New podcast tells true tales of unconventional modern dating

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Accidentally MILF: Online Dating Adventures After 50 is a new podcast following the dating adventures of a British journalist living in Los Angeles.

She unexpectedly finds herself looking for love online in her fifties after she discovers her cheating husband in the clutches of another woman. 

After almost 20 years of marriage, Angel Bliss – as she is known in the series as her identity is being kept under wraps – is back in the dating game.

New podcast investigates murder that inspired Agatha Christie

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Agatha Christie and the Dandelion Poisoner is a new podcast series hosted by Joe Nocera.

The eight-part Audible Original podcast, produced by Blanchard House, investigates a historic British murder case that helped inspire the best-selling writer, Agatha Christie. 

It all starts in May 1922, where Major Herbert Armstrong has just been executed for poisoning his wife, despite maintaining his innocence.

Wondery’s hit true crime anthology Over My Dead Body returns

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Over My Dead Body, true-crime series from Wondery, is returning for a fourth season.

The new series, Over My Dead Body: Gone Hunting is about a relationship built on a secret and tells what happens when that secret begins to destroy everything.

When Floridian Mike Williams goes missing on a hunting trip into the swamps of north Florida, the police claim he was eaten by alligators.

BBC Radio 1Xtra podcast explores UK’s influence on hip-hop

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How The UK Changed Hip-Hop Forever is a new podcast series from BBC Radio 1Xtra.

Hosted by British actor and rapper Ashley Walters, the eight-part series explores the UK’s influence on hip-hop.

From foundational British artists to the unexpected encounters that influenced a generation, each episode tells the story of a surprising but significant link between the UK and a key moment in hip-hop history.

New global research looks at podcast ads bought programmatically

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Veritonic and Acast have partnered to research commonalities and differences in programmatic ad creative in podcasts.

In addition to identifying these global overlaps and points of difference, the goal of the research was also to help media buyers with programmatic podcast advertising across three key media markets: the US, Australia and New Zealand, and EMEA.

New podcast tells true story of Ireland’s polite bank robber

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I’m Not Here To Hurt You is a new podcast from The Irish Independent, telling the true story of Ireland’s polite bank robber.

John O’Hegarty. studied philosophy at the University of Leuven in Belgium and had a masters in psycho-analytic studies from Trinity College, Dublin.

Life was on a good track until a winter’s evening in 2002 when a bicycle accident changed everything.

British Podcast Awards 2023 nominations are revealed

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The nominees for the 2023 British Podcast Awards, with the industry trade publication PodPod, have been announced.

Winners of each category will be revealed at the awards show on Thursday 28 September at HERE at Outernet London. Zoe Lyons and Stephen Bailey, comedians and co-hosts of Let’s Talk About the Husband, are hosting the event.

This year, over 150 nominees across 27 categories will be vying to win one of the trophies.

Audio Production Awards return with extended nine-week entry period

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The Audio Production Awards, sponsored by Audible, have returned for their thirteenth year.

Organised by AudioUK, the Awards recognise and celebrate outstanding achievement in audio production across a range of audio content: podcasts, audiobooks, sound design, radio, presenting.

The Awards are open to production talent across the UK and are opening for entry earlier this year so applicants will have nine weeks to enter instead of six as in previous years.

New series of Absolute Radio podcast Tim’s Listening Party to launch

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The Charlatans frontman Tim Burgess is returning for a second series of his podcast.

Tim’s Listening Party hears from guest artists, sharing stories and insights about their seminal albums. The eight-part series is also broadcast on Absolute Radio.

Guests on the first series included Fall Out Boy, U2’s the Edge and Skin from Skunk Anansie with The Observer’s Miranda Sawyer commenting about the show that ‘any band would kill to get their LP played and treated with such respect’.

Jamie East to head up podcast operations at dmg media

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dmg media has appointed Jamie East as Head of Podcasts.

Reporting directly to Ted Verity, Editor, Mail Newspapers and Vere Harmsworth, Director of Publishing Strategy, this new position will see the Mail expand its podcast and digital operations.

Jamie begins his new role which will involve commissioning new shows and delivering compelling content on Tuesday 8 August.

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