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Close friend Serena Williams joins Markle for the intimate debut of her long-awaited show. Plus: five of the best podcasts on disabilityDon’t get Hear Here delivered to your inbox? Sign up herePodcasts: increasingly attracting a different crowd. In the early days of the medium, it was celebrated as a glorious democratisation of radio-esque shows – in which any bright spark with an idea could delight millions of listeners with their new true-crime show/banter-packed chatfest. Today, though, pods are being made by any Tom, Dick or wife of Prince Harry.Many headlines have been generated by Meghan Markle’s new pod, Archetypes, and the surrounding publicity (Is she trying to rile the Windsors with her comments on ambition? Has Harry’s relationship with his dad really been wrecked forever? Does she really expect us to believe that her slipping a ring on Harry’s finger was as important a moment as the end of apartheid?) But, alongside Princess Eugenie’s anti-slavery podcast, Floodlight, it’s the latest pod from a member (however willing) of the royal family, in which they try to talk directly to the public, outside of the control of the institution that previously defined them. Continue reading...