‘It’s really touching, and surprisingly so’: two podcast hosts share the podcasts that moved them

For a stack of quality-assured recommendations, we asked two interesting people - and podcast hosts to boot - to tell us about the listens they’ll never forget. Photograph: supersizer/Getty Images

If you want to know what the ingredients for a great podcast are, ask the people who make them.

“All of [my favourite podcasts] were not the ones where I felt like I learned something, or on my favourite topics,” says Victoria Devine, host of personal finance podcast She’s on the Money and author of an upcoming book about investing. “They’re all podcasts where I as the listener feel genuinely engaged.”