Pick of the week
Brothers Uncovered
Dancers turned “media personalities” Ashley and Jordan Banjo team up with sibling Perri Kiely for this podcast, which is like dropping into a group chat with some silly (but well-intentioned) pals. If you’ve ever wondered how William Shakespeare might sext, whether it’s better to get dumped for a person or a robot, or whether Kiely is still thinking about the time he took a tumble at Downing Street (he is), then let them entertain you. Hannah J Davies
Widely available, episodes weekly
Get a Grip
Vicky Pattison and Angela Scanlon enter the crowded TV-presenters-nattering-on-a podcast market, with just the right amount of inane nonsense and affirming girl talk. Episode one contains poo and pee chat, and a reminder that Gillian McKeith smuggled half of Sainsbury’s into the I’m a Celebrity jungle in her undies. HJD
Widely available, episodes weekly
Crime Scene: With Bernard Hogan-Howe and Alison Phillips
An ex-Met police commissioner teams up with a former Daily Mirror editor for this look at how criminal investigations work. Its first episode is full of terrifying insights into the UK’s heroin trade, how police manage the hundreds of gangs that control it, and ways of bringing down gun crime. Alexi Duggins
Widely available, episodes weekly
Northern News
Kidnapped garden gnomes, wet roads, wrestling councillors: it’s another season of the hilarious look at ludicrous news reports from the northern half of England. It is lots of fun, largely thanks to the wildly inventive digressions from hosts Ian Smith and Amy Gledhill that cause spontaneous belly laughs. AD
Widely available, episodes weekly
Amazing Sport Stories: Bill Walton’s The Grateful Team
How did the Lithuanian men’s basketball team end up in the 1992 Olympics? The story told here is a stranger trip than you might imagine. As representatives of a financially disadvantaged but newly independent nation, money was a problem. Step forward American psychedelic rock adventurers the Grateful Dead to offer assistance … Phil Harrison
BBC Sounds, all episodes out on Monday
