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 going on a break. In the meantime be sure to find news, reviews and much more on podcastrex.com ....
Jan 30, 2025•34 min•Ep. 80
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!
Jan 23, 2025•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 79
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 Routes wherever you're reading this!
Jan 16, 2025•52 min•Ep. 78
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 yourself about these periods we all should know a little more about. Follow Conflict of Interest wherever ...
Jan 09, 2025•45 min•Ep. 77
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 inventions to orgies, and castle heists, all set in the backdrop of the Black Death, season six of This Is...
Jan 02, 2025•26 min•Ep. 76
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!
Dec 19, 2024•44 min•Ep. 75
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 a guarantee that they always act in your best interest. But that doesn’t always happen. And that’s w...
Dec 12, 2024•34 min•Ep. 74
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 unfolded, this is not one to miss if you're a space fan. Follow 16 Sunsets wherever you're reading this!...
Dec 05, 2024•41 min•Ep. 73
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 wherever you're listening to this!
Nov 28, 2024•27 min•Ep. 72
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 added animals. Follow The Animal Sensemaker wherever you're reading this!...
Nov 21, 2024•10 min•Ep. 71
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 inhabit it, in an attempt to preserve the untold stories of LA. Follow Intersections wherever you're ...
Nov 14, 2024•47 min•Ep. 70
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 listening to this!
Nov 07, 2024•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 69
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 without consequences. As Eliza gets caught in a web of both loving and abusive relationships, she h...
Oct 31, 2024•49 min•Ep. 68
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 mystery of Mason’s disappearance ignites a global media frenzy. It draws in police, reporters, and psyc...
Oct 24, 2024•23 min•Ep. 67
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 the first episode, Megan journeys to The Flow Country with Milly Revill Hayward to uncover the origin...
Oct 17, 2024•31 min•Ep. 66
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 thick of the fighting while at the same time provide fast, accurate and wide-reaching analysis of wha...
Oct 10, 2024•33 min•Ep. 65
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 the 1990s the Furby was the fuzzy friend that every kid wanted – a futuristic soft toy which could ...
Oct 03, 2024•35 min•Ep. 64
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 experiences before fame came knocking. Collectively these three facets give us a rounded picture of ...
Sep 26, 2024•36 min•Ep. 63
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. Be transported to places around the world and into the lives of others: You just never know what st...
Sep 19, 2024•16 min•Ep. 62
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 has been busy tracking the story of love through her clients' stories. From exciting, young love, t...
Sep 12, 2024•48 min•Ep. 61
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 week, the pair choose a new crime and divulge all the details you're dying to know. They unpick the cru...
Sep 05, 2024•41 min•Ep. 60
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, so we took [Muriel] instead". Sadly, Muriel was never seen again. ‘Intrigue: Worse Than Murder’ is...
Aug 29, 2024•31 min•Ep. 59
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 12-week series guides listeners from conception to completion. The experts will offer practical kno...
Aug 22, 2024•32 min•Ep. 58
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 will bring listeners real crime fails that will send heads into hands and the boys into hysterics. ...
Aug 15, 2024•45 min•Ep. 57
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? It turns out, Sarah wasn’t alone in losing a daughter. Something strange was happening to other yo...
Aug 08, 2024•40 min•Ep. 56
Lauren Layfield introduces The Rest is Entertainment on the podcast recommendation podcast - Your Next Podcast. The Rest Is Entertainment pulls back the curtain on television, movies, journalism and more with Richard Osman and Marina Hyde using their years of knowledge, enviable contact book and wit to bring you what’s hot, and what’s not in the world of entertainment. You can follow The Rest is Entertainment and listen to all of the episodes on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music or wherever ...
Aug 01, 2024•49 min•Ep. 55
Lauren Layfield introduces Coatbridge on the podcast recommendation podcast - Your Next Podcast. For decades, Sandra Brown’s life has been intertwined with someone she has never met: an eleven year-old girl named Moira Anderson – who disappeared from their hometown of Coatbridge, Scotland, in 1957. It became one of the oldest cold cases in Scottish history. Sandra lived just around the corner from Moira. She grew up hearing about the missing girl, whose memory haunted the town. But she never ima...
Jul 25, 2024•28 min•Ep. 54
Lauren Layfield introduces Boom! on the podcast recommendation podcast - Your Next Podcast. Why are two old, unpopular men the main candidates for the world’s most demanding job? It’s the question John Prideaux, The Economist’s US editor, gets asked the most. And the answer lies in the peculiar politics of the baby boomers. Since 1992, every American president bar one has been a white man born in the 1940s. That run looks likely to span 36 years - not far off the age of the median American. This...
Jul 18, 2024•52 min•Ep. 53
Lauren Layfield introduces The Tiny Suit Case on the podcast recommendation podcast - Your Next Podcast. For season 2, the investigative trio is back with a brand new mystery set in Sweden (Scandi Noir if you will) called The Case Of The Tiny Suit/Case. They now live by the phrase “when the cops say no, we say yes”. This season explores a serial act of reverse theft: a tiny three piece corduroy suit and a suitcase containing threatening items were planted on the victim’s veranda in the middle of...
Jul 11, 2024•30 min•Ep. 52
Lauren Layfield introduces The Story on the podcast recommendation podcast - Your Next Podcast. The Story: the flagship podcast from The Times and Sunday Times. One remarkable story, told in depth, each day. Hosts Manveen Rana and Luke Jones take you to the heart of the story you need to know with exclusive reports and investigations. Plus, each month, William Hague hosts an agenda-setting interview with a key newsmaker or thinker. Discover the story behind the story with world-class journalism ...
Jul 04, 2024•26 min•Ep. 51
