New deal brings BBC podcasts to Amazon Music globally for first time

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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.

New distribution and ad-sales deal for The Sam & Billie Show podcast

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Wondery and Amazon Music have entered a podcast distribution and ad-sales representation deal with Crowd Network’s The Sam & Billie Show podcast. 

The agreement also sees episodes of the show available ad-free on Amazon Music later this month.

The Sam & Billie Show is hosted by sisters, best friends, entrepreneurs, and mothers Sam and Billie Faiers. They rose to national fame on the TV series The Only Way is Essex

Amazon Music launches Podcast Previews to enhance listening

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Amazon Music has launched Podcast Previews in the UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand.

It allows customers to easily discover new podcast shows and episodes. Through Podcast Previews, listeners can access short, easy to digest, segments of full podcast episodes, allowing them to quickly and easily discover new podcasts through simple swipes.

Podcast Previews uses audio from the podcasts so listeners know exactly how it sounds.

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.

New podcast goes inside inside Britain’s unique celebrity culture

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Terribly Famous is a new podcast taking listeners inside Britain’s unique celebrity culture to chart the lives of its most iconic stars.

From the career highs to controversies, meteoric rises to missteps, each season tells the story of one of our biggest stars, launching with best-selling artist Adele, with later seasons confirmed for Victoria Beckham, Zayn Malik and Lily Allen.
Hosting the Wondery and Amazon Music podcast are actor, improviser and stand-up comedian Emily Lloyd-Saini and fellow actor, comedian and writer Anna Leong Brophy.

Wondery and AT WILL MEDIA launch young-adult audio-fiction drama

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A new coming-of-age audio drama, Academy is being launched by Wondery and AT WILL MEDIA.

The story is about the overly ambitious student body of one of the most prestigious boarding schools in America, a secret society brewing chaos and power struggles on campus and romantic entanglements that threaten to destroy everything.

Among the star-studded cast are Myha’la Herrold (Industry, Black Mirror) and Benjamin Norris (Never Have I Ever, Superstore).

Diss and Tell podcast unpacks our favourite celebrity feuds

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A new podcast from Wondery goes deep into pop culture’s most iconic celebrity feuds.

Savage subtweets. Scathing diss tracks. Tell-all memoirs. These are the weapons that celebrities use to wage modern social warfare against each another.

Feuds between celebrities captivate us like nothing else. Why are there so many fights that play out for everyone to watch? How do public figures tap into the arsenal of weapons at their disposal to come out on top? And why do we have such a hard time looking away?