Cast Masters

Who better to feature in our first episode than the host of one of Australia's most popular, informative, and idiosyncratic podcasts? Matt Bevan from the ABC's If You're Listening joins Dom to explain how his podcast grew from a segment on Radio National's venerable Breakfast programme, on which Matt was reading the news during the first Trump Administration.We explore the evolution of the podcast's intense fortnight-based production schedule, how it evolved to produce radio, video, streaming and television versions of the show, as well as one of the special ingredients that makes the show so compelling – his team's unlimited access to the ABC's enormous content archives, and news content deals.For a podcast investigating how podcasts are made, with a particular focus on the role of incumbent media companies in their success, it's hard to think of a more fascinating first case study than If You're Listening. (Image: ABC News.)