Amazing format, and the presenters personality really imposes on the listener. Can only bare to listen to it occasionally. Asinine in the extreme.

The research and scripts are great. Jennifer is very knowledgeable and presents the information well. However, the political tangents and personal matters are really off-putting. When a podcast is based on serious matter, I prefer them to be fact focused.

I thought really carefully about the rating and I'm sorry to settle on one star. The content is really carefully researched, topics selected are great, and the regularity and punctuality are to be admired. However, despite that I simply cannot listen. I've really tried but am driven to distraction by the presenter. As another reviewer rightly pointed out, politics often appears entirely inappropriately and out of context. The same for personal information that has, at times, made me cringe to the extreme. Although I think the podcast is broadly scripted, there appear to be weird interludes so bizarre that they can't possibly be part of the script. What I look for in a podcast on a topic like this is a total focus on the facts. The content should be focused, and the presenter should not allow it to become self referential or venture to much into the subjective. I am desperate for a podcast on disasters that is professional and sensitive and it pains me that this podcast covers so many incidents but is so painful to listen to. I hope that my explanation, how ever difficult to read, offers the level of detail that such a low rating deserves.