Podcast Corner: Sam Anderson’s Animal antics provide great listening 

The series was recorded on the host's world travels as he attempts to help various creatures around the world 

Animal follows Sam Anderson's travels around the world. 

What a delightful journey the six-part podcast Animal takes us on. Yes, geographically we travel from host Sam Anderson’s living room to Iceland, Mexico, and Japan, and begin and end with a hole - one from which Anderson’s pet hamster Mango escapes through, the other a ‘bat volcano’.

But we go on a personal journey too. Anderson relates his personal life to us, how his daughter is heading to college, how his son has just turned 16, how he’s missing these life events to traverse the world for experiences that will, yes, last a lifetime, but then what? He ruminates on death, of his father’s loss and how he wears his gloves and some other items to remind him of when he was still around.