Episodes that are a little different to usual

OK, this one is not a gamechanger at all: it’s the greatest radio format of all time, featuring the most amiable movie star of our age, so no surprise the episode was going to be a total treat. Listen to it because it …

Me, crying in the street listening to this episode about the oldest continuously-running gay bar in the USA? No, that was you.

FINE, it was me. But …

I’m not condoning the crime of stealing petrified wood from national parks, but as a change of pace from Criminal’s more serious episodes, this is irresistable.

This episode was a game-changer for my intellectual self-esteem. In a bad way. I’d covered the hashtag/pound sign/octothorpe/# on my podcast Answer Me This a while before, so didn’t think there was anything for me to …

Benjamen Walker deploys the preternaturally cheerful Andrew Callaway to work for a month in the ‘sharing economy’. By the third episode, poor Andrew …

I hadn’t heard anyone as witty as Merrill Garbus on the show before (no offense to host Hrishikesh Hirway, who in real life is very witty, but keeps a low-profile presence on Song Exploder). Musician with bewitching …

The first few years of podcasting were dominated by white men. This episode, for me, was the unequivocal announcement that other people exist and …

This is the first podcast to make me blush. I was listening on the bus, and was worried everyone could hear it through my skull or something.