GENERAL INTERVIEW

Creativity Found is an interview podcast where Claire Waite Brown talks with creatives who FOUND – or re-found – their CREATIVITY as adults. From visual, written and performing arts,  the show explores what it is that people value and gain from their new-found artistic experiences, and how their creative lives enrich their practical, necessary, everyday lives. Now with more than...

Sports Horn is a collaboration between comedy duo The Exploding Heads and the team behind The Football Ramble, it’s an incisive parody of testosterone-fuelled sports radio. This is the Behind Stak column from Issue #023 of the magazine. The Ian Fiveankles Breakfast Show has just launched on Sports Horn, the UK’s third most talked about Sports Radio network. Co-host Anthony...

Happy Halloween! If you’re still seeking some truly frightening shows to spook you tonight, don’t forget to check out our pick of spooky podcasts for your Halloween listening. But if you’re after some Halloween listening that doesn’t take itself too seriously, there’s a new show out today that might hit the spot. Ghoul Guide is a hilarious exploration of the supernatural...

Andrew Steven’s Trail Weight is a show that ticks a lot of boxes for me. Hiking – tick. Meta references to storytelling – tick. High emotional stakes – tick. Social commentary – tick. When the first season came to a very satisfying conclusion, I was sad to think I wouldn’t hear from the show again. So you can imagine how...

This is Let There Be Pod in Association with Acast. In each issue of the magazine, our partner Acast – home of the UK’s BEST podcasters – sits down for a chat with one of its creators to hear what they love about making podcasts. In this interview from Issue #023 Acast spoke with VIBE with FIVE to discuss their journey into...

Apple Podcasts and Pod Bible partnered up for a series of interviews with creators to share their stories and how they use Apple Podcast Subscriptions to connect with their fans. We connected with the Founder of award-winning podcast network Noiser, Pascal Hughes, about how subscriptions helped them grow their audience — and their revenue. Listen to Noiser on Apple Podcasts....

Whilst our new columnist makes a compelling argument for the oversaturation of True Crime, it does continue to be one of the most popular genres of podcasts.  And whilst I personally don’t listen to True Crime often, occasionally there’s a show so popular I can’t ignore. Father Wants Us Dead reached that level this summer. As well as reaching the...

We’re really keen to share the groups and individuals that are running on passion with a series of interviews highlighting the indy podcasts who made waves at the British Podcast Awards… It’s been quite the year for OUTCAST UK. It started with going viral on TikTok, and has continued with awards success for the podcast itself. It won The British...

Our series of interviews with the makers of the BBC Sounds Audio Lab shows continues with Tomi Dixon, creator of Colouring In Britain. The show imagines what Tomi’s secondary school history lessons could have been if black history was taught across the other 11 months of the year. It features interviews with cultural icons like Benjamin Zephaniah, who discusses his...

BOOM, Stak’s ground-breaking new audio drama, brings together spellbinding sound design with some of British acting’s hottest properties. From Issue #022 of the Pod Bible magazine, the Breaking Bread column from Stak spoke to writer Joel Emery… “It’s the most ambitious project we’ve tried”. That’s Joel Emery, the writer of BOOM. Launched in June, it’s the third drama that he...

We’re really keen to share the groups and individuals that are running on passion with a series of interviews highlighting the indy podcasts who made waves at the British Podcast Awards… Arguably, there was no creative medium that was curtailed so much by Covid as much as theatre was. It’s not that surprising that theatre-makers pivoted to podcasts so successfully....

The final three Audiolab 2022 podcasts from BBC Sounds have now been released! And we’re continuing with our quick-fire interview series. This time, Hamza Salmi tells us about being a long-time podcast listener, and first-time podcast maker. His series, Who Was Michael X? tells the fascinating and divisive story of the once famous black British activist who many haven’t heard of…...

The Digital Sisterhood, like many podcasts, provides its listeners with a voice for their community. The platform aims to unite women of colour and counter the pre-existing narrative on what it means to be a Muslim woman – and if their recent download milestone is anything to go by, it’s certainly doing that! We asked host and CEO, Cadar to...

This is Let There Be Pod in Association with Acast. In each issue of the magazine, our partner Acast – home of the UK’s BEST podcasters – sits down for a chat with one of its creators to hear what they love about making podcasts. In this interview from Issue #022 Acast spoke to Bijal Shah, Head of Commercial at...

The London Podcast Festival is back with a massive schedule of events kicking off this Thursday. I’m looking forward to catching some of the action at Kings Place over the next few weeks. But with such a big line-up, what do I go and see? I caught up with Zoë Jeyes, Deputy Director at Kings Place and lead programmer for...