The Week’s pick of the best podcasts to listen to in June 2021

Featuring Deepcut, Death at the Wing, Dear Me, Teach Me a Lesson and Sound Heap

Teach Me a Lesson podcast

There are few subjects more serious than murder, yet there are lots of podcasts that stretch the limits of taste by treating the topic in a deeply “whimsical” fashion, said James Marriott in The Times. Before listening to British Scandal, “a whimsical podcast about the death of Alexander Litvinenko”, I confess I was already wagging my finger and “packing my bags for a nice hike up to the moral high ground”. But “annoyingly, I really enjoyed it”.

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