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From silly songs and celeb guests with Alex Horne to a look through history via Billy Joel’s We Didn’t Start The Fire, here are top podcasts to tune into

- LAURA DAVIS Podcasts Editor

THE HORNE SECTION PODCAST

Taskmaster star Alex Horne leads a band of musicians in an hour of silly songs and daft capers that owe a lot to music hall japery and old radio comedy shows.

A celebrity guest is invited to join the fun each week when they are subjected to serenading, guessing games and asked to pick up an instrument and perform.

Earlier episodes were recorded in the studio – including one in which Taskmaster co-presenter

Greg Davies reveals he likes to wear a kaftan with no undies when on holiday – but they’ve done a great job of maintainin­g the chemistry over Zoom.

It’s ridiculous, nonsensica­l and a lot of fun.

WHERE TO START:

Comedian and Peep Show actor Isy Suttie debates the best musical instrument to take to a wake. Find it on all the usual podcast apps.

WE DIDN’T START THE FIRE

Katie Puckrik – remember her from The Word in the 90s? – presents this brilliant concept for a history podcast with Tom Fordyce. Each episode takes a single line from Billy Joel’s hit We Didn’t Start The Fire, which rattles through 118 significan­t events that took place between 1949, the year of his birth, to 1989 when the song was released.

The show began in January with an episode on Harry Truman, helped by a US presidenti­al history expert, and has got to the Rosenbergs, who were jointly executed as Soviet spies in 1953.

There’s quite a jolly atmosphere to the podcast, although it takes its facts seriously, and it does prove Billy Joel’s point – particular­ly relevant over the past 12 months – that there is turmoil at every point in human history.

WHERE TO START:

The episode on Doris Day reveals how misunderst­ood the silver screen icon was. Available on all podcast apps.

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Alex Horne, left, and Isy Suttie above, who joins him in one episode of The Horne Section podcast
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Catch Greg Davies on The Horne Section podcast
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