The suchandrika's Podcast
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Alex Farrow on how stand-up comedy and teaching inform each other
June 01, 2021 00:57 - 30 minutes - 24.5 MBThis episode is all about how to put together a live solo one-hour show and other comedy things as comedian, director and teacher Alex Farrow joins me on the podcast. Teaching is a performance and lot of former teachers find their way into comedy. Alex had to figure out how both teaching and comedy work over Zoom during lockdown, as he continued to work in both capacities. Between writing and performing his newest Fringe hour, 'Philosophy Pig' and organising the Mind Oxford Gala through...
"I've found a lot of positives from being on Twitter" - comedian and PR Vix Leyton on how her two careers work together in a digital age
May 04, 2021 15:33 - 38 minutes - 27 MBFreelance Pod is back with some comedy-focussed episodes! I've made a little entry into the comedy industry during lockdown, and the pod is following me into this wild new world... Please note the new url for the newsletter, Writing by Moonlight, which is now on Buttondown: https://buttondown.email/suchandrika/ If you were already a newsletter subscriber, you'll have moved over to the new newsletter with me - if you're not and love reading it, why not subscribe now? Now, onto this ep...
Critiquing the media in a digital age, with Mic Wright and his newsletter, Conquest of the Useless
July 27, 2020 17:33 - 23 minutes - 15.2 MBJournalist, poet and publisher / writer of media criticism newsletter Conquest of the Useless, Mic Wright guests on this episode. This is the last one of the current second season. Don't worry though, I'll be back with more great guests later in the year! Mic both works within the media, and makes a living critiquing it, through his newsletter and Twitter feed. Digital platforms have allowed all kinds voices to be heard, and fair criticism of our media industry is vital. On this episode, ...
The future of work is everyone using their influence, with writer Lauren Razavi
July 19, 2020 23:36 - 28 minutes - 20.7 MBLauren Razavi joins me on this episode to talk about the future of work, how writers can use influencer tools to benefit their careers and what the digital nomad lifestyle might look like post-COVID-19. At a tricky moment when we're gingerly leaving lockdown and wondering how our offices are going to work (or, if you're freelance like me, if you'll ever get to work anywhere other than home, help!) it's helpful to speak to Lauren, who's spent a lot of her career writing and speaking about w...
From the Egyptian revolution to pandemic lockdown, with Kim Fox of The American University in Cairo
July 10, 2020 13:16 - 19 minutes - 13.1 MBIn 2011, two years after American radio producer and reporter Kim Fox had moved to Cairo to take up a teaching role at The American University of Cairo, the Egyptian Revolution happened, in response to increasing police brutality on what would turn out to be the dying days of President Hosni Mubarak's presidency. Kim spent time at the demonstrations in Tahrir Square, which involved up to 2 million people. Over a decade later, the scenes she witnessed in Cairo are being repeated in Minneap...
"Dialling down the feminism" with writer and comedian Alex Bertulis-Fernandes
June 30, 2020 12:37 - 25 minutes - 16 MBAlex Bertulis-Fernandes is a comedian and writer. She's been doing stand-up for the past year, and she is writing a memoir while being mentored on the Penguin WriteNow mentoring scheme*. Alex and I met at the late, much-loved Clean Prose writers' space a few months ago, at a memoir-writing workshop taught by writer Cathy Rentzenbrink. Alex was actually the person who broke some comedy news to me last week - that I was a nominee for the Funny Women Stage Awards 2020 - she had been in the...
"Grief is an incredibly creative experience" - Author Flora Baker on self-publishing The Adult Orphan Club
June 19, 2020 01:33 - 33 minutes - 21.5 MBFreelance writer and author Flora Baker has combined memoir and a self-help guide in her first book, The Adult Orphan Club. Flora lost her mother at 20, and her father at 30, just a few years ago. We 'met' via the Young Orphans Whatsapp group, although thanks to lockdown we have not yet met in person. After her mother's death, Flora went travelling for five years, and detailed her adventures on her blog, Flora the Explorer. She admits now that the travelling allowed her to postpone doin...
MEL Magazine deputy editor Alana Levinson on what The Great Solicited Dick Pic Experiment reveals about digital journalism
June 12, 2020 15:41 - 33 minutes - 21.1 MBMEL Magazine's deputy editor Alana Levinson joins me remotely from Los Angeles on this episode, to talk about how necessary editing is for good writing - but it's been devalued in a digital world where any of us can press publish whenever we like. Sometimes, editing can feel like a judgement on the quality of our writing [bad, we assume], but Alana wants to reassure freelance journalists looking to pitch MEL that editing is a collaboration, to make the article the best that it can be. ...
From Anonymous Animals to Animal Crossing: Marie Foulston's lockdown party in a spreadsheet
May 29, 2020 00:24 - 31 minutes - 19.5 MBWhen I saw Marie Foulston's tweet about the lockdown houseparty that she threw in a spreadsheet, I knew that I had to invite her onto the podcast to hear all about it! Marie is now a freelance creative producer and playful curator, and was most recently Curator of Videogames at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London. During her time working there, she was Lead Curator of the 'Videogames: Design/ Play/ Disrupt' exhibition, and you can read more about it in this New York Times piece: 'Playin...
"Content is one of the beautiful things about the internet" - Book editor Parul Bavishi on writing in a pandemic
May 15, 2020 15:21 - 23 minutes - 14.5 MBJoining The Writers' Hour every morning for one week early on in lockdown helped me break through the cobwebs and write the outline of the book that I've been working on for the past year, in fits and starts. I used the hour to write longhand, which always helps unlock my creativity. The Writer's Hour is a simple idea: every weekday morning between 8 and 9am BST, the founders of The London Writers' Salon, Parul Bavishi and Matt Trinetti, hold a Zoom meeting where writers turn up, enter in...
Imposter syndrome, social media and getting through a pandemic lockdown
April 30, 2020 01:48 - 29 minutes - 19.9 MBWe're tackling some big subjects on this episode of Freelance Pod: imposter syndrome, how social media leads to 'compare and despair' and how living under a pandemic lockdown affects our sense of self. Joining me for this episode is Dr. Richard Orbé-Austin, author and licensed psychologist in the state of New York. He's particularly interested in how freelancers and creatives can build strategies to combat imposter syndrome. Social media shows off everyone's highlight reels, but it doesn...
Live show with Smoke & Mirrors author Gemma Milne at The Boulevard Theatre Soho
March 23, 2020 09:17 - 59 minutes - 45.4 MBFreelance Pod is back after a little break! It's now a monthly podcast, but everything else stays the same. Of course, until the Coronavirus Lockdown is over, it's going to be remote record all the way... So this episode is the live show from November 2019, when author Gemma Milne joined me onstage at the beautiful Boulevard Theatre in Soho, London. Gemma's book Smoke & Mirrors: How Hype Obscures the Future and How to See Past It is available for pre-order now, and is out on 23rd April...
Grieving our mothers online, with author Rachel Vorona Cote
November 14, 2019 02:40 - 35 minutes - 21.1 MBAuthor Rachel Vorona Cote joins Suchandrika Chakrabarti on Freelance Pod's first birthday episode, to talk about grieving in a digital age. We first spoke after I read Rachel's Longreads piece, The Fraught Culture of Online Mourning (https://longreads.com/2019/05/21/the-fraught-culture-of-online-mourning/), earlier this year. Rachel had lost her mother 18 months before writing the essay. She took to the internet during her mother's last illness, tweeting updates. Soon after her death, Ra...
"A box of neon sex delights" - Standard Issue meets Freelance Pod at the Boulevard Theatre, Soho
October 28, 2019 13:53 - 58 minutes - 40.2 MBIt's a Standard Issue x Freelance Pod crossover episode! I met up with Jen Offord, Mickey Noonan and Hannah Dunleavy at the Boulevard Theatre, Soho, to talk about our upcoming live shows there, how the internet has changed journalism, feminism and what their live recording has in store for the audience. Here's the Instagram album containing the picture we talk about in the cold open. It's definitely worth a look, especially if you love neon! You'll also hear a little bit from writer Gem...
"During war, all relationships are temporary" - London Podcast Festival live show with Syrian refugee, Abdulwahab Tahhan
October 06, 2019 20:10 - 1 hour - 65.3 MBThis very special episode of Freelance Pod was recorded in front of a live audience at the London Podcast Festival in September 2019! Pod fave Abdulwahab Tahhan returns for this 90-minute episode, in conversation on-stage at Kings Place with host Suchandrika Chakrabarti. Syrian refugee, stand-up comedian, journalist, lecturer, a person who's now clear on what the word 'loo' means... Abdul's got some good stories to tell. He takes us on a journey from his childhood in Aleppo all the way to...
The Telegraph's head of social, Beth Ashton, on news in a multi-platform age
September 02, 2019 22:02 - 1 hour - 39.7 MBBeth Ashton, The Telegraph's head of social media, kindly invited me over to their offices to tell me about how they do... social media. Traditionally, The Tele's newspaper readers have been amongst the oldest in the UK, which should present a challenge to converting them into online readers. They've also got a metered paywall and Premium content that stops quick and easy reads or sharing. Nevertheless, as Beth tells us, The Tele is one of the few news websites to make Snapchat work, and t...
BBC Radio 4 Extra's Amanda Litherland on her Podcast Radio Hour, comedy and interviewing
August 25, 2019 17:06 - 36 minutes - 22.6 MBBBC Radio 4 Extra's Podcast Radio Hour has become another way to discover great podcasts, as well as an opportunity for some lucky podcasters to get heard on the radio. Host and producer Amanda Litherland came up with the idea a few years ago, and found herself thrown in front of the microphone. Luckily, her comedy background has helped her presenting, although she is open about only practice can give you interviewing skills - and the confidence to ask those questions. On this episode, w...
Guide to the London Podcast Festival 2019 with programmer Zoe Jeyes
August 20, 2019 19:11 - 45 minutes - 32.2 MBHere it is, the Freelance Pod guide to the London Podcast Festival 2019, with programmer Zoë Jeyes! Zoë is Deputy MD and Comedy Programmer at Kings Place, and has been working there since it opened 11 years ago. A longtime podcast fan, she first floated the idea of a festival in 2014, with the first one going ahead in 2016. Since then, podcasting as a medium - and an industry - has exploded, and the 2019 festival is set to be the biggest one yet, with 60 live shows and a whole weekend o...
Former Sunday Times Style editor Jackie Annesley on swapping newspapers for tech
August 11, 2019 18:51 - 49 minutes - 35.9 MB"I loved being a journalist," writes Jackie Annesley in a frank essay about losing her last job in journalism, as editor of The Sunday Times Style supplement, where, among many other things, she commissioned the PanDolly podcast from two of her columnists; it's now better known by its second name, The High Low, with journalists Pandora Sykes and Dolly Alderton. Jackie's exit from The Sunday Times is accompanied with euphemisms about 'replacement' and 'commercial decisions'. In the months t...
Matt Cooke of Google News Labs still buys his local newspaper
July 22, 2019 20:31 - 37 minutes - 29.4 MBMatt Cooke is Head of Partnerships & Training, Google News Lab, part of the Google News Initiative. Google News has been a major factor in completely changing how news is indexed, distributed, discovered and consumed. That's because the internet has changed news distribution to include you, the reader, the audience, yes you, you control what you want to see, when you want to see it. Alongside sharing and self-publishing on social media, Google indexing news has completely changed the indus...
"Being a refugee is a dream come true" - preview of London Podcast Festival live recording with Syrian comic Abdulwahab Tahhan
July 14, 2019 20:16 - 21 minutes - 14.9 MBDid you know that there's a Freelance Pod live event at the London Podcast Festival in September? Yup, alongside big hitters like The Guilty Feminist, Have You Heard George's Podcast and The Allusionist, Freelance Pod is going to have its first live event, and you can be part of the audience! Click this link for more information, and to buy tickets for under a tenner. This episode is a little introduction to the live event guest, Abdulwahab Tahhan. Abdul came to London from Syria as a refu...
Why Jenny Stallard is launching Freelance Feels on National Freelancers Day
June 20, 2019 13:19 - 31 minutes - 18.2 MBJournalist, author and founder of the soon-to-be-launched Freelance Feels, Jenny Stallard joins me on the podcast to talk about her career moving from print to digital, her freelancing journey and why freelancers need to more vigilant about our mental wellbeing than the more traditionally employed. I've written here about how freelancing got me down, and how this podcast solved it! Love U, Freelance Pod! Along the way, she looks back at the creation of mega-helpful freelancer Facebook Grou...
Delia Cai's Deez Links is a Snapchat streak that grew up to be a newsletter
June 07, 2019 13:34 - 34 minutes - 19.8 MBDeez Links is "a dailyish link to cool shit happening in & around the media industry." Each day, Delia Cai - also Growth & Trends Editor at Buzzfeed - sends out one link. Just one link. She really sells it, in the way you'd want a particularly well-informed and fun friend to sell it to you. It's working out for her - Deez Links turned three in February, and was recently voted fourth most popular media newsletter, after Nieman Lab, Axios and American Press Institute. Delia guests on the...
Charlie Brooker and Annabel Jones on Black Mirror Season 5
May 31, 2019 10:51 - 20 minutes - 14.7 MBWe've got a new season of Black Mirror on Netflix, so here are Charlie Brooker and Annabel Jones to talk us through Rachel, Jack and Ashley Too, Smithereens and Striking Vipers. They also take the piss out of each other and make me LOL. Don't worry, there aren't any spoilers, so you're safe to listen before watching the season. It is, however, extremely sweary right from the start. Along the way, there are bits on Newswipe and Screenwipe, a blast from the past of the Unnovations Catalog...
Mental Health Awareness Week and The Colour of Madness, with Dr Samara Linton
May 19, 2019 23:04 - 40 minutes - 23 MBThis episode for Mental Health Awareness Week in the UK features Dr Samara Linton, and will be out later today. She tells me about putting together The Colour of Madness, the book that she co-edited. It's about the black and minority ethnic experience of mental illness, mainly in the UK, the medical services around it and how racial stereotypes remain, grimly, a part of that process. The book that takes a frank, clear-eyed look at how the failures of those services can lead to vulnerable p...
When news met the internet, with Twitter's Director of Curation, Joanna Geary - Part Two
May 12, 2019 23:44 - 32 minutes - 22.8 MBIt's part two of my interview with Twitter's Director of Curation, Joanna Geary. She takes us through her career from working at The Guardian to starting out at Twitter in 2013, with loads of great insight on how the journalism industry has tried and tried and tried again to mould itself to the demands of the internet. Joanna's also got some great tips on taking your skills out of the newsroom and into a tech company, if you're starting to look at other options. -- How has your indus...
When news met the internet, with Twitter's Director of Curation, Joanna Geary - Part One
May 07, 2019 15:39 - 36 minutes - 25.2 MBJoanna Geary started out as a print journalist in 2004 - as a business reporter on the Birmingham Post - and ended up in charge of Twitter's Curation team in 2017. That's a job and a company that didn't exist when she started her career. From blogging in Birmingham and using Facebook to find people on the scene of the 2007 Virginia Tech shooting, to setting up Hacks/Hackers in London, via The Times' paywall and The Guardian's social strategy, Joanna tells me how her career has been shaped ...
What journalists should know about content marketing, with Contently's Deanna Cioppa
April 22, 2019 22:09 - 43 minutes - 25.5 MBEvery freelancer I've interviewed for this podcast - or just met in the past 11.5 months of freelancing - has worn multiple work hats. It's just the way of things, as freelance consumer journalism is very unlikely to pay the bills to live in a major western city in 2019 AD. Talk to freelancers making decent money from content marketing, and they'll most likely mention Contently. Founded in 2011, the platform works with brands to find them storytellers. Deanna Cioppa, Executive Editor at ...
Podcasts and newsletters go together, with Caroline Crampton
April 15, 2019 22:59 - 34 minutes - 25.6 MBIf you're a keen podcast listener, you might recognise Caroline's name from the Hot Pod newsletter, or, since yesterday, from The Browser's daily inbox offering. Sign up for The Listener here: https://thelistener.email/ Podcasts and newsletters have a lot in common: each one develops its own voice and character, and gets delivered into its audience's private spaces: ears and email inbox. Caroline and I discuss how both are a good substitute for having your own column. Caroline's got a bo...
Freelance Pod on BBC Radio 4's Podcast Radio Hour
April 08, 2019 23:46 - 9 minutes - 6.96 MBBonus mini-episode! Freelance Pod was featured on BBC Radio 4 Extra's Podcast Radio Hour! Host Amanda Litherland and guest Renay Richardson listened to a clip from the third episode of the podcast, Music sounds better with you, feat. BBC 6 Music producer Shola Aleje. They went on to discuss Shola's advice on making a podcast, freelancing and self-care. Find the whole show on BBC Sounds here. -- How has your industry moved from analogue to digital? Each episode, creative guests tell...
Less journalistic objectivity, more activism, with Lewis Raven Wallace
April 01, 2019 02:39 - 42 minutes - 26.9 MBTwo years ago, audio producer Lewis Raven Wallace was fired from his job at Marketplace, a radio programme made by American Public Media. He had refused to take down a blogpost he had written in response to Donald Trump's recent inauguration, Objectivity is dead, and I’m okay with it. As a member of a marginalised group - Lewis is trans - he delves into the myth of 'journalistic objectivity', which is central to American journalism. Who gets to occupy this central space and view the news...
Always Be Learning, with The Writing Coach Podcast's Rebecca L. Weber
March 24, 2019 23:30 - 29 minutes - 18.1 MBThis episode's guest is writer, coach and podcaster Rebecca L. Weber. Born and raised in Boston, Rebecca takes us along on her journey from the US to South Africa, and from teaching to journalism to teaching writers to build freelance businesses, and coaching those new to writing on their way to becoming freelancers. Like many freelance writers, Rebecca wrote a newsletter, but it only really started making sense when she converted it into The Writing Coach Podcast. Through podcasting, sh...
How social media changes the world, with journalist and trainer Sue Llewellyn
March 17, 2019 20:13 - 27 minutes - 16.9 MBThis episode's guest is ex-BBC journalist turned social media trainer and content strategist Sue Llewellyn of Ultra Social! You heard a bit from her on the International Women's Day compilation episode, but here she is on an episode of her very own, at long last... after I managed to screw up two of our recordings! Third time's the charm, right?! Sue takes us on a whirlwind tour of how social media has changed work, and the world! Covering everything from training the England football ...
International Women's Day 2019 compilation
March 07, 2019 23:17 - 33 minutes - 18.5 MBIt's International Women's Day 2019, and so I decided to celebrate all the amazing female guests who've been on the pod, plus tease you with a few voices from upcoming episodes. Enjoy! -- How has your industry moved from analogue to digital? Each episode, creative guests tell host Suchandrika Chakrabarti how the internet has revolutionised work. Newsletter: https://tinyletter.com/freelancepod Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/freelancepod/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/freelan...
Why Anna Codrea-Rado wrote the Fair Pay For Freelancers open letter
March 02, 2019 18:17 - 30 minutes - 19.3 MBFreelance journalist, author and campaigner Anna Codrea-Rado is this episode's guest. I was lucky to meet Anna (Twitter: @annacod) at a journalism event about a week or so after my redundancy last May, because she is so positive, but also practical, about making a freelance career work. At the time, I was just about keeping the feelings of panic repressed, while I tried to learn what freelancing is all about... [still learning, btw] Anna is the author of the free First Aid for Freelancers ...
You own the narrative of your career, with LinkedIn's Isabelle Roughol
February 23, 2019 16:57 - 45 minutes - 30.8 MBIsabelle Roughol is senior editor-at-large at LinkedIn. She joined the company in 2012 and built a global news team working in seven languages across Europe, Latin America, Asia and Australia. She considers the future of work and value-driven business, and publishes two columns: The Last Globalist, on living an open life in a world that’s shutting down, and Media in 60 Seconds, a weekly video series about the media industry. Isabelle got her start in newspapers, working as a reporter and e...
Journalism should be fun - investigating burnout with John Crowley
February 16, 2019 18:41 - 34 minutes - 22.5 MB"Just over 50% of journalists said they were 'overwhelmed' by information during their working day and wanted to 'explore solutions' to make it more manageable." That's the headline finding from John Crowley's survey on digital journalism and burnout, for the European Journalism Centre's News Impact Network. John's now a freelance digital journalist and consultant, but his career began 20 years ago, as an editorial assistant on The Irish Post newspaper in London. He worked in that news...
Graffiti was analogue internet, with Creative Rebels podcast co-host David Speed
February 09, 2019 20:44 - 1 hour - 44 MBWell, this episode has got me nostalgic for London trains, tubes, bridges and underpasses that were covered in graffiti in the 90s. As one of the graffiti writers says in the incredible 1983 documentary Style Wars, that my guest David Speed mentions in this episode, once he'd tagged a subway carriage, it'd take his work all over the city, to people who'd never heard of him, who'd probably never meet him. And yet. His work was out there. Graffiti was the analogue internet - along with l...
From The Guardian to Vogue, via freelancing - with Laura Oliver
February 03, 2019 21:29 - 32 minutes - 22.3 MBDigital strategist & journalist Laura Oliver (https://twitter.com/LauraOliver) is currently acting Head of Audience Growth at Vogue International, and was Head of Social and Community at The Guardian, until she went freelance two years ago, following voluntary redundancy. Freelancing wasn't the plan after leaving The Guardian - Laura says she kind of fell into it - but once she'd made the decision, she made use of LinkedIn to get work, and she goes into detail on the episode on how she did...
Woman's Hour on BBC Radio 4 - behind the scenes with producer Leona Fensome
January 29, 2019 00:42 - 33 minutes - 25.3 MBProducer Leona Fensome guests on the podcast to tell us about working on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour. After working in written journalism in her native Australia, Leona tried out some audio and liked it. Two years ago, after moving to the UK with her British husband, Leona ended up in the BBC's freelance pool, and, after some work experience on Jeremy Vine's show, got her start on one of the BBC most famous radio shows. Leona tells us what it's like to work with Jane Garvey, how ticking ...
Whatsapp has transformed foreign reporting, says Jennifer O'Mahony
January 21, 2019 13:22 - 36 minutes - 22.3 MBBritish freelance journalist Jennifer O'Mahony (Twitter: https://twitter.com/jaomahony) is now based in West Africa - mostly in Dakar, Senegal - and her job would be much harder without Whatsapp. Technology leapt from the analogue age to smartphones in the area she covers, so contacts prefer Whatsapping, speaking on the phone, or meeting in person. Businesses have Facebook pages rather than websites, rely on mobile money rather than bank accounts and email isn't really the done thing. Jenn...
Bandersnatch interview with Black Mirror's Charlie Brooker
January 12, 2019 19:37 - 22 minutes - 16.2 MBI sat down with Charlie Brooker this week to profile him for New Statesman, here's the link to the piece: https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/tv-radio/2019/01/black-mirror-s-charlie-brooker-using-bandersnatch-politics-s-fantasy-isn-t We talked about Bandersnatch, politics, 80s music, how much his kids love the Alexa and Black Mirror Season 5. Well, I tried to get him to talk about the last one, and he did a good job of, well, you listen for yourself. Netflix have nothing to be concerned...
Black Mirror Bandersnatch, mental health and technology, with Dr Bishakha Chowdhury
December 29, 2018 19:36 - 30 minutes - 20.2 MBSure, none of us have finished Bandersnatch yet, because none of us ever will. We're just going to have to live with that. One thing we'll all have noticed is that the themes of mental illness, therapy and medication are central to every path that Stefan Butler (Fionn Whitehead) takes through the game-film. He's clearly not well when we first meet him, he worries his dad (Chris Parkinson), and he pays a few visits to his therapist, the ominously-named Dr R. Haynes (Alice Lowe) - an older r...
Inside Black Mirror interview with Charlie Brooker
December 27, 2018 14:05 - 12 minutes - 9.12 MBNetflix has finally released the trailer for Black Mirror: Bandersnatch. What's a Black Mirror Event? Nobody knows, but looks like we'll be finding out at about 8am GMT tomorrow... that trailer looks pretty darn analogue, so the 1980s nostalgia is going to be strong. To help with the Season 5 anticipation, here's an interview I did with Charlie Brooker in October, around the release of behind-the-scenes book Inside Black Mirror. We talk about how the increased speed of technological inn...
Celebrating 30 years of the internet with the love lives of gay men and filmmaker Oli Mason
December 24, 2018 14:37 - 35 minutes - 23.7 MBI've known this episode's guest a long time, since we were both undergraduates at Oxford back in the Noughties. Oli Mason (https://twitter.com/moreolimason) went into making films, and he's made an impressive number over the decade since graduating. He's also been made redundant three times (same as me!), so he's very well-placed to talk about the ups and downs of making films in a digital age. Oli's latest project is making a short film with the BBC and BFI to celebrate 30 years of the i...
Chaos with Ed Miliband's podcast! Featuring producer Emma Corsham
December 21, 2018 23:16 - 42 minutes - 30.5 MBIt was a simple and inescapable choice back in spring 2015, wasn't it? Stability and strong government with incumbent Prime Minister David Cameron, or chaos with Ed Miliband. We, the British people, did not choose chaos with Ed Miliband. All the Brexit palaver has sent the political news cycle spinning faster than ever, but there's one politician who's having a gentle bit of fun with it: yes, non-chaos-maker, Ed Miliband. First, he tweets at Theresa May ahead of her party's no-confidence-i...
Movies are the memories of our lifetime, with film critic Ryan Gilbey
December 09, 2018 19:34 - 28 minutes - 22.5 MBThis week's guest is film critic Ryan Gilbey, who's a self-confessed "creature of print," as he started out on The Independent's film desk 24 years ago, after winning a competition. He now writes for The Guardian, The Sunday Times and New Statesman. We met back in 2006 when he was my tutor on a part-time Film Journalism course at the British Film Institute in London. Ryan has seen journalism shift from print to digital, and that's affected how filmmakers and actors approach interviews. ...
Music sounds better with you, feat. BBC 6 Music producer Shola Aleje
December 02, 2018 19:33 - 49 minutes - 40 MBThis episode's guest is radio and podcast producer Shola Aleje. Shola works on Lauren Laverne's BBC 6 Music show, as well as producing podcasts for Emma Gannon, Cherry Healey and Bestival. We recorded in Shola's London living room, which has a gorgeous vintage vibe, a shelving unit filled with vinyl and a large canvas print of Bruce Springsteen from around the turn of the century. We talk about how radio was a way of connecting across time and space before the internet; being part of t...
Divided by a common language, with Mother Jones' Jordan Gass-Poore'
November 25, 2018 21:11 - 22 minutes - 18.2 MBThis week's guest is Jordan Gass-Poore' (https://twitter.com/jgasspoore), who's currently working for US liberal magazine Mother Jones in New York. Jordan grew up in Texas, and has worked as a journalist in her hometown, in New York and in London. She's also studied journalism in the US and UK. On the eve of the November 2018 US Midterms - an election that saw huge wins for the Democrats, the biggest midterm voter turnout since 1914, and an incredibly diverse set of representatives elec...
Podcasts are kind of a big deal, with audio expert Christina H. Moore
November 18, 2018 22:26 - 37 minutes - 29.8 MBWelcome to the first episode of Freelance Pod! The first guest is audio expert Christina H. Moore. Christina has worked on podcasts for the BBC and for Apple Podcasts, and she now works on podcasts with musicians. Christina's seen the inner workings of the world's most popular podcast discovery engine: the Apple Podcasts app. So her advice is invaluable for podcasters and would-be podcasters alike. In other podcast-related things this week, the New Yorker ran a big piece on them: ...