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BBC Radio 4 Extra


Presenters recommend their favourite podcasts and speak to the people who make them.


Podcast Radio Hour

Amanda Litherland introduces you to Podcast Radio Hour, where guests recommend their favourite podcasts.

Welcome to Podcast Radio Hour

Made for 4 Extra. Amanda Litherland and guest Deborah Frances-White recommend two of their favourite podcasts, 'Rumble Strip' and Cariad Lloyd's 'Griefcast'.

Deborah Frances-White

Made for 4 Extra. Amanda Litherland and her guest Josie Long recommend their favourite podcasts, featuring 'The Beef And Dairy Network', 'My Dad Wrote A Porno' and 'Short Cuts'.

Josie Long

Made for 4 Extra. Amanda Litherland and her guest Rob Deering recommend their favourite podcasts. Features 'Running Commentary', 'Revisionist History' and 'That Was Then'.

Rob Deering

Made for 4 Extra. Deborah Frances-White joins Amanda Litherland to introduce some of her favourite podcasts. Features 'Guilt and Shame' and new BBC podcast series 'Boring Talks'.

Radio 4 Extra explores the world of podcasts and finds the best on offer. 

Each week, Amanda Litherland and a guest presenter recommend one or two podcasts from the BBC and beyond. From some of the most popular series, to lesser-known hidden gems, they will feature their favourite finds and speak with the people who make them. 

Amanda and this week's guest, journalist Ben Hunte, listen to some LGBT-themed podcasts including Nancy and Homo Sapiens. 

With Homo Sapiens hosts Will Young and Chris Sweeney.

Ben Hunte

Radio 4 Extra explores the world of podcasts and finds the best on offer. 

Each week, Amanda Litherland and a guest presenter recommend one or two podcasts from the BBC and beyond. From some of the most popular series, to lesser-known hidden gems, they feature their favourite finds and speak with the people who make them. 

This week's guest, Anna Sale, host of WNYC's Death Sex and Money, beams in from sunny California for an all-American episode including Death Sex and Money and NPR's Rough Translation.

Anna Sale

Radio 4 Extra explores the world of podcasts and finds the best on offer. 

Each week, Amanda Litherland and a guest presenter will recommend one or two podcasts from the BBC and beyond. From some of the most popular series, to lesser-known hidden gems, they will feature their favourite finds and speak with the people who make them. 

This week Amanda is joined by Josie Long. They will listen to Maeve in America, stories of immigration to the USA presented by Maeve Higgins. 

They'll also hear an episode of Reasons To Be Cheerful, with hosts Ed Miliband and Geoff Lloyd - who are among the nominees for the first ever podcast category at the Broadcasting Press Guild Awards 2018 - due to be held at London's Theatre Royal Drury Lane on March 16th.

Radio 4 Extra explores the world of podcasts and finds the best on offer. 

Each week, Amanda Litherland and a guest presenter recommend one or two podcasts from the BBC and beyond. From some of the most popular series, to lesser-known hidden gems, they feature their favourite finds and speak with the people who make them. 

This week's guest is broadcaster and podcaster, Geoff Lloyd. 

Featuring new BBC podcast Unpopped, and the duo chat to Scroobius Pip about his podcast, Distraction Pieces.

Geoff Lloyd

Radio 4 Extra explores the world of podcasts and finds the best on offer. 

Each week, Amanda Litherland and a guest presenter recommend one or two podcasts from the BBC and beyond. From some of the most popular series, to lesser-known hidden gems, they feature their favourite finds and speak with the people who make them. 

This week's guest is presenter, Ben Hunte. 

Podcasts featured: Stance, and a chat with its presenters Heta Fell and Chrystal Genesis - and activist DeRay McKesson talks about his podcast Pod Save The People.

Amanda Litherland and Caroline Crampton recommend super short podcasts. And Jacob Hawley chats about his latest series for BBC Sounds, 'Jacob Hawley's Job Centre'.

Recommended this week

Short series to learn something:
The World According to Sound
50 Things That Changed The Modern Economy
The Story Behind
On This Day In Esoteric Political History

Short fiction/story series:
Listen, Rinse, Repeat
Chompers
The Roommate From Hell
Havisham Kills Time
Sam Walker's Desert Island Diaries

Short thoughtful podcasts:
10 Things That Scare Me
Now For Tomorrow
The Rob Auton Daily Podcast
The Slowdown

New Podcasts:
Jacob Hawley's Job Centre
The Missionary
Swipe Left Swipe Left

You can contact the show by emailing podcastradiohour@bbc.co.uk

Super short series, Jacob Hawley, and other new releases

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