Guz Khan and comedy writer Lucia Keskin feature in season one of Home Again, a new podcast from SpareRoom alongside documentary-maker Stacey Dooley, Radio 1’s Matt Edmondson and Red Roses captain Meg Jones. Upcoming episodes feature cook Justin Tsang, comedian Shabaz Ali, singer-songwriter Sam Tompkins, and author Oenone Forbat.

The format is simple. After an ice breaker, guests pick three homes that have shaped them and explore how they’ve contributed to who they are and what they’ve achieved. 

Home Again’s co-hosts are Matt Hutchinson, who has been SpareRoom's official mouthpiece for more than 20 years and also hosts an award-winning bluegrass music podcast, and SpareRoom’s trend-spotting social media expert Ella Chisholm.

Matt says: “Home is the most important thing in our lives. Where we live, and who we live with, profoundly affect how we feel about ourselves. Our homes ground us, centre us and fuel our sense of who we are as people at the deepest level.

“Yet so many of the conversations we have as a nation about housing end up feeling like they're really about affordable people storage and we forget to talk about home. So we wanted to explore and celebrate what ‘home’ really means to people and how where we live shapes us and becomes part of who we are.”

Money dominates most conversations about housing, while people and the emotions wrapped up in our homes tend to get sidelined. It’s something the UK’s busiest flatshare site SpareRoom – which has helped millions of people find somewhere to live or someone to live with – is keen to rectify with the launch of its new podcast. 

“What does home mean to you?” is a question Home Again’s podcast hosts explore with every guest, including documentary maker Stacey Dooley – who has not only found her dream forever home, but has stayed in dozens of other homes dramatically unlike her own all over the world – and comedian and actor Guz Khan, who bought his family home from a strange neighbour with a dark secret hidden under his floorboards. 

Co-host Ella says: “Home as a concept is something we can all relate to, but everyone’s interpretation is so personal. That’s what makes this podcast so interesting. The conversations it has inspired have been heartfelt, comforting, nostalgic, and also very honest. Perhaps because it’s at home where we’re our truest selves.”

12 episodes drop weekly on Tuesdays. Available on all major podcast platforms.

Watch the trailer below