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Last updated November 14, 2024 – 11:03 AM Game of Thrones actor Peter Dinklage stars as Poirot in the new Audible Original film adaptation of Agatha Christie's debut novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles. Himesh Patel plays Poirot's partner Captain Hastings alongside Dinklage. The star-studded adaptation also stars Harriet Walter, Jessica Gunning, Phil Dunster, Rob Delaney, John Bradley, Vivian Opara and Patsy Phelan. This Audible Original is part of a new production deal with Agatha Christie Limited and follows a wounded and traumatized man who, after serving in the First World War, is invited to a vast country estate…

Last updated November 13, 2024 – 12:34 PM AI studio Wondercraft and audio management platform Frequency have launched an integration to help brands and media publishers create and run personalized audio ad campaigns at scale. A new feature in Wondercraft's creative suite is called “Variations,” which allows you to automate ad variations and personalization based on audience data signals. This integration provides an industry-first seamless workflow from Wondercraft's creative studio to Frequency's dynamic campaign deployment, significantly reducing the time and costs traditionally associated with personalized audio advertising. Users can create, produce, and edit audio using the platform's AI-powered tools.…

The people, officials and teams behind Bristol's 120-year-old football league, where 'every game is played at home', will be featured in a new BBC podcast. Always at Home: Bristol's Beautiful Game, produced by BBC Radio Bristol, explores the unique Bristol Downs League, the city's special history and the many famous people who played there. Among them is former England cricket captain and Gloucestershire batsman Wally Hammond. Former England football captain and Arsenal player Eddie Hapgood. Steve Stacey was the first African-American to play professional soccer in England. and current Labor MP Kee Dadd. All four divisions of the league play…

Last updated November 13, 2024 – 9:27 AM Spotify said its third-quarter 2024 earnings show the company is on track for full-year profitability. This latest report shows that the company performed well across key metrics, with total revenue increasing 19% year-on-year to €4 billion. The platform's monthly active users rose 11% year-over-year to 640 million, and the number of subscribers rose 12% to 252 million. Due to the increase in reported total revenue, the company's gross profit margin reached 31.1% and operating profit improved to 454 million euros. Spotify Founder and CEO Daniel Ek said: “I…

Purple Heart Warriors is a six-part BBC World Service drama inspired by true events by Oscar-nominated screenwriter Iris Yamashita. Set on the battlefields of World War II, young Japanese American soldiers of the 442nd Regimental Combat Team fight to liberate France from Nazi occupation. Narrated by Emmy-nominated and BAFTA-winning actor Will Sharp, the series tells the story of Ken Morioka, played by Akie Kotabe. Ken travels back in time from 2024 Los Angeles's Little Toyco to the 1940s and finds himself trapped in his grandfather's body as he signs up for combat training. From downtown Los Angeles to Hattiesburg, Mississippi,…

BBC Radio 5 Live's new investigative podcast tells the true story of a senior IRA member known as Stakeknife. He was able to get away with murder due to his double life as a British Army agent. Freddie Scappaticci led a double life. He was a senior member of the IRA and was tasked with finding and interrogating informants – people suspected of passing information to the police and British military. At the same time, he was also a British secret military agent. He was described by the British Army as its golden egg, its most valuable agent, and someone…

The new season of the BBC World Service series Life at 50°C has begun, with the first of four films exploring the impact of water scarcity around the world. An audio version of the show, which explores the most deadly aspects of climate change, is also available. New analysis by The Lancet's Countdown on Health and Climate Change, first shared on BBC News, finds that in 2023, 48% of the world will experience at least one month of extreme drought, and almost a third It has been revealed that extreme rainfall has increased. In a new series, the BBC World…

Last updated November 8, 2024 – 4:35 p.m. You can now share music, podcasts, and audiobooks directly from Spotify to TikTok, and you can now save songs from Instagram to Spotify with one tap. You can now post tracks, albums, playlists, podcasts, or audiobooks to your TikTok feed (FYP or Stories) by sharing them using TikTok's green screen feature or photo mode. DM via TikTok Messages lets you send your favorite Spotify music, podcasts, and audiobooks to your friends. Tap the link to go directly to Spotify to access music, podcasts, and audiobooks shared on TikTok. When you're listening…

Olympic snowboarder, broadcaster and author Amy Fuller hosts a newly rebranded special series on the award-winning National Lottery's podcast Game Changers. Produced by Listen, the series celebrates 30 years of the National Lottery and sees Amy travel across the UK to hear the stories of people who have changed the game with the help of National Lottery funding. Amy will share the stories of eight people from all walks of life from across the UK, with special guest appearances from actor Sir Tony Robinson, broadcaster Claire Balding, DJ Adele Roberts and more. It features music initiatives that provide a springboard…

Last updated November 8, 2024 – 11:00 AM DEADPOD is an all-new podcast hosted by Absolute Radio's Andy Bush that explores society's morbid curiosity about death. Andy and co-host Brian Murphy aim to change the fact that talking about death is often considered taboo, as they explore all aspects of death in this weekly podcast. Famous deaths in TV dramas, villainous deaths in popular fiction, dead technology, bizarre burial rituals of ancient civilizations, incredibly bizarre historical deaths…they cover it all. The first episode focuses on human sacrifice. The Wicker Man, made famous by the 1973 film, can be traced…