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 game the system, get to the top of the iTunes chart and whether charts matter anyway.

17: Alison Vernon-Smith: The Producers

May 19th, 2021 34m 57s

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 makes her the perfect person to talk about producing podcasts. Or does it? She tells us how she ap

16: The Log Books

May 12th, 2021 12m 55s

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 real stories from Switchboard, the second- oldest LGBT+ telephone helpline in the UK which first

15: Chris Hogg: Cassie and Corey

May 5th, 2021 26m 59s

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 story of eating disorders to a young audience in his podcast Cassie and Corey. He told me 6 weeks

14: Danny Lowney: The Influencers

Apr 28th, 2021 15m 16s

This week, I’m talking podcasting value with Danny Lowney, managing director of influencer agency, Sixteenth who is watching with interest the potential of podcasting to become the next platform for making some serious cash. He explains the im

13: Josh Adley: Listen

Apr 21st, 2021 20m 28s

This week, Josh Adley, Director of Commercial & Client Relations at London production company Listen tells Gilly Smith that podcasting as an industry has only just begun in Britain to offer a real income for anyone who wants to play the game..

12: Hana Walker-Brown: Anthems

Apr 14th, 2021 23m 37s

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

11: Georgia Catt: The Missing Cryptoqueen

Apr 7th, 2021 38m 39s

This week, Radio 4 and BBC Sounds producer, Georgia Catt tells us about her award winning series with presenter, Jamie Bartlett, The Missing Cryptoqueen, and the rise and rise of the long form podcast, the audio version of the Netflix binge.

10: Olly Mann: on pioneering the Britpod

Mar 31st, 2021 47m 7s

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 This in 2008. Since then, he’s presented The Week Unwrapped and The Moderrn Mann and made real

9: The My Dad Wrote a Porno team

Mar 24th, 2021 30m 1s

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 and most unlikely success in podcasting. Alice Levine, James Cooper an Jamie Morten have been maki

8: Helen Zaltzman: Answer Me This

Mar 17th, 2021 25m 20s

This week, I’m with the matriarch of British podcasting pioneers, Helen Zaltzman whose Answer Me This, Veronica Mars Investigates and The Allusionist podcasts set the standard in home grown talent. Here she talks about community support, maki

7: Ira Glass: This American Life

Mar 10th, 2021 25m 34s

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 masterclass in storytelling and the immersive listening experience, and talks us through the iconic blur

6: Jon Wilks: The Old Songs podcast

Mar 3rd, 2021 32m 42s

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

Feb 24th, 2021 21m 3s

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 and getting on to New and Noteworthy anyway. And all to the soundtrack of a helicopter over h

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

Feb 17th, 2021 41m 57s

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, the place of awards and how to think laterally about monetising.

3: Jessie and Lennie Ware: Table Manners

Feb 10th, 2021 27m 2s

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 about their podcast Table Manners.

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

Feb 3rd, 2021 35m 59s

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 cartoons inspire him, why he went to BBC Sounds and why podcasting is for him the perfect platform fo

1: The Trailer

Nov 20th, 2020 3m 43s

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 Smith, a practical guide to podcasting filled with the voices from the pioneers of the industry. Ho

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