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| The Guardian - Culture: TV & Radio | | | | Best podcasts of the week: Alan Partridge is back with anecdotes and 'intimate details' | | by Hannah J Davies, Hollie Richardson, Hannah Verdier and Alexi Duggins Sep 29, 2022 | | Steve Coogan’s character returns in the new season of From the Oasthouse. Plus: five of the funniest podcast host duos It’s been a big week for snazzy, multi-part narrative podcasts, not least for the Guardian itself. Can I Tell You a Secret? – the disturbing story of a cyberstalker who tormented several women over a decade – went to No 1 in Apple’s podcast charts over the weekend. Elsewhere, Hoaxed – Tortoise’s satanic panic-themed follow-up to its hit show Sweet Bobby – has been riding high and the BBC’s Missing Cryptoqueen returned for a new limited run, as the search for financial fraudster Dr Ruja Ignatova continues. What do all three shows have in common? On the surface it might seem simple: they’re all true crime-adjacent series, with rich narratives about stranger-than-fiction events. But – more than that – these are character studies which build a picture of their protagonists … even when they’re not there. In the case of Can I Tell You a Secret?, prolific cyberstalker Matthew Hardy is behind bars, with Sirin Kale analysing his troubled interior life through her interactions with others – most powerfully his own mother. In Hoaxed, Alexi Mostrous searches for a man who coached his stepchildren into making vile false allegations – a process later described as “torture” by a judge – making careful use of the children’s police interviews. Cryptoqueen continues to expertly jigsaw together a portrait of Onecoin wrong’un Ruja Ignatova, even as her current whereabouts remains unknown for a fifth year running. Continue reading... | | | | | |
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