Podcasts

Ivan Yates is right: podcasts are not the same as broadcasts

There is no logical reason why a podcast episode should be regulated any more than a Substack post

Jack Chambers channels ‘Margaret Thatcher’ as ‘big squeeze budget’ looms

Inside Politics podcast with Hugh Linehan

‘I would have loved to have been a stay-at-home dad’: Fintan O’Toole on fatherhood

Conversations with Parents podcast with Jen Hogan

Murder, scandal and greyhounds: 21 great podcasts to get stuck into

Looking for a good podcast? We’ve compiled a list of our favourite series and a few one-episode wonders

The Rest Is History podcasters Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook: ‘There’s something about our monotonous drone people just love’

Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook on putting the drama back into history, the weird things fans say and how fellow historians view their podcast

Brian Cowen and The Crash: a new look at the handling and political cost of the Celtic Tiger collapse

A new Irish Times podcast series looks back at the crash with the benefit of 14 years’ hindsight

Where does Mairead McGuinness’s shock withdrawal leave the presidential race?

Inside Politics podcast with Hugh Linehan

‘Why are there no pro-Israel voices in the Dáil?’ Your questions about politics answered

Inside Politics podcast with Hugh Linehan

Will the Government’s big projects survive the next downturn?

Inside Politics podcast with Hugh Linehan

Vogue Williams: ‘Spencer ran towards me with red flags hanging off him in every direction’

The royal-adjacent Irish entrepreneur, podcaster and former model talks about men, her new memoir and her desire to age disgracefully

Bad with money? Our new podcast Better with Money gives practical advice for fixing your finances

Better with Money with Aideen Finnegan

Adult diagnosis of ADHD: ‘It was such a moment of clarity’

In the News podcast: In the News podcast: Mairéad Deevy, a Waterford-based barrister, speaks about her ADHD diagnosis seven years ago

How fake ‘Irish’ clothes firms are scamming consumers

In the News podcast: Irish Times consumer affairs correspondent Conor Pope on how to avoid scammers purporting to be Irish clothes businesses

Meghan Markle’s new podcast: An ego-fluffing conversation underlining the culture gap between Ireland and the US

Confessions Of A Female Founder podcast: The Duchess of Sussex and Bumble dating app founder chat on

From the 2 Johnnies to Vogue & Amber and The Rest is History: Why two podcast presenters are better than one

Double-header podcasts are topping the charts in Ireland and Britain. It’s no mystery why Irish audiences – and advertisers – love them so much

What teenagers think of Adolescence: ‘Young men are getting a bad rap’

The Women’s Podcast with Róisín Ingle

‘One of the lowest points of my life’: Elizabeth Day on marriage breakdown, IVF and How To Fail

Elizabeth Day made her name with her relatable accounts of failure. The How To Fail host is now reaping the rewards of her own success

Becoming a mother at 49: ‘If I didn’t try… I would have lived with regret until the end of my days’

The Women’s Podcast with Róisín Ingle

Doireann Garrihy: ‘I was a big kid. It’s sad when I think back. I think I made jokes to get attention’

Recently married Dancing with the Stars co-host has learned to tread carefully when it comes to putting her life online

Eamon Dunphy and Jane Gogan to put The Stand podcast on ‘a long pause’

Couple say they have no plans to retire but have ‘long standing commitments’ to other projects they must attend to

Podcasts of 2024: 10 of the best shows from the past year, from Keep It Tight to Who Trolled Amber?

The sinking of the Belgrano in the Falklands War, the true story of the Free Willy orca and a conspiracy theory surrounding Avril Lavigne also feature

Housewife of the Year: ‘I won 500 pounds and a cooker’

The Women’s Podcast with Róisín Ingle

Jenny Kelly on giving up alcohol: ‘I was scared of people’s reaction’

The Women’s Podcast with Róisín Ingle

Listen, I’m Delicious: Garron Noone’s food podcast is the most Irish audio experience you can have

Instagram star delves into how butter could threaten a friendship, why curry chips lead to violence and more

The Wonder of Stevie: A rewarding account of ‘the most miraculous, most inspired streak in American popular music’

Podcast review: New York Times critic Wesley Morris digs into the transformative albums Stevie Wonder released between 1972-1980

Dish: With Aisling Bea, Florence Pugh and Marian Keyes, this dinner-party podcast has the perfect guests

Podcast review: Hosted by Angela Hartnett and Nick Grimshaw, Dish is more than a good idea

In Their Shoes: Maude Apatow, an Irish stand-up and a tale of sheer chutzpah

Podcast review: Seanchoíche’s story-switching series works because of the calibre of its guests. It also lets us listen in a whole new way

Uncharted with Hannah Fry: how numbers, graphs, maths and data are the secret sauce behind some of the biggest scandals

Podcast review: Maths is the hero in every 15ish-minute episode, upending views of many people’s least favourite subject in school

Transmissions: The Definitive Story of Joy Division & New Order – An impressive tribute to the bands’ miraculous, affecting art

Podcast review: A sharp and expansive account of the making of music, the forging of friendships and the origin of portentous arbitrary decisions and serendipity

Who Killed Emma? There’s an extraordinary twist to this podcast about a murder that went unsolved for 19 years

Podcast review: Journalist Samantha Poling became witness at a murder trial in a development that led to this podcast being made temporarily unavailable

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

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