Podcast Corner: Danny and Dani Dyer among the hosts keeping it in the family
Danny Dyer and his daughter Dani Dyer host a podcast together.
We featured podcasts for children recently, but what about podcasts between parents and their influencer offspring? Maybe it's the nature of being stuck at home for almost a year and having nobody else to converse with, but such podcasts seem to have trended upwards in recent months - perhaps no surprise given the nature of the personalities involved. We already know Cork's I'm Grand Mam sees the lads' mothers often steal the show - here are three more that offer a familial feel.
From Danny and Dani Dyer, this has been a mainstay of Spotify's charts since launching in October. An 'unscripted' Spotify Originals podcast from BBC Sounds and Pod Almighty, it features EastEnders star Danny and Love Island winner Dani, who offer advice, make inappropriate jokes, and have an easygoing chat for around 20 minutes a week.
These sort of parent-child podcasts offer another glimpse behind the influencer lifestyle - and Sorted with the Dyers most definitely does that, considering Dani gave birth to little Santiago between episodes 15 and 16, with not even a day's delay to the podcast output. Those episodes are particularly interesting, talking about hospital 'go bags', Danny reminiscing about being allowed smoke in hospitals in the mid-90s when his daughter was born, and Dani revealing why she had a caesarean section. There may also be titbits about giraffes having to learn to walk within four minutes of being born or else they die - we'll take Danny's word for it.
Another regular in the podcast charts, with the first series just concluding with 12 episodes since mid-November. Saffron Barker is the influencer daughter/host - a YouTuber with 2.5m subscribers, she's only 20. Which makes it even more eye-opening, on the episode about leaving their family home, when mum Wendy reveals that she works for her daughter now. Talk about strange family dynamics!
Saffron Barker may not be a household name so this is very much one for her legion of young fans, who will soak up any extra details available. Topics include the perils of social media, living with boyfriends, and body insecurities. And it is funny to compare and contrast the stresses of moving house, as Saffron reveals she found it nice to look over the boxes of memories, while Wendy sounds like she's ready to just give up altogether.
This is still one of the best podcasts around, as it stretches into its 11th series. Mum Lennie continues to offer guffaws aplenty, and the quality of guests is only getting more interesting and diverse. So far this year we've had rapper Slowthai, Eva Longoria, and Elizabeth Olsen - what a dinner party that would be.
