Inside the lives turned upside down by Afghanistan’s fall to the Taliban
Gone are the days when podcasting was all about plucky upstarts. Lists of the most popular shows are increasingly stuffed with pods backed by big corporations, or shows from reality TV stars whose idea of a killer format is: “So, I just talk into this for an hour then advertisers pay me?”
But in a rare victory for the little guy, this week the British Podcast Awards declared that the nation’s best new podcast was recorded in a Liverpool garage by a team of one: its host Graeme Smith. is an LGBTQ+ podcast which puts black, trans and HIV positive perspectives at the heart of its storytelling, largely using voices from the north, and (best moment) and Kirk Flash of the comedy series , who won the rising star award.
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