WHY DO YOU LOVE PODCASTS?

There’s a freedom to podcasting, it’s pretty close to stand up in that respect. You can just create something and put it out, you aren’t waiting for a green light from a production company. You have control that you don’t have in other types of media, you can decide what makes the edit and what content you want to focus on. Creatively it’s quite liberating. It’s also a brilliant way to connect with an audience.

WHAT WAS THE FIRST POD YOU EVER LISTENED TO?

I think it was Cariad Lloyds brilliant podcast Griefcast. It’s a really great podcast where people chat about grief, which sounds like it might be really depressing but it’s actually quite uplifting and hopeful.

WHICH PODCASTER MAKES YOU LAUGH THE MOST?

I am very lucky that I get to do two podcasts with two brilliant comedians Tom Allen on Like Minded Friends and Maisie Adam on Big Kick Energy and they both make me laugh a lot but its probably deeply cringe to use your own podcast as an answer. I really enjoy Kathy Burke’s podcast Where There’s a Will, There’s a Wake, she always makes me laugh. I also love French and Saunders Titting About, there’s an episode where they’re chat about things that have gone wrong while touring and I was laughing so hard I was crying while driving on a
motorway. Probably not that safe to be honest.

WHICH PODCAST HAS EDUCATED YOU THE MOST?

I love Elizabeth Day’s How to Fail. She’s such a great interviewer and manages to ask quite direct and exposing questions without feeling like she’s overstepping a line. She always has such brilliant guests, every week whether you’ve heard of them or not, I always come away feeling like I have learnt something and a little bit more comfortable with my own failures.

CAN YOU RECOMMEND A SHOW OUR READERS MAY NOT HAVE HEARD OF YET?

Safe Space is a brilliant podcast hosted by friends Emma and Hester, it is a show about queer history confirming the fact that the queer community has always been around. My favourite episodes include ‘How Roman’s made the Yuletide Gay’, ‘Berlins Queer History’ and a recent episode on the Ballroom scene from its beginnings in the 1870’s. Fascinating stuff!

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Congratulations on the new show! Can you tell us what you’re most excited about with this one?

I’m most excited about Great Company is the fact that I have always loved doing interviews. Ever since I was a kid, I always wanted to have a chat show and I had a previous podcast for many years and the fact that we get to launch Great Company under my production company JamPot is so exciting and for me, it’s just about connecting. I think in this world we have become disconnected. We have become so connected that we’ve become disconnected and this podcast Great Company is about just connecting again with people and this is what I’m most excited about – learning, laughing, crying whatever it is. It’s going to be amazing.

You seem to be one of the most prolific podcasters in the UK – where do you get your ideas?

That’s very kind I don’t think I am. I just think for me that podcasting is an amazing place where you can vomit creativity and I really sort of think fortune favours the brave if that’s a saying and I think that just trying stuff is just so fun and that’s why I just love doing podcasting. Just trying stuff which is amazing.

As our Podcast Disciple back in Issue 10 of the mag, you said “this is just the start of audio”. What do you think has changed since 2020?

I think podcasting is completely 360 now. Podcasting used to just be audio really and a little bit of visual and now it’s so much more than that. And I think people also realise that podcasting has changed where it used to be a conversation between two people but actually I think podcasting is going to go more to format based and people are going to focus on formats in podcasting rather than talent led so I am think there are lots of changes. I think that’s the main change.

What do you hope to see in the next 5 years of audio and podcasting?

What I hope to see in the next 5 years, is I think loads of people come into it which is a good thing and a bad thing. I think in the next 5 years, it’s going to become a really great space and it’s going to be really premium content, really good content, and really considered content and that’s what I’m really excited about that I think you have to make really great stuff and I think in the next 5 years, we’re going to see really amazing things being made in this audio space.

Lastly – there are lots of podcast events happening this year to keep you busy, any you think listeners should join you at?

Oh my god, well we’re doing a festival called Crossed Wires Festival which will be amazing. We are having a NewlyWeds tour which is very exciting. We’ve got The Podcast Show which will be incredible and I think listeners should definitely go to that if they want to learn about podcasting. And also, the British Podcast Awards happens every single year and if listeners can go to that, then go to that as well. That’s what I would say. Thank you so much.

Great Company with Jamie Laing is available now on all podcast providers. Tune into Going Home with Vick, Katie and Jamie on Radio 1, Monday to Thursday, 3.30pm – 6pm.

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Daniel, why do you love podcasts?

Well most of the podcasts I listen to are conversations with people about a bunch of the things I’m super interested in, mainly occult, esoteric and conspiracy type stuff. Haha. Magick and tinfoil hats for the most part. I think people would expect me to listen to music pods, but I’ve got that covered in everything I do for Radio 1 and with Someone Who Isn’t Me.

Generally, most of the esoteric stuff is kinda fringe and can be a bit starchy, so when I find a great podcast host who knows what’s up then
I get stoked on it. But, as far as what I love about DOING a podcast, I’m into sitting down with people I find inspiring and asking them about their work and how they approach the creative process. How they might view that in a wider more spiritual sense. I also kind of use it as a means of becoming friends or often better friends with the guests I have. I love the idea that I can do an episode that has a totally different conversation with someone like Marilyn Manson or Maynard James Keenan or Laura Jane Grace than they would have talking about their latest album or book with someone else. That’s the fun of it. It also gives me an excuse to paint portraits of people I like without coming across as too much of a creepy weirdo.

What was the first podcast you ever listened to?

I guess it was probably something like The Joe Rogan Experience. The first pod I really remember was episode 666 of his, where he had Duncan Trussell as a guest. That conversation blew my mind, made me laugh a bunch and I became a fan of Duncan Trussell’s Family Hour straight away.

Which podcaster makes you laugh the most?

One of my regular listens is Last Podcast On The Left and those dudes are really funny, Henry Zebrowski is always so out of order, I love it. But to be honest, recently the one that makes me laugh most is Craig Reynolds who’s pod is The Downbeat. It’s mainly a drum podcast, but he’s super funny. Definitely got a Ricky Gervais kinda thing with his humour. If Ricky was obsessed with blast beats, the band Tool, weightlifting and a dog called Luna.

Which podcast has educated you the most?

I think Gordon White’s pod Rune Soup is great. He’s very smart, very well read, a brilliant interviewer and he’s totally cool with subjects that can come across as mad pretentious, so to be very matter of fact and down to earth about paranormal / UFO / mystical subjects is great. So yeah, Gordon and Jason Louv from Ultra Culture is where I get all my book list tips from.

Can you recommend a podcast that our readers may not have heard of?

So aside from all the ones I mentioned already (and Someone Who Isn’t Me obviously), I guess The Higher Side Chats has some pretty interesting guests. To be honest though, I do have to pick and choose with that one because some of it is the craziest conspiracy stuff and it ends up making me scream at the podcast and I have to turn it off. But there’s definitely good stuff in there. Also I got way into Emil Amos’ Drifters Sympathy when it first started. I kinda skipped the episodes when he spoke about some obscure music scene and binged all the episodes when he talks about his life when he was growing up as he has got the maddest stories. Like proper David Lynch vibes.

Someone Who Isn’t Me features Daniel talking to artists about music, art, culture and the esoteric. He presents The Rock Show on BBC Radio 1 every Sunday from 7pm-10pm and is also the curator of The Pit at Reading & Leeds Festivals. Listen now on ACAST, SPOTIFY or your favourite podcast app.

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Why do you love podcasts?

They make a squished train journey or an airport delay far more bearable. They keep you company during a sleepless night or a mentally trying time. They showed me ideas and voices and stories I’d otherwise never know about. They brought me together with people all over the world, virtually and really. They gave me a living where I can do what I want, no permission or commissioners required. They forced me to do the best I can, creatively and intellectually. They’re free to hear.

What was the first podcast you ever listened to?

Before I started podcasting in 2007, the only podcast I had heard was couple of episodes of Adam and Joe’s XFM Show. I didn’t actually start listening to podcasts until about a year into making podcasts myself, when my brother gave me an iPod for Christmas in return for babysitting his daughter while he played football on Tuesdays. The first podcast I listened to that wasn’t a rebroadcast radio show, but was made specifically as a podcast, was probably the late lamented Guardian’s Media Talk.

Which podcaster makes you laugh the most?

I rarely listen to funny shows, but in person, Hrishikesh Hirway of Song Exploder and The West Wing Weekly makes me laugh. On his shows he seems so cool – which he is, frankly he lives a dream life – but behind the scenes he’s a big goofball with an extreme aptitude for puns. I hate puns, but I have to appreciate the artistry. My brother Andy also makes me laugh on and off The Bugle, but he’s a comedian so if he didn’t, he would be bad at his job.

Which podcast has educated you the most?

99% Invisible made me see the world differently, and think about things I’d never consciously thought about before. Even when episodes are on topics I thought I knew about, they’d bring a whole new perspective. The show also taught me how to make a different kind of podcast to what I knew: chopping up an interview to create a narrative; dropping in links after; trying to make listeners feel feelings whilst delivering a dose of information; making a factual show that’s very unlike how Radio 4 would do it. My original pitch for The Allusionist was “99% Invisible but about language”.

Can you recommend a podcast our reader may not have heard of?

Mostly Lit is a podcast I’m actually jealous of! They’re so smart and well-read and witty; their brains are just lightning-fast. I’m also jealous of Imaginary Advice, because it’s so amazingly written and conceptualised and delivered. It is unlike any other podcast out there. I only started listening to 10 Things That Scare Me yesterday, and blew through several episodes on the bus. They’re really beautifully produced, and they’re only five minutes long. More podcasts should be only five minutes long.

You can listen to adventures in language with Helen Zaltzman on The Allusionist podcast on Acast, Spotify and all other podcast apps. Or you can hear Helen alongside Olly Mann host the award-winning podcast Answer Me This! which has been answering the world’s questions since 2007. Listen now on Acast, Spotify and all other podcasts.

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PB: Why do you love podcasts?

KT: In an age of 140 characters and ever shorter content creation I love the fact that podcasts celebrate the art of long form, uninterrupted conversation. With voice notes, texts and WhatsApp leading the way we tend to communicate these days, we’re in danger of losing the ability to talk and podcasts fly in the face of that, so long may they live and long may we continue to love eavesdropping on the way people talk.

What was the first podcast you ever listened to?

Probably Desert Island Discs, but I did that on i-player so I’m not sure that counts. Which would make Unfiltered with James O’Brien my first podcast obsession. He recorded 50 brilliant long-form interviews for Joe.com with a smorgasbord of interesting, intelligent but inherently different subjects and I was devastated when he called it a day. Thankfully he’s up and running again with Full Disclosure which is just as good. He’s a brilliant interviewer, a broadcaster who never quite gets the props he deserves in my humble opinion.

Which podcaster makes you laugh the most?

Russell Kane on Boys Don’t Cry. Why this man doesn’t have his own show in a great slot on TV is beyond me – he’s laugh your arse off funny!

Which podcast has educated you the most?

Ted Talks Ted Radio Hour, it’s a mash up of great Ted Talks, which they revisit across a theme with updated interviews and you come away knowing all kinds of wonderful things you didn’t realise you wanted to know.

Can you recommend a podcast our readers may not have heard of?

That’s the question I ask all my friends! For me, I love How To Fail with Elizabeth Day, Ctrl Alt Delete with Emma Gannon, Boys Don’t Cry and Annie Mac’s podcast, which is a truly lovely listen.

White Wine Question Time, with Kate Thornton, is the podcast that brings together three well-known friends, three bottles of wine and three thought provoking questions. Discover the friendships behind the entertainment headlines, and listen in on their conversations for a side to the celebrities you’ve never heard before. Listen to Kate Thornton’s podcast now on Acast, Spotify or all other platforms.

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