Podcasts

The best audio shows to listen to this week

CLASSIC GHOST STORIES

★★★★★

Tony Walker is the narrator for this series of old and new spooky tales. Each yarn takes around 50 minutes – just right for a long drive on a wet, dark night, when the windscreen wipers are going swish, swish and, out of the corner of your eye, you see a hitch-hiker… Major digital platforms

SYMPATHY PAINS

★★★★ Sarah tells her student roommates she has leukaemia. Her friends rally round but, after a while, get suspicious. Over the next 20 years Sarah will claim to have a long list of crippling conditions. This six-part podcast, hosted by Laura Beil, follows Sarah’s trail of lies and finds out what she was after. Major digital platforms

KYIV INDEPENDENT ★★★★★

This podcast series, compiled by Ukrainian journalists, brings news from battlefronts and stories of children who can’t understand what’s happened to their lives. The sound can be patchy, but it’s understandable given the circumstances – and the stories are astonishing. Major digital platforms