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Pick of the podcasts: Please Tell Me A Story, The Squid Scam, Chameleon: Dr Dante

© SYSTEMPlease Tell Me A Story podcast with Omid Djalili
Please Tell Me A Story podcast with Omid Djalili

 

Please Tell Me A Story

The podcast field has quickly filled up with a variety of shows to such a degree that when a new idea comes along you have to wonder why it hasn’t been done already.

And so it is with Please Tell Me A Story, a classic childhood game given a new twist.

The premise of the show is simple; six comedians have one funny story to tell. But, can they pass the story along the chain without completely twisting the tale? Can they resist their comedic urges and tell it to us straight?

The answer to the last questions is: “Of course not”.

Hosting the storytelling duties is the reliable and very funny comedian Omid Djalili, whose credits range from Hollywood to television and the West End stage, and as the host of ITV quiz show Winning Combination.

He’s joined by an all star cast: comedian and model Abi Clarke, Irish comedian and star of comedy sketch show No Worries If Not, Sean Burke, cult stand-up Kai Samra, Barbadian funnywoman Siskisa, and millennial comic Helen Bauer.

Omid tells his story to Abi. Abi tells Omid’s story to Sean, then Sean to Kai, Kai to Sikisa and Sikisa to Helen. However, with six comedians involved, things rarely go to plan, with each episode featuring hilarious misrememberings, improvisations, stumbles, fumbles and, of course, plenty of laughs.

You might remember this hilarious game from school but unlike that, the point isn’t to whisper a word or a phrase.

Each episode features a complete story, with each retelling getting funnier and weirder as it passes on.

Omid kicks off the season with a tale of romance, oral hygiene, and toilet humour. We are transported back to a wedding in 1991…

The Squid Scam

In 2021, scammers stole £16 million from thousands of investors across the globe by capitalising on the hype around NFTs and the success of the hit Netflix series Squid Game.

The scam was so believable, the BBC covered its initial trading success, before later publishing headlines revealing the full scale of the fraud. Journalist Janhoi McGregor investigates.

Chameleon: Dr Dante

Dr Ronald Dante is a real-life talented hypnotist (and not an actual doctor) whose mind-bending schemes span decades. Dante worked the smoke-filled nightclubs of 1960s Hollywood and rode the self-help craze of the 1980s, hypnotizing women so he could steal their fortunes and taking out hits on his rivals. Host Sam Mullins tracks Dante through this twisting series.