The mysterious murder that rocked a quiet Welsh village: the best podcasts of the week | TV and radio

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Anglesey Vampire Slayer

The 2001 murder of 90-year-old Mabel Leyshon in her home on the island of Ynys Mon (Anglesea) in Wales by an attacker who drank her blood made once friendly neighbors suddenly afraid of each other. Behind the slightly sensationalist title, this podcast from BBC’s Crime Next Door sensitively retells the story, with host Mick Barry putting it in the context of what a case like this means in a close-knit Welsh community. Hannah J. Davis
Widely available, weekly episodes

Olga, Erika and me

Perhaps unsurprisingly, this podcast by Elanette Michelle Woods, the Emmy-nominated audio editor for Adolescent, sounds great. Most importantly, the six-part series — a tender portrait of her Holocaust survivor grandmother Olga, Erica Woods’ mother — is deeply moving. It has been translated from the original Hungarian language, and is told largely through Olga’s own diaries. HJD
Widely available, now

(United Nations) common ground

Tariq Iskandar, Artistic Director of Battersea Arts Centre, and journalist Lynn Gardner host this new series on the state of the arts. If there might be a tendency to talk a little about these things, that’s not the case here, as the hosts launch straight into analyzing Baroness Hodge’s recent review of the Arts Council of England. HJD
Widely available, bi-monthly episodes

Screw this… let’s try something else

This series speaks to communities that have organized new ways of doing things, from Grimsby’s revolutionary housing model to locally owned wind turbines built in Bristol. It’s always nice to find people who offer a slice of hope. Holly Richardson
Widely available, now

Interface

Tech podcasts are a difficult feat: if you get too deep into them, they become impenetrable, but no one wants thin Internet-flavored mush, either. This BBC series strikes a balance, with technology writers Nikki Wolff, Thomas German and Karen Howe recognizing that not everyone will be following stories like the US takeover of TikTok in painstaking detail, while also assuming some knowledge. HJD
Widely available, weekly episodes