I often see Twitterers and columnists opining that we don't need any more podcasts from middle aged (or middle class) white men and I would like to be an outlier on this, and recommend the following excellent and entertaining podcasts from that demographic. Other demographics are available.
Kermode and Mayo's Take: Simon Mayo and Mark Kermode
https://www.kermodeandmayo.com/
Apple podcasts | Spotify | Amazon Music
A continuation of the excellent 'Wittertainment', the BBC 5 Live show that ran for ages before Simon and Mark parted company with the BBC and set sail under their own steam. Fabulous interviews with people who make films and streaming series, pithy film reviews, amiable complaints about various annoyances, audience emails, terrible jokes and a general feeling of warm film-fan community. There have been a couple of live events too in London, hugely popular.
There's a free version and a paid-for version and a whole bunch of extras. The free version has some rather funny adverts.
Bunk Bed: Peter Curran and Patrick Marber
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0735nh6/episodes/downloads
BBC Sounds
Love this. Late night chats recorded lying down in the dark while in bunk beds. Gentle and funny bickering and story-telling with occasional guests on the pull-out mattress, all in 15 minutes. I love the sounds of the duvets rustling and the conversations veering off in directions.
Here's a lovely review from the Royal Television Society: https://rts.org.uk/article/ear-candy-bunk-bed
Really? No, Really?: Jason Alexander and Peter Tilden
https://reallynoreally.com/
iHeart Radio | Apple podcasts | Spotify | Pandora | Amazon Music | Simplecast
The new kid on the block. I have recently been bingeing Seinfeld on Netflix, getting me through a miserable bout of Covid (now recovered) and just so delighted that the end of that coincided with Jason Alexander launching a podcast with his pal Peter Tilden. It's a lovely buffet of odd facts and interesting guests in which they're trying to get to the bottom of why the things that make them go "Really? No, Really?" are that way. It's funny and fact-checked so ticks my boxes.
Coincidentally both Patrick Marber (Peter O'Hanraha-hanrahan on The Day Today) and Jason Alexander (George Costanza on Seinfeld) have been making me laugh for 30 odd years and both are now directing (Marber, Leopoldstadt) or about to direct (Alexander, The Cottage) plays on Broadway. I wonder if they know each other! Also, perhaps there are other left-handed, Jewish, poker-playing actor-directors whose podcasts I might like to hear about...?
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