ELIZABETH ARCHER

Uncanny

Following hit podcast The

Battersea Poltergeist, which investigated a haunting, Danny

Robins tells true stories of the supernatural, from phantoms to UFOs, as told by Battersea Poltergeist listeners.

The chilling first episode tells the story of Ken, a respected geneticist who doesn’t believe in ghosts. But 40 years ago, in his student halls in Belfast, he saw the silhouette of a man drifting towards him while his ears filled with white noise.

Parapsychology professor Caroline Watt and ordained minister and paranormal writer Peter Laws offer explanations for the vision.

Jackie The Ripper

This five-part comedy drama reimagines the Whitechapel murders in the present day – except the search for the killer isn’t a manhunt but a womanhunt.

In the first episode, the body of a man is found in East London having been brutally murdered and mutilated, but the policeman dispatched to the scene is feeling fragile after a night of heavy drinking. Meanwhile, a woman identifies herself as the killer, dubs herself Jackie the Ripper and a media circus ensues. The series is darkly comic and comes complete with amusingly squelchy sound effects to accompany the retelling of the murders.

More Or Less

The popular Radio 4 programme has run since 2001 but has found a new audience as a podcast. Broadcaster and economist Tim Harford OBE presents a weekly guide to the numbers and stats we encounter every day and the bitesize episodes (10-30 minutes) tackle topics including the gender pay gap and the environment.

One recent episode looked into Squid Game, the cult Netflix show set in South Korea, in which 456 desperate contestants compete in a deathly battle for 45.6 billion Korean wan.

Tim speaks to mathematician Matt Parker about a problem-solving challenge on the programme.

Windrush Stories

In 1948, the Empire Windrush landed at Tilbury Dock in Essex carrying people from the Caribbean who had come here to work. This podcast tells stories of famous names from the Windrush generation as well as their children and grandchildren. It is presented by DJ Flight who was born in London but whose father and grandmother were born in St Catherine, Jamaica, and uprooted to the UK.

In one episode, MP Diane Abbott MP recalls how she and her brother were the only black children in her Harrow primary school and describes her parents’ pride at living in ‘the mother country’.