5 new podcasts to listen to this week

Outsiding is a new podcast series hosted by broadcaster and author Caitlin Moran and leading garden designer and TV presenter Adam Frost.

Each week, the pair will celebrate the simple joys of nature, wildlife, and gardening, inviting celebrity guests to join them outdoors for a chat.

In the debut episode – which is filmed in Moran’s home and garden – the co-hosts are joined by comedian and TV presenter Bob Mortimer.

Moran gives Frost and Mortimer a tour of the new garden she is working on, before they chat about Mortimer’s connection to nature, and why he believes the garden can become a “good friend” as you get older.

If you are looking for a podcast where heartfelt conversations take place outside in gardens, surrounded by nature, then Outsiding is one for you.

(By Yolanthe Fawehinmi)

2. An Excellent Fit

Streaming platform: All streaming platforms and YouTube

Genre: Fashion and culture

An Excellent Fit is a new fashion and culture podcast created and hosted by Kay Barron and Alice Casely-Hayford.

Each week, high-profile guests including model Pixie Geldof, singer La Roux, fashion muse Tish Weinstock, editor Jo Ellison, creative director Alex Eagle, and model Alva Claire will join Barron and Casely-Hayford to explore personal style and the way we live.

They will dissect wardrobe essentials, fashion regrets, and the outfits worn for defining life moments.

In the fourth episode, the co-hosts are joined by creative consultant Isabella Burley to discuss falling in love with fashion, working on the shop floor at cult store Dover Street Market at 17.

They also unpack Burley’s style and career trajectory – from being the youngest ever editor-in-chief of Dazed and Confused magazine – to launching much-loved Climax Books in 2020.

An Excellent Fit could be your new favourite fashion fix if you are looking for a podcast that explores the nature of style.

(By Yolanthe Fawehinmi)

3. Here For the History

Streaming platform: BBC Sounds and YouTube

Genre: History

Here For the History is a brand-new BBC Sounds podcast hosted by social media historian and author Alice Loxton and BBC journalist and historian Ben Henderson.

In each episode, the pair dig through archives, scour dusty tomes, and consult the experts to reveal the surprising roots of the traditions, customs and objects that surround us.

Loxton and Henderson also take a hot topic being debated by young Brits online, sometimes serious, sometimes playful, and trace it back to its unexpected historical roots.

On this week’s episode, the co-hosts explore the history of football, the game’s religious origins, and the class war that made it into the people’s game.

Loxton and Henderson also share their hot takes on what has turned football into the global phenomenon that it is today.

Here For the History is an accessible podcast series which explains how quirks of British life didn’t just happen by accident.

(By Yolanthe Fawehinmi)

4. Big Little Interests

Streaming platform: All streaming platforms and YouTubeGenre: Comedy

Big Little Interests is a new podcast series hosted by comedy writers Freya Bennett and Lucy Regent – also known as the ‘Hyperfixation Huns’ – who are diving into the weird and wonderful world of niche interests.

In each episode, they invite guests they admire to share their unusual area of interest, curiosity around that subject, and how it fits into their wider picture of their lives.

This week, comedian and Love Island voice-over artist Steve Bugeja chats to the duo about his hyperfixation with trains and the London Underground.

He opens up about his first journey on the tube, when the obsession began, why the Victoria line is his favourite, and his issue with the Piccadilly line.

If you are looking for a podcast where no obsession is too weird, and no rabbit hole is too deep, then add Big Little Interests to your podcast rotation.

(By Yolanthe Fawehinmi)

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5. Stateside with Kai and Carter

Streaming platform: All streaming platforms and YouTubeGenre: News

Stateside with Kai and Carter is an interview-led show that brings The Guardian’s global perspective and lens on American life.

From the rise of authoritarianism, inequality and racial justice to climate change, wellness and corporate power, co-hosts and journalists Kai Wright and Carter Sherman slow things down and help listeners make sense of the news.

On this week’s episode, Wright and Sherman discuss how anti-ICE protestors got convicted of terrorism, and why the case could have enormous consequences for the future of the First Amendment and American protests.

The pair also speak to Guardian reporter Lex McMenamin, who is one of the few journalists to have interviewed the activists at the heart of the case, about how the assassination of political activist Charlie Kirk last year has been a catalyst.

If you are looking for a podcast that demystifies American news, then give Stateside with Kai and Carter a listen.

(By Yolanthe Fawehinmi)