If you don’t work near a water cooler and hanker for the company of fellow natural history enthusiasts, ‘The Blue Planet II Podcast’ has Emily Knight and Becky Ripley enthusing infectiously about and delving deeper into the most recent episode. David Hepworth Read Quote
Podcasting House’ is pivotal to the BBC’s plan to scatter the seed of its various non-broadcast audio products beyond the narrow silos of the people who happen to listen to the programmes from which they arise. David Hepworth Read Quote
Radio 4 Extra is the network which offers the broadcasting version of eternal life. David Hepworth Read Quote
A gap in tone is opening up between podcasts and broadcast radio. The people who produce the former know their listeners have given them permission to go deep into their subject. The people who do the latter live in fear they’ve already gone too far. David Hepworth Read Quote
Mongolia is a country of only three million souls. One million of them live in Ulaanbaatar, where, despite the skyscrapers, half the population sleep in tents. One of the few Mongolians to become famous outside his home country is Ariunbaatar Ganbaatar, who won the BBC Cardiff Singer of the World prize. David Hepworth Read Quote
Radio 3 shows such as ‘Between the Ears’ also make the kind of podcasts that draw the most from your noise-cancelling headphones. The programme commissions ideas that make adventurous use of sound. David Hepworth Read Quote
The Daily’ from the ‘New York Times’ – which offers smart analysis of one key story – sets the pace here, and can see you through one standard train commute. David Hepworth Read Quote
There’s a tendency to locate the cliche of the ‘strong woman’ exclusively in the present day, as if those many women who endured such inconveniences as the Depression and the Second World War were porcelain compared to, say, Amy Schumer. David Hepworth Read Quote
History is written by the victors. The victors in daily life tend to be those who live longest. David Hepworth Read Quote
Twenty Thousand Hertz’ investigates the role of audio professionals in our daily lives, from the engineering that ensures a car door closes with that reassuring finality to the Foley artists of Hollywood who synthesise the sounds of marine life using old kitchen equipment gathered at the pound shop. David Hepworth Read Quote
