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W.New podcast alert! It’s just been revealed that the devious stars of hit reality show The Traitors UK are getting their own series, and it’s a bit off. Paul Gorton and Harry Clark are launching a show apparently designed to prove that they can’t just outsmart reality TV contestants by taking a look at “the biggest botched crimes in history” and telling us the right way to approach them. I’m not sure what exactly being able to fool people on an Airbnb trip in Scotland organized by Claudia Winkleman has in common with pulling off the perfect bank heist. But I really want to know when Harry and Paul are… devious It launches next Wednesday.
While we wait for that, there are plenty of other great shows to listen to. Read on for a guide to the best clubbing podcasts, as well as a roundup of shows ranging from A-list musicians taking walking tours of the places that inspired them to an exposé of a national US scandal. They are joined by Stacey Dooley’s look at celebrity court cases, which differs from the Gorton and Clark show in one disappointing way: it doesn’t feature her explaining how she would have carried out the crimes.
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Famous… on trial
BBC Sounds, weekly episodes
TV favorite Stacey Dooley joins comedian Larry Dean to revisit celebrity court cases and give them a new trial. First, there’s Pamela Anderson and the stolen sex tape scandal, which was illegal and accompanied by a big dose of ’90s sexism. Dooley, as always, is thoughtful and sharp, but there’s still room for fun and exquisite celebrity gossip. She also listened to her sister series: Famously… In Love reveals her most important romances and adventures. Hollie Richardson
The Youth Development Center
Widely available, weekly episodes.
Jason Moon investigates one of the largest youth detention scandals in American history, where more than 1,000 people came forward to expose misconduct at the New Hampshire YDC. Former inhabitants tell harrowing stories of horrific abuse, such as the promise of a trip to see their parents in exchange for sexual favors. Hannah Verdier
Life in seven songs
Widely available, episodes every other Tuesday.
The San Francisco Standard’s Sophie Bearman challenges guests to sum up their lives in seven songs, starting with the city’s first black mayor, London Breed. With her love of Beyoncé and her ability to rap New Edition’s Candy Girl, Breed is a likable interviewee with an inspiring success story. high voltage
Justice has been done?
Widely available, weekly episodes.
Jen Baldwin and David Wilson boast that you’ll see bloody, heartbreaking and sensational cases in this new podcast, which is true crime catnip. In the opening case, historian David Olusoga brings sensitivity when he tells the story of his great-great-grandfather, convicted of murder in the 1890s, and the impact she had on his family. high voltage
Origin stories
Apple Podcasts, all episodes available now
Dotty, Matt Wilkinson, and Rebecca Judd encourage a variety of music creators to talk about their early days in this Apple Music podcast. Blossoms, Young T & Bugsey and Becky Hill are among the standouts, the latter being a ball of warmth, who sweetly credits her older brother for creating “the raver monster that I am.” high voltage
There’s a podcast for that.
This week, Hannah Verdier choose five of the best podcasts about clubbingfrom a rave story to queer takes on dancefloor appeal
The history of the best nightclubs in the world
Paris Hilton knows a thing or two about clubbing and is the executive producer of this podcast full of big names. Host Ultra Naté takes listeners on a world tour with lots of social history that puts party moments in context. Key moments include Madonna performing for the first time at Danceteria in New York, Frankie Knuckles setting the musical agenda in Chicago and 22 hours of partying at Space in Ibiza. The UK has its place too, with The Hacienda and Trade at Turnmills bringing joy to an economically depressed and repressed time in history.
Memories of the dance floor
Damian Kerlin’s series about the forgotten history of LGBTQ+ clubs is told by the people who experienced the liveliest night. From the paradise of London to the Nightingale Club of Birmingham, there are many stories to tell about overcoming prejudice, the quest to create another Studio 54 and living life to the fullest while HIV hits the community. Kerlin heads to Wales for its second season, featuring the sweetest stories of women who banded together to host discos just for themselves and men who found romantic encounters in smoky pubs, soundtracked by Elvis Presley on the jukebox. .
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Speed of sound
Disco haters may have torn the scene down, but the scene was good while it lasted and after a few years it went out of style and never went away. Host Steve Greenberg offers a forensic examination of the songs (and that legendary horse) that filled the Studio 54 dance floor, including Van McCoy’s The Hustle, Donna Summer’s Love to Love You Baby and Gloria Gaynor’s I Will Survive . Greenberg is the man who discovered the three-headed boy band Hanson, so he knows a thing or two about music, and here he goes beyond the well-told stories to offer a complete story.
Ecstasy: the rave battle
If the best moments of your life were on a dance floor between 1987 and 1990, just listen to the music snippets in this BBC module (Your Love by Frankie Knuckles, The Sun Rising by The Beloved and Bizarre Love Triangle by New Order ) will give you an idea of traveling back in time. Although Happy Mondays’ Sean Ryder and Hacienda DJ Graeme Park are present, the most enthusiastic testimonials come from everyday ravers who danced and tried MDMA to escape their monotonous lives. As one says with a good dose of realism: “It was a beautiful time as well as being the beginning of my downfall.”
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When Sarah Esocoff received a message that said, “A Brooklyn Transcore show is the best night out you’ll ever have,” she had to investigate. That’s how she ended up in the center of a trans moshpit where she finds gangs with cat ears, lots of cathartic screams, and people of all ages enjoying a good night out that involves pushing each other around. As anyone who’s ever ventured into the pit knows, aside from the fact that it looks scary to people who don’t like shaking floorboards, it functions more or less the same as any dance floor: a place to let yourself go. carry where someone will pick you up if you fall.
Why not try it…?
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