The all-time great podcast returns for a fourth season, investigating the infamous detention camp. Plus: five of the best hip-hop podcasts
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Does the BBC’s future look less certain than that of Doctor Who? Are Premier League footballers really campaigning to be allowed headphones so they can listen to two ex-Taskmaster contestant’s new show while playing? And who knew that the most iconic podcast ever would return with a look at the Guantánamo Bay detention camp – in which ex-staff claim that it was such non-stop fun that “I partied my ass off”?
These are just some of the questions around this week’s podcast news. From Russell T Davies’s appearance on the TV podcast They Like to Watch seeing him claim that the end of the Beeb is “undoubtedly on its way,” to Lucy Beaumont and Sam Campbell making some spurious football-related claims in support of the Friday launch of their new Perfect Brains podcast – via Serial coming back with a surprising expose on the notorious prison facility, it’s been a big week.
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