The Best Podcasts of 2022

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The Best Podcasts of 2022 It's been a strange year for podcasts. Serial, the original 2014 blockbuster from the United States, was back in the news when its protagonist, Adnan Syed, had historic murder charges against him "vacated". But Serial's update episode glossed over the flaws in their original reporting, gaps instead plugged by the rival lawyer-hosted podcast Undisclosed. In Australia, The Teacher's Pet gave oxygen to the cold case of Lynette Dawson, but what a judge called its "prejudicial, sensationalist and inflammatory" style could have caused the eventually convicted murderer, Chris Dawson, to escape prosecution. It was a reminder…