Though it’s offered as a way to “switch off from a busy week”, perhaps its biggest selling point is the regular narration of Marina Hyde’s always brilliant Friday political column. The Guardian started one a couple of weeks ago: Weekend. It reminded me, a little, of Love + Radio it has a similar emotional “pull back and reveal”, an unexpected gut-punch story twist.Īnyway, if this sounds like your sort of thing, there are several other read-out-the-story podcasts for you out there. It’s a remarkable listen, one of the most moving and thought-provoking things I’ve heard in a long time. This takes the form of an edited interview with the soldier, Kelly Hillyer, carefully done by journalist Michael Weiss. Not all are read-aloud longform journalism though: I recommend Guarding Saddam, about the sort-of friendship that developed between the ex-president of Iraq and the young US soldier told to guard him. It made an excellent chew toy.) If you enjoy it, there are another 16 Paperless stories, including one narrated by Elle Fanning. (Actually, as a side point, our dog once found a dildo in the park. There’s a bit of subtle soundscaping that helps the tale along (nothing too rude, don’t worry), and the episode proved cheering company as I marched around the park with the dog. It’s a great, surprisingly heartwarming story, read beautifully by Buscemi. So, you know, maybe listen to this one on headphones.

“He was building back his manhood,” narrates Buscemi, lightly, “one dick at a time.” Afterwards, though he could no longer get an erection, Duncan still felt erotic urges and wanted to have sex, so he set up a home business making the best dildos he could. Specifically, it’s the story of a man, Gosnell Duncan, a car mechanic who in 1965 had an accident at work. The most recent, Joy Boy, by Hallie Lieberman, is read by Steve Buscemi, and is – there is no way of disguising this – about dildos. Several episodes are simply a famous person reading a specially written article out loud. Which brings me to Paperless, an audio magazine by nonfiction production house Vespucci. Audio genres are blurring and overlapping all the time. After all, many use broadcast techniques – Adam Buxton’s Ramble Book even included jingles – and I can already review several “actor reading a popular book” programmes on Radio 4. For a while I’ve wondered whether I should include audiobooks. If you can hear it over headphones, I’ll consider reviewing it, as long as it’s not a music album. I cover anything created especially for listeners: plays, podcasts, phone-ins, music shows, investigations, live broadcasts, constructed soundscapes, day-in-day-out programmes. This is an audio column, as opposed to a radio-only one, or one that’s just about podcasts. The Rest Is Politics (Goalhanger Podcasts) | Acast The Rest Is History (Goalhanger Podcasts) | Acast

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