PODCAST OF THE WEEK David Tennant Does A Podcast With . . .

Everybody’s talking about David Tennant’s new podcast this week, and by everybody I mean my mum, who I didn’t realise even listened to podcasts. She can't get enough of David Tennant’s one. David Tennant Does A Podcast

With... sits firmly in the classic podcast genre "famous people talking to other famous people", which is a podcast genre you can’t really fault. As long as the host has a bit of charm and a nice voice you can’t go wrong, and Tennant, with his soothing Scottish vowels, humbly describing his podcast as “pretty low concept” (“it’s just lots of lovely people, dropping by, hanging out”) is a natural.

The first episode is him chatting with old Broadchurch co-star Olivia Colman about being The Queen in both the new series of The Crown and The Favourite; this week’s one has Whoopi Goldberg on to chat about everything from stand-up comedy to social media. Other names scheduled in coming weeks include John Hamm, Ian McKellen, Jodie Whittaker from

Doctor Who . . . looks like David Tennant has the mum demographic well and truly locked down.