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I. "Audie Cornish's Long Struggle to Remake the News" by Sarah Larson: Cornish has watched the media evolve, experiment, and experience dramatic layoffs. In “The Assignment,” her CNN podcast, she’s trying to find a new way forward.

II. "Dave Chappelle's Freewheeling Podcast" by Carrie Battan: On "The Midnight Miracle," the comedian brings his rogue sensiblity to the world of podcasting.

I. "9 Of The Most Amazing Comedians With Podcasts" by James Griffin: Comedians make some of the best podcast hosts. They're sharp, quick on their feet, and usually have a joke at the ready.

II. "27 of the Best Podcasts Sam Harris Has Produced" by James Griffin: Sam Harris is a philosopher and neuroscientist covering some of the most vexing questions humanity has to offer up. Griffin discusses some of his best.

I. "The Active Voice: Alison Roman is bored of Instagram" Hamish McKenzie talks to cooking writer Alison Roman about growing distant from social media, how money factors in, and recovering from cancellation.

II. "The Active Voice: Patti Smith loves being alive" Hamish McKenzie talks to Patti Smith about her life of writing, her long friendships, and cancel culture.

I. "The Coldest Case in Laramie" Serial Productions’ The Coldest Case in Laramie follows host and The New York Times journalist Kim Barker as she looks into the death of a college student, Shelli Wiley, who died in the Wyoming city in 1985.

II. "I Am Not Nicholas" Audible’s I Am Not Nicholas is a “bizarre, chilling story”, said The Sunday Times radio and podcast critic Patricia Nicol. Two years ago, in December 2021, police arrived at a Glasgow hospital with an international arrest warrant for one of its patients, Arthur Knight. Except that police said this man was in fact the convicted sex offender Nicholas Rossi.

III. "Bone Valley" Here is a real treat for “all you fans of true-crime-cold-case-clue-by-clue-to-the-truth podcasts”, said Miranda Sawyer in The Observer. Bone Valley is about the 1987 murder of an 18-year-old from Florida called Michelle Schofield. Despite a lack of either physical or eyewitness evidence, her husband Leo – then 21 – was convicted of the crime, and 35 years later, he remains behind bars.

I. Cube Critics discuss "The Last of Us" and "Daisy Jones and The Six"

II. Cube Critics review 'Creed III' and 'Cocaine Bear'

III. The Cube Critics on 'The Traitors' and 'Cunk on Earth.'

I. "The Lesser Dead" Wondery: The life of a vampire in 1978 is a good one, according to this scripted podcast starring Minnie Driver and Jack Kilmer. Spending days watching TV, then partying in underground clubs – they’ve got it all worked out.

II. "Bitter/Sweet" This series about how aromas and flavour connect to our deepest emotions comes in 10-minute episodes, but each one bursts with personality. Host Natasha Miller talks to the likes of restaurateur Jeremy King as she takes us on a vivid, eloquent, grief-inspired tale of unforgettable tastes.

III. "The Darkness Vaults" This podcast collects some of the darkest true-crime cases ever reported and each episode quite rightly comes with a warning due to the grim content. Cases include Fiona Torbet, who went missing while hiking in the Scottish Highlands in 1993, and a mysterious suitcase left at a Los Angeles train station in 1931.

I. "Books About the Oscars" Just in time for the Academy Awards, our critic Alexandra Jacobs discusses two recent books on the subject, Michael Schulman’s “Oscar Wars” and Bruce Davis’s “The Academy and the Award.”

II. "Revisiting ‘Wisconsin Death Trip,’ 50 Years Later" The Times’s critic Dwight Garner looks back on Michael Lesy’s cult classic of documentary literature, which was first published in 1973.

III. "On Reading ‘A Wrinkle in Time" Sarah Lyall discusses reading Madeleine L’Engle’s classic novel at a pivotal moment in her childhood, and the lessons she has extracted from the book throughout her life.

I. "Podcast Review: John Wick Chapter 4" On this episode, Ryan and Jay review the latest from Keanu Reeves and Chad Stahelski in John Wick: Chapter 4! Is John Wick the best action franchise of the last 20 years? Is this the end of John Wick ? We discuss off that and more in this review.

II. "Podcast Review: Creed III" On this episode, JD, Brendan and Ryan discuss Michael B. Jordan’s directorial debut in Creed III! Between Jordan behind the camera, and the inclusion of Jonathan Majors, there’s plenty to love about the latest in the Rocky/Creed franchise. But does it land all of its punches?

III. "Podcast Review: Cocaine Bear" On this episode, Brendan and JD review the latest from Elizabeth Banks in the schlocky comedy-horror film Cocaine Bear! It’s obviously going for fun and came, but does the the film succeed in what it’s attempting to be?

I. "Holy Week and the Aftermath of MLK’s Death" Holy Week, a magisterial new narrative podcast from The Atlantic, named after the burst of grief, fury, and violence that washed over the country in the wake of King’s assassination.

II. "Can Anyone Trust "The Witch Trials of JK Rowling " From Bari Weiss' The Free Press, the Podcast says it wants to have a conversation.  What it really wants to do is give a sermon.

III. "The Superficial Pleasures of Smartless" The celebrity-hosted show is so vanilla it's almost provocative.

All Reviews by: Nicholas Quah