Your Wicks fix
From words of wisdom from the ‘nation’s PE teacher’, to birdsong, to a podcast about love, get these on your radar...
The Joe Wicks Podcast
Best known as the man who occupied our kids for a daily
20 minutes in lockdown while we collapsed on the couch exhausted from failed home schooling, Joe Wicks has expanded from Youtube to itunes with his new podcast.
While it’s frankly hard to believe the self-dubbed PE Teacher to the Nation has any energy left for podding, here he is, bouncy as ever, on a quest to discover ‘the one thing that makes life better’.
Don’t fear though, the answer isn’t cold showers and 10-mile 6am runs unless that’s your quite specific bag.
Each of Joe’s interviewees has a different answer, and some of them are quite palatable.
For actor David Harewood it’s walking his cavapoo Sebbie in the park and for Louis Theroux it’s a sneaky 10-minute nap.
Some are more achievable than others – Kim Kardashian’s personal trainer Melissa
Alcantara’s ‘one thing’ is riding through the Californian canyons, surfing and walking along the beach at daybreak. Yes of course it is.
But the whole point of the podcast is that you should find your own path through life, and Joe’s cheerily boyish personality makes it an upbeat listen.
Where to start: Real life spaceman Tim Peake tells Joe all about flying helicopters and keeping fit on the International Space Station in a really warm, interesting interview.
Where to find it All the usual podcast apps as well as BBC Sounds.
36 Questions
If you’re looking for love in 2021 then you might want to familiarise yourself with the 36 questions that American psychologist Arthur Aron believes will make strangers fall in love. There are rules of course, as you’ll find out in this bittersweet musical podcast starring Jonathan Groff (Frozen, Mindhunter), inset, and Broadway star Jessie Shelton.
They play a recently estranged married couple who you can’t help rooting for despite a major issue they need to overcome.
It’s witty, heartwarming and will make you cry real tears – the good type.
Where to start: Episode 1 Where to find it All the usual podcast apps.