{"id":766,"date":"2021-01-03T10:30:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-03T10:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.greatbritishpodcasts.com\/?p=766"},"modified":"2021-01-02T18:23:06","modified_gmt":"2021-01-02T18:23:06","slug":"new-years-podcasts-including-the-duke-and-duchess-of-sussex-marcus-rashford-neil-macgregor-and-mark-kermode","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greatbritishpodcasts.com\/picks\/new-years-podcasts-including-the-duke-and-duchess-of-sussex-marcus-rashford-neil-macgregor-and-mark-kermode\/","title":{"rendered":"New Years' Podcasts including the Duke and Duchess of Sussex<\/i>, Marcus Rashford, Neil MacGregor and Mark Kermode"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

We are (finally!) in 2021. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even though you might be tempted to forget about the past horrid year, there are still a couple of interesting 2020 in review<\/strong> podcasts worth listening to.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

BBC News\u2019 Newscast<\/strong><\/a> podcast has been a game changer this past year in helping to explain the complexities of the pandemic. In a special episode<\/strong><\/a> political editor Laura Kuenssberg<\/strong> gave a fascinating glimpse about what it was like to report on the leadup to the first lockdown: \u201cI remember talking to a cabinet minister who had been at one of the meetings that had been convened as an emergency \u2026 and I said \u2018how do you sum up  what you think will happen?\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThey said to me \u2018The British state is about to expand and intervene in ways that none of us have experienced in our lifetimes, unless you were around in the Second World War.\u2019 \u2026 [Those days] will stay with me forever.\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Duke and the Duchess of Sussex<\/strong><\/a>  also did their own 2020 recap in a special Spotify podcast launched last week. They invited people to share some thoughts on what they learnt from the last year, including Sir Elton John<\/strong>, Matt Haig<\/strong> and George the Poet<\/strong>. It\u2019s surreal to hear them both introduce themselves like typical podcast presenters, but with deals with Netflix and Spotify with them both set, it gives you a glimpse into the sort of content we\u2019re going to be expecting from them going forward.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Finally, if you are looking for some good films to indulge in over the next few weeks, Mark Kermode<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong>counted down his favourites of 2020 in the latest Kermode on Film<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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