Best podcasts of the week: George Alagiah opens up about his cancer

The ex-newsreader bears all to David Cameron's Brexit right-hand-man in a new podcast about the life lessons to be found in traumatic experiences. Plus: a chilling true-crime show about murders in doughnut shops

Desperately Seeking Wisdom With Craig Oliver
If your life has hit the buffers" in the pandemic, as it did for David Cameron's former Remain right-hand man Craig Oliver, this 12-part interview series might inspire you to at least try to look at things differently. Oliver speaks candidly with outwardly privileged, successful people such as Ruth Davidson and Richard Curtis - all living with trauma or tragedy, and sharing their unseen, deep cuts. Episode one sees him interview George Alagiah on his battle with bowel cancer. Hollie Richardson