Podcast 'Signal Hill' Features Endangered Lute

The Guardian's culture section highlights the best podcasts of the week. One standout is 'Signal Hill', an indie audio magazine whose third issue includes food writer Ruby Tandoh's quietly beautiful portrait of the lute, an instrument on the verge of extinction. The same issue also features Jess Shane revisiting an experiment that gave children tools to turn their reality into poetry.

Other recommendations include 'Five Miles from Home', where Dateline NBC's Keith Morrison recounts the disappearance of Nevada high-school student Micaela Costanzo in 2011; her body was later found in a shallow grave. The investigation led to the arrests of her boyfriend and best friend.

'Outsiding', hosted by Adam Frost and Caitlin Moran, celebrates the outdoors with weekly celebrity interviews in Moran's backyard. Bob Mortimer appeared, even pretending to urinate on a compost heap.

Dan Taberski's 'Manifesto' explores the Occupy movement, Luigi Mangione, and associations with mass shooters, aiming to reclaim the manifesto as an artsy rallying cry. 'Adam & Alex’s Indie Supergroup' features comedians Adam Flood and Alexandra Haddow taking a fun dive into 2000s UK guitar music, each week holding pseudo job interviews with band members.