Chris Pearson and Ella Watts recommend audio fiction podcasts, which are re-making, adapting, or spinning off from other stories. Dirk Maggs joins us to discuss Audible's The Sandman: Act 2, as well as his venerable career in adapting other works for audio. Plus Realm Productions on Orphan Black: The Next Chapter. Senior producer Marco Palmieri and head of Audience Development Tara Sonin tell us about the pressures of continuing the television show in podcast form. And we'll hear extracts from Marvel's Wolverine Team B: A War Robots Story Rebel Robin: Surviving Hawkins Children of the Stones The Phenomenon

Laura Grimshaw and Jessica Fostekew look at long-running podcasts. That's podcasts that have been going a long time, not podcasts about running. Not exclusively anyway. Podcasts that have been around for a while with loads of episodes to dive into. We speak to Ellie Gibson and Helen Thorn from the Scummy Mummies podcast, which has been running for eight years. And we speak to Tom Price from My Mate Bought a Toaster about those embarrassing, impulsive, or long-forgotten internet purchases. And we feature snippets of these podcasts which have racked up over 5000 episodes between them! The Guilty Feminist Fortunately with Fi and Jane Running Commentary The High Performance Podcast My Time Capsule Dane Baptiste Questions Everything Desert Island Discs The Three Track Podcast James Acaster's Perfect Sounds Off Menu Hoovering Food Psych

Laura Grimshaw and Scott Bryan recommend new listening for October. We talk fashion with Kiri Pritchard-McLean and her new podcast Who Are You Wearing? Tim Harford offers up some Cautionary Tales. And Margaret Cabourn-Smith tells us all about her embarrassing crushes in the name of her new podcast Crushed by Margaret Cabourn-Smith. We also feature snippets of: The Proper Class Podcast Whose Stories? As The Season Turns My Favourite Takeaway with Tom Craine and Cimran Shah Bad Cops from the World Service Breaking Breakfast - the story of Chris Evans' Radio 1 Breakfast Show The Xennial Dome with Gareth Gwynn and Esyllt Sears Shaun Keaveny's new podcasts The Line Up and Rockanory

Laura Grimshaw and Salena Godden present a selection of poetry podcasts. We speak to Chris Gregory from Alternative Stories and Fake Realities about bringing words to life, and to Repeat Beat Poet from The Lunar Poetry Podcast about infusing poetry with meaning and messages. We also listen in to: Poetry Unbound The New Yorker Poetry Podcast The Poetry Exchange Arji's Poetry Pickle Jar The Slowdown with Ada Limon Frank Skinner's Poetry Podcast Roaring 20s Radio Poetry Extra The Verb

Laura Grimshaw and Chris Pearson revisit some of their favourite Podcast Radio Hour Interviews. We'll hear interviews with: Evanna Lynch, from The Chickpeeps Grace Dent, Gabriela Jones and Leah Green from Comfort Eating Penny Green, presenter of The Knepp Wildland Podcast Laura Lexx and Will Duggan, hosts of National Treasures Ken Bruce and his producer Phil McGarvey, talking Popmaster The Taskmaster Podcast presenter Ed Gamble Bryony Gordon, from Bryony Gordon's Mad World Athena Kugblenu presenter of Keeping Athena Company Madeleine Baran, host of America Public Media's podcast In The Dark Jesse Lawson and Lynette Norah, from VENT Documentaries.