Alan Carr Tries to Become a Wine Connoisseur: This Week’s Best Podcasts | TV and radio

Bottoms up

“It’s not like a podcast for boys, guys, guys, is it?” says Alan Carr in his first new wine show with comedian Pal Lee Bert. There are tastings, reader dilemmas and a Q&A with wine expert Tom Gilbey. The highlight is the husband’s banter. Carr’s response when Burt says he wants to turn it back to white so he can have his favorite type of wine when they share a bottle? “You could have told me that off camera…I didn’t know this was related!” Alexey Duggins
Widely available, weekly episodes

Girlfriends: untouchable

Novel/iHeart’s hit podcast about a group of women who dated the same dangerous man has slowly metastasized into a franchise about women who have struggled against abuse. This time, the film focuses on a Kansas police detective, Roger Golubsky, who abused his position to abuse black women and target their families. Hannah J. Davis
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Music makes us

There are fewer podcast hosts more amazing than Kathleen Hanna. The riot frontman leads this interview show that sticks – refreshingly – to the music, though it’s not entirely devoid of conversation. Her first guest is Paramore’s Hayley Williams, who sings for Parliament, Funkadelic, Fontaines DC and more. HCD
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Charles Dickens’s Ghost Stories with David Suchet

David Suchet narrates seven of Dickens’s disturbing tales, including “The Signal Man” – inspired by a real train accident that haunted Dickens – and “The Murder Trial”, a story of justice beyond the grave. And yes, of course that includes the premiere of A Christmas Carol. Holly Richardson
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The bomb

There is an engaging personal angle to this historical show that charts how the world came to the brink of nuclear disaster. Its view of the Cuban missile crisis is provided by the descendants of its heroes – Nina Khrushcheva, granddaughter of Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev, and Max Kennedy, nephew of President John F. Kennedy and son of Robert Kennedy. advertisement
BBC Voices, weekly episodes