Alice Fiennes and Poppy Damon are experienced podcasters who previously gave us the excellent
Murderabilia, about the people who collect artefacts associated with real-life killers, said Miranda Sawyer in The Observer. Their terrific new series, Pseudocide – about people who fake their own deaths – is equally “fascinating” and “weird”. They explore the life of a 14th century nun who faked her death to pursue a life of “carnal lust”. There’s the strange tale of a disappearing shopping-channel host, and the familiar, but still astonishing, story of the Labour MP John Stonehouse. But my favourite episode, said James Marriott in The Times, is about Kaycee Nicole, a teenage basketball player and blogger who gained a wide online following before tragically dying of cancer in 2001. Or rather, who didn’t die of cancer, and who never played basketball, because she turned out to be a “bored, middle-aged lady named Debbie”.