MEET THE PRODUCER

What happens when you turn the process of documentary making inside out and purposely bend the rules? Well according to Radiotopia’s Shocking, Heartbreaking, Transformative, boundaries get blurred, mistakes proceed and lessons are learnt. Those familiar with nonfiction audio documentary maker Jess Shane, may know her as the producer of BBC 4 Lights Out: Accounts and Accountability which explored the ethics...

Stak’s Head of Narrative, Nicky Anderson talks about how she’s gone from producing her first narrative documentary to becoming one of the sequel’s on-show investigators in Archive: The World’s Hardest Puzzle. In January 2012, a message appeared on 4Chan, the anarchic online messaging board which had become a playground for hackers and conspiracy theorists alike: “Hello. We are looking for...

What goes on behind the scenes of a podcast production company? We want to bring the people behind the podcasts out of their editing bays and research caves to tell you why they’re passionate about creating podcasts…  It’s been eight months since the winners of Content is Queen’s 2022 Micro-Grants for Podcasters Programme were announced, and we are starting to...

What goes on behind the scenes of a podcast production company? We want to bring the people behind the podcasts out of their editing bays and research caves to tell you why they’re passionate about creating podcasts…  Today we’re learning more about Alex Jungius, Director of  This Is Distorted, a multi-award winning content agency with audio at its heart. The...

The Pod Bible gang wanted to bring podcast producers out from their editing bays and research caves to tell you why they’re passionate about creating podcasts… A couple of weeks ago, I suggested Pilot Season 2023 as the ‘New Pod of the Week’ in our newsletter. But it’s not quite accurate to call it a ‘pod’ given that Pilot Season...

It’s hard trying to find time to do anything when you’re on the road. A busy touring schedule, hustling from town to town, city to city, it’s certainly a gruelling business. Thankfully, podcasts have become an accessible medium to help pass the time… so when Franz Ferdinand bassist, Bob Hardy, paired up his love of podcasts with a prior idea...

The Pod Bible gang wanted to bring podcast producers out from their editing bays and research caves to tell you why they’re passionate about creating podcasts… Despite having no children to listen with, I’ve recently stormed through the catalogue of creation stories pulled together on In The Beginning. The show is made with children in mind (and with children in...

What goes on behind the scenes of a podcast production company? In Issue #022 we learned more about one of the Producers Behind Stak. The Football Ramble has been at the centre of football podcasting across the world for 15 years. What started out as four blokes sitting round a kitchen table with a minidisc player has grown into a...

Here at Pod Bible, we really like to bring podcast producers out from their editing bays and research caves to tell you why they’re passionate about creating podcasts. I recently spoke to Sean Douglas for the Pod Bible Podcast about the National Trust podcast. But we couldn’t fit the whole conversation into the show! So here is the full interview,...

The Pod Bible gang wanted to bring podcast producers out from their editing bays and research caves to tell you why they’re passionate about creating podcasts. Today, we’re meeting Danni Haughan, Head of Development at Small Wardour, a new production company focused on family podcasts. Can you tell us the origins of Small Wardour – what drew you to this...

What goes on behind the scenes of a podcast production company? In Issue #021 we learned more about one of the Producers Behind Stak. Stak is the bold, irreverent podcast company that is serious about creating quality audio. We are the creators of some of the UK’s favourite shows and entertain millions of people across the world. Katie Baxter is...

What does it mean to produce a podcast? The Pod Bible gang wanted to bring podcast producers out from their editing bays and research caves to tell you why they’re passionate about creating podcasts. Today, we’re meeting Tom Fordyce, Creative Director and in-house presenter at Crowd Network... I hear that the Crowd Network team jokingly call you the Podfather! And...

What does it mean to produce a podcast? The Pod Bible gang wanted to bring podcast producers out from their editing bays and research caves to tell you why they’re passionate about creating podcasts. Today, we’re meeting Kobi Omenaka, to find out what it takes to produce award-winning, forward-thinking pop culture podcasts for the Stripped Media network… So, tell us...

Crowd Network is an audio-on-demand network on a mission to become Europe’s largest podcast network. Founded in September 2020 by x-BBCers Mike Carr, Louise Gwilliam, Steve Jones, Tom Fordyce, the team is now celebrating its first year in business, having created and launched some incredible shows in that time, including Murder in House Two, The Joe Marler Show and We...

If you’ve read the New Podcasts To Listen To In July article, you will have seen one podcast that has really pushed the boat out with the immensity of the project. THAT PODCAST is a magazine-style podcast that features more than 100 collaborators, with 23 commissions, performances from some of the UK’s most exciting names, and testimonies from the public....