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How to Grow a Pod

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Episode publication activity over the past year

Episodes

18: Lance Dann: Blood Culture and Gaming the System

26 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This week, award-winning podcaster, author, sound design geek and academic, Lance Dann tells me his top tips to get your podcast discovered, how to ga...

17: Alison Vernon-Smith: The Producers

19 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This week, we hear from Alison Vernon-Smith whose thirty years’ experience as a producer in broadcasting at the BBC and in the independent sector ma...

16: The Log Books

12 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This week, I’m talking queer podcasting with Tash Walker, Adam Smith and Shivani Dave, the team behind The Log Books, the niche podcast carved from...

15: Chris Hogg: Cassie and Corey

05 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This week, I’m with Award-winning podcast producer and playwright Chris Hogg who used the unlikely format of a drum ’n’ bass musical to tell the...

14: Danny Lowney: The Influencers

28 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This week, I’m talking podcasting value with Danny Lowney, managing director of influencer agency, Sixteenth who is watching with interest the poten...

13: Josh Adley: Listen

21 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This week, Josh Adley, Director of Commercial & Client Relations at London production company Listen tells Gilly Smith that podcasting as an industry ...

12: Hana Walker-Brown: Anthems

14 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This week, award winning sound designer, Hana Walker Brown on immersive storytelling, the political power of podcasting  and where she thinks the ind...

11: Georgia Catt: The Missing Cryptoqueen

07 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This week, Radio 4 and BBC Sounds producer, Georgia Catt tells us about her award winning series with presenter, Jamie Bartlett, The Missing Cryptoqu...

10: Olly Mann: on pioneering the Britpod

31 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This week, a bumper masterclass of an episode with Olly Mann who with Helen Zatlzmann was one of the earliest pioneers in podcasting with Answer Me T...

9: The My Dad Wrote a Porno team

24 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This week, in the very first interview I did for the book, I’m Zooming with the entire team of My Dad Wrote a Porno, surely Britian’s most famous ...

8: Helen Zaltzman: Answer Me This

17 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

 This week, I’m with the matriarch of British podcasting pioneers, Helen Zaltzman whose Answer Me This,  Veronica Mars Investigates and The Allusi...

7: Ira Glass: This American Life

10 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This week, Gilly is with  Ira Glass, the legend of podcasting, the brains behind and the voice of This American Life.  Here he gives us a mastercla...

6: Jon Wilks: The Old Songs podcast

03 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This week, Gilly talks to folk expert Jon Wilks of The Old Songs podcast on hobby podcasting, niche communities, using music and meeting your heroes....

5: James Ramsden: The Kitchen is on Fire

24 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This week, James Ramsden from The Kitchen is on Fire podcast, on not trying too hard, having a bit of a ramble with your best mate, a bit of a format...

4: Matt Hill, co-founder of the British Podcast Awards

17 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This week, Matt Hill, co-founder of the British Podcast Awards on producing Fearne Cotton’s Happy Place, The Week Unwrapped and The Modern Mann, th...

3: Jessie and Lennie Ware: Table Manners

10 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This week, we hear the full interview with pop star, Jessie Ware and her mum, Lennie from How to Start and Grow a Successful Podcast by Gilly Smith ab...

2: George the Poet: Have You Heard George's Podcast

03 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, we hear the full interview with George the Poet from How to Start and Grow a Successful Podcast by Gilly Smith.  Find out why cartoo...

1: The Trailer

20 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

How to Grow a Pod is the podcast about podcasting. It's the podcast to accompany the book, How to Start and Grow a Successful Podcast by  Gilly Smit...