Ok, so Steven Bartlett’s ‘Diary of a CEO’ is the exception, but most popular podcasters – from Alastair Campbell to Gary Lineker – are all a certain type of man talking about the same kind of things. Do we have a problem, asks Sam Leith (who’s one of them)
As a way to learn big chunks of history in a fast and entertaining way, this written version is arguably even more effective than its popular audio parent