A lucky few (hundred thousand) fans experienced the festival atmosphere and influencers are fastidiously learning how to pronounce team names (look up Xandra and “Alfa Romero”). But if you missed the action this time, what better way is there to get yourself caught up than with our top podcast picks?

Whether you’re a die-hard fan wanting to geek out on stories from the archives or you’re a Drive to Survive dabbler drawn to the off-track gossip, there’s an F1 podcast for you.

Going Purple

Presenter Lissie Mackintosh is a rising star in Formula 1 – and deservedly so. Starting out as a TikToker dedicated to creating more diverse F1 content, she now boasts an impressive CV of high-profile interviews and co-created content with the sport’s iconic teams. Her Going Purple podcast talks about ‘serious F1 stuff in a not-so serious way’, and covers a range of F1-related subjects from occasional race catch-ups and day-in-the-life of episodes to race weekend features and interviews with huge F1 names such as Lando Norris, Natalie Pinkham and Nico Hulkenburg. While Lissie’s deeply knowledgeable about the sport, her podcast is for anyone with even a slight interest in F1, so it’s perfect if you’re at the start of what will surely be a lifelong love. Listen on your podcast app >>

Dirty Air F1 Podcast

If Ted Kravitz’s post-race stroll around the paddock isn’t enough to help you decompress after a high-stress grand prix, then look no further than Dirty Air. Every week comedians Josh Weller and Alfie Brown offer their very irreverent takes on what they call “the most ludicrous sport on earth”. A welcome antidote to both the mainstream coverage and wannabe commentary around a sport that can sometimes take itself too seriously, the pair will indulge you and their creative sensibilities with fake news, sketches and close-to-the-bone takes that bring the funny to Formula 1. For outrageous memes and commentary, their Instagram’s definitely worth a follow too.

The Dirty Air lads will be at Silverstone this weekend for a very special live podcast. If you’re lucky enough to have grand prix tickets, head to the Driver’s Inn Stage at 8pm on Saturday 8th July. Listen on your podcast app >>

3 Legs 4 Wheels (Formula 1 Podcast)

The Isle of Man might be famously associated with the TT Races, but this island-based quartet of podcasters are mad about Formula 1, and with their insightful and engaging discussions you’ll feel less alone in your deep obsession with every detail of the sport. Chris, Lee, Paul and Sian go beneath the surface of headlines, drama and gossip, to talk about the tracks, engineering, car design and the impact of team changes, to leave you a little wiser about Formula 1. Expect well-rounded discussions that draw on the sport’s rich history and the knowledge of people who’ve been following it well before the Drive to Survive era. Listen on your podcast app >>

Wheel it up

“Three black women talking all things Formula 1,” is the tagline, and this fun, rough-and-ready show brings together three exciting new voices in podcasting to give you a fresh and funny take on the weekend’s track action. Keeping in hilarious slips-of-the-tongue like ‘the Caribbean Grand Prix’ – what a spectacle that would be! – and scolding each other for missing Quali, Simone, Chanise and Anita are the three friends you’re desperate to chat to after every race weekend. Listen now >>

P1 with Matt and Tommy

Prolific podcasters Matt Gallagher and Tom Bellingham put out several episodes a week, to bring you all the latest news, reaction, predictions and opinions from the best sport in the world. From every Ferrari strategy blunder to spicy off-track controversies, we’ll be in your ears keeping you up to speed. They might call themselves die-hard fans, but this pair have incredible access to bring you big-hitter interviews with prominent F1 voices and drivers like TikTok favourite (and Alpine driver) Esteban ‘Estie Bestie’ Ocon. Listen on your podcast app >>

Beyond the Grid

A podcast about Formula 1 by Formula 1 itself. It makes sense, doesn’t it? Formula 1’s fastest stars slow down and open up, sharing untold stories and unrivalled insight. Tom Clarkson brings you revealing, feature-length interviews and amazing anecdotes from superstar drivers, team bosses, tech geniuses and racing legends. The range of interviews and insights is second-to-none so if you want to immerse yourself in the world of Formula 1 and hear the best stories straight from the horse’s mouth, then dive in. Listen on your podcast app >>

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Lastly, as you’re putting up the bunting and donning your Lando, Lewis and George swag for a very British weekend of sport, why not swat up on Silverstone itself with this one-off series from the BBC’s Total Sport Podcast? Corner by Corner: Silverstone is your perfect companion to your Grand Prix weekend, with bitesize episodes that’ll give you the lowdown on the rich history of the home of British motor racing.

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Who are you and what’s your podcast about?

My name is Alan Hudson and I was a professional footballer in the Sixties, Seventies and Eighties with Chelsea, Stoke City, Arsenal and Seattle Sounders. I’m regarded as something of a Maverick Footballer. I also won two caps for England. The Alan Hudson Podcast is all about retro football. The chat is casual, informal and unscripted and takes listeners and viewers back to a time when the only diving taking place was down to the pub at the final whistle. We think our slogan ‘Proper Football, Proper Talk’ sums it up.

Why did you decide to start podcasting in the first place?

I got the idea to start a podcast when I saw my good friend and former Chelsea team-mate Johnny Boyle in one. Johnny delivered some great anecdotes from his time as a player and I decided to approach another good friend of mine, Tony Jimenez, about starting my own podcast. Tony is an experienced sports journalist and I thought he would be a good choice to anchor the podcast.

What’s the first podcast you ever listened to?

Johnny Boyle’s podcast was the first one I saw. It was not really a genre I was familiar with but I immediately liked the format and thought the world of retro football was something of an untapped market. I have a host of contacts from the world of football and seem to have little trouble enticing some of the game’s great names on to our show. Among our guests have been Harry Redknapp, Bryan Robson, Steve Perryman and Tony Currie.

Which podcasts do you take inspiration from?

I can’t say I watch or listen to many podcasts although I like former England striker Peter Crouch’s BBC podcast. I particularly enjoy the relaxed format of that one and, again, Peter seems to have a wealth of good stories from his career as a much-travelled footballer who played for several elite clubs and also enjoyed a highly successful England career.

Who’s your dream guest for the podcast?

I’ve been trying to entice Frank Lampard to come on to my podcast for almost a year now, ever since he was sacked as manager of Chelsea. Frank is a near neighbour of mine in Chelsea and an old acquaintance. I played a sizeable role in him joining Chelsea from West Ham in 2001. I know his father Frank Senior well. He consulted me when Frank was about to leave West Ham and I told his dad that Stamford Bridge would be the ideal club for his son. It turned out to be good advice!

Which episode would you say is the perfect introduction to your podcast?

I particularly like the podcast we did with former Tottenham Hotspur captain Steve Perryman. I know Steve from way back – we played together in the same midfield for the England Under-21 team – and I’ve always admired him as a footballer and as a person. We don’t agree on all footballing matters but we have a great connection and total respect for one another’s opinions.

What’s the biggest lesson you’ve learnt so far as a podcaster?

When we began our podcasts, I felt something of an obligation, as host, to try and lead the discussion with our guests. But now that we have produced 30 or 40 of them, I can see it works much better when we allow our guests full licence to go where they want when they are talking, without unnecessarily stopping the flow of conversation.

Where can your audience find out more about you?

Our podcast is available in audio form from all the main podcast suppliers and we also feature video clips from our shows on YouTube. One of our first podcasts was an ‘introduction to Alan Hudson’ type show where I gave listeners and viewers an insight to my football career and my rollercoaster life away from the pitch.

Listen to The Alan Hudson Podcast now on ACAST, SPOTIFY or your favourite podcast app.

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‘The Takedown Producer and Narrator, Matthew Nelson

Hi Matt, this is your first foray into True Crime – have you always wanted to do a TC podcast, or was it just THIS story?

Honestly, it’s a bit of both. I do watch a lot of the true crime docs on TV, stuff like Making a Murderer, Tiger King (obviously), and I’ll Be Gone in the Dark. And shows like Crimetown, Serial, and S-Town are big influences on the kind of podcasts I’ve made, and the things I aspire to make. But most of all, I’m a bit of a heist nerd. I don’t think there’s a heist movie I haven’t seen. And the best ones — Heat, The Town, Den of Thieves (you may laugh, but I think it’s immense), Widows — I know off by heart. The opportunity to make a podcast homage to that genre was really exciting. I wanted to capture the energy and propulsion of these films, but also stay true to the things that make podcasts so great and give the listener time to really be immersed in this crazy world of early MMA and heists.

How do you feel about being described as something out of a Guy Ritchie movie?

HA! For anyone who hasn’t heard it yet, Crime Show’s regular host, Emma Courtland, describes me as sounding like I’m something out of a Guy Ritchie movie. That was mostly because there are a lot of commonalities between Lee Murray’s story and something like Snatch. And also because the aesthetics of those films really informed the sound design we went for (shoutout to Daniel Ramirez and Bobby Lord for mixing and scoring). But, yes, it’s a huge honor. Guy Ritchie has a fine reputation for casting extremely handsome men in his films — Brad Pitt, Jason Statham, Charlie Hunnam, and Frank from Eastenders — so I’m in good company.

Who should play Lee Murray in the film of this podcast (and why)?

I asked this question to a lot of people who knew Lee and the most popular answer I got was Tom Hardy. And I think that’s a great choice. He’s been in a film about fighters before (the excellent Warrior), and he’s also in a Guy Ritchie movie (the less-than-excellent RockNRolla).

Do you have any podcasts suggestions for people who want to learn more about this story/London’s underground scene/MMA drama?

Check out anything with Ariel Helwani. Not podcasts but also great: Jon Wertheim wrote an excellent piece about Lee for Sports Illustrated, and his book about the early MMA scene, Blood in the Cage, is phenomenal. Shaun Assael (who’s in the podcast) also wrote a great story about Lee for ESPN. After you’ve read those, you should just re-listen to The Takedown. At 0.5x speed.

Listen to The Takedown, pt.1 and The Takedown, pt.2 now on Spotify.

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POD BIBLE: So, how did you and Hani meet?
JUSTIN SALHANI: We met in college. I was captain of our university’s club soccer team (George Mason University). Hani had just moved to the U.S. from Dubai and was really innocent. I think we ruined him.

PB: Where does your passionate for football come from?
JS: For me, football is a vessel to better understand the world. It gives us a view into sociology, psychology, anthropology, morality, philosophy and so much more. I think Camus said it best: “After many years in which the world has afforded me many experiences, what I know most surely in the long run about morality and obligations, I owe to football.”

PB: How did you come up with the concept for The Streets Will Remember, and have you previously pursued a project similar to this in the past?
JS: During confinement Hani and I had more time to catch up. With the time difference, we don’t get to chat as much as we’d like. We were talking about projects we’d like to work on and I pitched Hani on the idea of doing a football podcast that was a bit different. It would let us ask the questions and dive into the stories I’ve always wanted to explore. I also think we could deconstruct a lot of the common talking points around football in general and certain personalities specifically.

PB: Why was a podcast the right medium for The Streets Will Remember?
JS: Is it? I don’t know. I know that by releasing our own podcast we can basically go as in-depth or in the weeds as we want. There’s also a rawness to our conversations that may not happen if we wanted to write these pieces.

PB: Do you produce and edit all of your own episodes, and if so, did either of you have audience experience previous to the project or did you learn as you went?
JS: I do all the producing and editing. I’ve used Audacity before so I had a little bit of audio editing experience. But as for the rest, we’re learning on the fly how to improve. Hani researched how to release the podcast and has handled the distribution and social media side.

PB: Why is now the right time for a project like The Streets Will Remember?
JS: It’s nice that you think it’s the right time! Our following is still very modest but I think if it does hit a chord with some people it’s because we’re expressing ideas that have been shared and discussed for years in certain sectors. People have been talking about inequality and structural societal forces for decades, but it’s rarely discussed in the mainstream of football. I think if anything, we’re just standing on the shoulders of those who have done hard work on those issues before us. And many of those are journalists who are women and especially journalists who are women of color who have already been speaking about these issues for a long time.

PB: The four episodes you’ve released so far seem very intentional. There is a racial and gender diversity amongst these four individuals that sets a tone for your audience; how do you decide who to speak about and is there a rationale behind the order of episode subjects?
JS: Football is very Euro-centric and while it seems it’s inevitable that our podcast won’t somewhat reflect that, we wanted to at least try to hit a wider range of figures. But we should also say that there are so many fascinating figures in football, if we were only focusing on the upper echelons of men’s European football it would be boring for us. Ultimately, we’re trying to do a project for our friends. Who would be fun for us to talk about and who would be fun for our friends to listen to?

PB: Do you listen to other sport-related podcasts?JS:
JS: I do. I have friends who run Stadio, Across the Pond and the Shirtless Plantain Show. Also The Sneak season 2 is sports-related and looks like it’ll be incredible. I listen into the Burn It All Down podcast when there is soccer/football related segments, though they’re great on all sports (I just don’t follow other sports!) I was also recently on Cas Mudde’s Radikaal which is a cool podcast if you’re into politics and how they connect to football. I’ll also suggest FTC United and I’ll tune into Tifo’s podcasts sometimes.

PB: Did you take inspiration from other podcasts, or other media in general, when creating The Streets Will Remember?
JS: Yeah, I mean, Chris Bowerbank from Across the Pond gave me some guidance and I’ve also just listened to him over the last two years that we’ve been friends talk about podcasting because he has so much knowledge. Chris’ charisma as a host and analyst is so rare.

Listening to their show over the last couple years provided me with a lot of knowledge. I’m also a big fan of Stadio, because it felt like the first podcast where they went deeper on certain issues. It felt like the kind of discussions I had with friends and I often had to remind myself that they wouldn’t pause to let me add my $.02.

There’s a lot of others too. Shireen on Burn It All Down speaks with such power and tells unabashed truths in a way I really respect and try to emulate.

I also listen to a lot of storytelling podcasts, news and interview podcasts on politics, race, music, pop culture and more + a handful of fictions ones. We wanted to take the best of both of these that we could create without doing a whole other level of sound engineering.

PB: Who did your artwork and what was the creative process for that?
JS: My partner, Carine, made this. Her and I discussed the direction we wanted to go for this podcast. I suggested something similar to street posters, something you might see plastered on a wall in a big city, but we already did that for a different project. The one thing we wanted was for it to not be too ‘soccer-y’. She knows I’m a fan of Jean-Michel Basquiat so she looked at his style of work as inspiration and created what we have now. She’s a very talented artist and designer.

PB: Finally, what is it that you love about football that makes you such passionate speakers on the topic?
JS: This is not an easy question for me to answer. I guess football is familiar and comfortable. It’s something I’ve always come back to no matter how many times I’ve tried to break. I have a complex relationship with football, but it’s ultimately a loving one. I think what I love about it carries so much complexity. It makes us question ourselves and we can face, if we chose to, a number of internal contradictions. How can I support a team while their shirt sports-washes a human rights-violating regime? How can I love a game where one of the most, if not the most, prominent figure is very likely a rapist? It’s a game that is constantly challenging and making me think. And there’s so much room for depth that is rarely explored. I think football can be as deep as you want it to be. Many people don’t want to explore those depths and that is a beautiful thing. But if you want to explore how society, race or personal ego is reflected by some of these athletes or figures, you absolutely can.

Check out new episodes of The Streets Will Remember on Tuesdays via Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your radical football auditory stimulation.

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