From Pixie Lott’s Stories Of 29 to Nice White Parents & Couples Quarantine: This week’s top podcasts

From Pixie Lott’s Stories Of 29 to Nice White Parents, Politics JaM and James Haskell and Chloe Madeley’s Couples Quarantine, this week’s top podcasts

Stories Of 29

Singer Pixie Lott was once told by an astrologist that the most pivotal year in our lives is our 29th, when we experience a ‘Saturn return’. 

Pixie Lott asks actors, musicians and fashionistas to tell her about the year that was most transformative for them in her podcast Stories Of 29

Lott asks actors, musicians and fashionistas to tell her about the year that was most transformative for them. The best episodes are with guests who pick a year later in life, such as photographer Rankin, who says his was 43.

Politics JaM

Economist Jeevun is researching inequality and his co-presenter Mike is a political scientist exploring the impacts of ethnic-minority politicians. On paper it doesn’t sound scintillating, but weirdly this politics podcast works. Each week the academics examine one big news story through a political science lens. It’s intelligent and surprisingly unpretentious.

 

Couples Quarantine

Podcasts hosted by couples are usually grim. This show though, presented by rugby star James Haskell and his wife Chloe Madeley, is great fun. While their relationship looks enviable from the outside, the reality inside is ‘insane’, they insist. 

Each week, rugby star James Haskell and his wife Chloe Madeley bicker and tease one another agreeably while dishing out advice to listeners who have sent in their relationship gripes

Each week, rugby star James Haskell and his wife Chloe Madeley bicker and tease one another agreeably while dishing out advice to listeners who have sent in their relationship gripes

Each week, the pair bicker and tease one another agreeably while dishing out advice to listeners who have sent in their relationship gripes. It’s warming and gently funny.

 

Nice White Parents 

New podcast made by the team behind Serial, the 2014 series that thrust podcasts from the fringes to the mainstream. Over five episodes, Nice White Parents examines the attainment gap between black and white students in the US, and asks whether pushy white parents are to blame for segregation in schools. It’s a riveting, if rather dispiriting, exploration of the injustice baked into America’s education system.

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