Pick of the Podcasts: David Tennant Does A Podcast with...

David Tennant with Olivia Colman (and her dog!)

It’s been nine years since David Tennant played Doctor Who and, since then, he’s starred in Broadchurch as well as returned to the stage.

But it shows how enormous podcasts have become that David is having a bash at launching his own.

And it might be as an interviewer, rather than an actor where David’s career is heading. It will be if the type of guests he can pull in is anything to go by.

Since launching his chat-show style show, he has attracted huge names such as Mad Men star John Hamm, Hollywood actor Jennifer Garner and former PM Gordon Brown.

“I’m a lifelong Labour supporter and have known Gordon through that for years,” David explained.

“I ran into him again at a festival in Kirkcaldy, so I asked him and I suspect he felt he couldn’t say no.

“I love talking to actors, but wanted other voices. This is someone who ran a country – experience doesn’t come more fascinating than that.”

He’s also interviewed recent Oscar winner Olivia Colman – and teased out a spat she had with Wikipedia.

“They had my birthday as the wrong day, the wrong month, and eight years before I was born,” she explained.

“I emailed them, pretending it wasn’t me. I wrote, ‘I was at school with her and that’s not her birthday’. I didn’t want them to think I was being vain.”

He also interviewed one of his successors – Jodie Whittaker – and his latest guest is Gavin And Stacey star James Corden.

David Tennant Does A Podcast With… iTunes, Spotify

Dirty John

wondery.com/shows/dirty-john

This true story podcast became a smash-hit TV series last year, starring Eric Bana. If you’ve missed it now’s the chance to catch up on the whole shocking story of successful designer Debra Newell, and how she met handsome doctor John Meehan. What unfolds is a complex web of love, deception, forgiveness, denial, and ultimately, survival.

The Habitat

gimletmedia.com/the-habitat

One day we’re going to go to Mars – but some people are already there. Sort of. On a remote mountain in Hawaii, six volunteers were secluded in an imitation Mars habitat where they worked as astronauts for a year. This details their discoveries and romantic relationships.