Four seasons, over 30 incredible guests, hundreds of podcast recommendations.

I'm your host Laura Whitmore and in this special series of Castaway, we'll bring you the best bits from our back catalogue,

sharing those golden castaway moments and throwing

in those bingeable podcast picks we're all hungry for along the way welcome to castaway the best bits

hello podcast super fan and welcome back to castaway's best bits. If you're someone who feels like you're cheating

on music with podcasts, then look no further as we marry the best of both worlds with today's

episode, exploring the very best music podcast out there. Who better to kick things off than with

the Radio One DJ and music guru, Clara Amtha, who joined us on season two of

Castaway. A prolific person in the music scene, Clara naturally provided us with a couple of

golden music podcasts, starting with Hip Hop Saved My Life. Here she explains why this made her list.

I'm a big fan of Ramesh Ranganathan anyway, very funny man, but especially

this particular one, because this is hip-hop saved my life. I love this podcast so much. I mean,

I love Rommish. Romish is hilarious. I mean, surprise, professional comedian.

Thank God. It'd be terrible if he wasn't. Right, right, right.

But where did me in Ramesh first meet, actually? I can't remember where we first met. No, do you know what it was? I had listened to the podcast because I was such a fan. And I had the ending straight up and I was like, yo, let me come on because I feel like I need to be on this. So wait, you listened, you listened to the podcast.

And that's how you, that's why you contacted him.

Yeah, that's how we first got chatting.

That's how we, that's why you contacted him.

Yeah, that's how we first got chatting.

That's how we first got chatting.

I,

I'd DMed him and I was just like, your podcast is wicked. I think I'd added him in it because I'd shared the episode that I really enjoyed. And he was like, oh, thanks for the love. and I was like, yeah, can I come on please?

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