The Beeb have introduced a couple more podcasts. Simon Mayo’s 5 Live show and the very entertaining Sunday morning show Broadcasting House have been added.
Interestingly a section has been added for BBC2 podcasts – looks like the Beeb may be setting up some companion podcasts to popular shows. I’ll keep my eye on what’s happening and post if something is added.
Taken from their Saturday show on XFM.
They talked on their show a few weeks back about doing a podcast, Adam mentions it on his site. They finish the current run of show in April and hopefully something will come of it after that.
I’ve been looking for really good British podcasts for a while now to get me out of my Radio 4 habit – well, the search is over, Britcaster lists a huge amount of British podcasts. I’m going try out a couple over the weekend and post some recommendations next week.
The BBC comedy blog wrote yesterday about how Ricky Gervais is going to start charging for his popular podcast. It’ll only cost a £1 but could start a trend.
Would I subscribe if I had to pay? I’m not sure. It’ll be interesting to see how it works out and if he can replicate the success he had with the free podcast. He had over 250,000 downloads a week so even if he get half that he’ll be a very rich man.
Would you pay a quid to hear Gervais?
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Just came across this nice little search engine for Podcasts. There’s even a little widget to preview the podcast. Very clever.
I’ve been listending to Mark Kermode’s film reviews from the podcast for the last couple of months and they really are fantastic. Often Mark’s reviews are actually more entertaining than the films themselves.
Yahoo! have just announced a new podcast directory – parts of it have a passing resenblance to 43 Things.
It’s very American in focus but it looks like it has some interesting stuff. It certainly is easier on the eye than ipodder or Podcast.net.
XFM have put up Ricky Gervais’ fantastic show as MP3′s. I can’t beleive it’s taken me six weeks to notice!
Mind you I can’t beleive he hasn’t been taken of the air, the show I heard a few weeks back he was looking for someone to stick their finger up Keith’s arse.