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Going Global
The BBC World Service looks to follow up Death in Ice Valley and My Indian Life.
BBC Podcasting in 2018
I think of the BBC as a huge, old-fashioned ocean liner. The analogy works a few ways. The ship is beautifully made and it makes going somewhere really worthwhile, but the journey itself can get a bit rough sometimes. Across the sprawling structure, there are so many different teams on different decks doing different things, […]
In the UK, the podcast-to-TV pipeline is budding
A look at “Storypunk,” one British television writer’s gambit to make this a thing across the pond.
The BBC Sounds App: Initial Impressions
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.
What Xtrachat tells us about the BBC’s Podcast Strategy
Over the past year or so, a shift has taken place at the BBC, as Britain’s state-funded public broadcaster has started to think about podcasting strategically for the first time. We’ve seen the appointment of their first podcast commissioner, and the launch of a new app, BBC Sounds, intended to put all their live radio, […]
Exploring “The Receipts” on Radio 1Xtra
The BBC digital radio station recently picked up the women-of-colour-led conversational podcast. It’s a smart move.
Where is Podcasting up to in the UK?
Some things change, some things stay the same.
A Top 40 Chart for UK Podcasts, or at least a dream of one.
James Purnell, the BBC’s Director of Radio and Education, raises the need for a UK podcast chart.
The Curious Problem of the BBC Sounds App
An uncertain rollout leads to bigger questions about the role of the public broadcaster in an on-demand audio world.