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Lauren Layfield introduces What's Your Map? on the series recommendation show Your Next Podcast. Historian Jerry Brotton meets people who work with and love maps to dissect one map they keep going back to. Today's guest is Ed Parsons, one of the geographers behind perhaps the best known map of the 21st century: Google Maps. Follow What's Your Map? wherever you're reading this! Your Next Podcast is...

Lauren Layfield introduces Intoxicating History on the series recommendation show Your Next Podcast. Aside from being surprisingly delicious in gravy, what has port ever done for us? That's the question posed by Henry Jeffreys and Tom Parker-Bowles as they explore the history of alcohol one drink at a time. Follow Intoxicating History wherever you're reading this!

Lauren Layfield introduces Routes on the series recommendation show Your Next Podcast. Routes is a show hosted by Clara Amfo all about travel, trips and memories. Clara meets celebrity guests such as Tom Grennan, Candice Brathwaite, Babatunde Aléshé and Arielle Free and asks them about the travel experiences that have shaped who they are. This episode features the one and only Craig David. Follow...

Lauren Layfield introduces Conflict of Interest on the series recommendation show Your Next Podcast. Conflict of Interest is a podcast from the Imperial War Museums where celebrities visit one of the museums’ sites to learn about some of the most interesting and relevant wars in our history. Guided by experts in the field and museum curators, they ask all the questions you might want to ask yourse...

Lauren Layfield introduces This is History on the series recommendation show Your Next Podcast. Hosted by the New York Times best-selling author and historian Dan Jones, season six of This Is History immerses listeners into the thick of one of the most turbulent eras of the Middle Ages and the rise of one of England’s most formidable kings, Edward III. From naval warfare and deadly military invent...

Lauren Layfield introduces Page 94 on the series recommendation show Your Next Podcast. Private Eye editor Ian Hislop is joined by Harry Enfield, Lewis McLeod and Jan Ravens for a special end of year live show, rounding up the ridiculous 2024. This episode is the perfect gateway into Page 94 and maybe even Private Eye more broadly. Follow Page 94 wherever you're reading this!

Lauren Layfield introduces The Willpower Detectives on the series recommendation show Your Next Podcast. Something doesn’t add up. In Hertfordshire towns, people who live alone are disappearing. Their neighbours are wondering why they’ve not seen them, or if they might have died. Giving someone else control of your finances and decisions – through Lasting Power of Attorney – is meant to come with...

Lauren Layfield introduces 16 Sunsets on the series recommendation show Your Next Podcast. Today we're bringing you part one of a new 10-part series examining the dramatic history of the NASA's space shuttle program. It's a story of history and technology as you might expect, but also of politics, intrigue and Cold War. Featuring over 40 interviews of NASA veterans who were there as it all unfolde...

Lauren Layfield introduces Single Ladies in Your Area on the series recommendation show Your Next Podcast. Amy Gledhill and Harriet Kemsley are here to help each other (and you) navigate single life in their thirties. From apps through red flags and all the way to divorce, Amy and Harriet are here to provide moral support and a guide to being single in 2024. Follow Single Ladies in Your Area now w...

Lauren Layfield introduces the Animal Sensemaker on the series recommendation show Your Next Podcast. The goal of The Animal Sensemaker is to introduce you to one animal every week to make sense of the world. A spin-off of The Sensemaker, a more traditional news-based version of the same format, The Animal Sensemaker remains a 10 minute bitesize piece of useful information - just this time with ad...

Lauren Layfield introduces Intersections on the series recommendation show Your Next Podcast. Intersections is an incredible achievement; an all-enveloping wall of sound that puts you right into the center of a city of the creators' choice. Season 2 focuses on Los Angeles. 100 notable Angelenos, all nominated by members of their community, have been interviewed about the city and the people that i...

Lauren Layfield introduces What Did You Do Yesterday? on the series recommendation show Your Next Podcast. This one does exactly what it says on the tin. Max Rushden and David O'Doherty ask a celebrity guest what they did yesterday. Not today, not the day before yesterday. Just yesterday. Their first guest is the comedian and broadcaster Elis James. Follow What Did You Do Yesterday wherever you're...

Lauren Layfield introduces Eliza on the series recommendation show Your Next Podcast. Tanya Reynolds (Sex Education) stars in a dark, near-future science fiction fairytale about a robot who can feel, and the world that attempts to control her. When a robot called Eliza falls in love with Him (Arthur Darvill, Doctor Who), they work together to make her fully sentient. But consciousness doesn’t come...

Lauren Layfield introduces Up In Smoke on the series recommendation show Your Next Podcast. Adam Buxton and Mei Mac star in a true crime podcast about a fictional event. In 2014 a devastating house fire shatters the quiet life of Greenloch, a rural English village. Teenager Mason Miller is presumed dead in the blaze. When investigators sift through the ashes, no trace of his body is found. The mys...

Lauren Layfield introduces Waterlands on the series recommendation show Your Next Podcast. This season, Megan McCubbin explores vibrant riverbanks, unveiling the vital interplay between our waterways and the life they support. Beyond traversing literal waters, this series navigates the rich history and crucial roles that rivers play in maintaining ecological balance and shaping human culture. In t...

Lauren Layfield introduces The World with Richard Engel and Yalda Hakim on the series recommendation show Your Next Podcast. The idea for The World podcast stems from two events in the careers of its presenters. In 2007 Richard was invited to the White House for a private one-on-one meeting with President George W Bush to discuss Iraq and Middle East policy. It was Richard’s ability to be in the t...

Lauren Layfield introduces Joanne McNally Investigates... on the series recommendation show Your Next Podcast. Twelve months ago Joanne McNally was a comedian with a love of conspiracy theories. Now, she's an intrepid investigative journalist who will stop at nothing to root out a story, and her latest assignment will thrust her into the world of international espionage, politics... and Furbys. In...

Lauren Layfield introduces Origins with Cush Jumbo on the series recommendation show, Your Next Podcast. Cush Jumbo (The Good Wife, The Good Fight, Criminal Record) asks a star line up to share intimate stories from the key stages of their lives, before they became household names. Split over three sections, we hear amazing stories from childhood, teenage/young adult years and their early working...

Lauren Layfield introduces Where Are You Going? on the series recommendation show, Your Next Podcast. Catherine Carr stops strangers to ask them “Where Are You Going?” and uncovers unexpected stories about people’s lives. The conversations that follow are always unpredictable: sometimes funny, sometimes heart-breaking, silly, romantic or occasionally downright ‘stop-you-in-your-tracks’ surprising....

Lauren Layfield introduces Where Should We Begin? on the series recommendation show, Your Next Podcast. Imagine being a fly on the wall of the office of a psychotherapist. A really good psychotherapist. You hear the full range of her clients' many problems and every piece of advice she has to address them. Well, that's Where Should We Begin by psychotherapist Esther Perel. Across the summer Esther...

Lauren Layfield introduces Murder They Wrote on the series recommendation show, Your Next Podcast. Laura Whitmore and Iain Stirling love true crime - in fact, they're a little bit obsessed. And now they want to share that obsession with you. Join Laura and Iain as they dive deep into some of the world's most jaw-dropping crime stories. Expect murder, mayhem, blackmail, betrayal, and more. Each wee...

Lauren Layfield introduces Worse than Murder on the series recommendation show, Your Next Podcast. In the winter of 1969, Muriel McKay, the wife of Rupert Murdoch's deputy chairman at News Limited, was abducted from her home in Wimbledon, Southwest London. The kidnap was a shocking case of mistaken identity – the kidnappers claimed "We tried to get Rupert Murdoch's wife [Anna]. We couldn't get her...

Lauren Layfield introduces How to Write a Book on the series recommendation show Your Next Podcast. Even if you're not writing anything but are simply passionate about books and storytelling, How To Write A Book offers a fascinating peek behind the curtain of the literary world. Hosted by best-selling author, Sara Collins, leading agent, Nelle Andrew, and senior publisher, Sharmaine Lovegrove, the...

Lauren Layfield introduces Harry and Paul Are... Devious on the series recommendation show, Your Next Podcast. Join the country's two most loveable villains as they put their secretive scheming skills to the ultimate test. Wicked, cunning and seriously entertaining, our favourite Anti-Heroes think they could’ve pulled off the biggest failed crimes in history. In Harry and Paul Are Devious, the duo...

Lauren Layfield introduces Dangerous Memories on the podcast recommendation podcast - Your Next Podcast. When Sarah watched her 23 year old daughter cycle away from her in Chelsea - a well-off corner of London - she had no idea it would be the last time they’d see each other for 6 years. What would make a loving child from a life of privilege suddenly sever ties with friends and family, and vanish...