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◆ Trending: Five new podcasts to listen to this week including BBC’S Dear Daughter

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These are our top podcast picks this week including BBC Sound's Dear Daughter.

Bookshelfi­e: To mark its millionth download, earlier this month, the weekly interview podcast Bookshelfi­e, brought to you by the Women’s Prize Trust, the charity behind the Women’s Prizes for Fiction and Non-fiction, re-branded with a new look. In this week’s episode, TV and BBC Radio 1 presenter, author and journalist Vick Hope interviews American novelist and academic, Kiley Reid.

Dear Daughter: Host Namulanta Kombo speaks to Lebanese-american comedian Janine Harouni all about parenthood. The interestin­g thing about Harouni’s experience is that she was performing standup at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival while 40 weeks pregnant – just a few weeks before she gave birth.

Everybody Hates HR: Co-hosts Lola and Velisa take a look at a recent report on sexual harassment in the financial sector and highlight some recent pay-out cases – including a council worker granted a record £4.6m, after being dismissed while on sick leave for PTSD from working with victims of the Grenfell Tower fire.

Dial F For Football: Dial F For Football is Keep It Light Media’s first scripted podcast, starring an array of actors and comedians, including Lolly Adefope, Fergus Craig, Jessica Fostekew and Helen Cripps and featuring cameos from UK comedy royalty, such as Alan Davies and Phil Wang.

Strike: When you think of 1984 what comes to mind? For filmmaker Jonny Owen, that year is one thing, the miners’ strike. Owen goes on a personal journey and tries to tell the profound story of the hundreds and thousands of people who were at the heart of this dispute.

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