Podcast reviews: Lily Allen serves up celeb anecdotes while Angela Hartnett and Ruth Rogers offer tasty titbits

Lily Allen's chats with Miquita Oliver on the 'Miss Me?' podcast are intimate and amusing

Lucy White

The very fact of being a celebrity doesn’t always mean they’ll be a brilliant podcast host. There are no such qualms with these chat shows, though, which are artfully presented and produced.

Dylan Haskins’s face was plastered across Dublin South-East where he unsuccessfully ran as an Independent candidate in the 2011 General Election. It’s unlikely he regrets leaving politics behind: these days he’s a commissioning editor at BBC Sounds, instrumental in the award-winning Where is George Gibney? and Have You Heard George’s Podcast?