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What’s My Age Again?
Having spent the past five years oversharing via her podcast Telling Everybody Everything, standup Katherine Ryan is ready to lay other people’s innermost truths bare. In this new series, guests including Joanne McNally and Adam Buxton undergo tests to calculate their biological age – based on the condition of their cells and bodily tissue – before musing on maturity and longevity with their reliably acid-tongued host. Rachel Aroesti
Widely available, episodes weekly from Tuesday
When Science Finds a Way
Botanist to Hollywood actor may not be a particularly common career pivot, but it does make Alisha Wainwright the perfect host for this podcast from the Wellcome Trust about cutting-edge advances in health science. Series two’s topics include how exercise can treat depression and the unexpected life-saving potential of mosquitoes. RA
Widely available, episodes weekly
Chasing the Sound
British Podcast award nominee Kirk Flash brings his evocative storytelling skills to this series about music scenes across the globe, each of his journeys prompted by one of his favourite songs. Episode one digs into the styles challenging Bollywood supremacy in India, while later instalments cover Moroccan dance music and the precise nature of London cool. RA
Audible, all episodes out now
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Climbing the Walls
Three years ago, journalist and documentarian Danielle Elliot was told she had ADHD. She wasn’t alone: the diagnosis rate for adult women practically doubled between 2020 and 2022. Elliot tries to understand the reasons women like her were left without support for so long and asks why their neurodivergence is finally being recognised. RA
Widely available, episodes weekly
Bone Valley
In the first series of his hit true-crime podcast, Pulitzer prize-winning author Gilbert King exposed the wrongful conviction of Leo Schofield, who had served nearly 35 years for the murder of his wife Michelle. Another man confessed to the crime, and now King focuses on him as people from his past come forward to talk – including his son. Hollie Richardson
Widely available, episodes weekly
