To segue from the last blog – yes, lockdown is crap.
But there are some silver linings.
We eat together as a family. Daily!
I’ve been making the most of my 1 hour of outdoor exercise. Because otherwise those family meals (with pudding) will certainly start to take their toll.
And in a work context, the very fact that we can’t get our contributors into a studio has made some of our projects easier to produce than they might otherwise have been.
Take Shell, for example.
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Anouszka Tate has been producing “Inside Exams” for AQA. And she’s loved it… I’ve interviewed merciless politicians, broken devastating news to the nation, and edited audio with panicked hands as it was going out live. Then I was told my next project would be to create a podcast that desperately time-poor teachers would choose to…
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‘Publishers are getting serious about podcast revenue’ – Digiday ‘Podcasts are brilliant for anyone who loves radio, but hates all that annoying “Quality control”’ – Jimmy Carr. There are two ways of brands getting on board with podcasts. 1. Advertise around an existing successful podcast with an established audience. 2. Create your own original podcast…
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‘You know the old saying, “Opinions are like arseholes, everybody’s got one.”? Well, podcasts are the new arseholes.’ So goes the best line from this excellent but scary Kitty Flanagan sketch . “Excellent” in the sense that it’s funny, and scary in that it neatly captures one of the main worries I’ve had about the…