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Best podcasts of the week: Stars spill their secrets to an interviewing icon on The Louis Theroux Show
In this week’s newsletter: The legendary documentary-maker meets celebrities from Shania Twain to Craig David in his new show. Plus: five of the best LGBTQ+ history podcasts
Alexi Duggins, Hannah Verdier, Hollie Richardson and Ella Braidwood
01, Jun, 2023 @8:45 AM
‘I stood there with my mouth open. It was a utopia’: 50 years of Olivia, the lesbian cruise company
The company, which began as a record label, beat the odds to offer a space where women could ‘come out and be themselves’
Ella Braidwood
22, May, 2023 @10:00 AM
A coastal Kent walk under chalk cliffs to a great pub: The George and Heart, Margate
Starting in Dickens’ Broadstairs, this walk takes in the spectacular bays of Thanet’s eastern tip
Ella Braidwood
14, May, 2023 @10:00 AM
What lies beneath: meet the real life metal detectorists
Tales of rare finds, Instagram stories and, of course, that hit TV comedy means metal detecting is buzzing. Today’s detectorists reveal what they love about it
Ella Braidwood
14, May, 2023 @9:00 AM
‘It can be transformative’: walking the Pennines with Queer Out Here
Groups like this West Yorkshire LGBTQ+ rambling society are great for health – mental and physical – and provide a reassuring way to meet new people
Ella Braidwood
09, Mar, 2023 @7:00 AM
Tell me about it, stud: the rapturous return of the butch lesbian scene
With sold-out club nights from Bristol to Birmingham, a long-marginalised subculture is enjoying a brilliant post-pandemic resurgence
Ella Braidwood
08, Mar, 2023 @10:00 AM
‘This show is a warning’ the musical telling the forgotten story of disabled people in Nazi Germany
Set in 1933, Waldo’s Circus of Magic & Terror features a cast relishing the chance to shine a light on the kind of heroes often airbrushed from history
Ella Braidwood
06, Mar, 2023 @11:00 AM
Life on the edge: meet the man who walked around the UK
Facing financial ruin, the former paratrooper set out on a six-year, 11,000-mile trek around our entire coastline. It changed his life in more ways than he could possibly imagine. By Ella Braidwood
Ella Braidwood
05, Feb, 2023 @11:00 AM
‘Like moving through water while everyone is on land’: the writers exploring sexuality through sea life
A host of LGBTQ+ authors are finding parallels with mermaids, tropical fish and other creatures of the deep as a way to make sense of their own lives
Ella Braidwood
03, Feb, 2023 @5:00 PM
Wave of protest plays staged as UK theatres face closures and staff shortages
In several new productions, playwrights explore the cost of living crisis as their industry reels from funding cuts, cancellations and low wages
Ella Braidwood
03, Feb, 2023 @12:06 PM
Reading’s Sanne Troelsgaard: ‘Teammates ask how I go home and work’
Denmark midfielder discusses her online fitness company, stopping for months after her father died and her World Cup dream
Ella Braidwood
19, Jan, 2023 @11:13 AM
The love boom: why romance novels are the biggest they’ve been for 10 years
The books that might once have been hidden in bedside drawers are flying off the shelves – and young readers are the driving force. How did happy ever after come back in fashion?
Ella Braidwood
13, Dec, 2022 @3:41 PM
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