CIPR Excellence Awards

BEFORE I START: Lockdown is utterly crap. Let’s not ignore that, or glibly pretend otherwise. I collected a dance costume for my daughter today and the lady who made it said “Thank you so much. That’s all I’ve sold this week and it will pay for this week’s groceries”. So, having had that rather mood-crushing…

Suddenly our focus has totally shifted. For the last five years we’ve built Fresh Air to create podcasts that are inventive, adventurous, beautiful and engaging. They’re crafted in studios, the scripts are agonised over and the edits are shared again and again until they’re perfect. They win awards and I post the pictures all over…

Fresh Air’s Martin Poyntz-Roberts reflects on a bonkers year for podcasts and his own Damscene conversion to the medium. DIY. Three letters that used to fill me with dread. I can recount numerous tales of how I’ve struggled with sets of blinds, turning the wall into a Swiss cheese as I attempt to screw something…