Critics at Large: These three New Yorker writers are anything but drily intellectual
Podcast review: Vinson Cunningham, Naomi Fry and Alexandra Schwartz discuss everything from Taylor Swift to true crime
How to Gael: Funny, candid conversations that move seamlessly between Béarla and Gaeilge
Podcast review: Doireann Ní Ghlacáin, Louise Cantillon and Síomha Ní Ruairc have the ineffable chemistry that’s invaluable to this having-a-chat format
The Simpler Life? James Kavanagh and William Murray’s jealousy-stoking tales of bougie country living
Podcast review: Learn about hive baiting, the dangers of hemlock ingestion and the pros of a buffet table on the Carlow-Kilkenny border
The Real Carrie Jade: RTÉ’s gripping podcast about the pathological liar Samantha Cookes is hard to turn away from
Podcast review: The fabulist began with minor falsehoods in her childhood in England but ultimately preyed on the vulnerable
Hysterical review: What made more than a dozen teenage girls come down with the same strange illness?
Podcast review: So many conversion disorders together? That’s mass psychogenic illness – aka mass hysteria
You Probably Think This Story Is About You: How one woman fell hard for a master manipulator
Podcast review: Brittani Ard is a skilled storyteller willing to bring to light some of her darkest moments
Jon Holmes Says the C-Word: Stephen Fry and Eric Idle talk frankly about the indignity – and humour – of cancer
Podcast review: This is important, destigmatising stuff but also bright, warm and entertaining
Bronwyn: Teacher’s Pet investigator Hedley Thomas on the trail of another missing mother – and another apparent death
Podcast review: Thomas’s dogged approach to the case of Bronwyn Winfield marks this series out from true-crime titillation
The Run-Up: New York Times election podcast takes the more interesting approach of talking to ordinary people
Black millennial host Astead W Herndon takes a bottom-up approach that makes this US presidential election podcast a must-listen
Mother: Keelin Moncrieff’s new podcast freewheels through the mothering life in all its glory and gore
Review: Mother is a reminder of the real need for this kind of cut-through-the-Insta-lives frankness, especially if you’re new to the parenting rollercoaster
D-Day: The Tide Turns – Absorbing account of meticulously orchestrated military gamble
Podcast review: The seaborne invasion, involving more than 130,000 troops, created a path to victory in Europe during the second World War
Handsome podcast review: Dry wit, glorious self-deprecation and creative brain explosions
Podcast review: The comedians Fortune Feimster, Tig Notaro and Mae Martin conquer the potentially dicey three-friends-chatting format
Fur & Loathing: an unsolved gas attack on a hotel and the rise of Nazi furries
Podcast: Why was a potentially deadly gas released at an IRL meeting of ‘a particularly nice and earnest’ online community?
The Forgotten: RTÉ’s investigation into the Dublin and Monaghan bombings highlights damning withholding of evidence
Podcast review: Deeply sourced series shows how the initial investigation foundered on incompetence, accident and indolence
Broomgate podcast review: The scandal that tipped the sport of curling into a hotbed of resentment and rivalry
Podcast review: Broomgate opens at the 2015 Tour Challenge in the Canadian town of Paradise, when a man named Brad Gushue walked on to the ice