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The best podcasts to check out now

A podcast to address those 3 Body Problem questions
NETFLIX
3 Body Podcast

Accompanying the Netflix sci-fi series — based on a mathematical and astronomical theory that

gives many of us a headache just thinking about it — Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock and Jason
Concepcion provide a useful background to the show. Not only do they do the usual PR thing of

talking to stars and showrunners, they also speak to experts putting the series in context,

including Dr Matt Kenzie (the series’ scientific adviser) and Jung Chang (a writer, commenting

on the Chinese Cultural Revolution) and Michael Varnum, a social psychology professor.

Monsters Inside Me

Gross but entertaining US series that looks at true stories about mysterious illnesses caused by
objects, animals and small creatures. Admit it — who isn’t secretly intrigued by what happens

when joggers are chased by bears, the perils of strange flesh-eating bugs and weird medical

problems that lead to children craving cat food?

How Was it For You?

Rachel Parris and Marcus Brigstocke add to the canon of couples podcasts with a new weekly
show in which the comedians review everything in their lives, from their son’s developmental

review and watching Gladiators to tinned fish and the metaverse. In the podcast, described as an

“essential guide to how to get through your life unscathed”, the pair wittily rattle through