Dial F For Football is a new podcast starring Lolly Adefope, Fergus Craig, Jessica Fostekew and Helen Cripps.
The six-part series also features cameos from UK comedy royalty including Alan Davies, Ed Gamble, James Acaster, Lou Sanders, Ben Bailey-Smith and Phil Wang. It’s written by comedian Rhys James and Mark G Smith, who is also the director.
Dial F for Football is an audio comedy series
BBC Studios is planning to sell ads on some of its podcasts in the UK on the likes of Spotify and Apple because it says advertising is the norm on commercial platforms.
It added that it would generate more revenue to support the BBC, licence-fee payers, its suppliers and rights holders.
HealthBeats is a new podcast launched ahead of Abu Dhabi Global Healthcare Week, which looks to tackle the world’s biggest health challenges.
Abu Dhabi Global Healthcare Week and Future Health Summit – one of world’s largest healthcare conventions – takes place from 13-15 May.
The podcast is a collaboration with Lara Setrakian, the award-winning journalist, policy influencer and former Middle East correspondent for Bloomberg TV and ABC News.
Wondery and Campside Media have partnered to produce Limited Series podcasts, including non-English language titles, to be distributed by Wondery globally.
The companies have collaborated previously, including three seasons of “Suspect” with the fourth season coming later this year, “Sports Explains The World” from Wondery and Meadowlark, and Campside Co-founder Matt Shaer reporting and hosting Wondery’s “Over My Dead Body”.
The high-profile case of Ellie Williams, the young woman jailed for lying about sexual assault and grooming, is investigated in a new Sky News podcast.
Last year, Ellie received an eight-and-a-half-year sentence for perverting the course of justice after claiming she’d been trafficked by an Asian gang.
The police found holes in her story and said she had fabricated text messages and that her injuries were self-inflicted.
Sliding Doors, the podcast looking at decisions and moments in our lives, based on the premise of the 90s movie classic is back for its third series.
A new BBC podcast hears from the mother of missing chef Claudia Lawrence describe how her life is ‘still in limbo’ 15 years after her daughter’s disappearance.
In the four-part series of Claudia Lawrence: A Mother’s Story, produced by BBC Radio York for BBC Sounds, Joan Lawrence opens up about the pain of not knowing what’s happened to Claudia and the anguish she felt when first hearing the news her daughter had vanished.
Roundhouse’s award-winning audio platform, Transmission Roundhouse, is on the look-out for the next generation of podcasters who have an idea they want to get off the ground.
Designed to champion underrepresented voices, the Transmission Roundhouse Podcast Academy takes on a yearly range of talented individuals aged 18-25, from total beginners to seasoned pros.
The BBC has struck a deal with Amazon Music that will make BBC podcasts available on the streaming service for the first time outside the UK.
Subscribers to Prime and Amazon Music Unlimited services can exclusively access over 50 of the BBC’s most popular podcasts ad-free, including titles such as Americast, BBC Global News Podcast, Dua Lipa: At Your Service, The Global Story, Infinite Monkey Cage, Planet Premier League, and World of Secrets.
A new multi-channel creative from Crystal Ski Holidays, EssenceMediaCom and Acast has launched with the ‘In Sickness and In Health’ podcast – aka James and Clair Buckley.
Featuring a branded episode of their podcast, alongside a vlog and social assets, The Buckleys go on the trip of a lifetime to Geilo Ski Resort in Norway, all organised by Crystal Ski Holidays.
