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" According to the producers of gripping podcast 'Death, Sex & Money', these are the three things we think about a lot but need to talk about more. "
David Hepworth
Money
Death
Three
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" The people who talk on the edgier 'Song Exploder' have often made their entire record on their desktop. It's never been easier to compete, but it's never been harder to win, either. "
David Hepworth
Never
Song
Win
" Radio 4 Extra is the network which offers the broadcasting version of eternal life. "
David Hepworth
Broadcasting
Radio
Life
" I think getting people's focus, getting people's attention on anything has never been harder, because the media has done everything in its power to try and dissolve people's attention, shift it round absolutely all the time. "
David Hepworth
Power
Time
Focus
" The ads that podcasts manage to sell tell you a lot about who they think is listening. They include services that promise to make your investment portfolio ethical, deliver exotic, ready meals to your home, or guarantee better sleep thanks to luxury bed linen. "
David Hepworth
Listening
Better
Think
" Lucy Kellaway's columns in the 'Financial Times' lend themselves to podcasts because they usually consist of her giving a brisk ticking off to some CEO or subversively wondering whether we're really as busy as we pretend we are. "
David Hepworth
Her
Busy
Financial
" 'They Walk Among Us' is the work of husband-and-wife team Benjamin and Rosie. In the past, they've covered the Shannon Matthews case and the career of the prisoner known as Charles Bronson. "
David Hepworth
Us
Career
Work
" There's only one podcast subject that can give Donald Trump a run for his money when it comes to vulgarity, excess, and base comedy, and that's football. "
David Hepworth
Football
Give
Money
" Justin Hayward was a teenager when he was drafted into the Moody Blues in 1966. He brought with him one song he had written for his girlfriend. This was called 'Nights in White Satin,' which subsequently made a fortune for a lot of people. "
David Hepworth
Blues
White
Song
" I loathe anyone impressed by fame or money. "
David Hepworth
Loathe
Anyone
Impressed
" The 'Art of Charm' podcast can be intimidating. Not just because it's the work of a lawyer called Jordan Harbinger. Not simply because Jordan has worked out how to weaponise all the many elements of the human personality that go to make up charisma in order to get people to listen to him, be impressed by him, or hire him. "
David Hepworth
People
Art
Lawyer
" The opening solo on 'Once in Royal David's City' is still the most dramatic radio moment of the year. "
David Hepworth
City
Opening
Moment
" Many pop songs seem to be more potent now than in their heyday. "
David Hepworth
Seem
Than
Songs
" If you don't work near a water cooler and hanker for the company of fellow natural history enthusiasts, 'The Blue Planet II Podcast' has Emily Knight and Becky Ripley enthusing infectiously about and delving deeper into the most recent episode. "
David Hepworth
You
History
Company
" The podcast 'Note to Self' is 'the tech show about being human'. Human notions of privacy have changed. "
David Hepworth
Being Human
Human
Privacy
" I wouldn't wish a night of 1971 television on my worst enemy. But the records of 1971, again, still live for us now. And they had the benefit at the time of having the kind of uninterrupted, unimpeded concentration of a huge generation of people. Because the only thing I wanted to spend money on when I was 21 was records. "
David Hepworth
Wish
People
Time
" Karina Longworth, the genius behind 'You Must Remember This', has quite correctly spun off her series about the Sharon Tate murders as a separate podcast called 'You Must Remember Manson' to mark the passing of the man who unleashed hell because he couldn't get a recording contract. "
David Hepworth
Her
Hell
Genius
" The neurologist calls it 'Non-REM parasomnia'. For the sufferer, it might mean rising in the middle of the night, getting your motorbike out, going for a ride, and waking in the morning with no memory of the experience. "
David Hepworth
Ride
Memory
Night
" Others may recognise their world in 'Eat Sleep Work Repeat'. This podcast is the side project of Bruce Daisley, who works at Twitter. It consists of him talking to experts about what makes us happy at work and why. "
David Hepworth
World
Happy
Sleep
" Half the battle with successful podcasts is in the naming; here, the big media owners have a lot to learn from the smaller operators. "
David Hepworth
Here
Successful
Media
" Radio 3 shows such as 'Between the Ears' also make the kind of podcasts that draw the most from your noise-cancelling headphones. The programme commissions ideas that make adventurous use of sound. "
David Hepworth
Sound
Ideas
Radio
" The age of the rock star was coterminous with rock n' roll, which, in spite of all the promises made in some memorable songs, proved to be as finite as the era of ragtime or big bands. The rock era is over. We now live in a hip-hop world. "
David Hepworth
Rock
Promises
Now
" The podcast most likely to encourage you to fully appreciate your food is the episode of BBC World Service's 'The Food Chain' in which Antonio Carluccio talks to Emily Thomas about his life in five dishes. "
David Hepworth
World
Food
Appreciate
" If, like me, you've never watched 'Game of Thrones', the podcast 'Binge Mode: 'Game of Thrones'' ought to be unlistenable. It isn't, thanks to the energy of the two expert presenters Mallory Rubin and Jason Concepcion, who have the wit to laugh at their own deep-dive devotion and are helped out by some smart editing. "
David Hepworth
Me
Energy
Game
" I once interviewed Anthony Burgess on the radio. I played pop records between the conversation. "
David Hepworth
Records
Pop
Radio
" 'Constitutional' is an unashamedly educational podcast from the 'Washington Post.' Sub-titled 'a podcast about the story of America,' it's presented by Lillian Cunningham, who engages scholars to explain the fascinating story of how a nation is designed from scratch. "
David Hepworth
Nation
Story
America
" The podcast 'A History of Jazz' began telling its story in February - 100 years after the recording of 'Livery Stable Blues' by the Original Dixieland Jazz Band, the start of jazz as a legitimate branch of music. "
David Hepworth
Band
Jazz
Music
" As more podcasts become available, it's becoming a challenge to keep everything in order. "
David Hepworth
Become
More
Everything
" Fortunately... 'With Fi and Jane' features BBC veterans Fi Glover and Jane Garvey sitting in the BBC cafe, nattering about whatever interests them. "
David Hepworth
Sitting
Whatever
Veterans
" Anyone born in the year 1950 who grew to fancy themselves as a soulful 18-year-old bought 'Songs of Leonard Cohen' upon its original release in 1968. For many of them, it was the beginning of a lifelong friendship. "
David Hepworth
Beginning
Year
Friendship
" History is written by the victors. The victors in daily life tend to be those who live longest. "
David Hepworth
Life
Daily Life
Live