Podcast Corner: Six of the best international shows of 2023

True crime, Michael Jackson and the inside story of an influential magazine provided some of the highlights from the podcast world over the past year

Tue, 26 Dec, 2023 - 02:00

Eoghan O’Sullivan

The Coldest Case in Laramie/The Retrievals

There will only ever be one Serial - one seismic moment in podcasting that saw the form explode. But it’s been anything but diminishing returns from the production company since. They linked up with the New York Times in 2020 and this year released two brilliant shows. Eight-parter The Coldest Case in Laramie saw Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter Kim Barker revisit an unsolved murder that took place while she was in high school in Laramie, Wyoming, nearly 40 years ago.