The 10 podcasts we couldn't stop listening to this year
Our favourite podcasts of the year include tales of art forgery, a documentary about the life of Fela Kútì and a true-crime thriller about a dead body in the ocean.
Hannah Reich is an ABC Arts journalist, producer and editor, and in 2025 joins Stop Everything! as co-host.
She has produced and reported for Radio National Arts programs and ABC Audio Studios podcast Days Like These.
Before joining the ABC, she was part of the Walkley Award-winning team that produced The Messenger podcast.
She coined the deeply troubling phrase TTT (TikTok Time), a set aside time period in the day to doom scroll TT."
Photo is by Jessica Leski.
Our favourite podcasts of the year include tales of art forgery, a documentary about the life of Fela Kútì and a true-crime thriller about a dead body in the ocean.
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The Japanese photographer's sublime black-and-white photographs cleverly capture subjects as diverse as polar bears and landscapes, to historical figures.
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