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A News podcast I've only recently found is Stories of our Times.
It's a daily Times pod. Not unlike The Guardian's Today in Focus. But much more on topic with investigative pieces and less social commentary.

Recently they've been running the Cameron story over a few episodes. That might not sound exciting however the Pod is very good at explaining messy details and it also remains quite upbeat and often funny.

been listening to stories of our times since your recommendation , very very good. thanks

I’m listening to Exit Scam at the moment (it’s still ongoing so you may have to wait if you only listen to podcasts that are fully available). It’s about a cryptocurrency company CEO who dies in mysterious circumstances and his passwords die with him. I’m liking it.

I love My Favourite Murder - 2 women with a love for the macabre talk about all their favourite murder and mayhem. It’s a comedy podcast and they don’t fact-check everything but I really like it as a lighter relief to more serious true crime podcasts. I didn’t really like the first 4 or 5 episodes but that was just them getting into their groove.

You’re Wrong About is excellent. Two journalists take well know tropes and stories and give the REAL story behind them, not the commonly believed and accepted version. My favourites in that so far are the Enron one and the Ann Nicole Smith one. Highly recommend.

My Dad Wrote a Porno - as it says on the tin. Three presenters read chapters from one of the presenter’s dad’s attempt at writing an explicit “novel”. It’s good, and riotously funny in places but a bit samey after a while. I dip in and out (ooeer missus )

Who the hell is Hamish - one of the first podcasts I listened too and got me hooked on podcasts! A fraudster in Australia and it’s just amazing how many people he cheated.

i listened to a bbc podcast series this week while on dog walks...about paul massey, the manchester gangster..... extremely good i thought, full of drama, story really well told.
think its just called 'gangster'

The Witness - In His Own Words

3 episodes out so far. Really good. Tough going in some parts.

https://open.spotify.com/show/2MvergbFdQsJbrFBWnraKi?si=F_6lJJyCQZ2OUpRpfSmutQ&dl_branch=1

https://play.acast.com/s/the-witness-in-his-own-words/

THE WITNESS: IN HIS OWN WORDS
by Yellow Path Productions
In 2005, Joseph O'Callaghan's testimony helped convict two drug-dealing gangsters for murder, and he became the youngest person ever to enter the Witness Protection Programme in Ireland.

Now, as the men he put away agitate for release, he tells his extraordinary life story in his own words for the first time.

Following the publication of Nicola Tallant’s best-selling book The Witness, The Witness: In His Own Words is an ambitious and powerful documentary podcast series produced by the team behind The Stand with Eamon Dunphy.

Am I allowed promote my own podcast? Sure I will anyway

Its called Junk Dilemmas and every month, a mate and I discuss an Irvine Welsh book or adaptation, just for a laugh really.
We've just done the 1998 novel Filth with an episode on the 2013 movie coming soon.

https://anchor.fm/junk-dilemmas

Not sure if anyone here is in to scripted dramas/thrillers...I dip in and out every so often if I overload on sports and current affairs.

Listening to a decent one (so far) called Tomorrow's Monsters starring John Boyega.

I'm three episodes in and will probably binge it all today and tomorrow

BBC podcast called who killed Emma?

Good listen, about a Scottish prostitute who was murdered. But some good investigative journalism in it

Have listened to a few episodes of Death Of A Sport Star. Short programmes about the death of high profile sports stars. Some are grim listening (Justin Fashanu, Chris Benoit) but are fascinating.

I think it's a great show, but there seems to be so many ads.