Picks of the week
LA Made: The Barbie Tapes
Extensively obtainable, episodes weekly
“At the same time as a baby I discovered her disturbing but fascinating,” says Antonia Cereijido of the Los Angeles information and tradition web site LAist, who, together with Barbie professional and creator MG Lord, co-hosts this well timed deep dive into the world-dominating “hunk of plastic”. She shares never-before-heard tape interviews with creator Ruth Handler, beginning with how Barbie was conceived. Resisting Barbie fever is futile, for, because the film tagline says, “She’s all the pieces.” Hollie Richardson
Ibiza: What’s the Huge Deal?
BBC Sounds, all episodes out now
In a sequence that feels so immersive you’ll get Fomo (to the purpose of reserving a flight), DJ Sarah Story hosts this eight-parter concerning the world’s most well-known occasion island. Talking to those that helped create its legacy – Pete Tong, Eats All the things, Decide Jules – and trying to find the most effective evening out, it’s the liveliest journey information going. HR
Myha’la Herrold, the star of Business and now the drama podcast Academy. {Photograph}: Phillip Faraone/WireImage
Drapetomaniax: Unshackled Historical past
Extensively obtainable, episodes weekly
This energetic tackle Black historical past takes its title from “drapetomania”, a supposed psychological well being situation a white physician invented in 1851 to elucidate why slaves fled captivity. Within the first episode they profile Forest Joe, a Nineteenth-century South Carolina bandit who led a band of runaways. Alexi Duggins
Academy
Extensively obtainable, episodes weekly
Black tie brunches, Adderall addictions and massive ambitions collide on this sparky drama set in America’s most prestigious boarding college. Business’s Myha’la Herrold (pictured above) is the scholarship scholar determined to slot in and lift the money she wants for her extracurricular actions. Cue secret societies and Euphoria-style motion (ie podcast intercourse scenes). Hannah Verdier
Herb: A Miniseries
Extensively obtainable, all episodes out now
This local weather disaster three-parter from Amy Westervelt (Drilled) opens with just a little woman in an Amelia Earhart outfit enthusing about her goals. It’s certainly one of many “inspirational” advertisements paid for by oil companies, made modern by an ex-oil VP who seemingly invented greenwashing. The sequence exhibits how firms fought to get their “company free speech” was a legally protected entity. AD
There’s a podcast for that
Because the Ladies’s World Cup kicks off, we run down 5 must-listen exhibits to maintain caught up. Illustration: Guardian Design
With the Ladies’s World Cup kicking off in Australia and New Zealand, Ella Braidwood chooses 5 of the most effective podcasts to see you thru the competitors, from near-instant evaluation by specialists and ex-pros to the the Guardian’s personal weekly roundup
The Offside Rule
In 2015, The Offside Rule turned the primary day by day podcast to cowl a significant girls’s soccer match, incomes it a revered standing amongst followers. After a five-month hiatus, its again and has teamed up with Sky Sports activities to supply day by day episodes all through this summer time’s match. Hosted by broadcasters Lynsey Hooper and Kait Borsay, episodes might be launched a number of hours after the final sport of every match day, with visitors together with former Lionesses, stars from the worldwide stage, and Sky’s reporters. A World Cup preview episode is already obtainable, together with perception from ex-Lioness Natasha Dowie and interviews with worldwide journalists on the highest groups to look out for.
The Far Submit
Launched in 2020, The Far Submit is ESPN’s girls’s soccer podcast in Australia, offering year-round protection of the nation’s A-League, and hosted by girls’s soccer writers Marissa Lordanic, Anna Harrington, Angela Christian-Wilkes and Sam Lewis. The podcast has launched episodes each few days within the lead-up to the Ladies’s World Cup, together with group-by-group previews and an in-depth dissection of Australia’s 23-strong squad. Every episode incorporates a visitor, normally from ESPN, providing professional evaluation, together with a take a look at England’s possibilities in Group D. The podcast will even run all through the match, recapping on earlier matches and with a powerful concentrate on Oz’s video games.
The Guardian’s Ladies’s Soccer Weekly
Hosted by sports activities broadcaster Faye Carruthers and Guardian author Suzanne Wrack, this podcast will run 3 times per week all through the match, with match evaluation, visitor interviews and professional commentary. Among the many confirmed panellists are Bristol Metropolis head coach Anita Asante, former Chelsea defender Claire Rafferty, BBC commentator Robyn Cowen, and the Guardian’s Jonathan Liew. The podcast can also be value testing in the course of the Ladies’s Tremendous League season, with week-by-week evaluation and visitors who’ve included England legend Kelly Smith.
After the Whistle
Its first sequence adopted the lads’s match final 12 months, and now Apple Information’s podcast is again to cowl the ladies’s sport. Hosted by Ted Lasso co-creator and star Brendan Hunt and NBC presenter Rebecca Lowe, episodes might be obtainable “a number of instances per week within the hours followingmomentous video games”, with a preview episode already obtainable. Listeners can anticipate to be guided via the match’s speaking level – together with the large wins and upsets – plus the most effective off-field moments. There might be a rotating guestlist, with star appearances doubtless – earlier visitors in season one included retired USA soccer star Abby Wambach, Ted Lasso himself, Jason Sudeikis, and creator Glennon Doyle.
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The Athletic Ladies’s Soccer Podcast: World Cup version
Hosted by sports activities commentator Michelle Owen, New York Occasions-owned sports activities web site The Athletic will run a day by day podcast all through the match, with common appearances from its journalists Michael Cox, Meg Linehan and Charlotte Harpur. The publication has greater than 10 employees on the match, with the present’s creators hoping the episodes will seize the ambiance on the bottom. Whereas the principle focus might be on England, the podcast will even characteristic visitors from abroad to make sure a world scope. A preview episode was launched final week, together with a run via of the group phases.
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