We love a good podcast. There's often something lovely and homespun about them. Conversational, mostly unscripted, they feel like friends chatting in your kitchen while you get on with dinner.

Podcasts are a brilliant way for indie magazines to build a real community around their titles. Reading a magazine can be a solitary experience but when you hear the people behind it, the whole world opens up a bit. It's comforting to know that other people out there love the same things you do.

We've picked out five of our favourite podcasts from the indie magazine world.

1. The Crit — Disegno
Available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and the Disegno website. Free.

Disegno's monthly design podcast where editor-in-chief Oli Stratford invites a leading designer to review their own career. Guests pick their best design, their worst, their most successful, the feedback that shaped them most and their dream project. It's a proper design-school crit, delivered every month.

2. A Drink With The Idler — The Idler
Available on the Idler website. £7.50 per session, free for Idler members.

Editor Tom Hodgkinson hosts hour-long conversations with fascinating guests, many of them featured in the magazine. Recent guests have included Rosie Holt, Daisy Dunn and David Bramwell. Worth noting it's now more of a live event series than a traditional podcast, so you'll need to register in advance rather than dip in whenever suits.

3. Truth & Movies — Little White Lies
Available on the LWLies website and most podcast platforms. Free.

A weekly film podcast hosted by Leila Latif with David Jenkins and other LWLies critics joining in. Each episode reviews the latest releases, big and small, chats about industry news, and reassesses old films with the Truth & Movies Film Club. Recent episodes have covered Toy Story 5, Cannes Film Festival highlights and cult classics like The Brave Little Toaster.

4. Konfekt Korner — Konfekt
Available on Monocle Radio and most podcast platforms. Free.

Monocle's sister publication Konfekt has its own monthly podcast, hosted by editor Sophie Grove, style director Marcela Palek and Gillian Dobias. Warm, well-produced episodes cover fashion, craft, food and travel, alongside a sunny soundtrack. Like a really good dinner party in audio form.

5. Monocle Radio — Monocle
Available on Monocle Radio and most podcast platforms. Free.

Monocle goes a step further than most and runs its own 24-hour radio station! Almost every section of the magazine is covered in the audio offering, from Monocle on Culture to The Foreign Desk to The Briefing. Slick, well-produced and stylish, exactly as you'd expect.

Give one a listen next time you're doing the washing up. You might find your next favourite magazine along the way!