Continuation of the Radio Academy event, January 15th 2007, including questions from the floor.
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Continuation of the Radio Academy event, January 15th 2007, including questions from the floor.
On 15th January in London, UK, Radio Academy Director Trevor Dann hosted a seminal event about podcasting.
The panel included Nathalie Schwarz from Channel 4, Matt Wells, Head of Audio from Guardian Unlimited, Sarah Prag from the BBC, and noted independent radio / podcast producers Hermeet Chadha and Karen Pearson. The session covered many issues around podcasting, including definition, production values, regulation, culture, expectations of both listeners and viewers, metrics, and the commercial realities of making podcasting pay.Dean Whitbread from Talking Voices and the UK Podcasters Association takes part in the question and answer session in part two, talking about video and the Association for Downloadable Media initiative.
This podcast is in two parts, encoded at 96kbps, and currently not delivered via RSS, so we thought we’d oblige.
We have a new video showreel online, demonstrating our online video production work. Online video is being commissioned much more frequently these days than when we first started Talking Voices. As 2008 begins, audio podcast production remains the majority of our production work. We expect to be producing more genuinely new media formats including video, radio and the genuinely innovative use of social media in 2008.
Talking Voices’ producer Dean Whitbread travelled to Boston at the end of October to take part in PodCamp, a new media grassroots conference. The conference was attended by over 1000 people and lasted three days.
This interview was conducted by new media arts consultant evangelist Len Edgerly.
Talking Voices senior podcast producer Mark Hunter is a keen photographer. He has been using popular photo-sharing site Flickr to document his work for the AICR podcast, using their notes function to go into some detail about how he works.
Interesting and informative, his Tartan Stories blog has a comprehensive account of his methodology. Mark also covers the background to his professional work in his personal and engaging Tartan Podcast.
Ewan Spence’s extremely well-received Edinburgh Fringe podcast is up and running once more - his third year on the job, and how many podcasters can say that? This episode has a great interview with comedian Stephen K. Amos and some amazing human beatboxing from The Tom Tom Club. Oh, and there’s a Talking Voices advert around 17 minutes in. Well worth subscribing to this podcast.
Mark Hunter is producing this new podcast for AICR, the Association for International Cancer Research. Subscribe here.
The theme tune is “Cinema is Burning” from another Talking Voices-associated creative team, Cinema Du Lyon.
“We were considering asking Tartan Media Productions / Talking Voices to get involved with AICR as we were aware of the work Mark Hunter had produced for the Tartan Podcast. However, it was hearing the podcast for Glasgow Caledonian University that persuaded us that he was the right person to partner with. Although we thought we could probably look after some of the technical aspects ourselves, we realised that we needed a Producer who was used to working in this medium to pull everything together and keep the project moving along.In our business it is too easy for other tasks to take precedence and the podcast may have been put on the back burner. Mark has brought structure, ideas and a relaxed style to what we produce. Many of people who listen to our podcast have questions about cancer symptoms and treatments, and Mark’s calm but clear style definitely helps in getting our message across.”
Talking Voices are pleased to be working with JM from Solar Radio on a fabulous new soul music podcast, JM Soul Connoisseur, a showcase of the great and talented unsigned, independent soul artists who are doing it for themselves.
The PodCamp Europe attendees engage in some extra-curricular group huggery…
The latest Unradio.co.uk episode. A fun and revealing interview with broadcaster and podcaster “Sassy” Sonya Buyting.
“Researching hormonal responses lead me to “Sassy” Sonya Buyting, ex-Discovery Channel science journalist, now HD TV host, presenter and producer, and podcast pioneer from Canada.”
In this 30 minute interview, Dean and Sonya discuss avatars, a passion for science, programme-making, and the “selfish reasons” for making a podcast.

Here’s an interview with Newcastle band, The Orange Lights - definitely worth a listen if you like moody, tuneful, downtempo rock music.
Unradio 2
Janet Parkinson searches for the women in podcasting today, and talks with Linda Mills of Podcast User Magazine, Suja, co-founder of Podbazaar, and Anna Farmery of the Engaging Brand about the issues facing women podcasters, techno-caution, the value of skills mentoring to enable communities, good reasons for making podcasts in the first place, and their vision of what could be.
Unradio is a Talking Voices in-house production. Subscribe.
This is a new Talking Voices project which explores and exploits the differences between podcasting and radio.
We produced and helped to promote a compilation selection of the best of British podcasting, Podcast Tasters, delivered on that most conventional of media, an audio CD, at the Internet World Expo, Earl’s Court today.
Jamie Riddell’s well received Web 2.0 keynote speech covered podcasting, social bookmarks, UGC, CRM, Second Life and Twitter.
What I really like about this compilation is that everyone seems to find something different to say, not only about their own podcast and reasons for doing it, but about the wonderful world of podcasting and potential for the medium.
In my own 2 minutes at the end, I give a strong shout out for PodcampUK and a direct appeal for sponsorship and involvement. Let’s hope this succeeds in boosting this excellent cross-community grassroots project in the UK.
Let’s also hope that the CD, with it’s nod towards user-friendly convenience in a conventional format, succeeds in presenting UK podcasters as the gifted, hardworking and eminently sponsorable bunch we truly are.

If you’ve been listening to podcasts recently you’ve probably heard about Bum Rush the Charts with the Black Lab track ‘Mine Again’. Janet at Talking Voices caught up with Mark Yoshimoto Nemkoff, host of Shadow Falls Badlands - shadowfalls.podshow.com, right in the middle of the Bum Rush the Charts event on Friday evening UK time, March 23rd.
Mark was naturally really excited and was preparing himself for a few sleepless nights as the results were starting to come in. Check out www.bumrushthecharts.com for the latest figures, which show what can be achieved when podcasters flex their collective muscle.
Update: Check out Skinny White Boy’s “debunking” of the event.
Senior producer Mark Hunter talks about why he makes podcasts, the thinking behind the Tartan Podcast and the Mellow Monday show, and the upcoming Sony Playstation 3 podcast.
Short audio introduction to Talking Voices, the company, by Dean Whitbread.