From Jimmy Anderson and friend’s Tailenders to Who The Hell Is Hamish?, Hope High and Witness History, this week’s top podcasts
Tailenders
Greg James, Jimmy Anderson and Felix White are, it’s fair to say, pleased as punch that cricket has returned. Their laid-back BBC podcast was originally slated to have a short run but it proved so popular that it recently celebrated its 100th episode.
Greg James, Jimmy Anderson (above) and Felix White are, it’s fair to say, pleased as punch that cricket has returned
Every week or so for a languid hour the chaps chat about cricket, chewing through everything from Test matches of old to the current performance of key players.
Who The Hell Is Hamish?
Gripping true-crime series that recounts how Australian conman Hamish Watson persuaded swathes of people to part with eye-watering sums. Using various aliases, Hamish Watson claimed to be a fund manager, a barrister and even an orphaned MIT mathematician, in order to gain the trust of his victims.
Hope High
BBC journalist Annabel Deas spent a year embedded in an inconspicious part of West Yorkshire trying to work out why so many local teenagers were going off the rails.
BBC journalist Annabel Deas (above) spent a year embedded in an inconspicious part of West Yorkshire trying to work out why so many local teenagers were going off the rails
In her excellent seven-part series she asks what causes a child to pick up a weapon or become a drugs mule. It’s a searing and informative study of a neglected community.
Witness History
I tune in and out of this long-running World Service show but it’s been on cracking form recently. On each canapé-sized episode, remarkable events from around the world are brought to life by the people who witnessed them.
Start with the story about Steven Callahan, who spent 76 days adrift on a raft when his yacht sank in the Atlantic in 1982.