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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
D-Day: The Tide Turns – Absorbing account of meticulously orchestrated military gamble
Podcast review: The seaborne invasion, involving more than 130,000 troops, created a path to victory in Europe during the second World War
Handsome podcast review: Dry wit, glorious self-deprecation and creative brain explosions
Podcast review: The comedians Fortune Feimster, Tig Notaro and Mae Martin conquer the potentially dicey three-friends-chatting format
Fur & Loathing: an unsolved gas attack on a hotel and the rise of Nazi furries
Podcast: Why was a potentially deadly gas released at an IRL meeting of ‘a particularly nice and earnest’ online community?
The Forgotten: RTÉ’s investigation into the Dublin and Monaghan bombings highlights damning withholding of evidence
Podcast review: Deeply sourced series shows how the initial investigation foundered on incompetence, accident and indolence
Broomgate podcast review: The scandal that tipped the sport of curling into a hotbed of resentment and rivalry
Podcast review: Broomgate opens at the 2015 Tour Challenge in the Canadian town of Paradise, when a man named Brad Gushue walked on to the ice
How Matt Katz discovered his Irish family – and learned about Irish nights out – is a gripping story
Podcast review: Katz is a cracking storyteller, his meticulously researched and affecting journey is propulsive stuff
Serial season four: A stomach-churning account of a brutal, malfunctioning Guantánamo Bay prison camp
Podcast review: The award-winning Serial team have found an astonishing number of sources ready to share their stories of life at the camp
Dara Ó Briain and Josh Widdicombe gleefully dive into the story of the ‘worst footballer ever’
Podcast review: On their way to recounting Ali Dia’s brief appearance for Southampton, the comedians tell a complex, compelling tale
Keep It Tight review: Deirdre O’Kane and Emma Doran combine brazen charm with disarming realness
Podcast review: When O’Kane and Doran go off on one, they’re a streak of laughs, but they land punches too
The Bookshelf: Ryan Tubridy’s new podcast may be the best vehicle to date for this one-time Jack of all RTÉ
Podcast review: The former RTÉ broadcaster’s new show plays to his strengths – but it’ll need to push him out of his comfort zone
The Magadalenes and I: Compelling voices illuminate unspeakable institutional truths from Ireland’s recent past
Podcast review: Steven O’Riordan’s follow-up to 2009 documentary lacks narrative shape but makes up for it in the sheer force of his stories
Ryan Tubridy’s new books podcast to launch next week
Former RTÉ 1 presenter will speak to international guests about their life stories through the prism of books
Who Replaced Avril Lavigne? Joanne McNally’s deliciously deranged investigation is a must-listen
Podcast review: The Irish comedian musters all her charm and chutzpah to find out whether a body double has taken over from the Sk8er Boi singer
The Runaway Princesses: Painstaking investigation puts spotlight on treatment of women by ruler of Dubai
Podcast review: This New Yorker series is deeply sourced, dogged and horrifying
Black Box: You may never sit comfortably again after listening to this podcast about artificial intelligence
Podcast review: Michael Safi’s new Guardian series looks at how AI started, how it’s playing out and how it can be both a solace and a scourge
Who Trolled Amber? review: Relentless dig beneath Johnny Depp vs Amber Heard libel case makes a staggering revelation
Podcast review: Why did public opinion seem to turn against Amber Heard? Alexi Mostrous unearths one ominous factor that may have been responsible
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