Author: Podcast News
Last updated October 24, 2024 – 3:05 PM Tricia Duffy has announced the third series of her podcast, In Ten Years Time: How to live a creative life. This follows the podcast winning Best Arts & Design Podcast at the 2024 Women In Podcasting Awards in October this year. In Ten Years Time aims to encourage everyone to find the creative balance that works for them. Primarily aimed at an audience over 40, but inspiring for all ages, its philosophy combines long-term, powers-of-10 thinking with small, everyday steps to create a more fulfilling life. It is a combination of…
Last updated October 24, 2024 – 2:16 p.m. Over 300 people from the independent podcast community gathered in London last night for the Independent Podcast Awards 2024. Held at King's Place and hosted by Chiny Ukata and Astrid Madimba, It's a Continent was named overall independent podcast of the year after winning the Best History and Best Education: World, Business and Finance Podcast categories. The award was launched in 2023 by whynow Media and Verbal Diorama to celebrate independent podcasts that are not funded by a major brand or fronted by a celebrity. With a total of 28 categories,…
Last updated October 24, 2024 – 12:10 PM The fifth installment of the Everything You Know About Me series has begun starring former police detective and whistleblower Maggie Oliver. This hit show details the trials, triumphs, and defining moments in the lives of some of today's most fascinating people. Told over multiple episodes, each season features celebrity guests who tell us about their lives in their own words, going behind-the-scenes and inside. Oliver is a former Detective Constable with Greater Manchester Police. She is known as a whistleblower who exposed the poor handling of the Rochdale…
Last updated October 24, 2024 – 10:11am A new weekly personal finance podcast, Feel Better About Money, is launched by The Times and The Sunday Times. Hosted by Holly Mead and Lucy Andrews from The Times and The Sunday Times Money Team, this new podcast combines expert financial advice with a fresh, forward-thinking approach. Each episode, like the Times Money section, provides an informative, entertaining, and supportive perspective on personal finance. Holly Meade is deputy money editor at The Times and The Sunday Times. An award-winning journalist, she covers everything from investing and insurance to mortgages, savings and even…
Last updated October 24, 2024 – 7:35am BBC Sounds was played 622 million times between July and September across all its radio, podcast and music mix content, according to the latest audience figures released today. That's an increase of 14 million quarter-over-quarter and more than 3% year-over-year as digital listening continues to grow. In the third quarter of 2024, there were 10.8 million sign-ins to BBC Sounds accounts, with an average of 4.7 million weekly users across mobile apps, websites, TVs and voice-activated devices, according to industry body RAJAR. That's it. Data shows that on-demand radio and podcast content…
Last updated October 15, 2024 – 5:40 p.m. In our new podcast, The Art of Deciding, award-winning journalist Bruce Whitfield meets with a variety of decision makers to talk about how they make their decisions. Decisions shape our lives, but how much do we know about the decision-making process? And how can we make the right choices? Bruce speaks with a variety of guests, from criminal investigators to successful entrepreneurs to one of the most commercially successful authors of all time and a champion poker player. They discuss the most important decisions they've made, how they made them, their…
Last updated October 23, 2024 – 4:15 p.m. Startup media company Pac is launching a podcast hosted by Dylan Byers, the company's founding partner and senior correspondent. The Grill Room is named as an homage to the Four Seasons New York's fine dining room, where generations of media executives traded deals and gossip, and is produced in partnership with Audacity Podcast. The series covers what's happening in the media industry, featuring the day's headline-grabbing TV personalities, media moguls, political pundits and industry executives. Past guests include Brian Williams, David Zaslav, Jim VandeHei, Emma Tucker, Don Lemon and many other…
Last updated October 22, 2024 – 3:01 PM The Royal Albert Hall and Goalhanger have announced the first live show of The Rest is Entertainment with Richard Osman and Marina Hyde. To celebrate the podcast's one-year anniversary, the Dec. 4 show will feature a serious look back at the year in entertainment, a live Q&A with viewers, and a few special surprises. Richard Osman said: “What better way to kick off the Christmas season than with a look back at the hits and misses of 2024? Fun games and games, silly entertainment gossip, special prizes and a 'celebrity surprise.'…
Last updated October 22, 2024 – 2:26 PM The new Apple Original podcast, narrated by BAFTA Award-winning actor, writer, and director Will Sharp, tells the incredible true story of one family's surprising secret. In England in the 1950s, milkman John Pollock makes a shocking prophecy that his two dead daughters will be reincarnated. His wife initially dismisses him as a freak, but then the world takes notice when she gives birth to twin girls who bear an uncanny resemblance to her deceased sisters. Pollock's claims caught the attention of American scientists who crossed the Atlantic multiple times over 20…
Last updated October 22, 2024 – 1:56 p.m. Starring Olivier Award nominee May Mack and Adam Buxton of the Adam Buxton Podcast, UP IN SMOKE is a true crime podcast about fictional mysteries. Ten years after a teenage boy went missing in a horrific house fire, disgraced tabloid journalist Kay McAllister (Mae Mack) tells the world what really happened to Mason Miller. I'm starting a podcast to prove it, but it's incredible. Through both contemporary presentations and her own archival tapes, Kaye explores the 2014 fire, the strange events that followed, her questionable ethics as a…