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THIS WEEKS GUESTS
Stars In Your Ears • Acast • Spotify
90 Minutes Or Less Film Fest • Apple Podcasts • Spotify
THIS WEEKS RECOMMENDATIONS
Abroad In Japan • Acast • Spotify
UnErased • Apple Podcasts • Spotify
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]]>Chris Broad created his multi-award winning YouTube channel Abroad In Japan after moving to Japan to work as an English teacher in 2012. In the 8 years since its inception, Abroad In Japan has amassed over 2 million subscribers. Pete Donaldson, a co-owner of podcast production company Stakhanov, met Chris when he interviewed him for his radio show. Already a fan of the channel, Pete joined forces with Chris and the podcast was born in 2018. Since then, the podcast has pulled in over 11.5 million listens. Abroad In Japan is currently the only Stakhanov show that does not record on-premise, offering a unique set of production challenges – from the logistical to the very technical. As broadcasters have been forced to adapt to lockdown restrictions, remote recording has become an art of its own – one that Chris and Pete have long had to master.
What is your remote recording set-up?
C: Once Pete convinced me we should do the podcast, I snapped up a Rode NT1A condenser mic and that’s been my set up for 3 years now! We started out having a Skype call and recording our audio locally then mixing it together, and these days we use a service called Zencastr which does it for us. While most of the episodes are recorded from my apartment, the beauty of doing our podcast remotely is I can stick the microphone in my backpack and record from wherever I am. For example, last week I was in Tokyo for a meeting and I was able to record from my hotel room!
How have you had to adapt the show in the face of the pandemic?
C: Given both Pete and I are sitting in rooms 8,000km away, we’ve actually not had to change anything since the pandemic started. On the contrary, our setup has helped us weather the storm better than other podcasts, I think, which have had to quickly adapt and abandon the comfort of their recording studios. We could never have envisaged our setup would prepare us for a situation of this scale.
P: Yeah, to be honest, I’ve mainly been rolling with Chris’s schedule. Being in Japan, he’s had a lot more capacity to get out and about. While London’s been in lockdown, Chris has been all over the place – I’m well jealous!
C: For the three years we’ve been recording, Pete has recorded in London and I’ve recorded in Japan. Typically we record on Tuesday at around 6 pm Japan time and 10 am for Pete back in the UK, with both of us hunched over a cup of coffee! Still, my favourite episodes are the ones where Pete visits Japan and we get to record face to face. Hopefully, we can make it happen again in 2021!
What are some of the challenges of recording remotely?
C: Although I have the benefit of being able to host the podcast on the go, the downside is that it can take extra hard work to make sure Pete and I sound natural despite the distance. In the early days when using Skype, there could be a delay of a second or so which could lead to awkward pauses, most of which we removed in post-production.
P: I’m with Chris! Whereas most people featured in these pages will be painfully aware of the limitations and challenges when it comes to recording shows in homemade insulated tents made of duvets and blankets, we’ve been wrestling with the best way to record remotely since the beginning. Our biggest adversary is latency. We’ve had to find our rhythm over the last three years as London to Sendai is quite the distance for VOIP!
C: Yeah – it’s incredible to think we’ve recorded over 150 episodes in this exact format for the past 3 years. But it’s worked surprisingly well and many of our listeners early on mistakenly thought we were in the same room recording together.
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Stakhanov produces podcasts that entertain and inform, including some of the UK’s biggest and most popular shows – boasting a combined 4 million monthly listens and over 45 years of podcasting experience. Whether recording remotely or in our broadcast-grade London studio, we specialise in every stage of the podcasting process. To find out more or get in touch, visit our website at stakhanov.studio!
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Each week, guest writer Joe Ducarreaux picks out his recent podcast highlights in an effort to provide yet more wonderful content for your ears. Joe is an avid podcast listener who has been known to listen to over 40 episodes in just one week. To be honest we’re surprised he found time to write this column…
THIS WEEKS MUST LISTEN:
ABROAD IN JAPAN
This week’s recommendation is inspired by my lifelong desire to visit the Land of the Rising Sun. I subscribed to this podcast when it first debuted last year and dip in and out where my pangs to visit the East fluctuate. Celebrated YouTuber, Chris Broad, discusses different parts of Japanese culture each week, with veteran podcast host and Absolute Radio presenter Pete Donaldson. Topics range from customs, traditions and etiquette; to Chris’ mammoth cycle across Japan and the sights he discovers along the way. Chris and Pete’s affability and chemistry shines through in their light-hearted discussions and they surely convince everyone that Japan is an absolute must-see destination. The podcast is a supplement to the also excellent Abroad in Japan YouTube channel, which features incredible editing, in-depth features and high-quality photography. An absolute must listen to lovers of travel and, of course, all things Japanese.
EPISODES WORTH A DOWNLOAD:
FILMS TO BE BURIED WITH – #34 RUSSIAN DOLL’S LESLYE HEADLAND
Brett doesn’t know this, but he has accompanied me to every Thursday night weekly trip to Tesco ever since he launched his amazing podcast. In Episode 33, (Chris Hewitt) Brett set us the homework of watching brand new Netflix show Russian Doll before listening to his discussion with one of the shows’ creators Leslye Headland and it is pretty much essential that you do so before listening to this. What follows is an in-depth critique of the show as a whole before discussing its finer points and nuances and I adored it. Leslye is one of the most intelligent people I’ve ever had the pleasure of hearing discussing cinema and genuinely introduced me to concepts that hadn’t ever entered my psyche before (in much the same way that Dane Baptiste had way back in episode 23). This conversation is a shining example of why podcasts must exist. Listen on Spotify
THE EVOLUTION OF HORROR – FOLK PT 16 – GREEN ROOM & GET OUT
This one is quite niche. I’ve been in love with horror films since I was a teenager and devour the latest scary releases. With each series, host Mike Muncer looks back on key texts within different sub-genres of horror; his second series featuring Folk Horror. Discussion topics include classics such as The Wicker Man, but in this conversation with fellow film critic (and other half!) Rhianna Dillon, they dissect (appropriate verb) the recent hits Green Room and Get Out. As with Films To Be Buried With, the joy for me is hearing the minutiae of each texts’ key successes, with particular attention to the script of Get Out, which they discover holds more than one meaning with every single line. Green Room is held under the microscope within the social context of the rise of the Far Right and the approach of Trump’s America. Films truly give back to us what we bring to them. Listen on Acast
Joe Ducarreaux is a podcast host, film enthusiast and gardener. For more of his ineffectual and disposable opinions, you can listen to him here or follow him on Twitter and Instagram.
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