Podcast Corner: Family dramas from The Idiot to Peaky Blinders

M Gessen's five-part series comes from the Serial stable, while Edith Bowman presents the Peaky Blinders podcast 

Cillian Murphy is one of the guests on a podcast dedicated to Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man.

Every family has its dramas, whether minor squabbles or epic sagas — you might even suspect one of yours deserves to be told. 

The New York Times writer M. Gessen’s family story sprawls continents and is detailed in The Idiot, a five-chapter series from Serial Productions. There are shades of Heavyweight as they outline, in the opening 20-minute episode the drama thus far.