From Grounded With Louis Theroux to Her Spirit, This Is Money and Babbage: This week’s top podcasts

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From Grounded With Louis Theroux to Louise Minchin and Annie Emmerson on Her Spirit, This Is Money and Babbage, this week’s top podcasts

By Leaf Arbuthnot

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Grounded With Louis Theroux

In his new podcast series, the cult documentary-maker Louis Theroux calls up people that he finds interesting and wouldn’t necessarily get to interview in normal life. 

In his new podcast series, the cult documentary-maker Louis Theroux calls up people that he finds interesting and wouldn’t necessarily get to interview in normal life

Theroux admits he may be conducting his interviews in his pyjamas, but you wouldn’t know it as he sounds relatively composed. The first episode is with best-selling author Jon Ronson.

 

This Is Money

I wasn’t expecting to find solace in a finance podcast, but these are strange times. This great show tackles the big and small questions about personal finance. How bad will the post-pandemic recession be? What will happen to house prices? No one knows but the presenters do a brilliant job of explaining what is happening.

Her Spirit

This women’s health podcast has had a facelift for its second season and is now worth tuning in to. Each week BBC presenters Louise Minchin and Annie Emmerson interview high-flying women about their bodies and wellbeing. 

Each week on Her Spirit BBC presenters Louise Minchin (above) and Annie Emmerson interview high-flying women about their bodies and wellbeing

Each week on Her Spirit BBC presenters Louise Minchin (above) and Annie Emmerson interview high-flying women about their bodies and wellbeing

Recent guests include the journalist and wild swimmer Eleanor Mills and a former head teacher, Deborah James, who talks about surviving cancer.

 

Babbage

I was hopeless at science at school but have become, like everyone else, an armchair epidemiologist. This whip-smart podcast digs into the most interesting tech and science stories of the week. 

Recent episodes have been dominated by Covid-19 but have been engrossing on how a vaccine could be found, and whether it makes sense for us to start wearing masks.