True crime, history, music: Eight of the best podcasts so far this year

Dave Chappelle, Whitney Houston, and Grace Dent have featured in some of the best podcasts so far in 2021.
The latest series from Pineapple Street Studios (Missing Richard Simmons, Wind of Change) weaves a dark story of greed, corruption, and murder through the "male exotic dancers" of Chippendales, the none-more-'80s, tanned, mulleted, cultural pop phenomenon.