Latest Reviews
May 28, 2024
Howzat? 4.4 / 6 First thing’s first, it’s difficult to listen to this podcast whilst eating a Portuguese custard tart (they’re too tasty to ignore) and secondly, probably more importantly, it’s arguably more difficult to listen to this show if you’ve heard Diary of a CEO before. Why? Because it has all the same tropes
- May 24, 2024
Howzat? 5.0 / 6 Let’s face it, most people listen to a podcast because of the presenter. Yes, “the content” matters, of course it does, but the intimacy of the listening experience means that if the person talking in your ear doesn’t butter your biscuit, it’s highly unlikely that you’re going to choose to make
- May 23, 2024
Howzat? 4.8 / 6 For those of you who loved listening to ‘Quickly Kevin, Will He Score?’ there is hope here that this new show, which graduates from following soccer fandom in the 1990s to the 2000s, will live up to expectations and fill a hole now that comedian Josh Widdicombe has
- May 22, 2024
Howzat? 3.0 / 6 Don’t let the fact that professional rugby player Joe Marler hosts this show fool you – it isn’t a rugby-based podcast. There’s no statistical analysis of the Premiership here. Rather, this is the Radio 1 breakfast show regenerated for the 2020s but with a lingering aftertaste of humour anchored in the
- May 21, 2024
Howzat? 0.9 / 6 The world’s largest known lollipop stands at 5ft 11in tall and weighs in at a whopping 500,134 stone in California, which equates to a hell of a lot of sugar. And if I ate this lollipop, accompanied by a vat of full fat coke, it probably wouldn’t taste as sickly as
- May 20, 2024
Howzat? 5.1 / 6 In a world full of true crime podcasts that largely concentrate on ‘orrible things like murder, kidnapping, and the darker elements of Guantánamo, a show based on a scandal involving sporting equipment brings some welcomed levity to the table and I would even go as far as saying that it reinvigorates
- May 17, 2024
Howzat? 2.9 / 6 True crime podcasts. For as long as they have been around, the genre has always been the ‘apex saecula’ of the podcasting world. Think the ground-breaking Serial from This American Life; firm fan favourite Crime Junkie; and Dateline NBC, a podcast wrapped up in so much drama that even the Kray
- May 16, 2024
Howzat? 3.9 / 6 Let’s start with the elephant in the sound-proofed room: although the release cadence of Acquired is monthly, this podcast is over 4 hours long. 4 BLOODY HOURS! That’s the same time as it takes to drive from London to Yorkshire, or, if you want to be more scientific, how long it
- May 15, 2024
Howzat? 4.8 / 6 When it comes to the ‘listen you cretin, this is serious history right here’ genre of podcasts, Noiser – the producers of Curious History of Your Home – have cornered the market. Their USP (Ultra Specific Patter) is that they make you feel like you’re living the history they’re talking about;
- May 14, 2024
Howzat? 4.1 / 6 Do you like listening to in-jokes at a hair salon? If so, this is the podcast for you. Jordan North – the witless half of this podcast duo – and his northern star is rising at the moment. He is the new breakfast show presenter for Capital FM and ‘Help I
