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Transcripts for each episode now available on Apple Podcasts

Apple has introduced transcripts for Apple Podcasts to make podcasts more accessible and easier to navigate.

Users can now read the full text of an episode, search the episode for a specific word or phrase, and tap on the text to play the podcast from that point in the episode. As an episode plays, each word is highlighted, making it easy to follow along.

flock and hive

Broadcaster Helena Nicklin launches new lifestyle podcast

Flock & Hive is a new podcast investigating where science and spirituality meet and redefining the art of living.

Hosted by sisters, drinks writer and broadcaster Helena Nicklin and artist Lizzie Cane, who come together in the second half of their lives to challenge old beliefs from their very traditional upbringing and ask honest questions about how the world works.

mike carr

“Branded podcasts are just podcasts,” says Crowd Network’s Mike Carr

The branded podcast market is changing, and Crowd Network’s CEO Mike Carr explains to us why it may be time to redefine the term.

Crowd has produced a number of branded podcasts, with its most recent being a co-production between the company’s branded division, Crowd Branded, and Greenpeace with Oceans: Life Under Water.

red room podcast

Jenny Claffey rejoins Acast with award-winning Red Room podcast

Red Room, a seasonal ‘look down the rabbit hole’ of cults, true crime, conspiracy theories and unsolved mysteries, has signed to Acast.

When the hosts of one the most iconic Irish podcasts of the past decade, It Galz went their separate ways in 2021 host Jenny Claffey continued to bring her journalistic storytelling to podcasts when she launched Red Room, which has gone on to win an Irish Podcasting Award.

asshole animals

Zoo Expert Alice Vassallo’s podcast tells stories of Asshole Animals

Asshole Animals with Alice is a podcast giving animals with a bad reputation a new PR image and reveals mean creatures and their shenanigans.

Hosted by wildlife comedian and zookeeper Alice Vassallo from Cambridge, the podcast dives into the behaviours of the most expected and less expected “assholes”.

finding what works

Happiful Magazine releases second series of Finding What Works podcast

Finding What Works, the podcast featuring experts and those with experience around topics in mental health, has launched a second series.

Host Katherine Nicholls explored a range of topics in the first series, with conversations about friendships, eating disorders, resilience and more.

true crime awards

True Crime Awards 2024 shortlists announced

The shortlisted content across podcast, broadcast and publishing in the True Crime Awards 2024, as voted by its panel of industry judges, have been revealed.

cover up the anthrax threat

New season of Cover Up explores FBI investigation into bioterrorism attack

Sony Music and Campside Media have launched The Anthrax Threat, a new season of Cover Up.

The podcast explores the FBI investigation of the first lethal act of bioterrorism in October 2001 when letters laced with the deadly powder anthrax began appearing in U.S. mail.

Following the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the FBI reassigned thousands of agents to the counterterrorism unit to prevent another domestic tragedy.

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Moonkarta first series draws to close with five new episodes

Series one of Terry Mynott’s podcast Moonkarta has come to an end with the release of five new episodes.

Last year, comedy actor and impersonator Terry Mynott teamed up with writer and stand-up comedian Col Howarth to write and produce the podcast.