Festering families, difficult truths and transcendent grace: best podcasts of 2025
- Written by Siobhan McHugh, Honorary Associate Professor, Journalism, University of Wollongong
Wellcome CollectionQuality narrative podcasts experienced a downturn this year, with industry layoffs in key networks including Pineapple Street Studios and Wondery. But commercial cutbacks have reinvigorated the artistic spirit of the genre.
In a class of its own is a soaring audio biography of Fela Kuti, the brilliant Nigerian artist who invented...





