Chris Packham’s lovely new wildlife show: best podcasts of the week

“Are bats really blind?” “What are wasps for?” These are the types of question Chris Packham and his team – Kyle Thomas and Megan McCubbin – want to answer for you in this lovely new video podcast (which also streams on Fridays at 7.30pm on BBC Two). They give a weekly wildlife dispatch from their pod nestled in the countryside somewhere near Bristol, with guest experts and “guaranteed nerdiness”. Hollie Richardson
BBC Sounds, episodes weekly

Exoplanet

This sci-fi thriller has an enviable cast, led by Anthony Mackie, Ariana DeBose and John Leguizamo. An immersive listen from the off, it fuses a tech-adjacent mystery with confident outer-space worldbuilding from the pen of DC Comics alumni Benjamin Percy, and is executive produced by Project Hail Mary novelist Andy Weir. Hannah J Davies
Audible, all episodes out now

Comfort Eating

Siobhán McSweeney is the new host of the Guardian series that finds out what celebrities are really eating when they go home and get into their comfies. Delicious guests include Ed Balls, Nicola Coughlan and Isy Suttie – but first up, it’s comedian Asim Chaudhry. HR
Widely available, episodes weekly from Wed

The Builders With Walter Isaacson

Biographer Walter Isaacson interviews “the most consequential names in AI and tech”, including Peter Thiel and Elon Musk. Listeners can expect tangents from Musk on AI supremacy and Islam, and Thiel declaring: “good over evil … but evil’s better than bad”. HJD
Widely available, episodes weekly

Gangster Presents: Angels and Outlaws

Livvy Haydock presents this series about a perennially intriguing subject: the biker gang. Ever since their infamous role in the Rolling Stones’ 1969 Altamont concert, groups such as the Hell’s Angels have loomed large in the popular imagination. But how fearsome are they really? The episode exploring the biker wars that took place in Denmark in the 1990s suggests very fearsome indeed. Phil Harrison
Widely available, episodes weekly

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