Medical malpractice is a gruelling subject for a true crime anthology series, but this offering from pod giant Wondery does an admirable job of foregrounding its reports with detailed research and context that avoids sensationalising the victims. By devoting so much runtime to each year, One Year often unearths overlooked events, such as a hotly-contested (and ultimately fatal) contest for a place on board the the Space Shuttle Challenger in 1986. His most recent series focused on 1942, investigating everything frommisinformation spread during the second world war to the labour strikes of working musicians and runaway inflation, with the help of co-hosts Evan Chung and Sophie Summergrad. Not one to listen to before bed …Ī simple yet ingenious premise fuels this series, which sees host Josh Levin take a deep dive into the events and people that shaped a single year in American history. The immersive audio design of Campfire Radio Theater takes the top spot, though, using the time-honoured format of urban legends told around the flickering firelight as the backdrop to stories featuring sinister Santas, haunting puppets, and remote lighthouses. Notable mentions include David Cummings’ NoSleep Podcast, which gives the audio treatment to chilling tales from the Reddit forum of the same name, and Nightlight, which centres Black voices. Horror stories are the perfect narrative material for an anthology podcast, and recent years have seen a boom in the genre. This week, Ammar Kalia chooses five of the best anthology podcasts, from a true crime series on medicine’s greatest villains to scary stories told in true campfire style Photograph: Lina Alriksson/DN/TT/TT News Agency/Press Association Images Italian surgeon Paolo Macchiarini, whose story of fraudulent research is profiled in Dr Death. Here, they invite us into their music room to talk childhood musical loves, playing instruments and learning something new about each other. Hollie Richardsonĭespite being married for nearly 40 years, Joanna Lumley and her composer husband Stephen Barlow have never talked about their shared passion for classical music. “George Balanchine made dancers feel chosen, like they were something bigger – it was intoxicating.” In this new 10-part series, host Erika Lantz speaks with those who know the real cost of working with the New York City Ballet co-founder – a man who married his muses and said he didn’t think ballet dancers should have children. Widely available, episodes weekly from Tuesday Over four episodes, he talks to staff – including the first Black African governor in the UK – about encouraging inmates to find hope, and how at least one of them shed a criminal past to become a prison officer. Insightful narration from Andor star Ben Bailey Smith holds together this series, which goes inside jails to tackle topics such as redemption. Photograph: Kate Green/Getty Images for Bauer Media Joanna Lumley and Stephen Barlow share stories of their love for each other and classical music in Joanna & The Maestro.
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