Podcasts of the year 2020: The Michelle Obama Podcast, Grounded with Louis Theroux, Fake Heiress, You're Wrong About

Take a break from the festive fuss by popping on the headphones you got in your stocking to listen to some of the best podcasts from this year…

The Michelle Obama Podcast, Apple Podcasts

Four years ago the Obamas left The White House and, given the division stoked up since then, it’s been hard to not miss them.

Former First Lady Michelle launched a podcast in 2020 and in it she held deep conversations with friends, family and colleagues that are well worth your time. The first series is nine episodes long and you can hear Michelle chat to journalist Michele Norris, talk-show host Conan O’Brien and doctor and friend Sharon Malone. The best guest, though, is a certain former president. Nothing like keeping it in the family.

Grounded with Louis Theroux, BBC Sounds, Spotify

Louis has made a career out of going to visit interesting people in their natural habitats. But the bespectacled interviewer proved as adept at chatting to people in front of a webcam too with his new radio and podcast series.

Hear him have full and sometimes graphic exchanges with the likes of Miriam Margolyes, Lenny Henry and Michaela Coel.

Fake Heiress, Apple Podcasts, Spotify

A series about Anna Delvey who belonged to a class of rich young women from New York who were fictionalised in glossy drama, Gossip Girl. Only she wasn’t.

Her real name was Anna Sorokin, and she made a wide-ranging group believe she was a trust fund heiress. There’s a TV show based on her exploits in the works.