Weekend

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Every Saturday, the Weekend podcast brings some of the best Guardian writing from the week, read by talented narrators. Listen to celebrity interviews, lifestyle features, and opinions from our most popular columnists including Marina Hyde and John Crace. Weekend is the perfect way to relax.

Recent Episodes
  • The brain collector: the scientist unravelling the mysteries of grey matter – an Audio Long Read podcast
    Apr 12, 2025 – 00:35:43
  • The mysterious novelist who foresaw Putin’s Russia and then came to symbolise its moral decay – an Audio Long Read podcast
    Apr 5, 2025 – 00:35:54
  • Inside the Vatican’s secret saint-making process – an Audio Long Read podcast
    Mar 29, 2025 – 00:35:24
  • Seth Rogen: slacker to studio boss; Marina Hyde on Trump making anywhere but America great again; and Philippa Perry helps with imposter syndrome
    Mar 22, 2025 – 00:35:15
  • Actor Michael Sheen on paying off £1m of his neighbours’ debts; Marina Hyde on ‘grotesque’ JD Vance; and ‘how the Beatles helped my autistic son find his voice’
    Mar 15, 2025 – 00:50:20
  • Actor Danny Dyer on aliens and cocaine; the anti-vax parents who changed their minds; and Philippa Perry on feeling unimportant
    Mar 8, 2025 – 00:43:18
  • The White Lotus actor Aimee Lou Wood, Marina Hyde on Daddy Musk, and are we over-diagnosing illness?
    Mar 1, 2025 – 01:03:22
  • ‘I forgive them for what they’ve done’: Esther Ghey on life after the murder of daughter Brianna
    Feb 22, 2025 – 00:32:35
  • Can Drake come back from Kendrick Lamar’s diss?; Marina Hyde on Starmer aping Trump; ‘I was trapped for 65 hours under 4,000 tons of rubble’; and Philippa Perry on setting boundaries with your parents
    Feb 15, 2025 – 00:41:26
  • Marina Hyde on Kanye and Bianca; the woman who lives without money; Roman Kemp on tattoos and mental health; and Philippa Perry on ‘chaotic’ partners
    Feb 8, 2025 – 00:38:23
  • Wicked star Cynthia Erivo on fame, fear and fighting classism; Marina Hyde on why gen Z kids are not alright; and the mind/body revolution
    Feb 1, 2025 – 00:46:46
  • My mum the family vlogger and child abuser; Marina Hyde on Trump’s ‘golden age’; and Spotify’s Billions Club
    Jan 25, 2025 – 00:59:56
  • Huel creator James Collier on bodybuilding and bullies; Marina Hyde on fawning Trump tech bros; and Philippa Perry’s advice on a dwindling sex life – Podcast
    Jan 18, 2025 – 00:33:39
  • ‘How can you rebuild when your father is the worst sexual predator in decades?’: Pelicot’s daughter speaks; and Philippa Perry on the deceptive ‘spark’
    Jan 11, 2025 – 00:37:44
  • Revisited: a new approach to quitting smoking; how to stop people-pleasing; and why do we have the dreams we do?
    Jan 4, 2025 – 00:47:10
  • Revisited: actor Jeff Goldblum, eccentric as ever at 71; and America’s top pronatalists on having ‘tons of kids’ to save the world
    Dec 28, 2024 – 01:02:58
  • Bros’s Matt Goss on love and loss; ‘my father, the serial killer’; Marina Hyde on Prince Andrew and the spy; and Philippa Perry on finding purpose at 80 – podcast
    Dec 21, 2024 – 00:50:40
  • ‘I never want you around your grandchild’: the families torn apart when adult children go ‘no contact’
    Dec 14, 2024 – 00:35:04
  • Revisited: Bafta-winner Jamie Demetriou, unmasking dating app cheats, and peeing: to sit or not to sit?
    Dec 7, 2024 – 00:41:25
  • The man who caught his catfish; actor Kaya Scodelario on Skins, scares and sex scenes; and Philippa Perry on coping with the climate crisis
    Nov 30, 2024 – 00:42:46
  • Jacob Rees-Mogg on abortion, religion and reality TV; Marina Hyde on Musk vs Trump Jr; inheritance inequity; and teenage love – podcast
    Nov 23, 2024 – 00:53:11
  • The truth about dark empaths, why is Britain still so obsessed with the Tudors? And Philippa Perry on overcoming social awkwardness
    Nov 16, 2024 – 00:40:50
  • ‘My lips and cheeks caved in’ – when filler removal goes wrong, Marina Hyde on Trump-based amnesia, and my husband the conspiracy theorist– podcast
    Nov 9, 2024 – 00:49:39
  • Rob Beckett on dyslexia and dark thoughts, Marina Hyde on the Saoirse Ronan truth bomb, and Philippa Perry on nuanced honesty
    Nov 2, 2024 – 00:34:08
  • Why Rivals is the horny, hopeful show we need, Marina Hyde on Musk’s $1m voter gifts, the secret life of a care worker, and Philippa Perry on lying
    Oct 26, 2024 – 00:44:07
  • Marina Hyde on Strictly’s latest row; the father who lost his daughter in the Sandy Hook school shooting – then faced years of abuse; and Philippa Perry on mismatched sex drives
    Oct 19, 2024 – 00:35:26
  • Al Pacino tells the inside story of The Godfather, and Marina Hyde on Keir Starmer, the unforced error machine
    Oct 12, 2024 – 00:42:09
  • Heartstopper’s Joe Locke, the mothers who regret having kids, and Philippa Perry on boastful rich friends
    Oct 5, 2024 – 00:42:44
  • Marina Hyde on Al Fayed and Diddy’s enablers, the hidden life of Elizabeth Taylor, and Philippa Perry on embracing anger
    Sep 28, 2024 – 00:43:39
  • Janet Jackson on Michael and motherhood, Friends at 30, and Marina Hyde on the real ‘enigma’ about Charlotte Owen
    Sep 21, 2024 – 00:56:15
  • Best of Weekend part 2: Louis Theroux, a late life gender transition, and is it murder if you’re asleep?
    Sep 14, 2024 – 00:47:46
  • Grenfell: System Failure – Scenes from the Inquiry (part 1)
    Sep 8, 2024 – 00:57:08
  • Grenfell: System Failure – Scenes from the Inquiry (part 2)
    Sep 8, 2024 – 01:06:39
  • Best of Weekend part 1: Julia Fox, are we to blame for our bad habits? And surviving a ship wreck
    Sep 7, 2024 – 00:46:36
  • Actor Michael Sheen on leaving Los Angeles, presenter Alison Hammond’s rise to fame, and Philippa Perry on empty-nest syndrome
    Aug 31, 2024 – 00:59:56
  • Actor Gillian Anderson on female desire, singer Chappell Roan’s slow and steady rise, and how to stop people-pleasing
    Aug 24, 2024 – 00:45:03
  • Growing up in a utopian commune - and the dangers that came with it; Marina Hyde on the Trump-Musk interview; and the power of embracing selfishness
    Aug 17, 2024 – 00:46:34
  • Marina Hyde on the ‘brave’ inciters of Britain’s race riots; lightning struck my plane and I plunged 3,000m; the delights of the dead hang
    Aug 10, 2024 – 00:32:47
  • Jeff Goldblum, eccentric as ever at 71; the fallacy of ‘tradwives’; and ‘My dying wife found me a girlfriend’
    Aug 3, 2024 – 00:48:44
  • Bullied, belittled but indisputably brilliant: how Victoria Pendleton became a cycling legend; and what’s missing from Twisters?
    Jul 27, 2024 – 00:40:58
  • Is this the Brat girl summer? Marina Hyde predicts a sticky end for Trump-Vance, how to be a Norwegian parent, and Ask Philippa on sibling rivalry
    Jul 20, 2024 – 00:47:36
  • Marina Hyde’s career advice for Joe Biden, the world’s smallest stuntman, Philippa Perry on ‘failure’, and could you forgive your childhood bully?
    Jul 13, 2024 – 00:46:07
  • Actor Kevin Bacon on learning selflessness, the secret lives of porn addicts, and what’s it like to be a private tutor for the rich?
    Jul 6, 2024 – 00:37:53
  • Keir Starmer’s most personal interview yet, the woman who gave birth to her granddaughter, and why do we have the dreams we do?– podcast
    Jun 29, 2024 – 00:50:07
  • Marina Hyde on Sunak and class, my parachute failed at at 4,000ft, my gaming-addicted son, and a new approach to quitting smoking
    Jun 22, 2024 – 00:50:07
  • Azeem Rafiq talks racism, cricket, and leaving Britain; Philippa Perry offers advice on a painful crush; why Rory Stewart quit politics; and the big British bamboo crisis
    Jun 15, 2024 – 00:47:25
  • New series – Pop Culture with Chanté Joseph: Taylor Swift cultural icon or turbo-capitalist?
    Jun 10, 2024 – 00:24:11
  • A Guardian Blind Date happy ending, the boy who fled the Nazis, and Philippa Perry’s advice on an alcoholic father
    Jun 8, 2024 – 00:41:54
  • America’s premier pronatalists on having ‘tons of kids’ to save the world, Marina Hyde on the election campaign trail, and is doing nothing the secret of happiness?
    Jun 1, 2024 – 00:55:39
  • Stephen Merchant on his ‘preposterous’ trajectory; the trouble with the Zoe nutrition app; and when does drinking become a problem?
    May 25, 2024 – 00:41:37
Recent Reviews
  • Ave L
    Thought provoking
    ….and added to my list of ‘must listen’ pods.
  • kunlaou
    curious fiction
    I actually didn’t catch the fact that this was supposed to be fiction when it aired. had i known I might've prepared my brain differently — still, I enjoyed a great deal. I’m not entirely certain why the riders are not the narrators. Maybe that’s just an American thing? That we read our own work? or maybe it’s a British thing that they don’t, and the rest of us in the world are suckers for our own voice. Hmm. I do know I would read the last piece quite differently than the narrator chose to… we've all got opinions… Certainly, it was not The Guardian Science Weekly. Longer than I expected, funnier than I expected, and a show that dives into British life in such a way that it would be helpful as an American to know more about British life to fully appreciate like a proper listener. I approve I approve. heh. not that my opinion matters but I do approve. Give it a try. I think you’ll like it too.
  • patsrevsfan4life03
    I love it 🥰
    Thank you guys for doing this, my favorite part is the people you have picked to read about the subject, thank you, thank you 😊
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