The Good Jewish Doctor

Lobsters for Dinner

Bubbly, Bouny and Very Alive

Phone Calls from Manhattan

The Best Job a Lawyer Could Have

Women Who Like to Gab 

Cowabunga

The Girlfriends Vs Bierenbaum 

A Sisterhood

It’s 1995 and Carole Fisher is a high-flying divorcee looking for love in Las Vegas. It’s slim pickings in the medical community she works in. But then Bob comes to town. Bob Bierenbaum is a plastic surgeon who flies planes and speaks several languages. Her mom loves that he’s Jewish - but there’s something off about him. He’s perfect on paper but he’s quick to anger and he never talks about his ex-wife. Who, it turns out, is missing and presumed dead.


After Carole and Bob break up she tells her friend Mindy all about Bob’s wife and his bizarre behavior. You see, Mindy dated Bob too, in fact a lot of women in Vegas dated Bob and they all have their own strange stories to tell. Before too long they form a club dedicated to bitching about Bob, eating noodles and figuring out what happened to his wife, Gail.

In this riveting nine part series, Carole Fisher uncovers the truth of Gail Katz’s death, the systems that failed her and all the girlfriends that brought her justice.

The Girlfriends

David Weinberg explores the rise and fall of Phoenix Jones, the spandex-clad leader of the Rain City Superheroes, Seattle's crime-fighting vigilantes.

Out of the Shadows

A Phoenix Rises

We Can Be Heroes

Under the Spotlight

The Rogue Era

Kryptonite

From the Ashes

The Hero We Deserve

Unsung Heroes

America's Next Top Superhero

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By day, Ben Fodor is a semi-pro MMA fighter. But at night, he’s Phoenix Jones: spandex-clad leader of the Rain City Superheroes, Seattle's crime-fighting vigilantes. At first, the oddball posse – made up of former soldiers, jailbirds, and drug addicts – is a roaring success. There are hundreds of arrests. Global fame. But in this Novel and iHeart collaboration, host David Weinberg finds Ben at the end of his arc. One night, when he’s busted selling cocaine to undercover cops, Jones becomes a hero who now needs to save himself.

The Superhero Complex

Filthy Ritual by Novel and Global about the scammer of Hampstead.

The Healer of Hampstead

The Spirits Are Always Watching

Wherefore Art Thou Juliette?

How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria?

The Paper Trail Trial

An Epiphany at the Hampstead Toy Boat Pond

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At the turn of the 21st century, an osteopath named Keith Bender meets a charming, mysterious woman named Juliette D’Souza. Keith’s life is falling apart and Juliette seems to know just how to fix it. She wins his trust and whisks him off on a journey to meet a shamanic healer in Suriname, changing his life forever. Soon, she’s bringing her supernatural influence into the heart of the bohemian London suburb where Keith worked: Hampstead. And so begins a dark tale of manipulation, magic, luxury and filth.

Filthy Ritual

In Call Me Mother, author and journalist Shon Faye takes us into the lives of LGBTQIA+ elders, sharing the life lessons from those who got there first.

Kate Bornstein

Brad Becker

Caroline Paige

Marc Thompson

Sandra Caldwell

Siobhan Fahey

Michael Cashman

Stephen Whittle

Donna Personna on Finding Community - and Finding Herself

Lisa Power on Resilience Against Adversity

Lavinia Co-op on Performance as Self-Acceptance

Sarah Schulman on Writing Queer Lives

Zsa-Zsa Fisher on Finding Freedom in Self-Expression

David Hoyle on a Life of Performance

Jide Macaulay on Reconciling Faith and Sexuality

Kevin Aviance on Reinventing Yourself, Fiercely

Rupert Raj on Forging Community

Cecilia Gentili on Living Unapologetically

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Did you know there were alternative sexualities before 1980? It’s true, and Shon Faye’s interview series takes us into the lives of these LGBTQIA+ elders. One week it’s a 73-year-old spiritual seeker who traveled across America in the 60s, living with the Baha’i, the Amish and Scientologists. The next we’re in the 1970s, talking to a ‘lesbian punk’ trailblazer. Over time, the show builds to a series of period pieces in the timeline of gay culture – and a series of often moving life lessons from those who got there first.

Call Me Mother

Produced in partnership with Wondery, Stolen Hearts. Kerry Godliman tells the story of a cop who falls in love with a man who’s not all that he seems.

The Guvnor

Trick or Treat

Good Cop, Bad Cop

Irish Sausages

A Crock of Sh*t

Unfinished Business

Cops and Robbers

Sgt Jill Evans prides herself on keeping the peace in her sleepy town of Haverfordwest, Wales. As a decorated police officer, commended for bravery and tactics dealing with criminals and thugs, her life seems so together. However, behind her successful career lies a series of failed relationships; three engagements, two divorces and one affair - quite the record.

When she meets wealthy entrepreneur and certified 'man's man', Dean, it looks like her luck has turned. The pair fall madly in love and seem destined for a fairytale ending, until one Halloween night when Dean vanishes and Jill's world falls apart.

Stolen Hearts is presented by Kerry Godliman and produced in partnership with Wondery.

Stolen Hearts

Harsh Reality is the story of a reality show so shocking it changed TV forever – and Miriam Rivera, a woman before her time who got caught up in it all.

Something About Miriam

Outlaw Superstar

Champagne, Canapés and Clubbing

Sh*t Show

Scene of a Crime?

Speed Angel

Behind the Lens

Sun, sea, sex, and a twist so shocking it changed TV forever. In 2003, six red-blooded reality contestants fought for the love of beautiful Miriam Rivera. The Mexican model was transgender and had been born a biological male – a fact that the producers of 

 held back from the bachelors until the season finale. When they found out, they destroyed the set. Starring the male contestants, our US chart-topping series with Wondery explores this moment in popular culture – and the life of a woman at the centre of a storm.

Harsh Reality

The Fighty Pucks is the story of the most violent hockey team on the planet. 

Introducing: The Fighty Pucks

Game 1: The Galantes of Danbury

Game 2: Bad Boys for Life

Game 3: Drop the Gloves

Game 4: Dirty Tricks

Game 5: Lockout

Game 6: Welcome to Trash Town

Game 7: The Big Payback

Game 8: Grandpa on Long Island

Game 9: No Angel

The Fighty Pucks is the story of the most violent hockey team on the planet. A team of lovable bad boys, misfits and bruisers, led by a teenage boy - AJ Galante. Together with his father, a powerful business man with a dark past, AJ ran the team as they went rampaging on a path to glory. But all the while, the team was being secretly watched by their toughest opponent of all - the FBI.

The Fighty Pucks

Matthew Syed is the king of the counter-intuitive big idea. In his BBC Radio 4 show, he takes on some of the biggest and most curious ideas of all.

Siding with the Enemy

1 in 73 Million

The West and the Rest

Looping the Loop

The Most Selfish People on Earth

A Recipe for Happiness

Top of the Pops

Mental Athletics

Originality Armageddon

Under the Influence

Too Big to Succeed

Brighter than Bagpuss

A Question of Justice

Let's All Be Batman

Best Feet Forward

Big Head

The Endurance of Arlene Blum

Tongue-Tied

Is This What Success Looks Like?

An appointment with Dr Leech

The Woman Who Brought Down the Mob

Inspiring Bill Strickland

Oostvaardersplassen: A Wild Idea

Sweet Harmony

A Nuclear Awakening

War Games in the Pink Tower

A Blip on the Radar

Exiting the Bunker

Fooling the Opposition

The Woman in the Portrait

To Absent Friends

The Social Contagion 

Doc and Jim: A Beautiful Partnership

It Takes a Village

The Riddle

All in a Name

My Last 5p

Matthew Syed is a former Olympics-grade table tennis player, turned management guru. Author of 12 books, he’s Britain’s new king of the counter-intuitive big idea. And now, he has a Novel-produced show on BBC Radio 4, in which he takes on some of the biggest and most curious ideas of all. So far, he’s debunked Stockholm Syndrome, made notes on why leeches might be good for us, explained how superhero culture helps high-perfomance athletes, and unpicked the Satanic Panic.

Sideways

Futile Attempts is a surreal safari in which artist, comedian and manic depressive, Kim Noble, pursues his fantasies, anxieties, strangers, and nemeses across the plains of modern life.

I AM SO SORRY

WE ARE NOT GOD

FEAR

CONSOLATIONS ON SEX

NOTES ON RUNNING

NOTES ON HUMAN KINDNESS

WALLS AND RELATIONSHIPS

WAITING FOR KAREN

TAI CHI & WARDROBES

THE DUMP

Pitched somewhere between Chris Morris’ 

, we’re utterly convinced that Futile Attempts (At Surviving Tomorrow) is a future cult classic. Kim Noble is a comedian who specialises in the strange and estranged. There’s nothing on earth quite like his Novel and Spotify series. Cut from Kim’s obsession with recording almost everything that happens to him, Futile Attempts is a surreal safari, in which Kim pursues his fantasies, anxieties, strangers, and nemeses across the plains of modern life.

Futile Attempts (At Surviving Tomorrow)

In the 1940s, a group of Mormons started a town in the Mexican desert. But their utopian vision quickly soured when the founding family’s son, Ervil LeBaron, unleashed a decades-long crimewave.

The One Mighty And Strong

The Massacre in Los Molinos

Welcome to the Family

The Hunt

Rena's Confession

The Betrayal

Ervil Comes Home

The Reign of Arthur

Who Wears The Crown?

The Book of Daniel

At Four O'Clock

The Tide Turns

Chasing Ghosts

In the 1940s, Mormon fundamentalists started a town in the Mexican desert. Their utopian vision quickly soured when the founding family’s son, Ervil LeBaron, unleashed a multi-generational crimewave. Involved in bank robbery, drug smuggling, auto theft rings and multiple murders, a deadly cult evolved into a sophisticated organised crime family whose notoriety and violence only grew as the decades passed. Journalist Jesse Hyde uncovers previously unheard recordings and speaks to former cult members and survivors, as well as the reporters and cops on the case, to understand the man at the heart of it all.

Deliver Us From Ervil

Calico Cotton

Indian chintz dress

Wax print

Mauve mania

Viscose rayon

Readymade suit

Fisherman Sweater

Miniskirt

Ray-Bans

Air Jordans

Gus Casely-Hayford is a British curator, writer, and as the inaugural director of London's V&A East, he's an expert on cultural history. In this BBC Radio 4 series, Gus crosses continents and centuries to explore ten key moments in fashion, from the cotton trade to Air Jordans. 

 unravels the hidden histories behind the clothes we wear – and the statements we make just by getting dressed in the morning.

Torn

Through a shady cast of chaos agents, catalysts, conspiracists and kooks, our eight-part series goes behind the scenes of the 2021 Capitol riots.

The Digital Fever Swamp

Stop The Steal

No Ordinary Rioters

The Canary in the Coal Mine

The Inside Man

Hugs and Kisses

The Lost Cause

The Digital Dragnet

Through a shady cast of chaos agents, catalysts, conspiracists and kooks, our eight-part series goes behind the scenes of the 2021 Capitol riots. Scanning the TV footage from that day, we picked out the key faces in the crowd then traced their paths forward towards 6 January. Some were big players - like the rebel senator Josh Hawley. Others more internet-famous, like the streamer Baked Alaska. Others were pure products of radicalisation: like the Pennsylvanian housewife Rachel Powell, who is facing 25 years in jail.

The Assault on America

By foregrounding female perspectives Novel podcast The Girlfriends turns a story about a man accused of killing his wife inside-out. Get behind the scenes and discover more about how it was made

The Girlfriends: Women Who Speak Out

For the latest instalment in Novel's Greatest Hits series, Andrew Dickson celebrates the talents of the innovative feature-maker Chris Brookes

Greatest Hits No 4: Songs My Mother Taught Me by Chris Brookes

Suruthi Bala and Hannah McGuire, hosts of the Filthy Ritual podcast, on fraud-finding, cursed monkeys and magic money trees

Filthy Ritual: The Hunt for the Hampstead Shaman

Host Matthew Syed picks the topics that have revolutionised his own worldview, from Stockholm syndrome and nuclear war to restorative justice

Sideways: Matthew Syed on the Stories that Changed His Mind

Andrew Dickson spoke to producers Tom Wright and Anna Sinfield about making a new hit podcast from the unlikeliest of ingredients


Stolen Hearts: How We Made a Guy Ritchie romcom

For Novel's latest Greatest Hit, Austin Mitchell pays tribute to Alex Blumberg's StartUp – the podcast that in some ways started it all

Greatest Hits No 3: StartUp by Alex Blumberg

Song Exploder creator Hrishikesh Hirway talks to Andrew Dickson about why musicians are like superheroes – and why books are ready to be blown up too

Interview: Hrishikesh Hirway Explodes Song Exploder

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