A frank, fearless and funny guide to parenting – podcasts of the week
Talking points
After 20 years behind bars, Earlonne Woods, an inmate at the San Quentin State Prison who hosts and co-produces the popular Ear Hustle podcast, has had his sentence commuted by the governor of California and will be released on parole. Despite Woods’s release, the podcast’s creators have said the series will continue, with more tales of life at the prison.
This weekend sees the US premiere of Dirty John, the Connie Britton-starring TV remake of the hit true crime podcast. UK viewers will have to wait a little longer to watch the series, which has been acquired by Netflix, with no release date announced yet.
You have a week to apply for the Google Podcasts Creator Program, which aims to provide a prospective podcasters with seed funding and intensive training to bring their stories to the air. The program is overseen by some major players in podcasting, including Pineapple Street Studios co-founder Jenna Weiss-Berman and the Allusionist host Helen Zaltzman. The application period ends on 2 December.
Picks of the week
Dan Taberski, host of Headlong. Photograph: Andrew Zaeh
The Trap Door
Parenting podcasts could always use a little more humour, so Sophie Black’s is a breath of fresh air. The latest episode is a cracker, with Him & Her’s Sarah Solemani being refreshingly honest about how she spent money to get all the help she needed when her children were born and felt she couldn’t refuse a meeting with Michelle Pfeiffer on her due date. “Mother less, tidy up less, forgive yourself and don’t be afraid of formula,” are among her fearlessly delivered pearls of wisdom. Hannah Verdier
Headlong: Surviving Y2K
Dan Taberski’s podcast Missing Richard Simmons was an instant hit, but stirred up controversy amid allegations he was invading the exercise guru’s privacy. Now he is back with Surviving Y2K, tracking down the people who thought the end of the world was nigh as the millennium dawned. He is unable to find Otis, who stockpiled hamsters for the big event, but he does meet Dave, who is rumoured to have coined the phrase Y2K “because it’s 67% more efficient”. Also promised are “dogs in sweatshirts and freshly born kittens”. HV
UN rapporteur on extreme poverty Philip Alston on the Meadow Well estate in North Shields. Photograph: Christopher Thomond for the Guardian
The UK government has inflicted “great misery” on its people with “punitive, mean-spirited, and often callous” austerity policies, according to a damning verdict from the United Nations poverty envoy Philip Alston.
As part of Alston’s fact-finding mission around Britain, Guardian social affairs correspondent Robert Booth,followed the UN envoy for a day in Newcastle upon Tyne. He found people struggling to cope within a benefits system designed to force people into work with built-in delays to payments. Many have been referred to food banks with some still going hungry. Other recent episodes of the Guardian’s daily news podcasts have covered Donald Tusk, Steve Bannon and Pakistan’s blasphemy laws. Catch up with recent episodes here.
Readers’ picks
Sajjad Malik, UNHCR Country Representative in Syria, speaks to Melissa Fleming for Awake at Night. Photograph: UNHCR/Susan Hopper
It is rare that you hear such honesty about being a humanitarian worker. You begin to understand the very real fears these incredible men and women have working on the front line. Intriguing, uplifting and gripping. Recommended by Sarah Epstein
This podcast bills itself as a discussion of the ethical minefields of modern life. Obviously, there are no pat answers. But there are sometimes really good and different ways of looking at things. It is intelligent and helpful without being glib or shouty. Recommended by Christine Sanderson
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Source: https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2018/nov/23/a-frank-fearless-and-funny-guide-to-parenting-podcasts-of-the-week
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