Stolen Hearts
4.8/5
Critic Rating
5.0/5
Listener Rating
Sergeant Jill Evans is a small town cop in Wales with an impressive record in her job, and a less than impressive record in her love life. After three engagements, two divorces and one affair, she’s beginning to worry that love is only true in fairy tales. That is until she meets: Dean. He’s a wealthy beauty entrepreneur with his own range of toiletries.Girl meets boy. Boy meets girl. They kiss and fall in love. Roll credits.But that would be boring, wouldn’t it? Instead, this is a love story like no other. It’s all going so...
Critic Reviews
Score: 4
Ximena Smith • Stuff NZ • Feb 18, 2023
"Coupled with actor and comedian Kerry Godliman’s witty narration, the snappy scripting by Kim MacAskill drives the story forward swiftly, with so many twists and turns that my mouth dropped open at several points along the way. I will mention that there was something a tad unsettling about the show towards the end, as it felt like the story..."
Score: 5
Miranda Sawyer • The Guardian • Feb 11, 2023
"...the peppy script, by Kim MacAskill, ensures we don’t lose interest. Comedian and actor Kerry Godliman narrates with a wry eyebrow raised, and the story switchbacks enjoyably. At the beginning of each episode, some unique British-isms are explained for American listeners (“Superdrug”, “blancmange”, “a marmalade dropper”), which is funny; and in the final episode the podcast brings Jill and Dean together, to talk over what happened. A coup that, true to form, doesn’t go as planned… Stolen Loves is part brilliant audiobook, part true crime doc, part great pub story. Every which way, it’s gripping."
Score: 5
Patricia Nicol • The Times UK • Feb 5, 2023
"What distinguishes this six-episode co-production from Wondery and Novel is its knockabout tone, set by the narrator Kerry Godliman."
Score: 5
Hollie Richardson • The Guardian • Feb 2, 2023
"...one hell of a skeleton in his closet."
Listener Reviews
Score: 5
Laurie K • Feb 11, 2023
"Maybe a spoiler alert is needed. I binge listened to the entire podcast, it was that good. It was done in a way that really held my attention from start to finish. By the end of the podcast I felt I knew a lot about Jill and Dean and when it ended I was convinced that they are still very much in love and their story is far from over."
