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Miranda Sawyer

The week in audio: Strike Force Five; British Scandal; Intrigue: The Immortals – reviews

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Strike Force Five’s Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmell, Seth Meyers and John Oliver.
Five US talkshow hosts in search of a script… Strike Force Five’s Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmell, Seth Meyers and John Oliver. Getty Images Composite: Getty Images

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British Scandal Wondery
Intrigue: The Immortals (BBC Radio 4) | BBC Sounds

The biggest podcast in the US last week wasn’t a true crime one, or about the news, or how to live your life. It was Strike Force Five, and it was – uh-oh – banter. Big-name banter, as the quips and chat come from the hosts of US late-night TV talkshows: Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel, Seth Meyers and John Oliver. Strike Force Five is, essentially, five rich and famous middle-aged men who have the same job, chatting away on Zoom for an hour. Apart from the amount of men involved, this is a familiar podcast proposition. Although in this case, usually an impossible one: these are very busy people.

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