Trending 23rd April 2024 by Jade Hayden

9 Podcasts Ideal To Throw On For A Spring Walk

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Spring is here, flowers are blooming, and the weather is, well, a bit better.

It’s time for a big walk, and what better way to occupy yourself than with an insightful, entertaining, and interesting podcast?

Here are 9 we’ve been loving this year, and can’t wait to dive into while we’re getting our steps in.

1. Sentimental Garbage

Author of the incredible The Rachel Incident, Caroline O’Donoghue, also has a podcast, didn’t you know?

What began as a pod about books you loved that society sometimes made you feel ashamed of, is now a pod about culture you loved that society sometimes made you feel ashamed of.

Listen to the Sex and the City episodes with Dolly Alderton. Please.

2. Someone Knows Something

 

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Hosted by writer David Ridgen, this award winning podcast considers cold cases often long forgotten, and attempts to shed light on what actually happened under the guise that someone simply must know something.

The latest series is about the murder of Angel Carlick, a teenager who was killed in Yukon in 2007. Get listening and be instantly gripped.

3. Ghost Story

Imagine you thought your childhood home was haunted. Then imagine, years later you return to this home, only to discover that your partner’s grandfather grew up right next door.

So begins Ghost Story, a podcast about family, history, murder, and the ghosts that we should be paying attention to. This isn’t your regular old haunting, trust us.

4. I’m Grand Mam

 

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I’m Grand Mam – the perfect podcast to have blasting in your ears as you embark on your hot girl walk, and scream laughing the whole way.

Kevin and PJ are firm favs with the STELLAR team, and their weekly dose of chats genuinely give us life.

5. Maintenance Phase

 

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Hate diet culture? Like very much when myths around diets and those who purport them are debunked? Then this is the pod for you.

Yr Fat Friend Aubrey Gordon and journalist Michael Hobbes take it upon themselves to discredit everything you’ve been told about diets, losing weight, and body image… not without a good dose of humour too.

6. The Price of Paradise

 

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When Jayne Gaskin buys her own island off the coast of Nicaragua, she expects it to be a paradise.

Naturally, she is wrong and things go to shit rather quickly… and a Channel 4 film crew is there to document it all.

Alice Levine is also here now to recount the story and tell us all about it. Grim.

7. Flop Culture

 

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You’ve heard of pop culture, but what about when pop culture, well, flops?

Fionnuala Jones hosts this topical and hilarious pod about the films, books, and people who once entered their flop era, and who we still love despite it.

Or for it.

8. The Louis Theroux Podcast

 

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Need we say more? Louis Theroux’s podcast is back and he’s been busy chatting to a rake of people including our very own Paul Mescal, Tan France, Nick Cave, Jennette McCurdy, and Shania Twain.

Let’s go, girls.

9. Growing Up with Keelin Moncrieff

 

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If you’re in the mood for some content about childhood, psychology and motherhood, look no further than Keelin Moncrieff’s new podcast, the aptly named, Growing Up with Keelin Moncrieff.

The new mam tackles everything from painful sex to clinginess to parentification in a way that’s honest and refreshing. Well worth a listen, whether you’ve got kids or not.

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