They recently announced that The Race F1 Podcast will be playing their 1st live show at Pod Live in London, in February, with Formula One pit-lane reporter Ted Kravitz as their guest.

We caught up with Jonathan to talk about motorsports, Pod Live and facing a live audience…

Tell us about The Race F1 Podcast and how you got involved?

The Race Media launched in 2020 with the aim of creating the best motorsport content in the world – and our F1 podcast was one of the first pillars. We love podcasting as a medium because it’s such a great way to connect fans quickly and conveniently with the information that matters, with very few constraints. If important news breaks, wherever our journalists are in the world, they can grab their mics and we can have a podcast out within hours. I joined the company in early 2022, having spent 9 years working for Formula 1, where I developed the company’s audio strategy and launched and produced several long-running podcasts, including F1: Beyond The Grid and F1 Nation, as well as the documentary series F1 On The Edge. I’m incredibly proud that those podcasts are still going strong, but it’s been great fun helping to develop a different suite of content.

The Race Media shows covers a range of motorsports – Formula 1, MotoGP, Indycar and Formula E – which discipline is your current favourite to cover?

Our mission statement is to super-serve the motorsport super fan, so we take great pride in covering each of these championships. With F1 being the pinnacle of the sport, and rapidly increasing in popularity, I naturally spend a lot of my time working across our F1 content. We feel we have something for everyone, with our flagship show The Race F1 Podcast offering news and analysis from expert journalists on the ground at races, our F1 Tech Show lifting the lid on the amazing world of F1 technology, and Bring Back V10s offering fans a nostalgia trip back to an era when the sport was loud on and off track. Completing our F1 set we also have our sister show, The WTF1 Podcast, which is made for fans, by fans and gets right to the heart of F1 fan culture.

We hear Pod Live will be your first live event. What can the audience expect from the show?

We want to retain all of the elements listeners would expect from the podcast normally – informed opinion, insider knowledge, bad jokes! – but with another, extra special layer on top. Ted Kravitz, Sky Sports F1’s pit lane reporter, is joining regulars Edd Straw and Scott Mitchell-Malm for the event, so the audience can expect some rarely heard behind-the-scenes tales, as well as a few interactive elements that will remain a secret for now!

What are you looking forward to most about podcasting in front of an audience?

Listener questions often drive the direction of conversation on the podcast, but we’re really excited about the opportunity to connect more personally with our listeners, and to be able to present to them something a bit different and special. Our hosts record shows across the world as they follow the F1 circus from country to country, so it’ll be a real treat to have the chance to look an audience in the eye and answer questions face to face. At the end of the day, we’re all F1 fans, so it will be great to be in a room full of like-minded people, especially at a time of year when most people are craving the start of the season!

Which of the other podcasts appearing at Pod Live are you most excited about seeing?

As a huge cycling fan and avid listener to The Cycling Podcast, it has to be Daniel Friebe and the gang. I love the approach they’ve taken to podcasting over the years, from their day-to-day coverage of Grand Tours to the more documentary orientated episodes they put out. I’m looking forward to seeing what they do on the day!

Pod Live is a Sport Podcast Festival held at Kings Place in Kings Cross London between February 8^th and 12^th. Featuring Fighting Talk, Socially Distant Sports Bar, The Cycling Podcast, Morning Kombat, The Race F1 Podcast and more. To buy tickets to see The Race F1 Podcast at Pod Live, click HERE

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In Hauser & Wirth London, Axel Kacoutié and Lou Mensah sit in front of a Amy Sherald painting titled “For love, and for country” (2022). The piece is part of an exhibition called The World We Make and it’s Amy’s first solo show in Europe. The piece is also the subject of ‘Interludes: Dream Recurred’, the fourth episode in the new season of the Shade Podcast, which this live podcast experience is launching.

Interludes is a collaboration between multi award-winning sound artist Axel Kacoutié and Shade, where six contemporary artists answer the question: What does healing sound like?

Lou Mensh and Axel Kacoutie. Photo credit: Kid Circus

In previous seasons of the Shade Podcast, host Lou would hold interviews between artists and herself regarding how art has moved through their life. It would result in conversations about what art means personally, but also beyond one person. A particularly harrowing season of Shade was after the Black Lives Matter protests of summer 2020 – season four reflected on how the media responded to the uprising.

Speaking to Lou before the show, she told me that though those conversations were timely, she felt that after this response the audience needed a place where they could find some sort of solace. “I just thought next season I want it to be a gift to the audience and for people who are listening, something that can hold them, comfort them and acknowledge the need for everyone just to take a step back – to take some respite and some selfcare. I just wanted to create a small space through this series with Axel that would help people do that.”

This is evident through Axel’s sonic response. At the launch, they play us a snippet of the episode ‘Dream Recurred’ – Amy discusses the piece “For love, and for country”. Her images depict Black Americans in ordinary everyday situations and also reimagines them in historical moments: This piece in particular was a recreation of the photograph VJ Day in Times Square (1945). She fondly mentions friends she cares deeply about and wanting them to be represented, and it is followed by Axel using audio of Amy simply repeating the words “love is love” – the words linger in the air and the audience take them in. After sitting in comfortable silence for some seconds, Axel explains why the use of repetition not only emphasises the statement but reminds us how grounding the listening experience can be.

Credit : Amy Sherald ‘For love, and for country.’ 2022

“I feel like there’s a lot that the body and ear can do and need and I wanted to speak to that intuitive response,” they continue, “to follow how sound and music works to encourage and evoke a stillness,” a stillness that is often difficult to find in podcasting.

Lou talked briefly about how as the Producer she broke the housekeeping rules of podcasting – there is no traditional intro and outro, no break for ads and sponsors. Lou wanted all of that removed, “I wanted it to be an audio but also a physical and an emotional space to rest. For people to just relax. In audio there’s a lot of talk, a lot of chat, there’s a lot of fast energy. There’s a lot of slick audio making but I feel like it misses that capacity to hold people emotionally. I just felt like it was something I would try and do.” I felt like this approach of break in structure from Lou and these moments of quietness and minimalism for Axel worked well together – healing itself is such a nuanced and deeply personal topic; it is never linear therefore giving the listener a moment of reflection and breaking tradition feels just.

For those who have been listening to Shade for a while, you may remember the first glimpse of collaboration between Axel and Lou was the final episode of the 2021 four-part series of conversations exploring anti-racism in the arts, co-curated by Shade and Convergence. They’ve wanted to work together since, both confirming that it had been a year long process to get Interludes made. However, to add a timeline to projects like these is reductive. In some of the Interludes episodes, the sounds Axel used draw inspiration from projects that were made ten years ago, “It’s all part of the healing process that being able to give life to things that you thought would never see the light of day,” Lou adds, “I’ve been working in the arts for nearly 30 years so there is no way that all the things I’ve experienced and been a part of, have not been a part of this series because they have, so it’s a lifelong process of memories and inspirations.”

This project was as much for the creators as it is for the listener.

Listen to Interludes on The Shade Podcast now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and other popular podcast apps.

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At the London Podcast Festival, the cast of Drunk Women Solving Crime (Hannah George, Catie Wilkins and Taylor Glenn) and RedHanded (Hannah Maguire and Suruthi Bala) head to the stage with bottles of Waitrose-branded Cava. This is the second time the shows have collaborated so there is already a deep familiarity with each other and their sense of humour. The ladies pour Cava into their glasses, ready to tackle some mysteries.

Since 2018, the three hosts of Drunk Women Solving Crime have gathered to solve true crimes that are a bit more lighthearted than the usual calibre of misdemeanours. Plus, every guest must present a personal crime that the team must solve together.

Tonight, they begin by inviting Suruthi Bala to share a story from her university days: the strange disappearance of her notebook with crucial notes from lectures, as well as a distinct pair of shoes she found at a stranger’s house… Suruthi’s story goes on for some time, with each extra detail making the case more intriguing. In the end, the team reckon it was the rival flat of girls below Suruthi as revenge for her disrupting their partying activities. It’s good fun and gets the audience warmed up to the true crime we are about to dissect.

The case is that of Helen Hullick, who was arrested for repeatedly wearing trousers when testifying in court. Host Taylor Glenn is fairly arbitrary in the rules of the game. She begins a sentence about the story but then leaves a pause for Team Drunk Women or Team Redhanded to guess what happened next. Most of the scores are dished out for who made the funniest quips rather than legitimate guessing (though the two sometimes came hand-in-hand).

This section of the show has a good balance of an intriguing story, whilst also having the air of a bunch of friends having fun and making each other laugh, which is infectious. The audience feel welcome to contribute their guesses, which is welcomed by the teams on stage, and we are even granted a point! When it comes to wrapping up this segment, Team Drunk Women and Team Redhanded call it a draw, because it doesn’t really matter who won, but instead it was about sharing this fascinating story.

Now it’s time for an audience member to share a story. The chosen storyteller is the sister of someone who previously submitted a ‘true crime’ for the team to solve (which if you hadn’t listened to the show you might not understand). This segment ends rather succinctly, as Taylor’s now keen to keep to time, but it leaves room for some extra jokes and funny misunderstandings.

The audience members who were familiar with the shows had had the Drunk Women/Redhanded fix they wanted, and laughed alongside the cast. There were a number of people who had not listened to either podcast featured, but this felt like a show where it was not necessary to have done the research. The structure was clear, the story of Helen Hullick was engaging, and the comedy left the audience feeling satisfied, with their spirits lifted.

Before we leave, Taylor shares all the achievements Helen Hullick went on to do as a way to celebrate a fantastic woman who always advocated for fairness and equality. I think about how the show was a fun way to dissect the way the patriarchy can be needlessly inconvenient, and the fantastic ways women hit back with their stubbornness.

Listen to Drunk Women Solve Crime on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and other popular podcast apps.

Listen to RedHanded on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and other popular podcast apps.

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To celebrate the launch of Issue #018 of Pod Bible magazine, Scroobius Pip and Adam Richardson caught up with cover stars Dan Schreiber, Andrew Murray, James Harkin and Anna Ptaszynski from No Such Thing As A Fish! The gang discuss the pod’s support of Pod Bible, their return to live shows and podcasting during a pandemic before seeing their cover art for the first time and opening special festive gift!

– Listen to No Such Thing As A Fish here!

– Read issue #018 of Pod Bible here!

Cover illustration by Dan Evans – idrawforfood.co.uk

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The Froth with Rhod Gilbert, Sian Harries & Friends, Black Gals Livin’ and The Bugle have been added to the stellar line-up with the festival taking place from 20^th – 24^th October. All shows are being streamed live from the Unmute Podcast Festival official website. Tickets are on sale now from www.unmutepodcastfestival.com.

Check out the official press release from Plosive below!

During these Covid times, prepare to be swept away by a host of award-winning, hugely popular podcasts from some of the UK and Ireland’s most talented names in comedy and TV, all live from the comfort of your own home. The line-up consists of some of the highest charting podcasts in the UK including Off Menu with Ed Gamble and James Acaster, The Adam Buxton Podcast, Nobody Panic, Cuddle Club with Lou Sanders, Films To Be Buried With with Brett Goldstein, The Blindboy Podcast, The Froth with Rhod Gilbert, Sian Harries & Friends, Black Gals Livin’ and The Bugle.

Ben Williams, founder of Plosive Productions and Unmute, said: “Podcasts have been a source of comfort and company for many of us during this strange ol’ year, with more people listening than ever. And with live performances only just starting up again, we wanted to give podcast fans a fun way to feel part of a live podcast experience again – so we’ve launched an Online Podcast Festival. We couldn’t be more chuffed with the line-up.”

 Ed Gamble from Off Menu said: “We’re looking forward to bringing Off Menu live and uncut to the internet, mainly because it means that The Great Benito can’t edit out James’s Diet Coke story.”

 Stevie Martin from Nobody Panic added: “We are so psyched about doing Nobody Panic live online. Not only does it give us an opportunity to get changed out of our pyjamas, but we will both be enjoying fine brandies throughout. Very excited to announce our super special guest too (it’s not the fine brandies) (or 90s pop sensation Brandy).”

Tickets for Unmute: The Online Podcast Festival are on sale now from www.unmutepodcastfestival.com

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