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HAPPY NEW YEAR POD FANS! It’s time to announce the winners of our second annual Pod Bible Polls! At the start of December we asked listeners to vote for their favourite podcasts of the year within a number of categories. All nominees had featured in Pod Bible Magazine or on the Pod Bible Podcast in 2020 but the final Independent...

Here is your second instalment of Overheard in the Studio, a series that pulls out the fabulous, entertaining, and peculiar things we overhear while in the Content is Queen podcast studio. Lockdown 2.0 meant we had to close our Peckham studio, giving us one less place to earwig. Fortunately, we’ve had our Somerset House studio up and running. With that,...

Lauren and Nicole from the podcast Self Care Club: Wellness, Road Tested talk us through some self care tips in COVID lockdown 2.0! With England settled into a second lockdown and the continuation of COVID restrictions all over the world, self care has never been more relevant or important. Enter the Self Care Club: Wellness, Road Tested – a podcast...

Welcome to the very first Overheard in the Studio, a series that pulls out the weird, wonderful and entertaining things we hear in our London studio.  I’m sure you’re thinking  ‘why should I care?’ and my answer is simple: we are the home of some amazing podcasters and storytellers. Having said that, in our short time being open we have...

In the summer of 2019, Clash Of The Titles (Stakhanov’s first film podcast) was born. Twice a week, Alex Zane, Vicky Crompton and Chris Tilly thrust a pair of films with a connection into the arena of combat with only one emerging as the winner! Remakes Vs Originals, Alien Rip Off Vs Alien Rip Off, Massive Ruddy Volcano Movie Vs...

PODCAST DAY Online is just around the corner so we spoke to the team at Radiodays Europe to find out more about the event and ask about their love for podcasts! First off, can you tell us about your event? Our event is called PODCAST DAY Online, it is our first virtual event but our 4th podcast event, the preceding...

Self Care Club: Wellness, Road Tested is one of Stakhanov’s most recent podcasting ventures. Founded by Nicole Goodman and Lauren Mishcon, Self Care Club is part reality and part experiment – testing out various self care techniques so you don’t have to! The podcast launched in April of this year, and since then the ladies got straight to work. From...

With the excitement surrounding the return of the London Podcast Festival, we spoke to Martin Zaltz Austwick and Sarah Myles about this year’s Podcast Maker Weekend, a diverse series of podcasting workshops that runs alongside the festival this weekend. We were keen to find out how you structure a virtual event in the time of a pandemic, and how you...

Historically and socially speaking, a lot of the media covering sports like football is saturated with male voices – resulting in women who have an interest in the sport not being taken seriously and are often subjected to misogynistic abuse by disgruntled male fans. While this is not a problem that can be easily solved solely through greater representation of...

“Where do I begin?!” We’ve all asked ourselves this question before when starting something new, and whenever we at Pod Bible interview hosts and producers from podcasts, we always try to give our readers a point of entry, whether it’s episode 1 or an episode the creators feel is their strongest. The problem is, we can’t interview everyone (though we...

Josh Shreeve’s podcast What’s In the Bag? explores music memorabilia and nostalgia with a host of wonderful guests. But at a time when live music events have come to a screeching halt, we asked Josh about how the year 2020 will look to music fans in the future, and the current importance of exploring our own music-related adventures of years long gone....

Amidst challenging times for us all globally, Louise Jenkins is a firm believer in the power of positivity. While we navigate working from home alongside families and roommates, or finding ourselves out of work entirely, it’s important to channel happiness and remain connected, wherever and however we can. One of Louise’s favorite ways is listening to podcasts, particularly those created,...

In honour of their 5th anniversary, we asked the twisted minds behind CheapShow to tell us their tale, how they came to be, what their fans mean to them, and how the current pandemic is affecting their work. Naturally, when we asked them for a story, we got more than we bargained for. To cut a long story short, I’d...

Amidst challenging times for us all globally, Louise Jenkins is a firm believer in the power of positivity. While we navigate working from home alongside families and roommates, or finding ourselves out of work entirely, it’s important to channel happiness and remain connected, wherever and however we can. One of Louise’s favorite ways is listening to podcasts, particularly those created,...

Our friends at the British Board of Film Classification are sharing some background on the latest episode of the the BBFC Podcast, including a look into how films are moving to the at-home streaming experience during the lockdown, and how their team is producing the show remotely. Life has changed completely since restrictions were brought in to combat coronavirus, but lockdown has...