Of all the changes that podcast creators have had to grapple with over the last few months, figuring out how to adapt live shows, typically staged in theaters, for the live streaming context has to be among the most dramatic. Selling tickets for live episode tapings and associated performances has provided a solid chunk of […]

Maybe it’s my diminishing attention span, or the seemingly endless supply of available podcasts these days, but whatever the reason, I’m finding myself gravitating more and more these days towards shorter episodes whenever I’m queueing up something to listen to. And by “shorter,” I mean significantly shorter, as in under seven minutes, often under five. […]

Miranda Sawyer is one of the UK’s most high profile podcast critics, with a good write up in her weekly “radio and podcasts” column in the Observer being a highly sought-after review spot for newly launched shows. Now, like many of the rest of us, she has found her listening routine completely disrupted by the […]

I’ll be upfront about this: I have never been part of a successful non virtual book club. My friend tried to start one in a pub in Clapham, South London, in 2012; we waited all afternoon but nobody from the Facebook invite turned up so we downed the “for the table” wine ourselves and I […]