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Mark Dixon, 54, started producing the Local Heroes podcast in April after his small skateboard company, Liberalis clothing, was discovered by Prism Studios. Mark, a contractor by trade, has been in the business for about seven years and had the idea to produce a podcast showcasing the work of other Warrington entrepreneurs. “I was struck by the value of people taking on a challenge,” he said. “When you see things like closed stores, it means the end of someone's dream, but people don't really understand that. “But you realise all across Warrington there are people running businesses in their own…
Your browser is out of date and may not display this or other websites correctly.You will need to upgrade or use a different browser. They have some interesting things to say about how they view Kentucky football and where it's headed going forward. They're interviewing Nick Rausch, and while I don't think too highly of him, he said some interesting things about the program from an inside perspective. Anyway, if you have an hour to kill before the show starts, I think this is pretty fun:
Last updated July 21, 2024 – 12:31pm Yeardley Smith, the iconic voice of Lisa Simpsons on The Simpsons, and legendary Scottish detective Tom Wood have launched a new podcast, Beyond Recognition: The Ruxton Murders. The podcast is a historical true crime documentary series based on the forensic bestseller 'Ruxton: The First Modern Murder Case' written by detective Tom Wood. The six-part series explores the disappearance of an attractive young mother and her devoted maid in 1935, a death that became one of the most significant investigations the world had ever seen at the time. On a crisp autumn morning…
The Oxfordshire Courts and Crime Podcast takes listeners behind the scenes of the latest trials, sentences and more taking place in Oxfordshire courts. Episode 14 continues the murder trial of Neil Comins. Comins, 39, was attacked with a baseball bat at his home in Cope Road, Banbury, on January 3 this year. Read more: Teenagers break into home of terminally ill patient in hospital His flatmate and school friend, Janaeed Akhtar, was charged with murder and was on trial. (Image: TVP) The podcast has already covered the opening moments of the trial, but now it will delve into the neighbors'…
Global brand lift measurement company On Device has published new data on UK podcast habits. The results show that 38% of the public listens to humor/comedy podcasts, making humor/comedy podcasts the most popular category. Research shows that 61% of UK residents listen to podcasts monthly, spending an average of 1.8 hours each day listening to their favorite shows. The main time people listen to podcasts is in the afternoon and evening, with 30% listening between 3pm and 7pm on weekdays. Following on from humour and comedy podcasts, Brits are keen to listen to true crime documentaries (30%), sports (30%), chat/conversation…
A new episode of the HR Most Influential podcast is now available, featuring Tiger de Souza, executive director of HR culture at suicide prevention charity Samaritans. Episode 6, the final episode of Series 3, explores HR leaders and their relationship with their organisations. In this episode, we discuss how leaders can keep their finger on the pulse of their organisations, even in hybrid workplaces and those where HR is working far from the frontline. In conversation with HR Magazine Editor Charissa King, De Souza digs into why it's so important to consciously and intentionally restructure communication channels that may previously…
Last updated July 17, 2024 – 2:06 p.m. An early Canva and Spotify employee has joined the team at AI-powered “Canva for Audio” platform Wondercraft, just months after it launched in beta. Didier Sibellas, Canva's first full-time product designer and head of digital design, has joined the company as founding head of design at Wondercraft. He joins the company's global team of audio experts and engineers, which was co-founded by Oskar Serrander, former COO of Acast and early Spotify employee, and Palantir engineers Dimitris Nikolaou and Youssef Rizk. Several Spotify engineers have also recently joined the growing team. Wondercraft's…
Following the assassination attempt on Donald Trump over the weekend, the Republican National Convention gathered in Milwaukee this week to welcome him as the party's presidential nominee. But not all eyes were on the former president. Standing next to him, above the chanting crowd, was newly-nominated running mate J.D. Vance, a surprising move for the Ohio senator and “Hillbilly Elegy” author who once described himself as a “staunch Trump supporter” and his new boss as “the American Hitler.” So what's behind this shift, and what's in it for Trump? To find out, Jonathan Friedland speaks this week with Tara Setmeyer,…
This September, UK social enterprise Hear Art will launch “Shaping Tomorrow”, a brand new and unique video podcast featuring deaf people, made with a 90% deaf production team. Hear Art is an award-winning community interest company co-founded in 2020 by Cindy Sasha and Rachel Shenton, who won an Academy Award for their short film The Silent Child in 2018. Both have hearing loss in their families and wanted to support creative talent within the deaf community. The company has already produced four short films featuring deaf characters that have had commercial success at short film festivals, and sees podcasting as…
Beyond the Noise tackles some of the biggest issues affecting communications and PR. Download the podcast from Apple, Spotify or listen in any browser above or on your favourite platform.This week's edition is hosted by PRWeek UK News Editor Siobhan Holt, with guests John Harrington (UK Editor) and Evie Barrett (Senior Reporter).Following Tuesday's news that Gareth Southgate would be stepping down as manager of the England men's football team, the trio examined the communications skills of the man who was named PRWeek UK's Communicator of the Year in 2021.The team will examine how brands have approached communications around the Euros,…