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The City Magazine Show is a weekly variety show, each episode is centered around a theme. This week’s theme is Podcasting. In this episode we tackle the podcasting industry - episodes, businesses, and more. •⁠ ⁠Saskia Cookson discusses students’ PodGold experiences.•⁠ ⁠Elly Young talks about her impression of the first episode of In Detail: The Toxic Waste Scandal•⁠ ⁠YouTube’s One Billion Podcast Viewers with Melusi Ncala, Yaman Mohammed, Thuy Dong and Lucy AntonatosHosted by Elly Young and Max’ed Aadan. Produced by Melusi Ncala, Saskia Cookson, Elly Young, Lucy Antonatos, Thuy Dong.Edited by Thuy Dong, Saskia Cookson and Lucy Antonatos.Made by MA Podcasting students at City St. George’s University. Go to cityunisounds.com to listen to more of our podcasts and find out about our work.Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Podcast Gold celebrated the very best in British podcasting. Nominees and award winners gave us insights on creativity, the production process and the shifting podcast landscape. Can podcasts survive the video onslaught? And should they? Is something lost from the intimate connection that audio creates with listeners if visual versions predominate?In Listen… and Watch? figures from across the best of British podcasting provide their angle on this ongoing debate. From Hannah Moore at the Guardian (who loves audio) to Andy Wood, director of Traitors Uncloaked (leaning towards video), discover who’s following the trend and who’s finding new opportunities to stand out.Written and presented by City St George's podcast student Julie Beguin, this episode – part of the PodGold series – takes you on a lyrical journey through the arguments to reach an unexpected conclusion.  Listen… and Watch? is produced by Julie Beguin and Jackie Imas.

Podcast Gold celebrated the very best in British podcasting. Nominees and award winners gave us insights on creativity, the production process and the shifting podcast landscape. In this exclusive interview with our own Yaman Mohammed, acclaimed journalist and Newsnight host Victoria Derbyshire tells us about her podcast, And Then Came Breast Cancer. Victoria’s podcasting journey is a personal one. Her experience with breast cancer led her to make this warm, informative and impactful resource for any woman (or family) going through the same thing. Listen to And Then Came Breast Cancer wherever you get your podcasts. https://futuredreams.org.uk/and-then-came-breast-cancer-podcast/ Produced and edited by Yaman Mohammed.

Podcast Gold celebrated the very best in British podcasting. Nominees and award winners gave us insights on creativity, the production process and the shifting podcast landscape. In this episode, we hear advice from those at the heart of industry, including Victoria Derbyshire, Bella Neale and Jordan Dunbar. Our guests explain niche audiences, the importance of intimacy between listeners and hosts and how to approach podcast structure. Listen to some of the award-winning podcasts from our brilliant guests: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/and-then-came-breast-cancer-a-future-dreams-podcast/id1571500215https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/blood-on-the-dance-floor/id1680701427https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-hidden-20/id1724404966 Produced by Chloe Sackur and Finlay MacRaeGo to cityunisounds.com to listen to more of our podcasts and find out about our work.

On this episode of Word on the Square, Chief Communications & Brand Officer at Acast, Lizzy Pollott. She talks over the monetization of podcasting, how creators should use the format -- and how artificial intelligence may impact the world of audio production."Podcasting as a medium is so way underserved by advertisers as compared to how effective and engaging it is -- and it's changing massively," she says on the show. "We're working all the time to educate advertisers who have perhaps never thought of podcasting as a medium for them, exactly why it is a perfect for them to reach their audiences, and also when they're in it just how best to maximise it."

Tales of City - The podcast where we hear some of the stories from the lives and experiences of the people who make City University the place that it is. In this inaugural episode, we speak with MA Creative Writing student Aderonke Adeola who tells us all about her writing and how within it, she explores the universal issues of family and class through the lens of Nigerian culture and society.And as an extra special bonus, Aderonke reads out an excerpt from her latest work for us to enjoy and discuss.

Round The Square: In the time it takes to walk around Northampton Square starting from Danny's café, one of the students here at City tells us all about their podcast.In a very special edition, Charlie Brown walks with Tim Utzig from the MA Podcasting postgraduate course and hears all about his experience as a visually impaired student and what brought him to City to study podcasting.And in extra bonus content - one more lap round the square! - he discusses his preparation for the London Marathon and shares his tips and advice for anyone considering similar adventures. Whether in running or podcasting....You can follow Tim:@timutzighttps://www.linkedin.com/in/tim-utzig-44183b173?trk=public_post_feed-actor-nameFind out more about guide running for the blind in his podcast Running Blindhttps://open.spotify.com/episode/7euvHA9nkJGSV96HXMwNXx?si=50a8f87fe3a54506&nd=1&dlsi=00bd6c738481444cAnd Tim will be running the London Marathon for the Guide Dog charity that brought his much loved companion - and City Uni celeb! - Alisa into his life. To donate:https://www.justgiving.com/page/tim-utzig-08

On this episode, our hosts Charlie Brown and Tim Utzig chat with Nathan Freeman from Granny Eats Wolf who tells us the latest from the cutting edge of soundscaping in the podcast industry. And while he is one of the great masters of his craft, Nathan emphasises the importance of collaborative team work for everything that he has achieved: "You got to work together with people you trust, that you think are great and believe in the same thing as you. The best I have ever done has never been on my own." Nathan Freeman is a multi award winning audio director and founder of Granny Eats Wolf - a creative studio that’s putting craft back at the heart of audio storytelling and branding. A former Executive Producer at BBC Sounds and BBC Voice & A.I, he has produced podcasts, radio shows, sonic brand identities and audio dramas for 20 years. Nathan has always pioneered new exciting ways to tell stories in audio, from spatial audio to the BBC’s first synthetic voice. And was behind the world’s first exploration into dynamic live radio promos. Today, he’s continuing that innovation, twisting into life sonic worlds with spatial audio for top tier brands. His credits include Wondery’s British Scandal podcast, Spyscape’s True Spies, The Woman In Black 3D audiobook and Audible’s The Signalman working alongside Academy Award winning Director, Sam Mendes.https://www.grannyeatswolf.com/about