Freelance writer Sid Smith introduces tracks from some of the discs that have come across his desk this week.

The Yellow Room: A Wantonly Optimistic Podcast is a podcast for the oversharer, the uncertain, and those who seek genuine connections. Inspired by the power of abundant and reckless optimism, Benjamin Chipman grapples with the unique challenges of early adulthood in the age of Gen Z. It’s a 2 AM car ride with your best friend, where you're not sure if you just had the world's greatest realization or a mental breakdown. Feeling disconnected? Uninspired? Stuck in one place? Get into it with Be ...

One of the first locked room mysteries, The Mystery of the Yellow Room focuses on a supposedly impossible crime which has been committed within a locked room. The novel was initially published in the French periodical L’illustration, and was later published as a book in 1908. It is the first of a series of novels featuring the famous fictional reporter Joseph Rouletabille. The mystery begins when Joseph Rouletabille, a reporter and amateur sleuth is sent to investigate a crime scene at the C ...