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A look at "Storypunk," one British television writer's gambit to make this a thing across the pond.

On Tuesday night, at a glitzy event on London’s South Bank, there was a launch party for the BBC’s biggest product launch in a decade. The app in question, BBC Sounds, is intended to be a single location for all audio output from the corporation — radio, podcasts, music, archive material. Execs have been doing the media rounds all week, talking up the significance of this moment.

The BBC digital radio station recently picked up the women-of-colour-led conversational podcast.  It's a smart move.

BBC Radio 3 parties with ASMR.

Some things change, some things stay the same.

James Purnell, the BBC's Director of Radio and Education, raises the need for a UK podcast chart.

An uncertain rollout leads to bigger questions about the role of the public broadcaster in an on-demand audio world.