Podcasts
Podcast Critic: Ellie Jay
Featuring The improvement association, The Lazarus heist and 'something rhymes with purple'. Audio
Podcast Critic: Denise Garland
Discussing 'The Breakdown' from The Australian and 'The Mortified Podcast' from PRX and Radiotopia. Audio
Podcast Critic: Paul Bushnell
Paul Bushnell reviews Fresh Air with Terry Gross and Audio Long Reads from the Guardian. Audio
Podcast Critic: Molly Jones
Molly Jones gives her verdict on the Belgian Smaak Podcast, which originally began as a personal blog and Good For You, an interview based production hosted by comedian Whitney Cummings. Audio
Podcast Critic: Ellie Jay
Reviewing Griefcast, Off menu with James Acaster and Ed Gamble, and Guardian science podcast. Audio
Podcast Critic Katy Atkin
In her last podcast chat with Jesse, Katy talks about Conning the Con - a Kiwi podcast by sister Emma and Sarah Ferris and The Freshwater Five - by the Guardian. Audio
Sharing the wonder of the natural world throughout Covid
Melissa Harrison is a novelist and nature writer whose podcast documenting the natural world and changing seasons during lockdown was a runaway success. Each week from April to October last year, she… Audio
Podcast Critic: Denise Garland
Today Denise reviews The Cipher from the BBC, Big Sister Hotline by Clementine Ford and RNZ's very own, Champions of the Pacific. Audio
Podcast Critic: Paul Bushnell
Paul Bushnell is talking today about how different clichés are subverted by great storytelling: Fragments, an RNZ series about the 2011 Christchurch earthquake, and Carrier from the USA - what would… Audio
Podcast Critic: Molly Jones
Today Molly gives her views on James Acaster's Perfect Sounds podcast and I Swear I Never. Audio
Australian prison podcast: Johanna Bell and Rocket Renae
Birds Eye View, a podcast made by some of the 80 female inmates inside the woman's section of the Darwin Correctional Centre in Australia's Northern Territory is proving an audio hit. It recently took… Audio
Podcast Critic: Denise Garland
Today RNZ's Midday supervising producer, Denise Garland, looks at two brand new podcasts. Collapse is a podcast from Stuff, all about the Christchurch earthquakes in the lead up the to 10th… Audio
Podcast Critic: Ellie Jay
Today Ellie Jay reviews Grounded with Louis Theroux and Intrigue Mayday. Audio
Paul Bushnell on Trumpian podcasts
Paul Bushnell is talking today about two different views of the Trump presidency: Trumpcast and How it Happened. Audio
Podcast Critic: Katy Atkin
Katy Atkin reviews locally made, He'll Be Right podcast and a chilling US production, The Apology Line. Audio
Katy Atkin's summer podcast picks
Katy Atkin shares her top 5 summer listening podcasts: It's A Wonderful lie About a Girl Bill Gates and Rashida Jones Ask Big Questions Stuff the British Stole - ABC Heavyweight - Season 5 Audio
Podcast Critic Paul Bushnell
Paul Bushnell is talking today about two USA podcasts exploring different aspects of contemporary culture - history and tv drama - with very different levels of success. The Authority on His Dark… Audio
Molly Jones podcast picks
Today Molly reviews the Netflix series The Big Film Buffet. Audio
Denise Garland's podcast picks
Denise reviews the ABC's Days Like These, Reply All from Gimlet Media and Brought to You By, from Business Insider. Audio
RNZ podcasts make it to Apple's Top 10 for NZ in 2020
RNZ's head of podcasts Tim Watkin stops by the studio today to talk to Jesse about the success they've had in 2020 with huge numbers of NZers downloading their series. Audio
