In BriefFeatured podcasts include Intrigue: Mayday, The Messenger, Tumble, and Transmissions: The Definitive StoryThe BBC’s Intrigue strand has already produced two superb podcasts, Tunnel 29 (about Berlin Wall escapes) and The Ratline (Nazi hunting), said Miranda Sawyer in The Observer. Now it has brought us Intrigue: Mayday – a “brilliantly produced” ten-parter about James Le…Continue Reading
There are “big bucks” to be earned from podcasts these days, said Fiona Sturges in the FT – and increasingly it is celebrities with millions of Instagram followers who top the podcast charts. The latest celebs to cash in on the boom are EastEnders actor Danny Dyer and his 21-year-old daughter, the reality TV star…Continue Reading
Spotify, which has invested heavily in podcasts, has long offered embeds for shows and episodes, so Apple is playing catch up here. Still, Apple’s web embed could boost podcast discoverability and help the company lure in more listeners to its platform instead of one of the many other podcast apps out there. In this article:…Continue Reading
How to Save a Planet is a bit different to other climate-themed podcasts There is no shortage of climate-themed podcasts “howling about the terrible state of things”, said Fiona Sturges in the FT. How to Save a Planet – an impressive new series from Gimlet and Spotify – is a bit different, because its approach…Continue Reading
Needless to say, Alan Partridge has had the last laugh If Alan Partridge really existed, he is “exactly the sort of person” who would have his own podcast, said James Marriott in The Times. And now he does. In the first episode of From the Oasthouse: The Alan Partridge Podcast, the TV host turned DJ…Continue Reading
If, like me, you are gripped by the crazed psychodrama that is the US presidential election, you may well already be listening to Nate Silver’s FiveThirtyEight, said James Marriott in The Times. One of the “great podcasts”, it succeeds in making the niche subject of political polling fun, “thanks to the chemistry between its nerdy…Continue Reading
Demi Adejuyigbe. Photo: Harmony Gerber/Getty Images The comedy-podcast universe is ever-expanding, not unlike the universe universe. We’re here to make it a bit smaller, a bit more manageable. There are a lot of great shows, and each one has a lot of great episodes, so we want to highlight the exceptional, the noteworthy. Each week, our crack…Continue Reading
