Amanda is a wife. A mother. A blogger. A Christian. A charming, beautiful, bubbly, young woman who lives life to the fullest. But Amanda is dying, with a secret she doesn’t want anyone to know. She starts a blog detailing her cancer journey, and becomes an inspiration, touching and captivating her local community as well as followers all over the world. Until one day investigative producer Nancy gets an anonymous tip telling her to look at Amanda’s blog, setting Nancy on an unimaginable road to uncover Amanda’s secret. Award winning journalist Charlie Webster explores this unbelievable and bizarre, but all-too-real …
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Podcasts
Acclaimed writer and journalist Jon Ronson relates his startling journey into the lives of the shamed – people ruined by a badly worded tweet or a work faux pas – in 6 episodes of 15 minutes each. BBC Radio 4 Jon Ronson acknowledges that he was once a public shamer, and in his book, which he is reading from in this podcast, he explores the impact of public shaming on both the shamer and shamee. Neither come through the experience well. He draws a comparison between a social media attack mob and the 17th century practice of locking someone into …
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For generations of music lovers, the liner notes on albums were a central part of the way music was heard. You bought an album and it came with an accompanying narrative: a digression, an aside, a backstory—maybe even an invented history. We intuitively understood that great music required not just listening but conversation between the artist and the audience and the audience and the rest of the world. Broken Record is a podcast that restarts those conversations—in a world without liner notes—for a new audience of music lovers. Broken Record is hosted by Justin Richmond with interviews by producer Rick Rubin, writer …
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What happens when a diagnosis changes everything? One afternoon, Helena Merriman walked into a doctor’s surgery and was given a shock diagnosis. In this series, she interviews people who – like her-were changed by a diagnosis. Told through an immersive sound design, this intimate series shines a light on misunderstood conditions, asking how we cope when our bodies and our minds no longer behave as we want them to. BBC Radio 4 Each episode in this series focuses on an individual story of a person who experienced a shock medical diagnosis and how they came to terms with it. The …
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Two men who’ve been at the heart of the political world – former Downing Street Director of Communications and Strategy Alastair Campbell and cabinet minister Rory Stewart – join forces from across the political divide. The Rest Is Politics lifts the lid on the secrets of Westminster, offering an insider’s view on politics at home and abroad, while bringing back the lost art of disagreeing agreeably. Goalhanger podcasts This a podcast I listen to often. Politics in recent years has become ruthless, cruel and characterised by a nastiness that I find horrible. So to listen to two people from opposite …
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If you’ve ever yelled at someone on social media about, say, cancel culture or mask-wearing, then you are a soldier in the culture wars – those everyday battles for dominance between conflicting values. The acclaimed writer and podcaster Jon Ronson has seen friends swallowed up in them to the extent that it’s ruined their lives. Jon was curious to learn how things fell apart, and so he went back into the history of the culture wars to find some of the origin stories: the pebbles thrown in the pond, creating the ripples that led us to where we are today. …
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The lightbulb, Willy Wonka, The Beatles & even the screen you’re reading this on would not exist without neurodivergent minds. 20% of the population is considered neurodivergent (ADHD, Autism, Dyscalculia, Dyslexia, Dyspraxia, & Tourettes etc.) and yet waiting times for diagnosis are at an all-time high. Join Ben Branson (Autistic/ADHD), the visionary founder of Seedlip, as each week he sits down with great minds that think differently: from neurodivergent entrepreneurs & talented creatives to renowned authors, psychologists & experts. As a society we need more awareness, understanding & support of neurological conditions that have silently contributed so much to the …
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From ghostly phantoms to UFOs, The Battersea Poltergeist’s Danny Robins investigates real-life stories of paranormal encounters. BBC Radio 4 Danny Robins divides listeners into either ‘team skeptic’ or ‘team believer’. I am firmly team skeptic, but that doesn’t mean I don’t find the inexplicable stories he shares fascinating and very very entertaining. It’s a bit weird, spooky, and sometimes downright confounding. Robins himself hosts the show with bucketfuls of drama and barely suppressed excitement. It’s hard not to smile at his enthusiasm. If nothing else, this show is fun. And the musical score provides a lyrical catchphrase which can be …
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How much do you know about the person you love? Sweet Bobby is the #1 chart-topping, award-winning investigative series in search of the world’s most sophisticated catfisher. Tortoise Media Don’t Google this show. So much has been written and part of the pleasure of listening to it is the suspense from plot twists and revelations. Alexi Mostrous, the journalist who tells this story, does so with deft skill, gently leading the listener through a series of rolling emotions, but without ever minimising Kirat Assi’s experience. It is an extraordinary story about catfishing and the long lasting impacts on Assi’s life, …
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It was the perfect day Until someone shat on the floor. Karen Whitehouse and Helen McLaughlin got married on Saturday the 11th of August, 2018. The mystery of the crime has been tormenting them ever since. They have to know who, out of their closest friends, family (or staff) were audacious enough to loosen their bowels… on the floor… on their special day. Join the brides, Helen Mclaughlin and Karen Whitehouse, and the extremely under-qualified ‘Detective’ Lauren Kilby, as they interrogate wedding guests, hook bridesmaids up to polygraph machines and speak with top forensic experts in an attempt to crack …
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