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Peaky Blinders is back for its final season, and between Tommy Shelby’s quests to stop Oswald Mosley’s fascists, stay in Winston Churchill’s good books, fend off a challenge to his authority from his long-lost little brother, stop his brother Arthur going off the deep end again and save his marriage, there are a lot of plates spinning. So, it’d be...

As Valentine’s Day rolls around again, it’s as good a time as any to get into a new podcast that focuses on the messy, weird, beautiful, thorny and endlessly fascinating world of love and relationships. Podcasters have been all over it for ages, going all the way back to the very beginning of the boom. It’s easy to see why...

Each issue of Pod Bible magazine, our partners Audible bring you a round-up of the Audible Original Podcasts their members are loving, and press are buzzing about too. Without further ado, here’s The Holy Grail of listener favourites, from Issue #018 of the magazine… DEFIANCE Legendary sprinter Michael Johnson embarks upon a personal journey through the history of protest in sport....

Enjoy this short retrospective of the podcasts we’ve covered on the Pod Bible website in 2021. Plus, 20 of the best podcasts from this year… I think it is safe to say that the 2021 podcast game has been strong: across ten ‘New This Month’ articles, I’ve written about more than 108 new podcasts, and 36 new seasons of classic...

Christmas is brilliant. It really is good, you know. Glad tidings, warm fuzzy feelings, goodwill to all, an excuse to sit down for a good couple of weeks if you want to, a whole new on-the-go sandwich landscape to explore. It’s all good. But however brilliant your Christmas is or isn’t, at some point you’ll be overcome with the urge...

If there’s one thing we know podcasts do really well, it’s getting deep into topics that may seem niche from the outside. Alex Lopategui takes a look at 5 podcast about sneakers…  Whether you’ve battled the elements queuing outside the sneaker store overnight awaiting a release or you simply know who Joe La Puma is, being a sneaker head is...

Check out our Spotify playlist featuring recommended podcasts from the latest Pod Bible magazine!

Though they split up more than half a century ago, The Beatles have rarely been busier. Between Disney’s new three-part fly-on-the-studio-wall documentary The Beatles: Get Back, Paul McCartney’s own doc McCartney 3, 2, 1 and an expansive repackage of their last album, Let It Be, there’s been a lot of Beatles about in the last six months. One of the...

Of all the things to make a podcast about, you’d think food would be one of the trickiest. You can’t do lingering shots of a nicely turned-out Bakewell tart like on the telly, and the fun of finding out about new, delicious stuff you’ve never encountered before shouldn’t work without knowing roughly what it smells and tastes like. And yet,...

Each issue of Pod Bible magazine, our partners Audible bring you a round-up of the Audible Original Podcasts their members are loving, and press are buzzing about too. Without further ado, here’s The Holy Grail of listener favourites, from Issue #017 of the magazine… TITTING ABOUT Comedy legends French & Saunders return for a second series of their smash hit podcast....

From creative striking to bone-crunching haymakers, intricate groundwork to face-pommeling blows, combat sports have you on the edge of your seats. With the recent meteoric rise of the UFC (which sold for just over $4 billion dollars in 2016 and pay-per-view fights exceeding hundreds of millions of dollars on the night) combat sports has never been in a better place...

For many years “just one more game mum” was probably the most disappointing thing a parent could hear, however, the tables have now turned! A successful career in Esports now sees players on salaries not far shy of a premier league football player. Twitch was bought by Amazon in August 2014 and has now become the largest video game streaming...

The scariest night of the year is here! If you’re a horror enthusiast, the chances are you’ve listened to some of our suggestions of 6 Spooky podcasts to get ready for Halloween already. But never fear, we’ve put together a whole host of episodes to frighten even the toughest souls tonight. Embark on our auditory horror rollercoaster from spine-chilling paranormal...

Black history shouldn’t be confined to one month, it should be celebrated and uplifted throughout the year. So as Black History Month comes to a close, we’ve created the Pod Bible Black History playlist to further inform you on history in the UK and around the world. We hope it helps you find podcasts that narrate the unrecounted nuances of...

If you’re after an audience with the undead, podcasts are the ideal medium. Sorry. But puns aside, they really are. The magic of hearing a ghost story isn’t in what’s being said as such, but in the images being conjured up. Your brain is capable of forming terrors far more terrible than anything you could actually see, and around the...