Best podcasts of the week: Gary Lineker and friends team up for a new football show
by Hollie Richardson, Hannah Verdier and Rachel Aroes from on (#6DQAB)
In this week's newsletter: The Match of the Day presenter joins Alan Shearer and Micah Richards for The Rest Is Football, just in time for the new season. Plus: five of the best summer podcasts
Dear Alana
Widely available, episodes weekly
Simon Kent Fung remembers learning about Alana Chen in 2019: A girl from Boulder, Colorado, who wanted to become a nun, was told to keep a secret, and who died at 24." In this devastating but sensitive investigative series, he looks at the role conversion therapy played in Alana's story, after she told her priest that she was attracted to women. It's a harrowing tale of how a woman Fung never met would turn his life upside down. Hollie Richardson