The best podcasts of 2024 so far

From lifting the lid on what really went on at Guantánamo Bay to an investigation of whether Avril Lavigne has died and been replaced by a doppelganger – read on for the finest shows of the year

Why is Voldemort so obsessed with his old school? Would Billy Connolly have been radicalised if he had grown up on the internet? And is it a good idea to have sex with a neo-Nazi? Frankie Boyle’s chat with comedy pals Susie McCabe and Christopher MacArthur-Boyd is exactly the kind of blackly comic delight you’d expect. It’s a no-holds-barred plunge into the oft-surreal that runs the gamut between social commentary and absolute filth.