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Do The Right Thing (comedy.co.uk)

Jordan, Jesse, Go! (maximumfun.org)

Bullseye (maximumfun.org)

Last week the Observer ran my 10 best lesser-known podcasts list, and what a treasure trove of poddery there was in the comments underneath! You, lovely listeners, friendly readers, gave umpteen suggestions of other internet shows I should listen to, and I got all excited all over again. Some of those mentioned I knew already and had agonised about whether or not to put in – Answer Me This, Radiolab, 99% Invisible – some I didn't. How lovely to have all that new audio to try out. Expect the next few weeks' radio reviews to be far less "radio" than usual.

Still, I feel I should mention a few notable live moments. Nicky Campbell, moved to tears by the callers on his 5 Live phone-in show Your Call on Tuesday, on the subject of the right to die. International lawyer Desmond de Silva telling John Humphrys on Today, also on Tuesday, about the overwhelming photographic evidence of the Syrian government's "systematic murder, by starvation, by torture… by the gouging out of eyes, hideous beating, mutilation of bodies". "White Dee" from Benefits Street calling Nick Clegg on LBC's Call Clegg and asking him to say if he thought the show was a fair representation of people on benefits. Radio's immediacy, its ability to report on and create stories in the moment, means it can never be replaced by podcasts, no matter how witty, clever or insightful.

Despite that, I'm having a podcast moment, so here we go. Do the Right Thing, a Sony award-winning podcast panel show, launched its fourth series last Wednesday evening. Hosted by the very funny Danielle Ward, who was a co-host on Dave Gorman's Sunday show on Absolute, with Michael Legge and Margaret Cabourn-Smith as team leaders, last week's episode had Sarah Millican and Jesse Thorn as panellists. (Shall I point out the obvious? QI, Mock the Week, Just a Minute, take note.)

Do the Right Thing, like all panel shows, has a simple concept – how one ought to react when in tricky situations – which the performers latched on to with glee. I liked the audience-asking-the-panel section, and the way Do the Right Thing had all the high production values of a Radio 4 panel show but was, you know, funnier. This was partly due to Danielle Ward's excellent self-penned script, but also because the atmosphere of the show was far more like a live comedy performance rather than "one for broadcast". At a decent comedy night, swearing and talking about sex are part of the fun. So it is with Do the Right Thing. In fact the response to the very first question – if a pigeon flew through the window into your room, how would you get it to fly back out? – immediately descended below the belt. Mostly, it has to be said, due to Sarah Millican. She's a naughty woman, that one.

Podcaster Jesse Thorn: ‘brings out the best in his guests’. Photograph: Noe Montes

Jesse Thorn, as pod-spods will know, has a lot of form in podcasting: he was the person who set up Marc Maron with a microphone and recording equipment for Maron's WTF show, and hosts his own regular podcasts, Bullseye and Jordan, Jesse, Go! (Incidentally, can we think of a new word for podcast? It's such an odd word, a mixture of the biological and the magical.) Jordan, Jesse, Go! is a 90-minute talk show hosted by Jesse and Jordan Morris in front of an audience. It can be a bit too loooooong for me: I haven't the patience for vaguely humorous banter, I have small children, I get that at home. But once you get past the opening nonsense, the guest interviews can be revealing.

Still, I prefer Bullseye, where Thorn, solo, interviews popular-culture figures, from Benedict Cumberbatch to Mel Brooks. He also plays a bit of alternative music and talks about stuff that interests him. It's a calmer programme and even if you don't know who Thorn is talking to, which I didn't last week (apologies, Jessica Walter), he brings out the best in his guests. Plus, both podcasts come from maximumfun.org, which boasts a whole host of funny internet shows, so if you get bored, there are plenty of others to check out. Happy listening. Goodbye spare time.