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Has the Olympics caused anyone else’s productivity to hit an all-time low? Like me, you’ve probably had that small but highly distracting iPlayer window open in the corner of your screen all day, gone straight home, watched athletics on TV, ignored the dirty dishes, and dozed off.
Surprisingly, what if you’re on the go? BBC Radio 5 Live and The official Olympic podcast. It’s great for catching up on the action away from the screen (you may have cried listening to the women’s triathlon on your commute to work), but these are just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to pods extending the Paris 2024 journey. As medals are awarded and sporting heroes make their appearance, there are shows that take you even deeper into the personalities themselves.
Simone Biles said she thought America hated her after the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Call her daddy. Keeley Hodgkinson is confident of winning the gold medal. High Performance Podcast. Tom Daley’s Desert Island Discs Pleasant to listen to. Mondo Duplantis on being a pole vault champion Mindset Victory. Jess Thom, the lead psychologist for the British team, speaks candidly to The Guardian’s Science Weekly about how to prepare athletes for failure and success, and what happens when they have to return to normal life. Plus, Adam Peaty has a deep and meaningful conversation with his father-in-law, Gordon Ramsay. About the Olympics.
But if you’re completely bored of sports, don’t worry: this week’s best podcasts offer a lovely escape, with the paranormal, celebrity fantasies, and strolls through Borough Market. We’ve also rounded up the top five podcasts featuring A-list stars (which will likely include Olympic superstars and viral sensations at some point). Kim Ye-ji, South Korean shooting silver medalist.
Holly Richardson
TV assistant editor
This week’s picks
Dreamspace presenter Gemma Cairney. Photo: Katherine Ann Rose/Observer
Paranormal Activity: True Stories of Possession
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Fifteen years after Katie Featherston and Micah Sloat terrified a generation with the film Paranormal Activity, they’re doing it again in podcast form. Sloat is a big fan of spiritual exploration, so it’s only fitting that he introduces the story of the Watseka Wonder, in which a 14-year-old girl claims to have been possessed by a dead woman for 16 weeks. “Dad of the Witch” Griffin Ceddo expands on the possession in a surprisingly moving account.
Hannah Verdier
Source: www.theguardian.com
