An Agatha Christie classic with an impressive cast: best podcasts of the week

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Toni Collette stars as Miss Marple in The Murder at the Vicarage.
Toni Collette stars as Miss Marple in The Murder at the Vicarage. Photograph: Stéphane Cardinale/Corbis/Getty Images

Toni Collette heads a list of familiar voices playing out the village murder-mystery. Plus, Guz Khan and Kiell Smith-Bynoe go off on some rather wild tangents

Pick of the week
The Murder at the Vicarage

Toni Collette is an eagle-eyed amateur sleuth in this big adaptation of Agatha Christie’s first Miss Marple novel. When Colonel Protheroe is found dead in sleepy St Mary Mead, suspects include his spouse, Anne, and daughter, Lettice. But as false confessions and red herrings stack up, can Marple crack the case? Kit Harington, Lolly Adefope and Vicki Pepperdine – who wrote the adaptation – are among the cast.
Widely available, episodes weekly

Guz and Kiell Will Not Survive

In something of a contrast to Off Menu-style podcasts where celebrities put themselves in nice, imaginary situations, Guz Khan and Kiell Smith-Bynoe (pictured right) find themselves imagining life in tick-laden swamps and icy peril for this new series. It’s silly stuff, but survival expert Megan Hine helps to keep it on the right side of self indulgent.
Audible, all episodes out now

Gangster: The Story of the Milkman

Infamous cocaine trafficker Brian Brendan Wright was nicknamed the Milkman because “he always delivers”. So says a law enforcement source in this new series. Livvy Haydock investigates a story that brings together Irish gangs with 90s Cool Britannia, as well as sensitively exploring the human cost of the drugs trade.
BBC Sounds, all episodes out now

Our Town

Widely available, episodes weekly

This investigation from Bloomberg and iHeart centres on a small Appalachian town in Tennessee which, say the pod-makers, is “at the centre of a fight over American identity”. Certainly, there is something very much of the moment about its tense tale of Christian nationalists – among them two controversial podcasters – who descended on Gainesboro.
Widely available, episodes weekly

Uncover: The Mile Zero Murders

Over the past few years, there has been a surge in the number of people who have gone missing or been murdered in Dawson Creek, British Columbia (population: 13,000). This series bravely but carefully reopens some of those cases, with journalist Timothy Sawa hoping to figure out what the police might have missed.
Widely available, episodes weekly