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Merry Christmas from the Pod Bible Team! We’ve once again pulled together a list of some of the best podcast Christmas specials in 2022. From Christmas film rewatching to the history of the holiday, we have enough shows to keep your preparations podcasty. Whatever you may be up to this Christmas break, we hope that the Bank Holiday allows you...

It’s the holiday season, and we’re not just talking about Christmas. December and January are host to a number of other religious and cultural celebrations. We’ve made a playlist of podcast episodes about winter holidays, including Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Chinese New Year and the ancient holiday of Saturnalia… Whether you’re celebrating these holidays yourself or simply want to learn more about...

How do we make podcasting futureproof? What needs to be done to challenge the industry to innovate and produce daring content? In this new column titled “Revelations”, Meera Kumar pokes and prods the audio industry and its creations to reveal the shows worth listening to and their place in the zeitgeist… Much like a cockerel can tell when the morning...

Did you ever notice the Pod Bible tagline on our magazines: “The Essential Guide to Podcasts”? Our aim has always been to be a hub for podcast fans to enjoy engaging content – and that’s because from our Founders, to our Freelancers, we are podcast fans through and through. So when we started thinking about the obligatory End of Year...

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Kathi Kamleitner is a Glasgow-based author, podcaster and travel expert. She brings us some of her favourite Scottish-based podcasts for St Andrew’s day (and beyond!)… Ever since Mel Gibson as William Wallace riled up his army of blue-faced Highlanders by shouting “Freedom”, the world has been infatuated with Scotland. It’s OK – you can admit that you liked the movie,...

The star of our October release, Brett Goldstein is also a television star on Apple TV’s Ted Lasso. However, over the past four years of his podcast, Films to be Buried With, he has also become a podcasting darling. So much so that other podcasters want him on their shows! You may have caught up on the show’s backlog, or...

Celebrating podcasters is a common occurrence, but in this modern world being a solid, grade-A guest is something that needs celebrating. He might have recently been announced as the host of the Pod Save The UK, but our Podcast Prophet from Issue #005 of the magazine was Nish Kumar… Nish is someone that truly knows how to talk. From panel...

As anyone who’s kept themself awake into the wee hours thinking about all 300,000 ways that tomorrow’s meeting/exam/flight/trip to Morrison’s could go wrong, there’s little scarier than whatever your brain can rustle up on its own. That’s one reason why spooky podcasts work so well. Without special effects, latex masks or wringing out an eighth sequel from some IP that...

Each issue of Pod Bible magazine, our partners Audible bring you a round-up of the best Audible Original Podcasts their members are loving, and press are buzzing about too. Without further ado, here’s The Holy Grail of listener favourites, from Issue #023 of the magazine… French & Saunders: Titting About 3 In the third series of their smash hit show, Dawn and...

October is Black History Month in the UK, and we decided to dedicate The Old Testament section of our latest magazine to it. Check out these 7 classic episodes from the podcast archives exploring Black history. In Search of Black History with Bonnie Greer Ep. 1 // Bones Do Not Lie // Dec 2019 Bonnie Greer’s eight-part exploration of stories...

It’s now 60 years since Sean Connery first cocked an eyebrow and introduced himself to Sylvia Trench and the world at large as Bond – James Bond. Twenty-five films and $5 billion in box office takings later, he and his franchise are at an intriguingly poised point. With casting for a brand new Bond still in its early stages, a...

Check out our Spotify playlist featuring recommended podcasts from the latest Pod Bible magazine!

Vice beats shared some of his personal favourite Hip Hop podcasts last month, but he couldn’t quite fit in all the hip hop adjacent podcasts that were worth a mention, so we gave him some more space! Even if they don’t quite fit the criteria for my favourite shows, there’s a variety of hip hop related podcast that are most...

When lockdown hit, Hajar J. Woodland didn’t just lose her income, she felt like she’d lost her voice. Here, she writes about how podcasting has helped her find it again… About a year before the pandemic, I made the very sensible decision of spending all my savings on a creative writing master’s. Despite a long freelance career that straddled the...