Armando Iannucci opens up about what changed his life: best podcasts of the week

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Three People With Rebecca Front

Lewis and The Thick of It star Rebecca Front tries to prise intimate interviews out of celebrity guests by asking about three people who’ve changed their lives. First up, her friend of 40 years Armando Iannucci talks about the person who opened a library near his Glasgow childhood home, and the founder of an NHS unit for higher risk pregnancies that led to all three of Iannucci’s kids being born. His third choice? Alan Partridge. Alexi Duggins
Episodes weekly, widely available

The Toxic Waste Scandal

The Corby steelworks scandal – in which many women who lived in the area gave birth to babies with limb deformities, after tonnes of contaminated waste at the site were mismanaged – is currently being retold in a Netflix drama. George Taylor was one of those babies, and he hosts this podcast, speaking to people from around the community to recall what happened. Hollie Richardson
BBC Sounds, all available now

Finding Mom’s Killer

“My mother would never leave me.” This is what 11-year-old Collier Landry told detective David Messmore in 1990 when the disappearance of his mother Noreen Boyle wasn’t treated as a priority. In this new series from The Binge true-crime podcast network, the unlikely team tell their story. HR
Widely available, episodes weekly

Loose Women

Different presenting duos from the ITV series reimagine the show for audio. First, it’s a deeply personal episode from Denise Welch and Ayda Field Williams, talking about Welch’s postnatal depression and how Field Williams’s marriage was affected by the addiction issues of her husband, Robbie. AD
Widely available, episodes twice weekly

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This Is History: Empire of Gold

Dan Jones’s hit podcast about the ancient world gets a spin-off, presented by African history expert Luke Pepera. It’s a deep dive into medieval Mali, and how its emperor Mansa Musa was so rich his fortune even dwarves that of Jeff Bezos. It’s as colourful a bit of storytelling as you’d expect from the franchise, packed with matricide and gold-laden camels. AD
Widely available, episodes weekly

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