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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
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" '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 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
" '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
" One of the reasons why 'Here's The Thing', Alec Baldwin's series of podcasts with 'artists, policymakers and performers', is so good is because he's a big name, so the guests have to deliver. "
David Hepworth
Big
Good
Name
" 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
" 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 'Sodajerker' podcast is the work of Liverpool songwriting duo Simon Barber and Brian O'Connor. "
David Hepworth
Duo
Work
Barber
" The podcast by 'The Kitchen Sisters' celebrates the staggering variety of a society of immigrants via its food, from the Sheepherders' Ball in Boise, Idaho, through the favoured cuisine of Emily Dickinson to the unbelievable rituals of the great rural barbecue. "
David Hepworth
Food
Society
Barbecue
" The 'PBS NewsHour' podcast is the audio version of the nightly TV broadcast. "
David Hepworth
Nightly
Audio
Version
" Many pop songs seem to be more potent now than in their heyday. "
David Hepworth
Seem
Than
Songs
" 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
" It's been a while since I checked in with Malcolm Gladwell's 'Revisionist History' podcast. The episode 'The King of Tears' suggests the author is raising the bar. His argument is that country music is the genre that makes us cry because, unlike rock, it's not afraid of specifics. "
David Hepworth
Cry
Tears
History
" 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
" 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
" 'Adrift With Geoff Lloyd and Annabel Port' features Absolute Radio escapee Geoff and erstwhile colleague Annabel doing something similar. All are appealing individuals with plenty to say, tentatively getting used to their new freedom to talk about anything. "
David Hepworth
Radio
New
Say
" For a wide-ranging look at literary matters, the 'Book Review Podcast' from the 'New York Times' is still one of the best. Presented by Pamela Paul, each episode has an interview with an author - recent guests have included Neil Gaiman and Sana Krasikov - plus a roundup of the uppers, downers and hanging-arounders on the U.S. bestsellers chart. "
David Hepworth
Interview
Book
Best
" 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
" As more podcasts become available, it's becoming a challenge to keep everything in order. "
David Hepworth
Become
More
Everything
" 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
" 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 opening solo on 'Once in Royal David's City' is still the most dramatic radio moment of the year. "
David Hepworth
City
Opening
Moment
" 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
" I once interviewed Anthony Burgess on the radio. I played pop records between the conversation. "
David Hepworth
Records
Pop
Radio
" 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
" All political careers end in failure, but few did it so quickly as David Cameron's. He came to power promising not to 'bang on about Europe' and ended up having the continent's name chiselled into the lid of his political coffin. "
David Hepworth
Name
Power
Up
" 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 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 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
" '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
" 'How I Built This With Guy Raz' asks entrepreneurs to tell the story of how they made their name and, in some cases, their fortune. Whether they're in the business of selling burritos or dating apps, there's inevitably something you can learn from their stories. "
David Hepworth
Name
Tell
Business