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" Podcasting is a personal medium, and I savour those moments where details of the podcasters' lives glint through. "
David Hepworth
Through
Personal
Details
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" I make no apology for the fact I like to hear people talk about work. It's the acceptable way of talking about life and people. "
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Way
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Life
" In 'The High Low', in some respects an audio version of 'Grazia,' Pandora Sykes and Dolly Alderton wonder whether they missed something in their survey of the Harvey Weinstein story. Maybe they did, they decide. "
David Hepworth
Wonder
High
Low
" For magazines seeking to extend their reach into podcasting, half the battle is finding members of staff who don't sound like the kind of people you wouldn't care to be stuck in a lift with. "
David Hepworth
Finding
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You
" Some of the vintage comedy on Radio 4 Extra wasn't very funny to begin with, whereas some things just get funnier regardless of the changes in public attitudes over the years. "
David Hepworth
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Funny
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
" Mongolia is a country of only three million souls. One million of them live in Ulaanbaatar, where, despite the skyscrapers, half the population sleep in tents. One of the few Mongolians to become famous outside his home country is Ariunbaatar Ganbaatar, who won the BBC Cardiff Singer of the World prize. "
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World
Famous
Home
" 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
" 'You Must Remember This', the podcast about 'the secret and or forgotten history of Hollywood's first century', has a thread dedicated to Dead Blondes, which is a clue to where it's coming from. "
David Hepworth
Dead
You
History
" Songwriters often seek the company of fellow songwriters to help finish what they've started, and these days, many do it at songwriting camps. "
David Hepworth
Help
Finish
Songwriting
" Radio 4 Extra is the network which offers the broadcasting version of eternal life. "
David Hepworth
Broadcasting
Radio
Life
" The podcast 'Note to Self' is 'the tech show about being human'. Human notions of privacy have changed. "
David Hepworth
Being Human
Human
Privacy
" 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
" 'Twenty Thousand Hertz' investigates the role of audio professionals in our daily lives, from the engineering that ensures a car door closes with that reassuring finality to the Foley artists of Hollywood who synthesise the sounds of marine life using old kitchen equipment gathered at the pound shop. "
David Hepworth
Daily
Car
Door
" 'I Was There Too' talks to people who played non-starring roles in big movies. That means the likes of comedian Jimmy Pardo, who didn't make it to the finished 'Dreamgirls.' Still, he recalls that when an actor is put on hold for a movie, he gets paid for two weeks just for sitting at home waiting to be called. "
David Hepworth
Waiting
Home
Sitting
" John Lydon must be more famous for his efforts on behalf of dairy products than his music. "
David Hepworth
Than
Products
Famous
" From Public Radio International, there's 'PRI's The World', which is the States looking out at the rest of the globe. Elsewhere, the 'Global News Podcast' from the BBC World Service offers something similar. "
David Hepworth
Service
Rest
Looking
" The 'Backlisted' podcast describes itself as 'giving new life to old books'. In each episode, John Mitchinson and Andy Miller are joined by a guest from the world of books who brings along some overlooked gem to enthuse about. "
David Hepworth
New
Old
World
" There's a tendency to locate the cliche of the 'strong woman' exclusively in the present day, as if those many women who endured such inconveniences as the Depression and the Second World War were porcelain compared to, say, Amy Schumer. "
David Hepworth
Woman
Day
Depression
" The 'Sodajerker' podcast is the work of Liverpool songwriting duo Simon Barber and Brian O'Connor. "
David Hepworth
Duo
Work
Barber
" 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
" I loathe anyone impressed by fame or money. "
David Hepworth
Loathe
Anyone
Impressed
" 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
" 'The Anthill' is the podcast wing of The Conversation, the site that presents news and views derived from the academic and research community. "
David Hepworth
Community
Research
News
" 'Bombshell' is a remarkable podcast. In the course of it, three people who know what they are talking about cover 'military strategy, White House mayhem, and the best cocktails'. "
David Hepworth
Know
Best
Talking
" The 'PBS NewsHour' podcast is the audio version of the nightly TV broadcast. "
David Hepworth
Nightly
Audio
Version
" I once interviewed Anthony Burgess on the radio. I played pop records between the conversation. "
David Hepworth
Records
Pop
Radio
" Jim MacLaine was the hero of Ray Connolly's 1973 movie 'That'll Be the Day', about a young man turning his back on a university education at the turn of the '60s in order to try his hand in a rock n' roll band. "
David Hepworth
Rock
Band
Day
" If you listen to 'Pod Save America', which is run by former Obama staffers and Democratic party partisans, you'll be exposed to ads for home delivery of everything from gourmet meals to underwear, presumably in the belief that you're too busy being fabulous to go near a shop. "
David Hepworth
You
Run
Home
" Richard Hoggart's cultural analysis 'The Uses of Literacy' was published in 1957, but its influence still hovers over anyone setting out to write seriously about people's affection for things that aren't serious, such as the products of pop culture. "
David Hepworth
Influence
People
Culture
" Half the battle with successful podcasts is in the naming; here, the big media owners have a lot to learn from the smaller operators. "
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Here
Successful
Media