Podcasts... pop culture, food, and Harry and Meghan
For those listeners still mourning the end of last month, here are three podcasts to help fill the gap left by Dolly Alderton and Pandora Sykes’s weekly pop-culture fix, said Katie Strick in the London Evening Standard.
The High Low
Holiday Special
friendship on display” and answer listeners’ questions about food and cookery. Another recommended food podcast is
said Hollie Richardson in Stylist. Chef and food writer Margie Nomura’s series returned late last year, with guests including Nadiya Hussain and healthy-eating author Alice Liveing. Listening to them “talk about food glorious food” in loving detail will make you “feel very, very hungry”.
I didn’t have high hopes for
the new podcast series from the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, said Fiona Sturges in the FT. Famous people who lack broadcasting experience often talk over their guests or ask blandly unsearching questions. Also, the freedom to cut loose that many find in podcasting doesn’t apply here: this pair may no longer be “senior royals”, but they still have to “mind their Ps and Qs”. But despite all that, Harry and Meghan have come up with a podcast “which, while not reinventing the medium, is definitively not terrible”. In the first
episode, their famous friends (Elton John, James Corden) and celebrity guests (including spoken word performer George the Poet) reflect on the challenges and tragedies of the year. There’s no “toe-curling celebrity chumminess”, the spirit is optimistic, and though “the tone is often sentimental, as we knew it would be, there are moments of genuine poignance”.