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Last updated September 3, 2024 – 1:37pm The Economist's short daily news app, Espresso, is now being made available for free to more than 400 million students around the world. Featuring concise world news updates and videos targeted to a younger, digital-first audience, the Espresso app is available to high school and college students aged 16 and over. The app currently features AI-powered in-app translation for French, German, Chinese, and Spanish. This comes as The Economist makes its journalism more accessible to readers around the world, publishing AI-translated videos on its social platforms that use large-scale language models and…
Last updated September 3, 2024 – 1:04pm Joan McNally, the conspiracy-loving comedian turned investigative journalist, is back with a new podcast series. In a new six-part series of Joan McNally's Investigations, she sets out to discover the truth and tell the story of Furby, how it became famous, and the technology behind it. In the 1990s, Furby was the furry friend every kid wanted: a futuristic stuffed animal that could talk, learn, and listen. But was Furby more than just a toy? Was it, as rumored, a listening device that threatened the security of the world as we know…
Last updated September 3, 2024 – 12:03 PM British actors Kingsley Ben-Adir and Erin Doherty will star in Another Life, 2023 BritList writer Cara Marie Sweet's debut feature for Audible. Carla Marie Sweet is a Brit List-nominated British-American actor and writer whose work has appeared on BBC, Netflix and Hulu. A feminist, dystopian page-turner, Another Life tackles the question of what happens when something seemingly good falls into the wrong hands. The story revolves around the controversial “External Womb Programme”, which provides women with the technology to outsource their pregnancies to machines. While many women have welcomed it as…
Crime documentary event CrimeCon returns to London this month with a line-up of leading experts. The event, taking place at 113 Houndsditch on September 21st and 22nd, will bring together true crime enthusiasts, survivors, victims' families, criminologists, authors and law enforcement officials to share their stories. In partnership with fact-based entertainment channel TRUE CRIME, the two-day program will include content from top documentary makers, investigative journalists and popular podcasters. Among this year's featured guest speakers will be world-renowned child abuser and investigative journalist Chris Hansen. In his session, “The Takedown: Battling the Epidemic of Child Predators,” Chris will explore the…
Last updated August 30, 2024 – 3:03 p.m. The Secrets from a Coach , a podcast hosted by wellness coach Debbie Green of Wishfish and TEDx speaker Laura Thomson-Staveley of Phenomenal Training, celebrates its 200th episode today. The podcast, which began during lockdown, has since been downloaded 44,000 times – and the first episode, about imposter syndrome, remains one of the most popular, having been downloaded 770 times to date. Since then, the team has gone from strength to strength, working on weekly recordings with special guests covering topics that help listeners in the world of work. Episode 200…
Last updated August 30, 2024 – 1:46 p.m. What Did You Do Yesterday? is a new podcast from presenter Max Rushden and comedian David O'Doherty which asks guests what they did yesterday. Familiar faces from the comedy and entertainment world will be clearing their schedules for Max and David's analysis. They follow every detail of their guests' day, from the mundane to the chaotic. Making chia seed porridge at 9am because you read it helps keep death away? Giving your cat a daily affirmation at 12pm? Trying (and failing) to find anchovies in two different supermarkets at 6pm? All…
Mike Robinson and Charles Mallett interviewed former political cartoonist Bob Moran. The Daily TelegraphBob was fired from his job for speaking out against the government's Covid-19 restrictions and those who promoted them, and has since continued to make hard-hitting commentary as a freelance cartoonist. In this wide-ranging interview, we discuss his experiences in corporate media, accusations of anti-Semitism, divisions between opposition groups, war stories, immigration, and what it will take to right the wrongs of today's political elite. Bob is His Websiteon X and, UK location event column It will be held in Bristol on October 19th.If you're interested in…
Last updated on August 29, 2024 – 10:40 AM Actress and author Cush Jumbo is launching a new podcast that breaks down barriers to give a glimpse into her guests' coming-of-age stories. Sony Music Entertainment's “Origins with Cush Jumbo” was announced at a podcast show in London in May. Now, the guests who will appear in the first series have been revealed. Scheduled to appear include Anna Wintour, Michael Kors, David Schwimmer, Kate Nash, Peter Capaldi, Poppy Delevingne, Julianna Margulies and Golda Rocheubel. The new podcast will feature stories from childhood to teenage misadventures to early…
Last updated on August 29, 2024 – 9:49am The all-new global original podcast, Then & Now with Babatunde and Leonie Aléshé, takes listeners on a hilarious journey through parenting and childhood. In this podcast, Babatunde Aleche, one of the UK's fastest growing comedians and TV stars, and his wife Leonie, an entrepreneur and parenting influencer, take a cross-cultural journey through the timeless landscapes of childhood, marriage and parenting. Speaking at the release of the podcast, Leonie said: “On the podcast, we talk about our childhoods, how we're raising our kids and asking ourselves: 'Was it better…
Last updated August 29, 2024 – 9:00 AM Climate communication podcast “Climate Decoded” is set to return with a second season. Climate Decoded cuts through this noise with its unique combination of documentary-style storytelling and expert analysis, helping to unravel the complex narrative surrounding climate change. Season 2 explores the front lines of climate action, from the courtrooms where climate litigation is playing out to the personal stories of environmental activists risking their lives in their beliefs to save the planet. Each episode will feature exclusive interviews titled “Climate Chats” with leading experts and activists such…