If you’re newish to podcasts, said Hannah Verdier in The Guardian, then you might know the names of some “must listen” series, but be unsure where to dive in. Here are three suggestions. Even by the standards of Cariad Lloyd’s superb Griefcast, episode 120 with Monty Don is a “real thing of beauty”. There are both tears and laughter as the gardener talks movingly not only about the loss of his father, but also of his beloved dog, Nigel. The true crime podcast Criminal, meanwhile, is “not all about the blood and gore”. Indeed its very best episode,
with episode 29, Louis Theroux. “If you haven’t had the pleasure of hearing Theroux’s falsetto version of Baccara’s