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 dose of reality, and acknowledging that we’re not saving lives here, I’m still going to write this blog post about the unforeseen upside of lockdown for those of us who make podcasts.
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I predict a riot. Ok. Well maybe not a riot . But a mini-revolution at the least. It feels like podcasting has reached a point where it’s now very definitely mainstream. Even my mum understands what it is, even if she hasn’t actually listened to one. And that’s a fairly decent indicator. But the danger…
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So, it’s been about three months since I started my new role here at Fresh Air. It’s been far too much fun for my liking and I’ve learnt plenty. Which makes it the perfect time to blog about it, because I love sharing. There’s a lazy tendency in marketing of – whack enough money into…
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This week Fresh Air Production, along with GML, launched a new series of the Big Steal , the podcast that told the story of how Vladimir Putin stole Yukos from the shareholders and put the head of the company, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, in jail on false charges. We then followed Russia as the regime spiralled towards…