Five of the best apps for listening to podcasts

Keeping up with Serial? Your next spoken-word fix could come from Overcast, Pocket Casts, Castro, Spotify or Deezer

Serial didn't singlehandedly revive the podcast as a media format - the efforts of radio broadcasters and many independent producers have grown and sustained audiences in the years since podcasts were hyped as the next big thing in tech.

Yet, Serial has undoubtedly fuelled a surge in interest in spoken-word shows - which in 2016, are as likely to be listened to on a smartphone as a computer. And there are apps for that.