The winner of the first British Podcast Awards presented some of his hard hitting human interest podcasts. Hard hitting stories of everyday life focused on Fathers and sons. How he chose the people being interviewed, how their stories developed, where the stories took the producers and some of the difficulties they encountered

A story about love, a universal story Pablo Fen tells a story of love and how he fell in love. He couldn’t tell the lady he had fallen in love as he had a lack of data. And so he went to talk to her partners and her friends to find out how

The biggest news for the podcasting world is the shift by Apple in measuring audiences almost every aspect of the business and is the biggest shift at the moment. There continues to be sustained audience growth, big splits between the larger and smaller players. There is a belief that the bigger companies need a

‘I might be making different podcasts for different parts of the world…for world audiences our podcasts are not catch up services’. 'Who killed Elsie Frost' and 'Body on the Moor' were taken out of radio programmes, given their own branding and made into a podcast.  There are quite a few World Service podcasts,

'I said no, never, no way…it will never work’ the trial of a respected policeman accused of corruption was the focus of Norwegians from everywhere after the success of a podcast, why? When Runar Henriksen Jorstad with Irina Tjelle was asked to make a podcast on a huge ongoing trial in Norway at

At CBC it’s all about the audience – how do we grow, how do we attract young people, engage new and old listeners. With podcasting we are reaching audiences in new ways. For every show in TV you would brand a show so Leslie Merklinger brought this to CBC, branding their shows. The

'The thing I noticed first about podcast was the freedom', WTF with Marc Maron was created because of this. There didn’t need to be a distinct mission statement said Brendan McDonald, Producer, WTF Podcast, he just applied experience from traditional radio.  Three things the show needed were consistency, quality and contentment. There needed

Podcasting is an incredible news story. ‘The Guardian has been there from the beginning of podcasting’ Emily Bell was the pioneer in The Guardian and hosted the first podcast hit with Ricky Gervais, it launched the first 12 shows in November 2005. These were record breaking podcasts it had irreverence, a strange geekiness, an

Why is it that radio has such a small share of podcasting? Broadcast audio makes sense in the moment, podcasting however isn’t easy to repackage broadcast content. Daniel Anstandig, CEO, Futuri Media and his team have developed a system where show hosts have control of creating a podcast from the content that is

An inspirational idea, that was before it’s time, a difficult sell and a history of ‘radio theatre’ which was in now way a good start were the background for the launch of the most successful youth programme on P3 radio, Sweden. After trying to pitch an idea of a new radio series which