos speaks to Podcast Radio Hour about The Happiness Lab, where she shares insight into psychological studies on the science of happiness, and shares some practical, easy tips on how to make your life better every day.

-How everything is 'figure-out-able' in an excerpt from Happier with Gretchen Rubin

-And how fake productivity might be getting you down, from Ten Percent Happier with Dan Harris.

Podcasts to make you happier - with Amanda Litherland and Chrystal Genesis

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

Firstly, a round up of some addictive new listening:

Nice White Parents (New York Times, Serial)

You're Wrong About

The Comb (BBC World Service)

Bad People (BBC Sounds)

The culture podcast The Cut from New York Magazine has recently relaunched with a new host - Avery Trufelman. Avery joins to discuss what's in store for the new podcast, and what she's learned from her years as a producer and reporter at 99% Invisible.

Caroline chooses some superb game show podcasts to keep you entertained:

Triviality

Make My Day with Josh Gondelman

Punch Up The Jam

Got It

Smash Boom Best

and comedians Fern Brady and Alison Spittle discuss their new game show for BBC Sounds - Wheel of Misfortune - where they turn tragedy into comedy.

Recommending great podcasts. Avery Trufelman discusses her new role as host of The Cut.

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

We speak to bona fide academic historian Professor Suzannah Lipscomb about her podcast that looks at the most fascinating periods in history - Not Just The Tudors.

We'll also be joined by history podcast producing magnate Natt Tapley to discuss what's the point of history? And we chat to self-confessed history nerds Angela Barnes and John O'Farrell about their fun conversation podcast We Are History.

We also hear bursts of:

Future Imperfect with Jason Kingsley

The Unfiltered History Tour from VICE World News

Revisionist History with Malcolm Gladwell

Human Resources with Moya Lothian McLean

The Retrospectors with Olly Mann, Rebecca Messina and Arion McNicoll

Date Fight with Natt Tapley and Jake Yapp

History Film Club with Alex von Tunzelmann and Hannah Grieg

Homeschool History with Greg Jenner

Horrible Histories from CBBC

You're Dead To Me also with Greg Jenner

Laura Grimshaw and Jake Yapp present a collection of history podcasts.

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

Sarah Marshall and Michael Hobbes join to discuss their hit show You're Wrong About - a podcast that reconsiders people or events that have been miscast in public imagination.

Recommended podcasts this week:

We Are History

You're Dead To Me

The Dollop

The Rest Is History

Giants of History

History Extra

The Constant: A History of Getting Things Wrong

Uncivil

Irish History Podcast

Driving the Green Book

The Last Archive

History recommendations, plus You're Wrong About hosts discuss their hit podcast

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

Amanda Litherland and Chrystal Genesis suggest podcasts that let you visit museums, art galleries and the great outdoors all over the world - from the comfort of your headphones.

And there's something to keep the little ones entertained too! CBeebies star Maddie Moate discusses her new podcast Maddie's Sound Explorers - and chats about the rise of family friendly podcasts.

Recommended this week:

The National Trust Podcast

Women Who Travel - Conde Nast Traveler

Black Women Travel Podcast

The Armchair Explorer

Art Matters Podcast - Art UK

The Lonely Palette

Simon Schama - The Great Gallery Tours - Radio 4 and BBC Sounds

Bow Down: Women In Art - Frieze

Dialogues: The David Zwirner Podcast

Great travel podcasts to visit museums and galleries from the comfort of your headphones

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

Laura speaks to comedian Charlie George and anthropologist Mary-Ann Ochota about Happiness and How To Get It, an Audible Original series where they test out happiness tips designed by experts.

Moy recommends The Jane Goodall Hopecast, where the world reknowned primatologist and anthropologist speaks to individuals who are helping to create a better world.

Chris speaks to Alex Melia about Our Voices In The NHS, a podcast celebrating healthcare workers and their inspirational stories.

And we read out some listeners suggestions of podcasts that bring them hope and happiness:

The Horne Section Podcast

Nobody Panic

Rob Beckett and Josh Widdicombe's Lockdown Parenting Hel‪l‬

39 Ways To Save The World

Whiterabbitpresents - How To Be Hopeful

Seize Your Adventure

The Offcuts Drawer

Creative Sauce with Andi Osho

email the team with your suggestions - podcastradiohour@bbc.co.uk

The Podcast Radio Hour team share podcasts that inspire hope.

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

How I Found My Voice is the podcast that explores how some of the world's greatest artists and thinkers became such compelling - and unique - communicators. This Intelligence Squared podcast goes behind the celebrity to understand the journeys and inspirations that led to this moment - from writing a childhood diary to that life-changing concert or finding the courage to speak up. Hosted by Samira Ahmed, guests include Rose McGowan, Adam Buxton, Philip Pullman, Katherine Ryan and Benjamin Zephaniah. Produced by Farah Jassat.

Texting Keith Olbermann:

One night in 2016, BBC News anchor Ros Atkins was retweeted by the legendary American broadcaster Keith Olbermann. The comment? “Thank God you're back.

Two years on, despite having never met, Keith and Ros were texting each other almost every day. Keith would send pictures of his dogs, the view from his Manhattan penthouse or the oysters that he was eating. He'd also send details of his latest ratings and thoughts on Ros's show. He even sponsored the match ball at the tiny football club at the end of Ros's road in London.

In Texting Keith Olbermann, Ros Atkins asks Keith what everyone was asking him: why is he doing it? And as Ros's wife realises he's texting Keith more than anyone apart from her, she has the same question for him. Two parallel conversations play out, as we hear funny, fascinating and sometimes awkward explorations of fame, money, death threats, being a TV anchor, and the backstories to some of the most notorious moments of Keith's career. We also find out what happens to this unconventional friendship when they meet in person.

Amanda Litherland discusses podcasts with creators. Featuring Samira Ahmed and Ros Atkins.

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

Amanda Litherland is joined by Renay Richardson from Broccoli Content, who has produced podcasts including the award winning About Race With Reni Eddo Lodge. Renay discusses how she started in the industry and what she has learned working in audio.

They chat to James Cator, Head of Podcast Partnerships at Spotify UK, to find out what it takes to get noticed, and how best to engage with your audience.

Tolani Shoneye aka Tolly T from The Receipts shares her story of how her podcast came about, and discusses why it has been so successful.

And Rachel Simpson from the Commissioning Team at BBC Sounds shares some of her top tips for starting and developing a hit podcast.

If you have any podcasts that you think we should hear about then get in touch by emailing podcastradiohour@bbc.co.uk

Amanda Litherland and Renay Richardson share tips on starting and developing a podcast

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

Ross Sutherland reveals some of the thinking behind his puzzling new fiction podcast 'The Golden House' - a mini series from Imaginary Advice stuffed full of codes and secrets.

Later, the award winning documentary producer Cathy Fitzgerland discusses her latest project 'Witness' in association with Amnesty International - a podcast which skilfully tells sensitive stories from some of the world's darkest places. Cathy also speaks about how she came to work in audio, and shares her advice on creating great listening, such as Life On Lockdown for Radio 4.

Then Podcast Radio Hour producer Chris Pearson joins Amanda to go through a few of your recommendations for innovative podcasts, including Giant, The Friendship File Podcast, and Totalus Rankium.

Showcasing innovative storytelling in podcasts with Cathy Fitzgerald and Ross Sutherland.

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

Isy Suttie overshares about The Things We Do For Love, that delightful sausage Amy Gledhill will be showing us A Lovely Time, we'll be offering Athena Kugblenu some adult conversation now she has two children in Keeping Athena Company, the excellent stand-up comedian Jen Ives will be chatting about her new podcast Peak Trans, and we'll discuss creeps with Margo and Sonia from the What A Creep podcast.

We'll also hear smashing snippets from the Wheel of Misfortune with Fern Brady & Alison Spittle and special guest Kemah Bob, The Birthday Girls House Party is Magazine and Wine themed with Sara Barron, Lou Conran and Sally Ann Hayward have a drink with Sarah Millican on Spit or Swallow, Risky Boys with Saima Ferdows, Ruby Carr and Alice-India, and Beth Morrey's guest on the delightfully graphic One Torn Every Minute is Sophie Ellis-Bextor.

We have definitely delivered on loads of really excellent funny women.

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

Ira Glass talks about the beginnings of This American Life.

Dame Kelly Holmes discusses the challenge of moving from interviewee to interviewer.

Clare Balding highlights the importance of getting a great idea on its feet.

Jay Rayner talks about the joy of conversation over a good meal.

George The Poet reveals how he combined disciplines to create the award winning Have You Heard George's Podcast.

Jessie Ware and her mum Lennie talk about the much loved Table Manners.

David Dimbleby shows how it's never too late to start your own series

And Stephen Fry expresses his love for podcasts as a unique medium to feed our curiosity.

Amanda Litherland presents a selection of interviews with pioneering podcasters.

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

Each week, Amanda Litherland and a guest presenter will recommend one or two podcasts from the BBC and beyond. From some of the most popular series, to lesser-known hidden gems, they will feature their favourite finds and speak with the people who make them.

This week Amanda is joined by Josie Long. They will listen to Maeve in America, stories of immigration to the USA presented by Maeve Higgins.

They'll also hear an episode of Reasons To Be Cheerful, with hosts Ed Miliband and Geoff Lloyd - who are among the nominees for the first ever podcast category at the Broadcasting Press Guild Awards 2018 - due to be held at London's Theatre Royal Drury Lane on March 16th.

Reasons to Be Cheerful'.

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

Firstly, following on from the Black Lives Matter protests happening across the world, a selection of podcasts to help you learn about the history of race and racism, and actions you can take now. Including Scene On Radio series 2 Seeing White, About Race with Reni Eddo-Lodge and NPR's Code Switch.

Also suggestions of nature podcasts which discuss environmental activism and encourage positive change. Including Costing The Earth, Mothers of Invention, Black Nature Narrative, Outrage and Optimism, and So Hot Right Now.

And what is a branded podcast?

More and more companies are not just buying advertising, but commissioning entire podcast series to spread the word about their brand.

We hear from Radio Wolfgang's Holly Aquilina and Elle Scott, the team behind last year's award winning 'Selfridges Hot Air' to find out why companies are investing in this medium, and what goes into creating a successful series.

We also hear the 2020 British Podcast Award nominations for Best Branded podcast; #QueerAF, DeepMind: The Podcast, Meet Me At The Museum, On the Marie Curie Couch, The Penguin Podcast, and The Rough Guide to Everywhere.

You can contact the show at podcastradiohour@bbc.co.uk

Listening to learn about racism, some great nature series - and what is a branded podcast?

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

Matthew and Brendan discuss their LGBT+ Mental Health podcast Bottoming, and talk about how the podcast originated as free therapy.

Selly Thiam, host of AfroQueer, talks about how her podcast has found a wider audience since the beginning of the pandemic, and the surprising ways that the podcast has been shared to new listeners.

Plus we'll hear extracts from:

Queer Serial

Prejudice and Pride

The LGBT Sport Podcast

The SG Boys

Making Gay History

If you have podcast recommendations for us, our email address is podcastradiohour@bbc.co.uk

Chris Pearson and Shivani Dave present listening for LGBTQ+ History Month.

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

They speak to Jeffrey Cranor, one of the co-creators of Welcome To Night Vale.

Also featuring:

Ars Paradoxica, and a conversation with creator Mischa Stanton.

The Penumbra Podcast

Love and Luck

Celebrating LGBTQ+ representation in Audio Fiction series including Welcome To Night Vale.

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

We hear voice notes and emails recommending:

Just The Zoo Of Us

The Countryside Hour (BBC Radio Norfolk)

The Ballad of Billy Balls

The History of English

Floating

The Stoop

Constellation Prize

Small Doses

Decoder Ring Theatre

Plus, listener Blossom joins to talk about her wellness podcast Tea with HB.

A selection of brilliant podcast recommendations - all by you!

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

Recommended podcasts this week:

Broccoli Book Club

Radio 4's Book Club

Mean Book Club

Football Book Club

Bestsellers

You're Booked

What Should I Read Next

Radio 4's Open Book

In Writing With Hattie Crissell

I Should Be Writing

Writing Excuses

Book Off!

Amanda Litherland and Greg Cochrane recommend reading podcasts.

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

They speak to Neil Atkinson from The Anfield Wrap, a podcast that tells the story of supporting Liverpool FC from the heart of the city. Non-football fans worry not - Amanda and Caroline don't know anything about the sport either! But the story of this podcast's success is one we can all learn from.

They produce up to 14 podcasts per week as well as video and written content, some of which is for their paid subscribers. While football is the main focus, the shows are rooted in the life and culture of the city. They discuss how this inclusive and authentic approach has made the podcast a resounding hit.

Also featured are Beatles City and Sodajerker On Songwriting.

Beatles City is the podcast that brings you the story of the band that shook the world from the place where it all began. Listen to memories of The Beatles' early days told in the voices of the people who were there, from members of the Quarrymen to the band's school friends, and other guests who have a unique insight into the band.

Sodajerker is a songwriting team from Liverpool, founded by co-writers Simon Barber and Brian O'Connor. Their podcast Sodajerker On Songwriting features in depth interviews with some of the world's most successful songwriters, such as Alicia Keys, Nile Rodgers and Paul Simon. We'll hear from their episode with Sir Paul McCartney, and chat to Simon and Brian about how they have managed to book such incredible guests.

Recommending the best podcasts made in Liverpool, including a chat with The Anfield Wrap.

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

They meet Keri Jones who makes This Is Alfred, a podcast about the Dorset town, and on the way listen to other series including Speak Up Sunderland, Buddy's Buddies, Gibraltar Stories and Soho Then.

Amanda Litherland and Greg Cochrane recommend podcasts celebrating local areas.

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

our selection of fact filled suggestions cam help with home schooling, or swotting up for a virtual quiz!

Deborah James from the BBC Bitesize podcasts tells us about all the brilliant teaching resources available on tv, radio and online.

Recommended listens:

Home School History with Greg Jenner

Frank Skinner's Poetry Podcast

The Allusionist

Something Rhymes With Purple

Radiolab for Kids

99% Invisible

David Walliams' Marvellous Musical Podcast

The Listening Service

Song Exploder

Everything Under The Sun

Radio Nonsense

Sarah and Duck (CBeebies)

Also, we suggest some great new series which have launched during the last few weeks, recorded remotely:

Grounded with Louis Theroux

Locked Together from Audible

Out For Lunch/ In For Lunch With Jay Rayner

Culture Call from the Financial Times

And a couple of TV companion podcasts

Final Answer

Obsessed with Normal People

Suggestions of great podcasts to help all the family keep learning during the lockdown.

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

We speak to Ellie Gibson and Helen Thorn from the Scummy Mummies podcast, which has been running for eight years. And we speak to Tom Price from My Mate Bought a Toaster about those embarrassing, impulsive, or long-forgotten internet purchases.

And we feature snippets of these podcasts which have racked up over 5000 episodes between them!

The Guilty Feminist

Fortunately with Fi and Jane

Running Commentary

The High Performance Podcast

My Time Capsule

Dane Baptiste Questions Everything

Desert Island Discs

The Three Track Podcast

James Acaster's Perfect Sounds

Off Menu

Hoovering

Food Psych

Laura Grimshaw and Jessica Fostekew look at long running podcasts.

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

Alix Walker and Lisa Smosarski talk about their podcast Love Letter to My Friend, and Karen Rice from Stolen Goodbyes discusses love, loss and grief.

Also featuring these loved-up podcasts:

Cuddle Club

Shagged Married Annoyed

You'll Do

Coupledom

I Wish I Was An Only Child

Some Families

Petcast

Love Stories with Dolly Alderton

Crushed with Margaret Cabourn Smith

Produced by Laura Grimshaw for BBC Radio 4 Extra in September 2021

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

Firstly, 'Articles of Interest', a mini series from Radiotopia's 99% Invisible about what we wear. Amanda chats to host Avery Trufelman about how the series was made.

Then, 'Neon', a podcast which fuses history and pop culture. Luke and Amanda discover how the video game Fortnite can teach us about a surprising amount of history. They also chat with producer Dan Morelle about 'Neon's development and other history podcast recommendations. .

Produced and presented by Amanda Litherland

Co-presented by Luke Jones

Amanda Litherland and Luke Jones recommend the best podcasts - this week, sneaky history!

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

This week they chat to Tom Fordyce about ‘That Peter Crouch Podcast', Kait Borsay and Hayley McQueen from ‘The Offside Rule' and pay a visit to Bromley FC to hear about ‘Ravens Weekly

Lynsey Hipgrave and Stuart Ross recommend the best football podcasts

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

Helen Bauer and Andrew White chat about Trusty Hogs, Nina Conti and Shenoah Allen introduce us to Richard and Greta, Gareth Gwynn and Esyllt Sears invite us into The Xennial Dome, and Matthew Crosby, Ben Clark and Tom Parry discuss Pappy's Flatshare Slamdown.

Laura Grimshaw and Jake Yapp present comedy podcasts from the Machynlleth Comedy Festival.

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

Each week a guest presenter will recommend one or two podcasts from the BBC and beyond. From some of the most popular series, to lesser-known hidden gems, they will feature their favourite finds and speak with the people who make them.

This week Peter McHugh is joined by the creator of Detective Inspector Tom Thorne, the crime writer Mark Billingham, and host of the A Stab In the Dark podcast. They'll be listening to the Two Writers and a Microphone podcast, chatting to its hosts Luca Veste and Steve Cavanagh. And will also be catching up with The Story Collider podcast, true, personal stories about science, and talking to its artistic director, Erin Barker.

Crime writer Mark Billingham joins Peter McHugh to recommend his favourite podcasts.

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

Claudia Hammond discusses the new series of All In The Mind, the world's longest running programme discussing the latest research around Mental Health.

Laura speaks to Giles Paley-Phillips and Jim Daly, whose programme 'Blank Podcast' unpacks the moment when people's lives aren't going to plan.

Chris meets Bryony Gordon, host of Bryony Gordon's Mad World. Bryony tells us how she selects guests, from Hunter Biden to Stacey Solomon, and we hear why asking 'how are you?' can be more than just small talk.

Plus we'll hear clips from

How Do You Cope? ...with Elis & John

BBC Ouch - The Cabin Fever Podcast

The Joe Wicks Podcast

Conversations Against Living Miserably

Making Paddy Happy

Talk Club - 'Open Up Not Man Up

All In Due Time

A Sonic Hug

Life, Interrupted with Simon Thomas

Laura Grimshaw and Chris Pearson take a look at podcasts focussed on Mental Health.

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

13 Minutes To The Moon is a podcast from the BBC World Service, presented by Kevin Fong. The full story of the people who made Apollo 11 happen and prevented it from going badly wrong.

Gravity Assist is a podcast made by NASA. In season 3 we join Jim Green, NASA's chief scientist, to dive into the Moon's history and mysteries, as well as NASA's plans to send astronauts there by 2024.

Moonrise investigates the origin story behind America's decision to go to the moon. It's a podcast from The Washington Post, presented by Lillian Cunnigham. Amanda and Chrystal chat to Lillian about the making of the series.

To The Moon And Beyond is a five-part podcast series from The Conversation. Through interviews with academic experts around the world science journalist Miriam Frankel and space scientist Martin Archer explore the past 50 years of space exploration and what the 50 years ahead have in store. This featured clip explores what going to the moon meant for humanity, and asks why people believe in the conspiracy theory that the landing was faked.

This American Life episode 670 - Beware The Jabberwock also delves into the world of conspiracy theorists.

Radio 4's The Life Scientific is a great place to hear more brilliant science stories. Amanda and Chrystal recommend for starters the episodes on Helen Sharman, Professor Monica Grady, and Maggie Aderin-Pocock.

The best podcasts to learn about the moon, with Amanda Litherland and Chrystal Genesis.

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

Featured podcasts:

Griefcast with Cariad Lloyd

BBC Radio 5 Live's How Do You Cope? With Elis & John

On The Marie Curie Couch

Grief Kind from Sue Ryder Care

Dying Matters from Hospice UK

Doing Death

Six Months or Less

Queer Death Stories

The Death Studies Podcast

Suffocate City

Dead Honest

You're Going To Die

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

We have guests across the world of film podcasting, including Al Horner, Sam Clements, Anna Smith, and Josh Horowitz.

Plus, we'll go behind the scenes on two long-running film podcasts - The Empire Film Podcast, and BBC Radio 5 Live's Kermode and Mayo's Film Review.

Podcasts featured this week:

Script Apart

90 Minutes or Less Film Fest

Girls on Film

Happy Sad Confused

Bah Humbug

Happier in Hollywood

The A24 Podcast

Director's Cut - a DGA Podcast

Recommending the best movie podcasts - including behind the scenes of Wittertainment.

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

Suchandrika Chakrabarti joins Amanda Litherland to talk about the podcasts that have caught their attention this week, from bees to media giants.

Plus Isabelle Roughol talks about her new project Borderline.

Featuring:

Oh Hello, the p'dcast

Land of the Giants

Living Beeing

Obsessed With... I May Destroy You

You Must Remember This

Scriptnotes

Black Men Can't Jump (in Hollywood)

Unspooled

The Next Picture Show

Popcorn becomes PODcorn with a showcase of movie nostalgia podcasts.

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

Marlon Bishop from Futuro Studios tells us about two music documentaries: Anything for Selena and LOUD: The History of Reggaeton.

Plus, we'll hear clips from

The Messenger

Switched On Pop

Bent By Nature

Resident Advisor: Source Material

Soul Music

AfroPop Worldwide

Maed in India

The Record Store Day Podcast with Paul Myers

Louder Than A Riot

The Bridge

Chris Pearson and Chrystal Genesis with podcasts about music and musicians.

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

There will be podcasts about musicians, featuring musicians and music-lovers, as well as musical soundscapes that really enhance the speech.

The pick of the podcasts will include Digging Deep with Robert Plant, Stay Free: The Story Of The Clash, Pops! The Louis Armstrong Story, and an entertaining roundtable show from the BBC, Blood On The Tracks.

We'll hear from BBC 6 Music's Matt Everitt, Rob Fitzpatrick at Spotify, as well as Axel Kacoutié, a poet, composer and the sound designer of the Guardian's Today in Focus podcast. He shares a few insights into creative possibilities waiting for podcasters in music libraries.

Radio 1 DJ Phil Taggart guests with a rapid rundown of music podcasts.

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

Any Questions host Chris Mason begins, recommending RadioMoments - Conversations, a podcast by David Lloyd which tells the life stories of some influential people in radio.

He also recommends Media Masters and 13 Minutes To The Moon.

Amanda chats to Fi Glover and Jane Garvey about Fortunately, before they suggest some of their own favourite downloads: The Archers, Talking Politics, The Times Red Box, For The Many, The High Low, The Teachers Pet and Murder In The Graveyard.

Caitlin Benedict, host of NB: My Non Binary Life recommends Gender Reveal, Someone Knows Something and Uncover.

And Linda Adey from The Next Episode asks - Have You Heard George's Podcast? She also suggests The Receipts, The Sista Collective and Ear Hustle.

Listening recommendations from BBC Sounds podcasters. Originally broadcast in Aug 2019.

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

Aaron Mankhe and Lauren Shippen discuss their supernatural drama Bridgewater, and we hear how they Aaron's folklore background combined with Lauren's drama writing.

Plus Lory Martinez tells us about the global mythology series Cultureverse, which sensitively explores myths from across the world.

And we'll hear clips from

Hi Nay

Mabinogi: Lost Legends and Dark Magic

Fey Hollow: The Fairytale Murders

Feminist Fairytales

Rogue Runners

Live From Mount Olympus

The Anansi Chronicles

Chris Pearson and Ella Watts with audio drama recommendations.

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

Also, David Devereux from Tin Can Audio discusses his new podcast The Dungeon Economic Model.

And Kaitlin Statz and Travis Vengroff from Fool & Scholar Productions offer tips on crafting adventures in your headphones.

Neil Gaiman discusses the new audio adaptation of The Sandman.

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

Dragon's Den star Deborah Meaden talks to us about her new podcast, The Big Green Money Show. We'll hear why businesses need to be held to account about their environmental efforts, and Deborah tells us about her eco-efforts in her own home.

Margaret Cabourn-Smith talks about Crushed by Margaret Cabourn-Smith - and we hear about the cathartic power of discussing unrequited love.

And India Rakusen talks 28ish days later, the taboo-busting new podcast that attempts to unpack the menstrual cycle in 28 episodes.

Plus we'll hear clips from

Frame of Mind

Eureka!

Putin

Let's Get Frank

Rabbiting On

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

Also, Radiolab's Jad Abumrad chats about his new series Dolly Parton's America.

To Make You Laugh:

Daddy Look At Me, Heavy Pencil, Second Best: A DnD Adventure, Sue Perkins: An Hour Or So With.

To Keep You Informed:

Hooked: The Unexpected Addicts, Rachel Botsman's Trust Issues, Polarised

To Keep You Up At Night:

Dolly Parton's America, Tunnel 29, Tell It: Random Men Pay My Bills, Homeless Bodies And Other Stories From The Wellcome Collection.

To Make You Feel Good:

Power Hour, Midnight Chats

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

Psychologist Kimberley Wilson and Dr Xand van Tulleken discuss Made Of Stronger Stuff, a Radio 4 podcast about the human body.

Recommended podcasts:

Get Birding

New Scientist Escape Pod

The Bias Diagnosis

Sideways

Reverberate

Welcome To Your Fantasy

Welcome To Spooktown

Money Moves With Toni Tone

Life Hacks - Lockdown Wellbeing

Amanda Litherland and Scott Bryan review the latest podcast releases

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

Helena Merriman talks about her new diagnosis based series Room 5, and how for her the audio medium is perfect for encouraging empathy in listeners.

Moya Lothian-Mclean talks about her series Human Resources, investigating the British relationship with the Atlantic slave trade, and why she wants the subject talked about beyond history lessons.

Plus broadcasting legend Scott Mills discusses Radio 1's Pop 101, his new series taking us through the history of Pop music, in a hundred and one objects.

And we'll hear clips from:

Feast is Feast with Big Zuu

Go Love Yourself

British Scandal: Coughing Major

Panic Room

Stars In Your Ears

Chris Pearson and Scott Bryan with new listens for February.

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

The BBC's Specialist Disinformation and Social Media Reporter Marianna Spring, and series producer Ant Adeane tell us about their new BBC Radio 4 podcast Death By Conspiracy? and Kate Moryoussef joins us to discuss The ADHD Women's Wellbeing Podcast.

Laura and Jon Holmes speak to Nigel Planer about his new scripted comedy podcast Nicholas Craig: I, An Actor, A Podcast which he stars in alongside Anthony Head and co-wrote with Christopher Douglas.

Plus bursts of:

Richard & Greta starring Nina Conti and Shenoah Allen

Dua Lipa At Your Service

Shaun Keaveny's Creative Cul-de-Sac

The Process from Somerset House

Laura Grimshaw and Scott Bryan present the best new podcasts for March.

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

Charlie Craggs tells us about making her acting debut in Doctor Who: Redacted,. We'll hear about how it feels to join the Doctor Who family, and the importance of trans representation in the show.

Plus, more great new listening for May, with extracts from:

Radioman

Lusus

Queer Spaces: Behind The Scene

Lady Killers with Lucy Worsley

Time & Again

Betwixt the Sheets: The History of Sex, Scandal & Society

The Line of Fire

NearlyWeds

Chris Pearson & Scott Bryan suggest new listening for May, including Doctor Who: Redacted.

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

We talk fashion with Kiri Pritchard-McLean and her new podcast Who Are You Wearing? Tim Harford offers up some Cautionary Tales. And Margaret Cabourn-Smith tells us all about her embarrassing crushes in the name of her new podcast Crushed by Margaret Cabourn-Smith.

We also feature snippets of:

The Proper Class Podcast

Whose Stories?

As The Season Turns

My Favourite Takeaway with Tom Craine and Cimran Shah

Bad Cops from the World Service

Breaking Breakfast - the story of Chris Evans' Radio 1 Breakfast Show

The Xennial Dome with Gareth Gwynn and Esyllt Sears

Shaun Keaveny's new podcasts The Line Up and Rockanory

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

Tubsey and Hyder, Bafta winners, join us to talk about their first steps into podcasting. Why did they want to start 'The World According to Tubsey and Hyder' - and what do they love about working with each other?

Plus we'll hear new conversation, documentary, and drama podcasts, including clips from:

Carolina Herrera presents Walk Tall

Restless Natives

Fear Of Missing Out

Crosshairs

The Tower

Weight of Sand

Beneath Our Feet

Chris Pearson and Scott Bryan meet Tubsey and Hyder - plus other new listens.

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

We're joined by Nick Grimshaw and Angela Hartnett OBE to talk about their new podcast, Dish. The two discuss their love of hosting, and we'll hear about what Nick's learned from cooking by watching the Michelin-star chef at work.

Plus we'll hear clips from:

Different with Nicky Campbell

The New Conspiracist

Westminster Insider Podcast

All About Sound

Hot Money

Last Night Out

Welcome To The Neighbourhood

NonCensored

Newts!

The Music and Meditation Podcast

Chris Pearson and Scott Bryan recommend new listening for July.

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

Plus Miquita Oliver talks about Quiz Chat repeat, a new daily quiz podcast.

Featured Podcasts:

The Sink

Poppy Hillstead Has Entered The Chat

Harry Hill's Noise

Dear Joan and Jericha

The Orgasm Cult

Quiz Chat Repeat (with Miquita Oliver)

VENT Documentaries

Intrigue: Mayday

The Mentor

Bed Of Lies

The Lock In with Jeremy Paxman

The Rest is History

A round up of the latest recommended listening. Miquita Oliver on her new quiz podcast.

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

Also featuring:

Deep Down and Desi: But Where Are You Really From?

Max and Ivan: Fugitives

Mystery On The Rocks

The Bank Robber Diaries

Hunting Warhead

The Crown Official Podcast

Cautionary Tales

In This Place: Gaychester

The Log Books

So Lucky With Dawn O'Porter

Off The Record with Alistair Bunkell

On The Marie Curie Couch

The Political Party with Matt Forde

David Dimbleby chats to Amanda Litherland and Scott Bryan about his new podcast.

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

They chat to Clara Amfo about her new series 'This City', and Steve Bland discusses the Rachael Bland New Podcast Award from BBC 5Live.

Other recommended series:

Your Broccoli Weekly

Early Work with Rhys James

Stephen Fry's 7 Deadly Sins

Cheerful Book Club

Chasing Cosby

We Are History

In Search of Black History with Bonnie Greer

Scene On Radio

Amanda Litherland and Scott Bryan recommend some great listens for February.

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

Also recommended:

The Rob Auton Daily Podcast

The Bugle Presents The Last Post With Alice Fraser

Talking To Actors with Anna Mann

CliMates

How Did We Get Here?

Money 101

Blood Ties

Obsessed with... Dracula

Amanda Litherland and Scott Bryan recommend the best new podcasts out this month.

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

Also recommended:

Americast

Happy Mum Happy Baby

You're Dead To Me

We Need To Talk About The British Empire

In Writing with Hattie Crisell

Dogcast with Clare Balding

Edge of England

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

This week Dr Chatterjee talks 'Feel Better. Live More.', a health podcast focussing on intimate, authentic conversations.

Amanda and Scott recommend other great conversational listens.

Then we're focusing on documentaries - and Chris Warburton discusses Ecstasy: The Battle of Rave, a documentary drama blend focussing on rave culture.

Featured Podcasts This Week:

Feel Better, Live More

Great Scot

David Tennant Does A Podcast With

Mid Point With Gabby Logan

Who Am I This Time? with David Morrissey

The Fault Line – Blair Bush and Iraq

Coming In From The Cold

Twenty Twenty

The Secret Life of Teachers

French and Saunders Titting About

Dr Chatterjee discusses his podcast, plus behind the scenes on Ecstasy: The Battle Of Rave

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

Firstly, some comedy and entertainment shows to keep you laughing through lockdown:

The Brian Butterfield Pod Pod Podcast

Congrats On The New

My Life In Tv

Keep It!

Nikesh Shukla joins to dicuss his new series Brown Baby - conversations about raising children with joy in uncertain times.

And recommendations of more conversational podcasts and engrossing documentary series:

Relatively

The BBC Countryfile Magazine Podcast

I'm Not A Monster (BBC Sounds)

Into The Grey Zone (Sky News)

The Missing (Podimo)

The Cipher (BBC Sounds)

contact the team and suggest your favourites: podcastradiohour@bbc.co.uk

Amanda Litherland and Scott Bryan review the latest podcast releases

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

To Make You Laugh:

You're Dead To Me

The Birthday Game

Ru Paul's Drag Race

Dear Joan And Jericha

To Keep You Up At Night:

The Missing Crypto Queen

Passenger List

Murderabilia

To Make You Feel Good:

The Breakup Monologues

MusicPlus

Modern Birth

To Keep You Informed:

The Documentary Podcast - Detours (BBC World Service)

You're Booked

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

To Make You Laugh:

The Gemma Collins Podcast, London Actually, Brown Girls Do It Too

To Keep You Informed:

The Bellingcat Podcast, DeepMind: The Podcast, Obsessed With... Peaky Blinders

To Keep You Up At Night:

Unheard: The Fred And Rose West Tapes, Unravel, Hag

To Make You Feel Good:

Birth Stories With Clemmie Hooper, Things I Told My Daughter, The Hang With Gregory Porter

Amanda Litherland and Scott Bryan recommend the best podcasts to listen to this month.

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

Ian Coss tells us about 'Forever Is A Long Time', a podcast that examines the marriages and divorces within his own family.

Plus we'll hear clips from

Working

Switch Pivot or Quit

How I Built This with Guy Raz

SelfHealers Soundboard

Stacey Dooley's Fresh Starts

Lesley Jane Seymour's Reinvent Yourself

Food Heaven Podcast

Life Kit: How to divest from diet culture

Just One Thing with Michael Mosley

Podcasts picks for those seeking refreshment- including work, health and relationships.

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

First, a fun fact filled conversation with Anna Ptaszynski and Dan Schreiber from No Such Thing As A Fish - the weekly podcast from the makers of QI.

Then the comedians and best friends Elis James and John Robins chat about their 5Live show and their new series How Do You Cope... With Elis and John - conversations with inspirational people about the challenges they have faced.

No Such Thing As A Fish and Elis James & John Robins chat podcasting with Amanda and Luke.

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

Chris Tunstall, host of The Mixology Talk podcast discusses how his craft cocktail podcast has changed across the pandemic.

Plus we'll hear extracts from:

Pubs, Pints, People

The Food Institute Podcast

BBC OS Conversations

Make Change Happen

Thomson Reuters Institute Market Insights Podcast

COVID MATTERS

Social Distance

Chasing Life

Up First

The Cut

Chrystal Genesis and Chris Pearson recommend podcasts telling recovering pandemic stories

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

As well as series which support parents and caregivers with some much needed laughter and conversation, they suggest shows which discuss all forms of family relationships and consider our own childhoods, whether we have children ourselves or not.

Also, Marvyn Harrison, founder of Dope Black Dads, joins to talk about the success of his podcast and community groups. Dope Black Dads encourages men to open up about their feelings around fatherhood, supporting constructive conversations that celebrate black fathers worldwide.

Recommended podcasts:

The Motherkind Podcast

One Bad Mother

The Juggling Act (The Telegraph)

Parentland (BBC World Service)

Dad In Progress

The Likely Dads (Radio 4)

Parenting For Liberation

The Survival Guide (Black Ballad)

The Brown Baby Podcast

Some Families

Parenting Beyond Discipline

Want to suggest a podcast? Contact the team podcastradiohour@bbc.co.uk

Amanda Litherland and Chrystal Genesis discuss parenting and family relationship podcasts.

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

From pipe organs to portable toilets, there's a podcast out there about almost everything, and in this week's Podcast Radio Hour Amanda and Becca explore a wealth of listens.

Myke Hurley from Relay FM joins to talk about 'The Pen Addict', a stationery podcast with more than 400 epiodes.

Then Helen Wilkinson and Caroline Somos from 'Love to Sew' discuss their craft podcast, which covers a range of topics from linen to social justice sewing.

Plus recommendations including:

The Ships Log

Get Flushed

People Movers

Unearthed: Mysteries from an unseen world

QueenPod

Desert Island Discworld

Come Ogre Here

Song By Song

E20 Podcast

The Thing About That: A Modern Woman's Guide to Getting Married

Purrcast

Lunchwatch with Johnny White Really Really

Hot Pipes

From pipe organs to pens via purring and portable toilets, a showcase of niche podcasts.

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

We speak to broadcasting legend Nicky Campbell about his gorgeous podcast One of the Family. And EastEnders actor Emma Barton joins us to talk about The Petcast from The Blue Cross.

We also feature tasty morsels of:

BBC Radio London's Dogs and the City

BBC Radio 4's My Cat, The Judge

The Purrrcast

Classic FM's Paws and Claws with Bill Turnbull

Animal People with Supervet Noel Fitzpatrick

The Aquarium Guys

Reptile n Chill

Coffee with the Chicken Ladies

The Pet Pod with Dr Zara Boland

BBC Radio Ulster's Alright, Pet?

Laura Grimshaw and Chris Pearson present a whole heap of podcasts all about pets.

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

Frances Tophill and Clara Nissen dig up fascinating plant podcasts. From September 2019.

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

Amanda Litherland and Ella Watts showcase their favourite tuneful listens, with a selection of comedy and drama.

Jeff Luppino-Esposito, Brett Ryback and Matt Sav, the creators of last year's hit musical In Strange Woods discuss producing a multi cast production with all musicians and actors at home.

And Rye Dorsey, Zachary Goldberg and Sabeen Shalwani join to talk about Childish: A Podcast Musical - a series inspired by the work of Childish Gambino. They discuss how they created the show whilst finishing their undergraduate degrees.

Recommended podcasts this week:

Wait Wait, Don't Kill Me (part of Secrets, Crimes and Audiotape)

36 Questions

The Fall Of The House Of Sunshine

CrossBread: A Comedy Musical

The Ballad of Anne And Mary

Magnitsky The Musical

Amanda Litherland and Ella Watts discuss the best podcast musicals.

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

Featuring a sample of Without Fail - where Alex Blumberg hosts candid conversations with people who have done hard things: what worked, what didn't and why. In this featured episode he chats to Ira Glass about his origins in podcasting.

Then, both Ira and Alex speak to Podcast Radio Hour separately about their experiences in the industry.

Ira Glass and Alex Blumberg discuss podcasting with Amanda Litherland and David McGuire.

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

We've invited some of our friends from BBC Sounds to suggest podcasts they'd give as a Christmas gift.

And we'll also be showcasing some seasonal listening from festive BBC Podcasts of years past.

In this episode:

James Acaster, host of James Acaster's Perfect Sounds. recommends The Three Track Podcast, Hip Hop Saved My Life, Wheel of Misfortune, and The Guilty Feminist.

Sofie Hagen and Dr Julia Shaw, hosts of Bad People, recommend Maintenance Phase and I'm not a Monster

Greg Jenner, host of You're Dead to Me and Homeschool History, recommends Rule of Three

Elis James and John Robins, hosts of Elis James and John Robins on BBC Radio 5 Live, The Isolation Tapes and How Do You Cope?

John recommends Matt Forde's The Political Party, whilst Elis recommends Americast

Vanel and Sindy, hosts of Go Ask Your Mother, recommend Mogul and Scarlett Moffatt Wants to Believe

Plus we've festive selections from

Short Cuts

Profile

The Food Programme

The Why Factor

Tweet of the Day

Christmas selections and recommendations from some of our friends at BBC Sounds.

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

Which episodes have particularly captured listener's attentions? What are the trends? How is podcasting adapting to new challenges as a business, and as an art form?

Also, there's no getting away from talking about the effects the pandemic has had. Adam Fleming reflects on the challenges of reporting the last few months' news on The Coronavirus Newscast, and shares details on what's next for the podcast.

Renay Richardson, CEO of Broccoli content discusses the Equality In Audio pact, an initiative to improve representation in the audio industry.

And what can independent podcasts do to encourage a sense of community amongst listeners? What services exist to help them financially? We hear from Riley and Milo, two of the hosts of Trashfuture, about how the membership platform Patreon has helped their podcast thrive.

Plus Amanda and Greg pick out a few of 2020's most engaging and impactful episodes

Featuring:

1Xtra Talks Special - George Floyd and Black Lives Matter

Wind of Change

Happy Mum Happy Baby - The Duchess of Cambridge on the early years

Reply All - The Case of the Missing Hit

Grounded, with Louis Theroux - Miriam Margolyes

Six months into 2020, what are the big headlines in podcasting?

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

Amanda Litherland speaks to cast and crew from The Archers about their new format - we hear from Sunny Ormonde (Lilian Bellamy) and producer Jessica Bunch.

Deborah Frances-White discusses how The Guilty Feminist has adapted and continued despite live audience recordings being impossible for the time being.

And a variety of Podcast Radio Hour listeners reveal how the situation has affected their podcast production, both positively and negatively.

We hear from Soho Bites, Centuries of Sound, Alternative Stories and Fake Realities, Creative Cuppa, In Writing with Hattie Crisell, Wooden Overcoats, and The Hardy Report.

How have podcasts changed recently? Hear from The Archers, Deborah Frances-White and more

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

From tips on greener living to interviews with leading activists in the environmental movement, this week we highlight listening that encourages a brighter tomorrow.

We speak to the team at 'Outrage and Optimism': Tom Rivett-Carnac, Paul Dickenson, and Christiana Figueres. Christiana is the former Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, and was the lead negotiator on the Paris climate agreement.

Recommended podcasts this week:

How To Save A Planet

So Hot Right Now

What Planet Are We On?

Who Cares Wins, with Lily Cole

Ted Talks Daily

Operation Earth

Drilled

How They Made Us Doubt Everything

How can podcasts help the climate?

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

Jeffrey Nils Gardner and Eleanor Hyde discuss their gothic horror series Unwell, set in an American boarding house with some unusual residents.

And we speak to Cassandra Tse, creator of Apocalypse Songs, a supernatural thriller set in a New Zealand radio station.

Plus Ella has a whole host of recommendations from around the world of audio fiction, perfect for whatever level of Halloween heebie-jeebies you're hunting.

Recommended Podcasts:

Unwell, a Midwestern Gothic Mystery

The Magnus Archives

Old Gods of Appalachia

Mirrors podcast from Zoom Doom stories

The White Vault

Mabel

Children of the Stones

A selection of spooky podcasts, from gothic horrors to musical mysteries.

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

Podcasts featured this week:

Radio 4 Quiz

Quiz Chat Repeat

Fingers on Buzzers

Famous For 15 Quid

The Birthday Game

Taskmaster The Podcast

Escape This Podcast

Laura Grimshaw and Chris Pearson pick out the best podcasts you can play along with.

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

United Zingdom (BBC Sounds)

How To Build A Healthy City (Financial Times)

You'll Do (BBC Radio 4)

Gossipmongers (Acast)

The Last Bohemians (Kate Hutchinson)

Then the journalist Sue Mitchell joins Amanda down the line to discuss Radio 4's Girl Taken, an investigative series where Sue and former soldier Rob Lawrie search for the truth in the case of a missing refugee child.

And Greg recommends some of the latest new music releases, including:

Lifers, Ed Gamble's new podcast for Spotify

Rivals, from iHeartRadio

and Daughters of Reykjavik The Podcast.

As always you can contact Amanda on podcastradiohour@bbc.co.uk

Stay safe and happy listening!

Amanda Litherland and Greg Cochrane recommend podcasts to keep you entertained at home.

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

We speak to Chris Gregory from Alternative Stories and Fake Realities about bringing words to life, and to Repeat Beat Poet from The Lunar Poetry Podcast about infusing poetry with meaning and messages.

We also listen in to:

Poetry Unbound

The New Yorker Poetry Podcast

The Poetry Exchange

Arji's Poetry Pickle Jar

The Slowdown with Ada Limon

Frank Skinner's Poetry Podcast

Roaring 20s Radio

Poetry Extra

The Verb

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

This week we focus on series which are nothing to do with the virus, but if you do want the latest updates in podcast form then subscribe to The Coronavirus Newscast on BBC Sounds.

We also recommend Stories Of Our Times as another good news podcast.

Right now we all need distractions more than ever, here's what we suggest this week:

The John Dredge Nothing To Do With Anything Show

The Immaculate Deception

Anthems by Broccoli Content

The Space Programme - Fun Kids Radio

Dr Kevin Fong chats about the new series of 13 Minutes To The Moon from the BBC World Service

We also suggest some podcasts which might help with virus related anxiety:

Field Recordings

The Happiness Lab with Dr Laurie Santos

Feel Better Live More with Dr Rangan Chatterjee

Get Sleepy

And if that's not enough to be getting on with, finally Scott suggests some great tv box sets to binge on too.

A selection of great podcast recommendations to take your mind off current events.

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

Firstly, a pick of 2020's best - timeless series which are well worth getting stuck into.

Hana Walker-Brown, executive producer at Broccoli content joins to discuss the hit show Anthems - each episode containing positive personal philosophies.

Also recommended from 2020:

The Golden House (Ross Sutherland)

Rabbit Hole (New York Times)

Vent Documentaries (VICE and Brent Council)

The Log Books (Tash Walker, Adam Zmith and Shivani Dave)

The Sink (BBC Sounds)

Then a look forward to building a brighter, better 2021 with some podcasts that offer hope for the future.

Jon Richardson and the Futurenauts (Ed Gillespie and Mark Stevenson) join to discuss their show which focuses on changes we can make to create a better world.

Also:

How To Vaccinate The World (BBC Radio 4)

Brave New Planet (Pushkin)

Armchair Adventures (Made By Mortals & Hearts and Minds)

Recommendations of inspirational audio for the New Year.

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

First - great children's podcasts:

Tai Asks Why (CBC)

The Week Junior

Eleanor Amplified (WHYY)

Peace Out - Meditation for Kids

Kyla Slaven, producer of ABC's Short and Curly joins to discuss the philosophy show for kids.

And then we celebrate glorious video games and some of the best podcasts to stay up to date and entertained:

Women Of Marvel (episode Women of Video Game Journalism Revisited)

How Did This Get Played

Sound of Gaming (BBC Radio 3)

Triple Click (Maximum Fun)

Girls On Games

You can suggest your favourite podcast, or get in touch with the team by emailing podcastradiohour@bbc.co.uk

Recommendations of great kids podcasts, and shows celebrating the glory of video games

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

First, a selection of new series:

Boom/Bust: The Rise and Fall of HQ Trivia (The Ringer)

Nut Jobs (Audible)

The Stubborn Light of Things (Melissa Harrison)

Changes with Annie Mac

Her Spirit Podcasts

And as we are in the middle of Pride month, some recommended LGBTQ+ listening from:

Pride And Joy (BBC Sounds)

Anthems - Pride (Broccoli Content)

I'm Grand Mam

Growing Up With Galdem

Then we speak to podcaster and refugee Abdulwahab Tahan about his new series Integrate That, launched as part of UK Refugee Week. We hear how the podcast tells stories with refugee voices front and centre.

And continuing our review of some of this year's nominations for the British Podcast Awards, we hear who is nominated in the Best Entertainment category:

George Ezra & Friends

Help I Sexted My Boss

No Country For Young Women

Off Menu with Ed Gamble and James Acaster

Sam Walker's Desert Diaries

Something Rhymes with Purple

Recommended listening for pride month, and a new podcast about refugees, by refugees.

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

Jon Ware and Muna Hussen from The Silt Verses talk about their fantasy series, a folk-horror podcast following two figures' pilgrimage through a world of human sacrifice and strange deities.

And Caro Mincks, creator of 'Seen and Not Heard', talks about how Judaism influenced the writing of their semi-autobiographical series, which sees a young woman adapting to deafness.

Plus we recommend:

Desperado

Chain of Being

Midst

Forgive Me!

Gospels of the Flood

Unwell

Under Pressure

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

Tina Muir – the elite athlete turned podcaster – joins us to talk about her podcasts Running for Real and Running Realised about the glorious freedoms, spiritual epiphanies and harsh realities of running.

And we speak to the running comedians Rob Deering and Paul Tonkinson about their long running running podcast Running Commentary where they talk about running whilst running.

We also hear speedy bursts of:

Couch to 5k

Free Weekly Timed

Rob Deering's Running Tracks Radio Hour

Running is BS

A Runner's Life with Marcus Brown

The Sunday Plodcast

RunPod with Jenni Falconer

The Women's Running Podcast

Runner's World UK Podcast

Laura Grimshaw and Moy McGowan present a selection of running podcasts.

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

We hear from the creator of 'Midnight Burger' Joe Fisher, who discusses why a dimension-hopping, time travelling diner is the perfect setting for a hopeful, human story.

Plus long time friends Jonathan Williams and Alan Mandel discuss 'Red Valley', and offer advice on just how to develop ideas with your friends. Plus - what is the difference between cryonics and cryogenics?

And we'll hear clips from

Chaika

RogueMaker

Breathing Space, Fading Frontier

Sayer

Apollyon

The Transposition of Chloë Brontë

Chris Pearson and Ella Watts suggest Sci-Fi Audio Drama

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

The space journalist Sarah Cruddas discusses her series 'Where's My Jetpack?' She'll tell us about the links between science fiction and fact, and we'll hear whether she would want to visit Mars.

Plus, we'll hear clips from:

The Vulnerable Scientist

Small Screen Science

You Are Not So Smart

The Animal Behaviour Podcast

The Happiness Lab

The Curious Cases of Rutherford and Fry

Invisibilia

Why Aren't You A Doctor Yet?

In Defense Of Plants

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

Jay Rayner discusses his podcast Out To Lunch:

One of the world's top food critics lunches big names in a restaurant of his choosing. Crackling anecdotes and blistering chat, lubricated by killer cooking. A podcast produced by Somethin' Else / Jay Rayner.

Abby Hollick chats about the second series of BBC Sounds' Duvet Days, where she gets into bed with musicians and artists for frank under-the-cover chats. The new series launches with the singer and songwriter Emeli Sandé.

Also featuring RunPod with Jenni Falconer -the weekly run club you can join simply by listening. Jenni Falconer welcomes special guests who share that passion for running. A podcast produced by Global Media.

Amanda Litherland & Scott Bryan recommend podcasts including Out To Lunch With Jay Rayner.

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

Sarah Wade and her guest Danish comedian and podcaster Sofie Hagen listen to Wanna Be and Haunted - both UK podcasts.

And they talk to Imriel Morgan - co-founder of the ShoutOut network - an online platform that caters for people from diverse backgrounds - and the creator of the Wanna Be podcast.

Wanna Be' and 'Haunted'.

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

Benbrick, the producer, composer and sound designer behind 'Have You Heard George's Podcast?' and 'Kim Noble's Futile Attempts' talks to us about his influences, tech, and process.

We go behind the scenes of The Skewer with Jon and his sound designer Tony Churnside to find out how The Skewer twists itself into the week's news.

And we speak to Madeleine and Hugh from the sound landscape podcast Radio Lento.

We also listen in to:

Twenty Thousand Hertz on ASMR

Sound Matters on Synaesthesia,

Radio 3's Slow Radio and their Sounds of the Earth

Tone Benders on field recording in the deserts of Namibia

Radio 4's The Lovecraft Investigations

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

This week, Stef Garrero, Elis James and Mike Bubbins discuss their lockdown sports podcast The Socially Distant Sports Bar podcast.

Then Adrian Koenigsberg joins us from New York to discuss her podcast Quell Party which celebrates and showcases women and non-binary people in Skateboarding.

Plus recommended listens from the world of Sports, including:

Don't Tell Me The Score

The Game Changers

Gladiator: Aaron Hernandez and Football Inc.

All-American: Tiger Woods

Death Of A Sports Star

30 for 30

HORSE

The Tennis Podcast‎

Podcasts from the world of sports: The Socially Distant Sports Bar + Quell Party Podcast.

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

This week Alan makes a return to audio with a brand new podcast 'From The Oasthouse' - available to download from Audible.

Steve Coogan chats to Amanda Litherland about the benefits of making comedy that's for ears only, and shares some of the secrets behind Alan Partridge's 30 year success.

Later, Amanda is joined by the writer and critic Scott Bryan to recommend more of the latest new listens, including:

Poppy Hillstead Has Entered The Chat

Futile Attempts At Surviving Tomorrow - (Kim Noble and Novel)

My Year In Mensa (Jamie Loftus)

The Bomb (BBC World Service)

Media Tribe (Shaunagh Connaire)

On Things We Left Behind (Acast)

Book Off (Joe Haddow)

The Two Shot Podcast (Craig Parkinson)

Chasing Charlie (Freemantle Australia)

First broadcast in September 2020.

Steve Coogan discusses the Alan Partridge podcast 'From The Oasthouse'.

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

Featuring:

Alan Cumming on Bad Gays

Arthur Smith on Desert Island Discs

Athena Kugblenu on Have You Heard George's Podcast?

Jake Yapp on The Adventure Zone

Alan Smith on Political Thinking

Andrew Peach on Who? Weekly

Tina Ritchie (and Nicky Campbell) on One Of The Family

Ken Bruce on The Archers

Toby Hadoke on A Wheezing and Groaning Sound

Natalie Haynes on Robin & Josie's Bookshambles

Daljit Nagra on Frank Skinner's Poetry Podcast

David Miles on Countrystride

Kathy Clugston on You Must Remember This

Lou Conran on Drunk Women Solving Crime

Jon Holmes on Brain Cigar

Laura Grimshaw on Cold Case Crime Cuts

Chris Pearson on The Aunty Donna Podcast

Amanda Litherland on The Beef and Dairy Network

~Podcast Radio Hour presents postcards recommending some great listens for the Summer.

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

FEATURING:

Alan Cumming on You're Wrong About and The History of Literature

Moy McGowan on Shrine of Duty

Chrystal Genesis on From Root To Vine

Scott Bryan on Pieces of Britney

Athena Kugblenu on Cane Warriors

Iain Lee on Nothing Is Real

Jessica Fostekew on Sara Pascoe's Sex, Power, Money

Harriet Kemsley on Joan & Jericha

Tom Sandars on This Classical Life

Chris Aldridge on Elis and John

Dan Mersh on Alan Partridge: From The Oasthouse

Toby Hadoke on Something Rhymes With Purple

Nick Briggs on Frank Skinner's Poetry Podcast

Anna Smith on Grounded with Louis Theroux

Helen O'Hara on The Thrilling Adventure Hour

Alex Riley on Mastertapes

Steve Urquhart on Decode

Tim Harford on 99% Invisible

Isy Suttie on St Elwick's Neighbourhood Association Newsletter

Laura Lexx on Trivia Warfare and Complete Guide To Everything

Laura Grimshaw on The Things We Do For Love

Chris Pearson on The Birthday Girls' House Party

~Podcast Radio Hour presents postcards recommending some great listens for the Summer.

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

Recommended this week

Short series to learn something:

The World According to Sound

50 Things That Changed The Modern Economy

The Story Behind

On This Day In Esoteric Political History

Short fiction/story series:

Listen, Rinse, Repeat

Chompers

The Roommate From Hell

Havisham Kills Time

Sam Walker's Desert Island Diaries

Short thoughtful podcasts:

10 Things That Scare Me

Now For Tomorrow

The Rob Auton Daily Podcast

The Slowdown

New Podcasts:

The Missionary

Swipe Left Swipe Left

You can contact the show by emailing podcastradiohour@bbc.co.uk

Amanda and Caroline Crampton suggest short podcasts. Jacob Hawley on his new series.

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

We are joined by the BBC's Chief Environment Editor Justin Rowlatt to talk about BBC Radio 4's A Pyrotechnic History of Humanity and the wider challenge of reporting on the Climate Crisis.

We also speak to Tom Heap and Anne-Marie Bullock about BBC Radio 4's 39 Ways To Save The Planet and to Jack Marley about The Climate Fight: The World's Biggest Negotiation, a new podcast from The Conversation.

We also hear hopeful ideas and practical advice from:

The Climate Question from BBC World Service

To A Lesser Degree from The Economist

Climate Fringe Stories from Stop Climate Chaos Scotland

Use It Up from Delicious Australia

Wardrobe Crisis from Vogue Australia

Green on the Go from Holiday Extras

Fully Charged

Inherited from Critical Frequency

Laura Grimshaw and Greg Cochrane look at podcasts about sustainability.

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

The featured podcasts are;

Folk On Foot', in which Matthew Bannister talks to the singer and writer Karine Polwart around Fala Moor. We then interview Matthew Bannister about the 'Folk On Foot' podcast, whilst walking through Hampstead Heath.

The Wild', a podcast from KUOW in Seattle, in which the ecologist Chris Morgan goes on 'The Hunt To Find Just One Square Inch Of Silence', which takes him deep in to the Hoh rainforest. Chris then answers questions about the podcast, and tells us how he may have created a proto-podcast when he was younger, and it was all about red squirrels.

Walking', a podcast with no talking, just walking, made by the writer Jon Mooallem.

First broadcast BBC Radio 4 Extra in August 2019.

Nell Frizzell & Luke Doran explore outdoor podcasts, including Folk On Foot and The Wild.

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

Danny Robins and producer Simon Barnard discuss their new BBC Sounds series Uncanny. We'll hear about how they found real people who could discuss their own paranormal experiences. Plus, how do the two look back on their award winning Battersea Poltergeist series?

Plus we'll have some terrifying drama recommendations, and some sillier Halloween listening.

With clips from:

Children of the Stones

The Battersea Poltergeist

Within the Wires

13 Days of Halloween

Dos: After You

Less is Morgue

Phil Wang Hates Horror

SeanceCast

Monstrous Agonies

Spooky listening for Halloween.

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

We also recommend Beware of the Leopard, the complete podcast compendium to Douglas Adams' creation, and speak to it's creator Mark Steadman.

Podcast recommendations include:

We Fix Space Junk

The Strange Case of Starship Iris

Diary of a Space Archivist

Anne-Marie Luff and Rachel Wheeley recommend the best podcasts for fans of H2G2

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

With contributions from regular co-hosts Scott Bryan, Jon Holmes, Isy Suttie, Jessica Fostekew, Shivani Dave, Ella Watts, Ellie Gibson, Greg Cochrane, Imriel Morgan, Jake Yapp, Roshan Roberts, Chrystal Genesis and Salena Godden.

Plus archive interviews with Nicola Coughlan and Camilla Whitehill, Alan Cumming, Suzannah Lipscomb, Steve Coogan, Lemn Sissay, Susannah Constantine, David Dimbleby and Neil Gaiman - and many more.

Laura Grimshaw, Amanda Litherland and Chris Pearson bring the best of Podcast Radio Hour.

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

Dr Mya Rose Craig aka Birdgirl talks about the benefits of nature and birdwatching in both the city and the countryside, with her podcast Get Birding.

Ecologist Penny Green chats about the Knepp Wildland Podcast - sharing stories from the rewilding estate in West Sussex.

Recommended podcasts this week:

Tweet of the Day

30 Animals That Made Us Smarter

Wildflower Half Hour

The Science Of Birds

99% Invisible

The Casual Birder

The Roy Dennis Wildlife Foundation: hands-on conservation.

Lancashire Wildlife Trust Podcast

Nature's A Hoot

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

Laura Lexx and Will Duggan talk to us about their show 'National Treasures', which goes on a day out of the UK's various attractions.

And Kathryn Morrison talks to us about her podcast 'My Special Place', in which BBC Local Radio invite figures like Miles Jupp and Julie Hesmondhalgh to explore the sensations and memories attached to a favourite location.

Plus, we hear clips from:

Wild For Scotland

Scotland Outdoors

Ne Lass CAN

Speak Up Sunderland

Countrystride

A Little Slice of Cumbria

From A Lancashire Lass

Out Of Our League - Bury FC

Museums'n'that

Leeds Echoes

Dear Me with Katy Wix and Adam Drake

Stomping Grounds

Mark Steel's In Town

Best Of Belfast

Keep Northern Ireland Beautiful

Ladies of Liverpool

This Foul Earth

Smart Welsh People

BrumHour

Back To Earth

Alan Carr's Life's A Beach

Cotswolds People

The Stubborn Light of Things

The So SO Show

The Brighton and Hove Food and Drink Show

This City

Chris Pearson and Laura Grimshaw tour the UK in podcasts.

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

Leanne Alie joins us from BBC Sounds Audio Lab, and discusses her independent podcast Coiled.

The producer Charlie Dinkin and the stand up comedian Olga Koch talk comedy podcasts, and the value of collaboration.

BBC Brexitcast creator Dino Sofos talks about the pressures of making daily podcasts, and his new production company Persephonica.

Plus, broadcasters from the BBC and beyond offer their advice, with contributions from:

Bad People's Dr Julia Shaw

Teach Me A Lesson's, Greg James and Bella Mackie

Audio Freqs and Vegan Life Podcast presenter Jake Yapp

If You Dont Know's Roshan Roberts and De-Graft Mensah

BBC Sounds Podcast Producer Ella Watts

The Battersea Poltergeist and Uncanny host Danny Robins

BBC Ouch's Keiligh Baker

The Skewer producer Jon Holmes

Wheel Of Misfortune host Alison Spittle,

The Moon Under Water presenters John Robins and Robin Allender

Whistle Through The Shamrocks writers Nicola Coughlan and Camilla Whitehill,

Tony Bellew Is Angry presenter Tony Bellew

Scott Bryan and Hayley Campbell from Must Watch Podcast

~Podcast Radio Hour creator Amanda Litherland

Director and Sound Designer Dirk Maggs.

Podcasters from the BBC and beyond with advice on starting Podcasting.

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

Dolly Parton's America

The Missing Cryptoqueen - presenter Jamie Bartlett and Georgia Catt chat to Podcast Radio Hour about the making of the series.

Slow Burn Series 3

The Sun King

Hunting Warhead

Murderabilia

The Next Episode - editor Dino Sofos chats about this new news podcast aimed at a younger audience.

Giant

Pleasure Studies

You're Dead To Me

Another chance to hear Podcast Radio Hour's top ten picks of 2019.

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

We hear from Melissa Rice and Jade Wye, hosts of BBC Radio 5 Live's Hooked: The Unexpected Addicts, a series which only began a year ago after winning the Rachel Bland New Podcast Award, and has now won the Broadcasting Press Guild award for Radio Programme Of The Year.

Dave from Dopey podcast dials in from New York to tell us how his podcast helps thousands of recovering addicts and their loved ones around the world.

We also hear excerpts from BBC Sounds' Jacob Hawley on Drugs, and Wondery's Dying For Sex.

Amanda Litherland and Chrystal Genesis recommend podcasts that tackle tough topics.

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

And Adam Shaw talks about his podcast, Woodland Walks.

Recommended listening which links science and the sacred, the practical and the magical properties of trees.

Featured Podcasts:

Forest 404

Branch Out

Tree's A Crowd

Emergence Magazine Podcast

Farmerama

The Urban Forestry Radio Show & Podcast

Go Wild

BatChat

Living Beeing

Botanical Mind

Tree Lady Talks

This programme was first broadcast in November 2020, on the eve of the UK's National Tree Week.

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

They speak to podcasters Helen Zaltzman and Jenny Owen Youngs about their podcast Veronica Mars Investigations, which recaps the 00s teen show. Why are there still so many fans eager to hear discussion about it?

And Lily Ames, Head of Production at Chalk and Blade chats about their series Obsessed With... made for BBC Sounds. Each series of the podcast focuses on a hit BBC show, like Line of Duty, Peaky Blinders or Killing Eve. How can podcasts give viewers a glimpse behind the scenes on their favorite programme?

Amanda and Suchandrika also recommend a few of their favourite TV companion series: The Chernobyl Podcast, Inside Inside No 9 and The Good Place: The Podcast.

Amanda Litherland and Suchandrika Chakrabarti dive into the world of TV companion podcasts

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

Sirin Kale discusses Unreal: A Critical History of Reality TV, the Radio 4 podcast she presents alongside Pandora Sykes. We'll hear how the series aims to investigate the huge world of Reality TV, and how they convinced guests to discuss some problematic elements of the shows.

Plus we'll recommend

Companion podcasts

Taskmaster: The People's Podcast

The Wire at 20

Hypothetical: The Podcast

TV Reviews

The Pilot TV Podcast

The Radio Times Podcast

Shrine of Telly

Kermode and Mayo's Take

Interviews

Comfort Eating with Grace Dent - Big Zuu

MY TV Years with Mel Giedroyc - Adjoa Andoh

The Noughties - Black on TV - Joceyln Jee Esien and Tolly T

The Proper Class Podcast - Vicky McClure

Episode by Episode podcasts

Keeping Up Appearances: The Luxury Podcast

Buffering The Vampire Slayer

Parks and Recollection

The Always Sunny Podcast

Inside Inside No. 9

Talking Derry Girls

We'd love to hear your recommendations for TV podcasts you enjoy - so do send us an email to podcastradiohour@bbc.co.uk

Chris Pearson & Scott Bryan with TV podcasts. Plus Sirin Kale on her new reality TV show.

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

Also Jon Sopel and Emily Maitlis discuss making the BBC's Americast - how is reporting for the podcast different to radio or TV broadcasting? And are there fans of the podcast on both sides of the Atlantic?

Podcasts mentioned this week:

Slate's Political Gabfest

FiveThirtyEight Politics

KCRW's Left Right and Center

Pod Save America

Joe Rogan Experience

CBC's Party Lines (Party In The USA mini series)

Women Belong In The House

The Brown Girls Guide To Politics

Presidential

More Perfect

1619

Podcasts to understand the US Election. Jon Sopel and Emily Maitlis chat Americast.

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

They will be joined by Evanna Lynch (better known to Harry Potter fans as Luna Lovegood) from the Chickpeeps Podcast to discuss her go-to easy and tasty vegan meals. The film director Kevin Smith and his daughter Harley Quinn Smith from the Vegan Abattoir Podcast battle the myths around veganism. We get food advice from the host of Vegan Food & Living Magazine's Simply Vegan podcast, Holly Johnson. We'll have a round up of some of the best vegan discussion podcasts including an episode of Plant Proof with the psychologist Melanie Joy, boozy chat with vegan husband and wife celeb team Richard Marx and Daisy Fuentes, and an episode of Monique Koch's Brown Vegan Podcast about the difference between being vegan and being plant-based. And, in the interests of balance, we have a chat with Benjamin Partridge from The Beef & Dairy Network.

Laura Grimshaw and Jake Yapp discuss the best vegan podcasts.

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

John Robins and Robin Allender discuss their dream pub podcast, The Moon Under Water.

Plus presenter Jaega Wise, and producer Lucy Taylor, take us behind the scenes on Radio 4's The Food Programme.

We'll also hear extracts from:

The London History Podcast

Lasties

Brewing After Hours

Pub Quiz

Try Dry

A Woman's Brew

The Mixology Talk

Desert Island Crisps

The Walkers Switch

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

Podcasters Monty Onanuga and Sadia Azmat (No Country For Young Women) and Ben Partridge (Beef and Dairy Network) discuss adapting their shows for the stage.

Promoter Ollie Catchpole (WAVE Festivals) gives his insights into the audience experience, and gives advice for podcasters who want to take their show to a live venue for the first time.

What makes a great live podcast? Podcasters discuss putting their shows on stage.

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

Pandora Sykes talks about Radio 4's new podcast Pieces of Britney, and discusses what Britney's story can teach us about society as a whole.

Plus Martin Zaltz Austwick discusses his new podcast Neutrinowtach, a podcast that, via coding wizardry, automatically releases a newly generated episode every day.

And we'll hear clips from

Sideways

Have You Heard George's Podcast

Building Queertopia

A Thorough Examination with Drs Chris and Xand

A Life More Wild

She Said, They Said

The Town That Knew Too Much

Very Modern Quests

Chris Pearson and Scott Bryan present new podcasts for August.

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

Alexi Mostrous, host of Sweet Bobby, discusses his investigative crime podcast, which tells a remarkable story of catfishing and coercive control.

Plus, we'll hear clips from

Paul McCartney: Inside The Songs

Not Another Love Song

Power: Hugh Hefner

Doomsday Watch

The Long Time Academy

Sickbabe

Coiled

Tipsy Tourism

Behind The Desk: The Story of Late Night

Get Birding

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

Plus we'll hear extracts from:

Cover Story: Power Trip

Harsh Reality: The Story of Miriam Rivera

Wild Things: Siegfried & Roy

Radio 1's Pop 101

Oti Mabuse's Dancing Legends

My Family, Mental Illness and Me

Weird Walk with Charlie Cooper

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

Grace Dent and the producers Leah Green and Gabriela Jones discuss their new podcast Comfort Eating, Alan Cumming talks about 'Hot White Heist' and we dip into:

Which? Investigates with Greg Foot

We Can Be Heroes with Glyn Fussell

Tan France's Queer Icons

Building Queertopia with Chelcee Grimes and Shane Jenek

Constantly Evolving with Eve

THAT Podcast

Conflict of Interest from The Imperial War Museum

If It Bleeds It Leads with Emilia Fox and Professor David Wilson

Cheat! with Alzo Slade

Hashtag Trashbag with Dotty

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

Alan Cumming joins us to talk about his new series, Alan Cumming's Shelves, in which Alan is inspired to interview guests by the trinkets in his house.

Plus Greg Jenner discusses his podcast series 'A Somewhat Complete History Of Sitting Down', which looks at the role of sitting throughout history.

We'll also hear extracts from:

Cross Words with Ian Smith

Behind The Desk: The Story of Late Night

Human Resources

The Retrospectors

What The Denmark

Finding Natasha

Sound Heap

Multi Story

Limelight: The System

Chris Pearson and Scott Bryan round up the best new podcasts for June.

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

Laurence Owen and Lindsay Sharman present their epic new musical The Ballad of Anne and Mary

Jon Holmes talks us through the stupidly funny spoof true crime podcast Cold Case Crime Cuts

Kat Hooker and Emma Jones talk about their brilliantly honest and important podcast The Dead Parent Club

And we feature clips from:

The new BBC Sounds podcast The Lazarus Heist with Jean Lee and Geoff White

Life Changing with Jane Garvey from Radio 4

British Scandal with Matt Forde and Alice Levine

The Moon Under Water with John Robins

Shon Faye's Call Me Mother

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

We are joined by the star of Derry Girls and Bridgerton, Nicola Coughlan and her writing partner Camilla Whitehill to discuss their new comedy podcast Whistle Through The Shamrocks.

And we feature snippets of:

Car Crash by Eddie Robson

This Is Gay from Kirk Flash

Am I Normal with Mona Chalabi

The Flipside with Paris Lees

Bed of Lies from The Telegraph

We Were Always Here with Marc Thompson

The Log Books with Tash Walker, Adam Zmith and Shivani Dave

A Grown Up Guide To Planet Earth with Professor Christopher Jackson

Jon Ronson: Things Fell Apart

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

We'll speak to the hosts of Ladies Who London, a podcast hosted by two London tour guides which aims to highlight hidden parts of London's history.

Plus we'll hear clips from:

Stories of our Times- The Legacy of Penrhyn Castle

Short History Of

Tipsy Tourism

On The Outside

BBC Countryfile Magazine Plodcast - Histories and Mysteries of the Countryside

The Wild with Chris Morgan

Bees in a Pod with Rob Beckett

Atlantic - A Scottish Story

The Grand Scheme - Snatching Sinatra

Finding Q: My Journey into QAnon

Conversations with Annalisa Barbieri

Lecker: A Food Podcast- Kitchens

Chris Pearson and Scott Bryan with September listens. Plus the Ladies Who London podcast.

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

Faith McQuinn discusses writing her romantic comedy series Margaritas and Donuts.

More recommended audio rom coms:

-Fan Wars: The Empire Claps Back

-Me and AU

-Greenhouse

-Deck The Halls (With Matrimony!)

Then Gabriel Urbina and Sarah Shachat discuss creating the fantasy anthology series Unseen. We hear an extract from episode 2 - Into The Dark.

More recommended fantasy/sci fi:

-Flyest Fables

-Open World

-Inn Between

-This Planet Needs A Name

Amanda Litherland and Ella Watts recommend cosy winter fiction podcasts.

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

Daniel Browning tells us about his language podcast Word Up.

Plus Matt Parker and Bec Hill discuss mathematics podcast A Problem Squared.

Podcasts featured:

Tiddas 4 Tiddas

The Thin Black Line

Pretty For An Aboriginal

Science VS

The Aunty Donna Podcast

Stuff The British Stole

Boonta Vista

The Signal

Showcasing great Australian audio

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.

We speak to Laura Shavin about The Offcuts Drawer - the podcast where successful writers share the contents of their bottom drawer – the bits of writing they never finished, had rejected or they just like to hold on to for nostalgic reasons, which are finally brought to life on stage. We're joined by Robin Ince to discuss Bookshambles with Robin Ince and Josie Long, the podcast where books are the springboard into ludicrous and always passionate conversations about anything and everything. And we chat to Jess Phillips MP about her podcast Yours Sincerely about the power of letter writing.

We listen into podcasts on the writing process, devour a selection of podcasts presenting the best in author interviews, and we flick through the best book recommendation podcasts including:

Script Apart

The Writing Life

The Penguin Podcast

Fun Kids Book Worms

Radio 4's Book Club

Red Hot Chilli Writers

Turn Up For The Books from BBC Arts

Radio 4's Open Book and A Good Read

Literary Friction

Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.