The best podcast picks for 2021, from entertainment podcasts covering your favourite films and shows, to celebrity interviews, music podcasts and more.

Best podcasts 2021: the 28 new series you need to plug into

Earworm

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The Women’s Prize for Fiction Podcast

Dark Woods

Deathbed Confessions

Pieces Of Britney

Coupledom 

British Scandal

Coming Undone

Working Hard, Hardly Working

Welcome To The OC, Bitches!

Stacey Dooley: Fresh Starts

Stylist’s Baby On The Brain 

Songs To Live By 

The Panic Years

Teach Me A Lesson With Greg James And Bella Mackie

The Apology Line

Into The Grey Zone

Period Power With Maisie Hill

I've Never Seen The OC

The Morning After Mix

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Desert Island Dishes

The Marvel Virgin

Thank You Next

Pepp Talk Podcast

The Orgasm Cult

Death Of A Starlet

Grounded With Louis Theroux

Stylist Daily

From true-crime to comedy and celebrity interviews.

28 new podcast series that everybody is plugging into this year

Best new podcasts of 2021, including Deathbed Confessions, Dark Woods and The Women’s Prize for Fiction Podcast