The Leighton Smith Podcast
After 33 years behind the Newstalk ZB microphone, Leighton can’t give it up completely. There were so many requests to continue his opinionated commentary that the prospect of podcasting was born.
Newstalk ZB · NZME
Show overview
The Leighton Smith Podcast has been publishing since 2018, and across the 8 years since has built a catalogue of 405 episodes, alongside 2 trailers or bonus episodes. That works out to roughly 530 hours of audio in total. Releases follow a weekly cadence.
Episodes typically run an hour to ninety minutes — most land between 1h 8m and 1h 31m — and the run-time is fairly consistent across the catalogue. None of the episodes are flagged explicit by the publisher. It is catalogued as a EN-NZ-language News show.
The show is actively publishing — the most recent episode landed 2 days ago, with 40 episodes already out so far this year. Published by NZME.
From the publisher
After 33 years behind the Newstalk ZB microphone, Leighton can’t give it up completely. There were so many requests to continue his opinionated commentary that the prospect of podcasting was born.So, without restriction, Leighton continues to serve up on everything you want to hear about and some things you don’t. Stand by to be enlightened, educated and enraged!