The Terrace Voice: How Six British Sports Podcasts Built Audiences That Stay After the Whistle
Sports broadcasting once ended when the referee blew the whistle. Now Britain's biggest sports podcasts have built a parallel universe where the conversation never stops — and the audiences are bigger than the programmes they ostensibly accompany. Six shows, six approaches to the post-match debrief.
The Algorithm's Ear: How Britain's Biggest Podcasts Navigate the Recommendation Engines
Every podcast app now promises to find your next favourite show. But the recommendation engines that decide what you hear are radically different from one another — and Britain's biggest podcasts are quietly engineering for each one.
The Listening Context: What Six British Podcast Audiences Are Actually Doing While You Talk
A podcast isn't just competing with other podcasts — it's competing with the kettle, the traffic lights, and the runner's mile marker. Here's how six British shows engineer their audio for the room their listeners are actually in.
The Correction Episode: How British Podcasts Handle Mistakes (and Why the Medium Has No Ombudsman)
Podcasting has no press complaints commission, no ombudsman, and no formal corrections framework. When Britain's biggest shows get something wrong, the response ranges from the silent re-upload to the dedicated correction minute — and the gaps in between reveal a structural problem the medium is only beginning to reckon with.
Recorded From Another Room: How Britain's Biggest Podcasts Capture Their Long-Distance Guests
ISDN is gone, Skype is gone, and a handful of web apps now decide what a long-distance guest sounds like on Britain's biggest podcasts. We compare Riverside, SquadCast, Cleanfeed, Zencastr and the awkward fact that Zoom is still here.
Before the Music Drops: Six British Podcasts and the Quiet Craft of the Cold Open
The cold open — that interval of voice-only audio before the theme tune drops — is the most rewritten, most-replayed, most-fought-over part of any modern British podcast. Seven flagship shows, compared on craft.