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" Radio people can't entirely shake off radio habits when they start doing podcasts. They sometimes bring with them things we don't need, like producers and explanatory voiceovers. "
David Hepworth
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" '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
" When Shanthi Ranganathan was the featured turn on 'Hip Hop Saved My Life With Romesh Ranganathan,' we learned she didn't allow him to have a girlfriend until he'd finished university, and she learned - to her unfeigned horror - that he used to sneak girls into the house when she was out. "
David Hepworth
Life
House
Turn
" 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
" It is the melancholy fate of all young legends to becoming better known for the things they did to exploit fame than the things that made them famous in the first place. "
David Hepworth
Fame
Place
Young
" The great children's author and illustrator Shirley Hughes marks her 90th birthday by appearing as Michael Berkeley's guest in 'Private Passions'. "
David Hepworth
Great
Her
Birthday
" The '30 for 30' strand started life as a series of behind-the-scenes docs for the sports channel ESPN. It has now spawned an equally fascinating series of podcasts. Like the films, these podcasts don't rely on access, the usual currency of sports journalism, and are strangely excited by stories that are complicated and require telling at length. "
David Hepworth
Life
Sports
Complicated
" Back in the 1980s, state-of-the-nation fictions were all set in Manhattan. Now, they're all in Trump country. Early in 'S-Town,' we're introduced to an actual maze, every branch of which leads to a further junction. This may also be a metaphor. "
David Hepworth
Now
Early
Back
" 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
" A gap in tone is opening up between podcasts and broadcast radio. The people who produce the former know their listeners have given them permission to go deep into their subject. The people who do the latter live in fear they've already gone too far. "
David Hepworth
Deep
Opening
People
" 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
People
You
" Podcasting is a personal medium, and I savour those moments where details of the podcasters' lives glint through. "
David Hepworth
Through
Personal
Details
" Radio 4 Extra is the network which offers the broadcasting version of eternal life. "
David Hepworth
Broadcasting
Radio
Life
" 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
" 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
" The packaging of Led Zeppelin's IV doesn't have the name of the band, doesn't have the name of the album: It's got a guy on the cover with a load of sticks on his back. This record didn't quite get to No. 1 in the United States - it went to No. 2 - but stayed on the charts for years and years and years. "
David Hepworth
Years
Name
Guy
" Formed in 1967 and still performing regularly half a century later, Fairport Convention are Britain's equivalent of the Band. Unlike the latter they have maintained cordial relations. "
David Hepworth
Later
Half
Performing
" 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
" As more podcasts become available, it's becoming a challenge to keep everything in order. "
David Hepworth
Become
More
Everything
" 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
" Many pop songs seem to be more potent now than in their heyday. "
David Hepworth
Seem
Than
Songs
" 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
" The age of the rock star ended with the passing of physical product, the rise of automated percussion, the domination of the committee approach to hit-making, the widespread adoption of choreography, and, above all, the advent of the mystique-destroying Internet. "
David Hepworth
Rock Star
Age
Internet
" 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
" '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
" 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
" '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
" Talking about smart thinking, The British-made 'Brain Training Podcast' is a brief daily workout for the mind that could easily get addictive. "
David Hepworth
Mind
Training
Brain
" 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
" '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
" 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