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  • 4 days ago | observer.co.uk | Miranda Sawyer

    A British trafficker tells all in a new podcast. Plus, a TV “swearing consultant”, South African rugby and an indie variety show We hear a lot about people smuggling on the news, usually framed as “the small boat crisis” and accompanied by political grandstanding on how the crisis must and will be stopped.

  • 1 week ago | observer.co.uk | Miranda Sawyer

    Pulp are back and bigger than ever. Jarvis Cocker and fellow members Candida Doyle, Nick Banks and Mark Webber talk about their accidental new album, growing up while refusing to grow old … and the sex pond at the back of Banks’s garden Portraits by Suki DhandaAn intimate gig for Radio 2 in the BBC’s live theatre. Pulp – singer Jarvis Cocker, keyboard player Candida Doyle, drummer Nick Banks, guitarist Mark Webber – are dotted about a small stage.

  • 1 week ago | observer.co.uk | Miranda Sawyer

    Pipeline: Left to Die Daily Mail BBC World ServiceYou About? BBC SoundsHold on to your headphones: new podcast Pipeline: Left to Die is quite the listen. Its second episode is one of the tensest things I’ve ever heard; every terrifying detail all true, all lived, burning itself unforgettably into your brain.

  • 2 weeks ago | observer.co.uk | Miranda Sawyer

    Scandalous court cases are the latest podcasting obsession. We’ve had shows that reported every detail of the Lucy Letby trial, as well as those that unpick the Kim Kardashian jewel robbery (nicknamed the Grandpa Gang Heist, because of the age of the alleged thieves) or go into the Australian poison mushroom murder case (also still on, and covered extensively: one podcast goes by the title Mushroom Case Daily).

  • 3 weeks ago | observer.co.uk | Miranda Sawyer

    ‘Left your teeth blindingly white’: an ad for Doramad radioactive toothpaste, unlikely star of Radio 4’s Half-Life.

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Miranda Sawyer
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