It's a classic PBC episode this time, as we go back to our roots and discuss a podcast to see what makes it tick. Lateral with Tom Scott is a quiz podcast, which is a really underrepresented format in our opinion. So what makes it work? Why should you consider this format for your show? Will we get too hung up on the importance of points? (yes).

In this episode podcast producers Zoe Anderson and Daria Lawson, podcast production manager Elizabeth Amos, and audio engineer Alex Bennett discuss:

• Making a show for a specific audience
• Clips versus full episodes on Youtube
• The challenges of making a video podcast
• Our deep and abiding love for points
• What we can learn from Lateral

Have you watched Lateral? Listened to the full episodes, or just the clips? Check out the full video episode of Lateral here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WysuFh0bNg

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Podcast Book Club is a Lower Street production: https://lowerstreet.co/podcasts/podcast-book-club

Recorded November 2023. The news simply will not stop happening. It feels like every day we wake up, only to find that more things have occurred whilst we slept. So how do you turn all this relentless happening into a podcast? Oh, and you need to release every day, mon-fri. This episode our intrepid team of reporters is taking a look at the art of daily news podcasting, and getting to the bottom of why it's such an exciting and challenging area of podcasting to work in.

In this episode podcast producers Jackie Lamport and Andrew Ganem are joined by podcast production manager Elizabeth Amos, audio engineer Alex Bennett, and the former deputy executive producer of Stories of Our Times James Shield. They discuss:

• What makes news podcasting different from other podcasts?
• What can we learn from news podcasts?
• How James produced the Stories of Our Times podcast.
• Following your own curiosity when making a podcast.
• The inimitable hosting style of Michael Barbaro.

They take a look at The Daily from the New York Times and Stories of Our Times from the Times of London.

Enjoying the audio-only version? Check us out on Youtube for more visual gags, special reporter Buddy the cat, and an uninterrupted view of our beautiful faces:

https://youtu.be/KcGp7PYQDF4

Links to resources mentioned in the show:

• The Daily: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-daily/id1200361736
• Stories of Our Times (now The Story): https://www.thetimes.co.uk/podcasts/the-story
• NYT reporting standards: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/18/business/media/new-york-times-caliphate-podcast.html
• Reithian values of the BBC: https://www.bbc.com/historyofthebbc/research/directors-general/john-reith
• Trust in news reporting: https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2022/10/27/u-s-adults-under-30-now-trust-information-from-social-media-almost-as-much-as-from-national-news-outlets/
• The Run-Up podcast: https://www.nytimes.com/column/run-up-election-podcast

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“Can a video be a podcast?” is an all-time favourite topic of conversation amongst those of us with “RSS 4 EVA” tattooed on the base of our backs. But for all the audio purists out there it’s hard to deny that, for a growing number of people, a video can absolutely be a podcast. So what now? Is “podcast” going the way of “literally”? Another definition lost to the unending meat-grinder of modern linguistic ‘progress’? Well, we think there are a lot of really useful lessons to be learned from the increasingly long shadow cast by video podcasts and, if we play our cards right, a podcast episode to be made about it.

In this episode podcast producers Jackie Lamport, Sam Datta-Paulin, and Erin MacIndoe Sproule are joined by podcast agency founder Harry Morton to discuss:

• What is a podcast?
• Can a livestream call itself a podcast?
• How clean should your room be before a zoom call or video recording?
• Where do you draw the line between ‘relaxed and authentic’ and ‘lazy’?
• Theatre of the mind

They discuss the H3 podcast, Joe Rogan, Deep Dive with Ali Abdaal, and the ways in which video can add to and detract from a podcast.

Do you think it’s weird that we’re discussing video in an audio only format? Waaaay ahead of you - we’re on Youtube! Check out the video version of this podcast to enjoy a whole host of visual gags and special effects, and form a deeper (but not at all concerning!!!) parasocial relationship with your local podcasting nerds:

https://youtu.be/eAIbrAdcJQI

Links to resources mentioned in the show:

• H3 Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/@H3Podcast
• Podnews: https://podnews.net/
• Sounds Profitable: https://soundsprofitable.com/
• Deep Dive with Ali Abdaal: https://www.youtube.com/@DeepDivewithAliAbdaal
• Podcasting 2.0 Podcast: https://podnews.net/podcast/i4ji5
• Joe Rogan Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4rOoJ6Egrf8K2IrywzwOMk?si=353aad0cec9747aa

Thoughts? Feelings? A deep yet uneasy desire to connect with your fellow man? Same! Follow us and say hi: https://twitter.com/PodBookClub

Podcast Book Club is a Lower Street production: https://lowerstreet.co/podcasts/podcast-book-club