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Ease into the weekend with our brand new podcast, showcasing some of the best Guardian and Observer writing from the week, read by talented narrators. In this episode, Marina Hyde looks at the new additions to Downing Street (2m00s), Hadley Freeman interviews Hollywood actor Will Arnett (9m56s), Sirin Kale tries her hand at quiz show Mastermind (26m32s), and David Robson examines why we’re so stressed about stress (41m08s). If you like what you hear, subscribe to Weekend on Apple, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts.

Ease into the weekend with our brand new podcast, showcasing some of the best Guardian and Observer writing from the week, read by talented narrators. In our first episode, Marina Hyde reflects on another less than stellar week for Boris Johnson (1m38s), Edward Helmore charts the rise of Joe Rogan (9m46s), Laura Snapes goes deep with singer George Ezra (18m30s), and Alex Moshakis asks, “Are you a jerk at work?” (34m40s). If you like what you hear, subscribe to Weekend on Apple, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts

Sample the choice cuts all this week from this year’s nominees in this Guardian taster series. Today: the best new and current affairs shows.

To celebrate the reopening of the Whitechapel gallery, artist Mark Titchner explores the relationship between art and freedom. Here, he talks to AC Grayling, Shami Chakrabarti and Jason Horsley about the role art plays in an increasingly restricted society

Cafe Oto co-founder Hamish Dunbar guides us through some of his favourite recordings from the renowned east London experimental music venue

Celebrating the 10th anniversary of the world-renowned experimental music venue, musicians, staff and volunteers tell the story of how an abandoned Dalston paint factory was transformed into a vibrant international hub of creativity. Featuring Thurston Moore, David Toop, and more

Our new culture podcast, The Start, brings major artists to the mic to reveal how they began their careers. In this first episode, Sofia Coppola talks about the fear and the thrill of directing her debut film, The Virgin Suicides

Events come to a head in the final episode of our audio drama series. Will the wedding even take place?

A series of answerphone messages reveal what really happened in 2007

Can Daniel discover the truth before it’s too late?

Charlotte uncovers a decade of deceit in the third episode of our audio drama podcast

Charlotte arrives at the wedding venue, and makes an unexpected discovery

Ten years after university, a group of friends gather for a wedding in the Lake District. But all is not as it seems...

Have you ever wondered what famous people actually eat? In our new podcast, Guardian restaurant critic Grace Dent does just that, asking well-known guests to lift the lid on the food they turn to when they’re at home alone – and what comfort foods have seen them through their lives. In the first episode, screenwriter Russell T Davies tells Grace about his childhood in Swansea, the delights of Woolworth’s pork and egg pies, and how his husband’s death informed his latest TV series, It’s a Sin. Future guests will include Nish Kumar, Rafe Spall and Aisling Bea. Episodes willl be released every Tuesday – search for it wherever you get your podcasts

Gnocchi or nookie? For our last meal in this series about British mealtimes, it’s a romantic dinner for two as host Hersha Patel explores how our food habits have changed over the years – and celebrates the art of eating together

In this series about British mealtimes, host Hersha Patel explores how our food habits have changed over the years. This week, it’s time to find the perfect recipe for a duvet day

In this series about British mealtimes, host Hersha Patel explores how our food habits have changed over the years – and celebrates the art of eating together. This week it’s time to have friends and family round for a dinner party

In this series about British mealtimes, host Hersha Patel explores how our food habits have changed over the years – and celebrates the art of eating together. This week speed and comfort rule with TV dinners

In this series about British mealtimes, host Hersha Patel explores how our food habits have changed over the years – and celebrates the art of eating together. First up, the traditional Sunday lunch

Get inspired with this pick of the smartest series made in Britain, as chosen by the judges of the British Podcast Awards 2017.

Looking to lose yourself in a new podcast? Rhianna Dhillon explores the best entertainment, sport and review podcasts of the past year, according to the British Podcast Awards

Looking for a podcast that can make sense of our world? Rhianna Dhillon showcases the British Podcast Award nominees for Best Interview and Current Affairs series, plus the Represent award for reaching new audiences

Rhianna Dhillon shares the best new podcasts – and the most original formats – as chosen by judges of the British Podcast awards 2017

Looking for a new podcast? Rhianna Dhillon shares the best moments in Comedy, Fiction and True Crime from the nominees for the British Podcast Awards 2017.

The Guardian has launched a new series called Reverberate that we think you’ll like. Each week, Chris Michael will explore incredible stories from around the world about when music shook history. In the first episode, we hear from Kashy Keegan, an unknown singer-songwriter in a sleepy English town who became the voice of Hong Kong’s nascent pro-democracy movement. Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts to hear the rest of the series

Dr Bradley Garrett has been exploring the forbidden parts of cities since he was a teenager. He talks to Stephen Moss about scaling skyscrapers, sneaking into sewers and the two-year court trial that almost ended it all • Find out how to experience Underworld, the Guardian’s virtual reality exploration of the sewers, guided by Bradley Garrett

In our fourth exclusive sound story celebrating Britain’s forests, the Granta young British novelist Evie Wyld reads her unsettling tale of marital tension at the end of times

In the third of our series of exclusive sound stories celebrating Britain’s forests, the Scottish poet and artist Alec Finlay reads his tale of a mythical submerged woodland

In the second of our series of exclusive sound stories celebrating Britain’s forests, Alan Garner reads his own tale of a newcomer who finds ‘ancient noise’ beneath the choked underlife of of Cheshire’s woodlands • Listen to The Green Stuff by Ali Smith

In the first of a series of exclusive sound stories inspired by the UK’s woodlands, the award-winning writer weaves a spellbinding tale from an encounter between a boy and a strange green child

In an audio play specially commissioned for the Guardian by Soho Theatre, a fisherman confronts the tide of refugees sweeping across the Mediterranean

James Salter, the veteran American novelist and short story writer, reads a story by Lydia Davis, winner of the 2013 Man Booker International prize

Jorge Luis Borges’s combination of the anecdotal, philosophical and the literary showed Will Self how to achieve the ‘truly veridical’. He gets his coordinates from ‘On Exactitude in Science’

Nathan Englander finds Jewish history, corruption and man’s inhumanity to man and pigeons in Isaac Babel’s ‘The Story Of My Dovecote’

Forty years after he first read it, Sebastian Barry returns to James Joyce’s short story Eveline

We wanted to bring you another episode from our Innermost series. In the last episode of our first season, two callers tell Leah Green how their relationships sent them down unexpected paths, one with criminal consequences Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts to hear the rest of the series

Rabindranath Tagore returned again and again to the voiceless women of Bengal, as in his short story The Postmaster, says Anita Desai

Lucy Wood builds a story from glimpses and suggestions in ‘Notes from the House Spirits’, says Jon McGregor

Yiyun Li reads William Trevor’s ‘Three People’, a short story which moved her to write a story in reply, ‘Gold Boy, Emerald Girl’

Penelope Fitzgerald looks at the world anew in her short story ‘At Hiruharama’, says AS Byatt

Franz Kafka’s story of a man who starves himself for entertainment, The Hunger Artist, is ‘absurb, moving and timely’, says Hanif Kureishi

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie admires the ‘old-fashioned social realism’ of Ama Ata Aidoo’s ‘No Sweetness Here’

José Saramago tackles the conflict between mind and body in ‘The Centaur’, says Nadine Gordimer

Charles Dickens celebrated Christmas throughout his writing life. His autobiographical story ‘A Christmas Tree’ is ‘almost Proustian’, says Simon Callow

Ruth Rendell doesn’t believe in ghosts, of course, but MR James’s stories, like ‘Canon Alberic’s Scrapbook’, frighten her nonetheless

Despite their restraint, Raymond Carver’s ‘early-period’ stories, such as The Student’s Wife, are full to the brim, says Richard Ford

The Guardian has launched a new series called Innermost that we think you will like. Each week, callers will tell Leah Green what’s going on behind closed doors. In the first episode, we hear how an uncle’s funeral and meals with an emotionally distant brother help James and Jess think about their families in new and unexpected ways. Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts to hear the rest of the series

Zadie Smith launches our winter series of short stories with an almost ‘anti-Italian’ story from Giuseppe Pontiggia, ‘Umberto Buti’

Lauren's studio guest at the Edinburgh festival is veteran Comedy Store Player Neil Mullarkey, who reveals how improv can improve your life, while Jon Holmes explores the set for a Polish version of the Scottish play – 2008: Macbeth

The Hands By Gemma Brockis and Tilli Tansey: additional voice Sam Booth; featuring Kind Im Einschlummern, by Schumann, played by John Reid