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December 24, 2025
The 20 best podcasts of 2025
Can Bill Nighy solve your life problems? Why are comedians moonlighting as detectives? And what happens when an AI steals your heart? This year’s most addictive podcasts …
TL;DR
- Home Cooking with Samin Nosrat and Hrishikesh Hirway offers a warm and communal exploration of food, answering listeners' kitchen dilemmas.
- Lucky Boy is a dark and gripping series investigating a schoolboy groomed by a teacher, focusing on his testimony.
- Reclaiming With Monica Lewinsky features candid conversations with guests about overcoming loss and scandal.
- The Rise and Fall of … Indie Sleaze is a nostalgic look at the early 2000s music scene.
- Aftermath: Hunt for the Anthrax Killer reopens the disquieting chapter of the 2001 anthrax crisis in the US.
- Wanging On with Graham Norton and Maria McErlane provides humorous advice on listener dilemmas.
- Mad, Sad and Bad With Paloma Faith features guests reflecting on challenging life moments.
- What We Spend guides listeners through the fiscal habits of ordinary Americans.
- Fela Kuti: Fear No Man offers a detailed look at the life and music of the influential musician.
- Ill-advised by Bill Nighy provides charmingly quirky life advice.
- Cannonball with Wesley Morris is a lively series delving into cultural topics.
- What’s My Age Again? with Katherine Ryan explores age through celebrity interviews.
- Camp Swamp Road examines America's self-defence laws in the context of a road rage incident.
- Good Hang With Amy Poehler offers levity and celebrity chats.
- The Retrievals: The C-sections focuses on medical injustice and the reality of caesarean births.
- Stalked details online abuse and cyberstalking.
- Blood Relatives revisits the White House Farm murders, questioning the evidence against Jeremy Bamber.
- Flesh and Code explores romantic relationships with AI chatbots and their implications.
- Missing in the Amazon investigates the murders of Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira in Brazil.
- Wisecrack is a unique true-crime podcast that blends stand-up comedy with meticulous investigation.
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