The Rest Is Politics: Alastair Campbell and Rory Stewart are wildly well informed and personally investedPodcast review: Alastair Campbell and Rory Stewart politics show is kind of a balm, and pretty chummy, but it’s definitely seriousSat Nov 18 2023 - 05:00
Drifting Off with Joe Pera: Addictively soporific listeningPodcast review: The US comedian’s meaders through subjects from soup to Ireland to his answering machine are a little bit ASMR, a little bit guided meditationSat Nov 11 2023 - 05:00
Say More with Dr? Sheila: Amy Poehler’s podcast is one of the funniest I’ve listened to in a long timePodcast review: In the words of the inimitable Dr? Sheila (’focus on yourself, don’t worry about my credentials’), this is beautiful workSat Nov 04 2023 - 05:00
Changes: Just you, me, Annie Macmanus and Idris Elba. No wonder I can’t stop listeningPodcast review: Macmanus shows a lockpicker’s skill in opening up her high-profile guestsSat Oct 28 2023 - 05:15
Unsettled: If you’re looking for context for the Israel-Palestine conflict, this podcast talks to people in the disputed territoriesPodcast review: These are the kinds of conversations we need to listen to but cannot hear over the sound of violenceSat Oct 21 2023 - 05:15
World of Secrets: The Abercrombie Guys – Eye-popping claims about sex parties thrown by former chief executivePodcast review: Mike Jeffries and his partner threw sex parties that allegedly left young men feeling exploited, vulnerable and violatedSat Oct 14 2023 - 05:15
Mud, blood and earbuds: Rugby podcasts to check out during the 2023 World CupPodcast review: Our verdicts on The Rugby Pod; The Good, the Bad & the Rugby; Blood & Mud; Two Cents Gets Distracted; and The Left WingSat Oct 07 2023 - 05:15
Niall Breslin’s Where Is My Mind? has changed my mind about wellness podcasts Podcast review: Bressie chooses his guests carefully, and often their insight is enough to make you question accepted thinkingSat Sept 30 2023 - 05:00
The Missing Madonna: Bags of cash, pub car parks and a stolen Leonardo da VinciPodcast review: Olivia Graham is a smart host and storyteller, and knows how to build the tensionSat Sept 23 2023 - 05:00
Strike Force Five: Top TV hosts shoot the breeze for a good causePodcast review: Series features Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel, Seth Meyers and John OliverSat Sept 16 2023 - 05:00
The Retrievals: The appalling true story of women dragged across the pain threshold with the promise of a babyPodcast review: A group of women were put through agony after a nurse stole their painkillers, then were gaslit by doctorsSun Sept 10 2023 - 05:00
Where Should We Begin? By God, Esther Perel’s podcast gets to grips with some sticky relationship issuesPodcast review: There are no flies on this host as she navigates major relationship issuesSat Sept 02 2023 - 05:00
Stretch Marks: This podcast’s parenting advice can be as welcome as a full night’s sleepPodcast review: Sinéad O’Moore is holding her own as a compassionate and curious interviewer with plenty to saySat Aug 26 2023 - 05:00
People Who Knew Me: A cracking Rosamund Pike lights up a taut tale of loss and deceptionPodcast review: An unfailingly charismatic Hugh Laurie also stars in this 10-episode adaptation of Kim Hooper’s novelSun Aug 20 2023 - 08:00
Tommy Tiernan, Joanne McNally, Michael Barbaro, Esther Perel and more: 17 of the best podcasts to listen to right nowFeaturing Three Castles Burning, The Daily, The Rest Is History, If Books Could Kill and moreSun Aug 20 2023 - 05:15
One-sided story of a polite Dublin bank robberPodcast review: I’m Not Here to Hurt You suffers from the absence of other voicesSat Aug 12 2023 - 05:00
The Louis Theroux Podcast: Blessed be the PeacemakerReview: Broadcaster’s new series on Spotify showcases his strengths as an interviewerMon Aug 07 2023 - 05:00
One of Ireland’s oldest podcasts is more than a historical oddityIrish History Podcast spans two millenniums of the country’s pastSat Jul 29 2023 - 05:00
Dublin Review: An erudite, stately podcast that compels the listener to slow downThis monthly (or so) podcast explores some of the magazine’s essays with the writers themselvesSat Jul 22 2023 - 05:00
Poodunnit: an Amsterdam crime saga with a scatological twistWho Shat on the Floor at My Wedding? is a No 1 international hit about a mysterious number twoSat Jul 15 2023 - 05:00
The Ezra Klein Show: Novel, profound chats with the finest minds out therePodcast review: Episodes often clock in well past the hour, but this is not the kind of podcast you can listen to at double speedSat Jul 01 2023 - 05:00
Making a show of the parentsPodcast review: Amid the giggles, Jennifer Zamparelli and Lottie Ryan’s new weekly pod offers excellent advice and insightsSat Jun 24 2023 - 05:00
Could a child be tortured and abused by her parents for 13 years without anyone noticing?Journalist Richard Guilliatt gives us a lopsided account of a traumatic Australian case in the Shadow of Doubt podcastSat Jun 17 2023 - 05:48
Compelling story of the GPO girl – a master of manipulation and mind gamesPodcast review: Doc on One team take an exhaustive dive into tale of conwoman Samantha AzzopardiSat Jun 10 2023 - 05:00
Destroying Twitter from withinPodcast review: Flipping the Bird tells the tale of Elon Musk’s disastrous takeover of the social networkSat Jun 03 2023 - 05:00
Believe in Magic: a sad, complicated but rewarding tale of deceptionPodcast review: Jamie Bartlett and Ruth Mayer eventually find some discomfiting truthsSat May 27 2023 - 05:00
Conversations with older and wiser womenPodcast review: Julia Louis-Dreyfus’s podcast is slickly made while also full of empathy and humourSat May 20 2023 - 05:00
Dara Ó Briain wants to talk about great ways to waste your timePodcast review: Dara Ó Briain’s Timewasters is relatable, funny and surprisingSat May 13 2023 - 05:00
Free State With Joe Brolly and Dion Fanning aims at too many easy targetsPodcast review: This pair only really get interesting when they turn to political issuesSat May 06 2023 - 05:00
Can’t get enough of Succession? This is the podcast for youKara Swisher digs into the creative cloices and narrative twists as the hit show unspools its final seriesSat Apr 29 2023 - 05:00
Two inner-city Dubliners Talking Bollox? Home truths from the kitchen tablePodcast review: Calvin O’Brien and Terence Power’s Talking Bollox has chemistry, charm, smarts and some pacy banterSat Apr 22 2023 - 05:00
I’m Not a Monster: The knotty story of Shamima Begum, a London teen turned exiled terroristPodcast review: Journalist Josh Baker, a careful storyteller who can craft a tale while staying true to complexity, has his work cut outSat Apr 15 2023 - 05:00
Ian Lynch of Lankum’s astounding archive of traditional musicPodcast review: Fire Draw Near’s host Ian Lynch drops knowledge with easeSat Apr 08 2023 - 05:00
Bertie Ahern’s podcast tells a powerful storyPodcast review: Former taoiseach’s tone is conversational rather than confrontationalSat Apr 01 2023 - 06:00
Suspect: If you are a true crime devotee, this may be exactly what you orderedPodcast review: A reminder that the criminal justice process seldom brings the tidy resolution we craveSat Mar 25 2023 - 05:00
The Witch Trials of JK Rowling: A partial talePodcast review: Four parts in and the series has had barely any time for transgender voicesSat Mar 18 2023 - 05:00
Don’t tell anyone, but I just heard something you wouldn’t believe...Podcast review: Normal Gossip is a tea-spilling treatSat Mar 11 2023 - 05:00
An Irish success story about the realities of emigrant life in AustraliaPodcast review: Caroline McKenna’s A County Down Under explores what it’s like to live on the other side of the world from your homelandSat Mar 04 2023 - 05:00
Jason Bateman, Sean Hayes and Will Arnett: Three guys, a mic and €80m cheque from AmazonPodcast review: They are rich and have the connections, but Smartless is not your usual famous-person-talking showSat Feb 25 2023 - 05:00
How a Cork duo turned chats with their mammies into a hit podcastPodcast review: Friends and flatmates Kevin Twomey and PJ Kirby put a mic they spontaneously bought on Amazon prime to sparkling effect in I’m Grand MamSat Feb 18 2023 - 05:00
She was a young, talented Cuban artist who fell to her death. Her famous husband beat the murder chargePodcast review: Death of an Artist revisits the story of Ana Mendieta, who died in 1985Sat Feb 11 2023 - 05:00
Is this Ireland’s scariest podcast?Podcast review: the latest series of Irish horror podcast Petrified is firmly located on home turfSat Feb 04 2023 - 05:00
The Rest is History: Scholarship with a light touchPodcast review: Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook have been topping the charts with their highly entertaining and erudite historical reflectionsSat Jan 28 2023 - 05:00
Did a husband murder his wife or is he in prison for a crime he did not commit?Podcast review: Bone Valley has it all - a cold case, a man in prison who says he is innocent, a renegade prosecutor, a confessed murdererSat Jan 21 2023 - 05:00
‘You should be able to pick your vulva out in a line-up’ and other essential medical factsPodcast review: Dr Doireann’s Podcast invites experts in specific fields of women’s health to drop their knowledgeSat Jan 14 2023 - 05:00
‘They tried to shut us all up’: Women silenced for decades relive their traumaPodcast review: Over the course of six episodes, Redacted Lives hears from women who were forced into mother and baby homesSat Jan 07 2023 - 05:00
Podcast review: In Kathy Burke’s hands, death has never sounded quite so amusingPodcast review: Where There’s a Will, There’s a Wake is bound to be embraced by a nation that dines out on death noticesSat Dec 24 2022 - 05:00
Men explaining things to me has never felt so politically expedientPodcast review: Let Me Explain with Seán Defoe is as far from mansplaining as you can getSat Dec 17 2022 - 05:00
The disturbing truth about a huge educational errorPodcast review: American schools adopted a method of teaching children how to read that harmed a generation. How did it happen?Sat Dec 10 2022 - 05:00
Podcasts in 2022 started with a boycott and ended with a next-level horror showDespite a post-pandemic slowdown in growth, the format is expanding its boundaries all the timeSat Dec 10 2022 - 04:27
