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If there’s one thing we know podcasts do really well, it’s getting deep into topics that may seem niche from the outside. Alex Lopategui takes a look at 5 podcast about sneakers…  Whether you’ve battled the elements queuing outside the sneaker store overnight awaiting a release or you simply know who Joe La Puma is, being a sneaker head is...

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

Christmas is brilliant. It really is good, you know. Glad tidings, warm fuzzy feelings, goodwill to all, an excuse to sit down for a good couple of weeks if you want to, a whole new on-the-go sandwich landscape to explore. It’s all good. But however brilliant your Christmas is or isn’t, at some point you’ll be overcome with the urge...

Though they split up more than half a century ago, The Beatles have rarely been busier. Between Disney’s new three-part fly-on-the-studio-wall documentary The Beatles: Get Back, Paul McCartney’s own doc McCartney 3, 2, 1 and an expansive repackage of their last album, Let It Be, there’s been a lot of Beatles about in the last six months. One of the...

Of all the things to make a podcast about, you’d think food would be one of the trickiest. You can’t do lingering shots of a nicely turned-out Bakewell tart like on the telly, and the fun of finding out about new, delicious stuff you’ve never encountered before shouldn’t work without knowing roughly what it smells and tastes like. And yet,...

Each issue of Pod Bible magazine, our partners Audible bring you a round-up of the 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 #017 of the magazine… TITTING ABOUT Comedy legends French & Saunders return for a second series of their smash hit podcast....

From creative striking to bone-crunching haymakers, intricate groundwork to face-pommeling blows, combat sports have you on the edge of your seats. With the recent meteoric rise of the UFC (which sold for just over $4 billion dollars in 2016 and pay-per-view fights exceeding hundreds of millions of dollars on the night) combat sports has never been in a better place...

For many years “just one more game mum” was probably the most disappointing thing a parent could hear, however, the tables have now turned! A successful career in Esports now sees players on salaries not far shy of a premier league football player. Twitch was bought by Amazon in August 2014 and has now become the largest video game streaming...

The scariest night of the year is here! If you’re a horror enthusiast, the chances are you’ve listened to some of our suggestions of 6 Spooky podcasts to get ready for Halloween already. But never fear, we’ve put together a whole host of episodes to frighten even the toughest souls tonight. Embark on our auditory horror rollercoaster from spine-chilling paranormal...

Black history shouldn’t be confined to one month, it should be celebrated and uplifted throughout the year. So as Black History Month comes to a close, we’ve created the Pod Bible Black History playlist to further inform you on history in the UK and around the world. We hope it helps you find podcasts that narrate the unrecounted nuances of...

If you’re after an audience with the undead, podcasts are the ideal medium. Sorry. But puns aside, they really are. The magic of hearing a ghost story isn’t in what’s being said as such, but in the images being conjured up. Your brain is capable of forming terrors far more terrible than anything you could actually see, and around the...

Unless you have been hiding under a rock over the past couple years you will have heard of crypto. Essentially they are decentralised currencies meaning records of transactions are not kept by governing bodies. It is protected by cryptography and therefore untraceable. From teenage millionaires to market crashes the journey has just begun! Will governments find ways to regulate them...

Hands up: who’s ever felt like a podcast has kept them company during their alone time? Whether it’s during a long solitary walk or while cooking for one, listening to a podcast is sometimes the halfway house between taking time to yourself and feeling in touch with your fellow humans – without the need for direct interaction. And there’s research...

Creativity is a phenomenon. One seemingly reserved for musicians, actors and painters alike. The ones that lift the little hairs on your arms and make everything else seem a little less ominous. It’s elusive, impossible to label and highly sought after but what if I told you; you’ve already accessed it? Yes, the same mythical ether you praise so highly...

This time of year marks the youngest in society sharpening their pencils and readying their books for a new year of education. However, for most of us, these days the bell we hear on Monday mornings tends to be our wretched iPhone alarm clock signalling the start of our work week. But education never truly stops. Whether it’s learning a...