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Last updated on July 10, 2024 – 1:35 pm Comedians and podcast hosts Ed Gamble and James Akerster's Off Menu: Live in London will return for a two-night run at the London Palladium in March next year. This follows a sold-out UK and Ireland tour in 2023, with tickets for the new dates going on sale this Friday 12th July at 10am, with pre-sales on the Off Menu mailing list at 10am on Thursday. Each night Ed and James will invite a different special guest into their Dream Restaurant to order their favourite starter, main course, dessert, side dish…
A new podcast exploring the uptake of “the other blue pill,” pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), is now online. The six-part series “The Other Blue Pill” features interviews with experts, activists and people directly affected by the campaign to improve access to life-saving HIV prevention medication. Read next After a historic battle, PrEP became available free of charge on the NHS for people at high risk of infection in April 2020. The podcast looks back at the years leading up to the emergence of PrEP as a treatment in the early 2010s and then details the long, drawn-out battle through the courts…
Last updated on July 9, 2024 – 4:30 pm Multi-award-winning podcast 'Where Are You Going?' has partnered with Londoner Buses to collect untold stories of Routemaster passengers. Show host Catherine Carr has traveled the world asking strangers one simple question, revealing heartbreaking, funny and sometimes surprising stories about their lives. The podcast has been described as “highly compelling” by the Financial Times and named “Podcast of the Year” by the Radio Times, and will air from April 2023. Now, for the first time, Carr will be taking the microphone onto London's Routemaster bus route T15 (Tower Hill to Trafalgar…
The Unstereotype Alliance, convened by UN Women, in collaboration with Tesco, Kantar and Acast, commissioned the first research into diversity in audio advertising in the U.K. The findings show that accent bias is a major issue, with 62% of U.K. radio and podcast adverts featuring Estuary English, or King's English, associated with the area along the River Thames, including London. The study, which analysed both podcast and national radio advertising across finance, retail, food and entertainment industries, found that only 19% of ads featured a Northern England accent. Welsh and Scottish accents featured in just 2% of ads, and Midlands…
The UK audio industry will receive further support from the BBC through a new deal with AudioUK. The new trading terms agreement will see increased investment in spoken word programming, greater commercial opportunities for producers, training partnerships to develop talent and the return of the BBC Radio Indies Development Fund for 2024/25. Content producers will receive increased funding and have greater opportunities to exploit their IP and tap into the commercial distribution market, either through BBC Studios' global infrastructure or through third parties. This means the BBC can commission the best ideas and high-quality programming from the sector for linear…
Sky Sports' tennis team interviews some of the biggest names in tennis from the ATP and WTA tours, and this week's guest is British star Cameron Norrie. Monday 8 July 2024 20:03, UK Sky Sports' tennis team interviews some of the biggest names in tennis from the ATP and WTA tours, and this week's guest is British star Cameron Norrie. Our team of experts speaks directly to the best players, big names and up-and-coming talents to find out what drives them on and off the court.On this week's Sky Sports Tennis Podcast, Cameron Norrie answers 10 questions from Karthi Gnanasegaram.Subscribe…
Eve Blake, the legendary and iconic writer of the musical Fangirls, returns to the podcast to capture the moment Fangirls makes its official UK premiere in July. Eve is an accomplished writer and performer who is on the journey of a lifetime as Fangirls goes from Belvoir Street to the Sydney Opera House and now to London's Lyric Hammersmith Theatre. Not exactly the West End, but close enough. Listen and watch the full episode now.Discussion highlights:- Bringing Fangirl to England- Appearing on West End Live!- Production differences- Must be on the HSC list of required textbooks- Questions about the theatreTickets…
Last updated on July 8, 2024 – 7:10 pm Audioboom has renewed partnerships with The Broski Report with Brittany Broski, National Park After Dark, The Nateland Podcast, Minds of Madness and Serially with Annie Elise. These five podcasts have collectively achieved over 70 million downloads in the past year. As part of the Audioboom Creator Network, podcasts will receive technology, distribution, production and commercial services. “The Broski Report” by Brittany Broski will launch on the Audioboom Creator Network in Spring 2023 and has been listened to over 19 million times. It frequently ranks in the Top 25 on Apple…
Last updated June 20, 2024 – 10:51 AM tonies®, the world's largest interactive audio platform for kids, launches “Today with tonies,” a podcast to encourage kids to step away from screens. Hosted by presenters Sam Fletcher Goodwin and Tim Warwood, this informative and entertaining podcast is aimed at children aged four to seven. Based on the award-winning daily exclusive show, “Today with tonies” will launch as a podcast for the first time with 14 10-minute episodes packed with fun, facts, challenges and jokes. The podcast has been produced in partnership with podcast production and promotion company Mags Creative, with…
Image source, Family photoImage caption, Gracie Natal (right) said her sister Lola is “absolutely amazing.” Article informationauthor, Suzanne Haleyrole, BBC News8 July 2024 06:11 BSTThe sister of late cancer activist Laura Nuttall is launching a podcast to help others who have experienced the death of a sibling.Laura, from Barrowford, Lancashire, was diagnosed with a type of brain tumour at the age of 19 and made headlines for completing her bucket list before her death in May 2023.Gracie Nuttall created The Dead Siblings Society podcast series with sibling support charity founder Calum Fairhurst, who lost her brother Liam aged 14.Gracie said…