Edith Bowman

50 funny podcasts to make you feel much better

Has your daily walk become an endless trudge to nowhere? These podcasts, chosen by comedians, podcasters, Guardian writers and readers, are guaranteed to bring a smile to your face.

The Guardian, 5th April 2021

To appear on I Love My Country is to enter a conspiracy of daftness. There will be rehearsed jokes, there will be flammable wigs, and there will be mum-dancing (we're not looking at anyone in particular, though since you ask, Gabby Logan does have children). The guests (and the viewers) who let themselves go tend to have the best time of it, but specialist subjects help, too. On Frank's team, Edith Bowman reaps the rewards of the question-setter's twin obsessions with music and Scotland, while, faced with too much random general knowledge, team-mate Rebecca Adlington wails good-naturedly, "I'm 23! I don't know these things!" She's not going to be humiliated - the whole thing is, of course, relentlessly good-natured - but she might just find out how many people listed heavy metal as their religion in the last census. Every day's a school day.

Emma Sturgess, Radio Times, 14th September 2013