UNTANGLING SCIENCE EPISODE 8: THE PLANETS PART II*****

 

By Megan

Link on website (with transcripts): https://www.untanglingscience.com/episode-8-planets-part-ii

Also available on: ApplePodcasts    Buzzsprout    Google     ListenNotes    PlayerFM    Podchaser    Podtail    Spotify

Available until: Unknown

It’s been quite a while since the last episode but it was so worth the wait! Darragh Ennis’ science podcast is informative, it covers a range of subjects, it’s very interesting and it’s funny too. Even if you already know a lot about the subject (which I usually don’t because I’m only eleven), I’m sure you’ll learn new things and find the podcast really enjoyable.

UNTANGLING SCIENCE: PLANETS – PART 1*****

 

By Megan

Link: https://www.untanglingscience.com/blog/episode-7-planets-part-1

Also available on podcast sites including Spotify, Listen Notes, Buzzsprout, Apple, and Player FM.

Link to transcript: https://www.untanglingscience.com/blog/episode-7-planets-part-1

Planets Part 1 is about three of the first four planets in the solar system – Mercury, Venus and Mars. Earth gets a few mentions too because there are comparisons with Earth but we know a lot about Earth already from living here (and from listening to all the other podcasts) so the episode focuses on the other three planets.

UNTANGLING SCIENCE EPISODE 6: AN INTERVIEW WITH DALIA SCIENCE*****

 

By Megan

Link: https://www.untanglingscience.com/episode-6-interview-with-dalia-science

Link to transcript: not available and there might not be one as the episode wasn’t scripted but if someone does write a transcript you will find a link to it here https://www.untanglingscience.com/blog

The episode can also be found on podcast sites including Spotify, Listen Notes, Buzzsprout and Player FM.

Episode 6 of Untangling Science is different from the others but just as good. The other episodes focus on a scientific topic, including photosynthesis, the sun and the periodic table. Episode 6 is an interview with a PhD student at Oxford University called Dalia Gala who is known as Dalia Science on social media.

UNTANGLING SCIENCE EPISODE 5: PHOTOSYNTHESIS*****

 

By Megan

Link: https://www.untanglingscience.com/episode-5-photosynthesis (also available on Spotify, Listen Notes etc)

Link to transcript: https://www.untanglingscience.com/blog/episode-5-photosynthesis

Available until: Unknown

Untangling Science is a brilliant podcast by Darragh Ennis who is most famous for being a Chaser on the Chase but he’s also a scientist. He really wants to share science with other people and show them how interesting and important it is and he does a really good job of this.

UNTANGLING SCIENCE EPISODE 4 - THE SUN*****

 

By Megan

Links: https://www.untanglingscience.com/episode-4-the-sun

Transcript: https://www.untanglingscience.com/blog/episode-4-the-sun

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-4-the-sun/id1573107927?i=1000530964648

https://open.spotify.com/episode/0fuoMDNFbDPZEpsT1czeet

https://www.buzzsprout.com/1804642/8973120-episode-4-the-sun?client_source=small_player&iframe=true&referrer=https://www.buzzsprout.com/1804642/8973120-episode-4-the-sun.js?container_id=buzzsprout-player-8973120&player=small#

Untangling Science is so brilliantly put together. The four episodes so far have covered very different subjects (DNA, viruses, the periodic table and the Sun) so if you look at the list you might think it’s jumping around all over the place but it’s really not and the things you learn in previous episodes turn out to be really useful for future episodes.

UNTANGLING SCIENCE EPISODE 3 – ATOMS AND ELEMENTS*****

 

By Megan

Link: https://www.untanglingscience.com/episode-3-atoms-and-elements (also available on other podcast sites)

Available until: Unknown

I think these episodes get better every week so I might have to invent six star reviews. I feel like I learn so much and it is so much fun to listen to, it doesn’t feel like I am working at all. Darragh Ennis is really brilliant at these podcasts because he makes science sound exciting. Science is very exciting but not everyone has the ability to bring that across. It really helps to learn about it from someone who finds it exciting themselves and really wants to tell us about it.

UNTANGLING SCIENCE EPISODE 2 – VIRUSES*****

 

By Megan

Link: https://www.untanglingscience.com/episode-2-viruses

Available until: Unknown

Episode 2 of Untangling Science, presented by Darragh Ennis, is really good. It asks questions like what viruses are, how they get into our bodies and make us feel so completely horrible and what kind of research scientists are doing in order to prevent viruses from doing that.

UNTANGLING SCIENCE EPISODE 1 - DNA*****

By Megan 

Link: https://www.untanglingscience.com/episode-1-dna

Available until: Unknown

I usually review plays and this is a scientific podcast so I might review it in completely the wrong sort of way but I hope it will encourage people to listen to this podcast and to all the other podcasts in this series when they are released because Episode 1 is really good.

DYKE SHOES (Echo Chamber)*****

 

By Aashiq 

Link: https://kite.link/DykeShoes 

Available until: Unknown

Content warning: sexual themes, in the podcast and the review.

A play can achieve many things. It can entertain, in many different ways. It can educate. It can make you feel enriched and fulfilled. It can even get you quite… excited, if it’s rude enough. It’s not very often it makes you want to travel back in time and turn into a lesbian (which, by the way, would completely ruin my marriage), but Dyke Shoes is very special.

REDRUM TRUE CRIME (Spotify/Apple Podcasts)*****

 

By Sophie

Link on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1FCoeRZQeDkEJ5i8bGuFpy

Link on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/redrum-true-crime/id1515905584

Link to Patreon episodes: REDRUM true crime is creating podcasts | Patreon

Available until: Unknown

This review was posted after I’d listened to approximately half of the podcasts. It is very much my intention to listen to the others and it is possible that another review will follow in due course, but there is so much to say about them and my notes for the review were already so ridiculously long, it seemed sensible to post a review now and add a second later. There are nineteen episodes currently on Spotify with others available to Patreons.

REDRUM is an excellent and fascinating series of crime podcasts written and presented by Grace Cordell and produced by Russ Clark and Grace. True crime is not my area of expertise (though I love crime fiction), but although Mobile Theatre was primarily envisaged as a means of drawing attention to the online plays that have become available in lockdown, it seems important to explore other media too. This is not always easy as there are so many wonderful theatrical productions of all kinds currently available online, but here is my first foray into the worlds of podcasts and almost my first into true crime.