The week in audio: You’ll Never Beat Kyle Walker; The Artificial Human; The Case of the Tiny Suit/Case; The Beauty of Everyday Things – review

The Man City captain turns to podcasting; Radio 4 gets deep on AI; into the woods with the team behind Who Shat on the Floor at My Wedding; and poet Ian McMillan hymns the mundane

You’ll Never Beat Kyle Walker | BBC Sounds
The Artificial Human (BBC Radio 4) | BBC Sounds
The Case of the Tiny Suit/Case
The Beauty of Everyday Things (BBC Radio 4) | BBC Sounds


Launching a football podcast at the end of the season is a plucky move. You might have the balls to do so, as it were, if you captained a team who’d just won the Premier League title four times on the trot, and were expected to win the FA Cup just before your show’s premiere.

Balls indeed. You’ll Never Beat Kyle Walker arrived on BBC Sounds four days after his club, Manchester City, lost to Manchester United in a game described by the Guardian’s chief sports writer, Barney Ronay, as “a hungover performance”. This fact is conveniently left unsaid by podcast presenter Chris Hughes, the chirpy former Love Island contestant turned serial BBC sports host. Instead, Walker is called captain of the European champions, which he was on Wednesday, but isn’t now (this year’s Champions League final, between Dortmund and Real Madrid, is tonight). “The boffins at the BBC have spent months talking about what we could do in his series,” Hughes continues, laddishly, “but in the end, all we wanted to do was talk football and take the listeners inside the life of a serial winner.” Continue reading...


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