{"id":1199,"date":"2022-10-09T10:23:34","date_gmt":"2022-10-09T09:23:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.greatbritishpodcasts.com\/?p=1199"},"modified":"2022-10-09T10:23:38","modified_gmt":"2022-10-09T09:23:38","slug":"activists-talent-show-stars-and-women-artists-plus-tracey-emin-tim-peake-and-anton-ferdinand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greatbritishpodcasts.com\/picks\/activists-talent-show-stars-and-women-artists-plus-tracey-emin-tim-peake-and-anton-ferdinand\/","title":{"rendered":"Activists, Talent Show Stars and Women Artists plus<\/i> Tracey Emin, Tim Peake and Anton Ferdinand"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Last week saw Podcast Day 24<\/strong><\/a>, a big international podcasting summit with announcements and guests galore. <\/p>\n\n\n\n There were a few innovations discussed, such as this innovative card game which hopes to help anyone who wants to start their own podcast (face it, we have a podcast idea in our back pocket). Methodkit<\/a> was praised for how it helps people structure their podcast and come up with format ideas. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Another highlight included Jess Phillips MP saying that she would like to do a podcast with Boris Johnson, to prove to us all what he is really like. \u201cThis is not in sympathy to him, he\u2019s just like nothing he comes across on the television,\u201d Phillips<\/a> said. \u201cHe\u2019s not better. In many ways he\u2019s worse.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n And there was also a new podcast announced by the creators of the British Podcast Award winning series The Log Books<\/strong><\/a>. I\u2019ve already had a listen and it is so good I decided to feature it as one of our recommendations in this week\u2019s newsletter. See details of it below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n NOTABLE NAMES ON PODCASTS THIS WEEK<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n If you have listened to a great guest on a podcast, let us know by filling in <\/strong>this form<\/strong><\/a> and it might get featured in an upcoming newsletter.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Here are our podcast picks for the week ahead<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n If you want your podcast featured, or you have a great recommendation, all you need to do is fill in this <\/strong>simple form<\/strong><\/a> and might get featured in a future newsletter.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Black and Day, Back in the Day<\/strong><\/a> – <\/strong>Throughout UK Black History Month we\u2019ll be featuring many great podcasts, starting with this one from the creators of The Log Books<\/strong><\/a>.<\/strong> It\u2019s a collaboration between Marc Thompson and Jason Okandaye, exploring and amplifying stories of Black LGBTQIA+ lives in Britain from the 1970s to the turn of the Millennium. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Each episode consists of a young presenter meeting someone older who can help shine a light on this important social history. The first episode, fronted by journalist Abi McIntosh, delves into Black LGBTQ+ media treatment and representation. Abi starts by reading up an archive copy of Gay News, realising that media representation since the 1970s has not necessarily changed for the better: \u201cUnfortunately, this is still the case in the media and in LGBT media. It\u2019s very white and very male, and if there is anything to do with lesbians or queer women they are white women.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n She then meets Ted Brown, a Gay Liberation Front activist and journalist and they both share the experiences of their own respective generations, and discuss whether the risks of the younger generation becoming less political and taking freedoms for granted. It\u2019s a stimulating, thought provoking discussion. \u201cThe danger with taking these things for granted is that you don\u2019t appreciate your achievements and there are people willing to take those away,\u201d says Brown. \u201cAnd many of us need to be more conscious and politically conscious to keep what we have, and to move forward.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Talent Factory<\/strong><\/a> – There has been a lot of re-evaluating of cultural moments throughout the noughties in recent years. And for months there have been troubling news stories circulating about what television talent show experiences were like for the contestants who actually participated in them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n So this new BBC Sounds series, presented by singer and previous X Factor contestant Amelia Lily, couldn\u2019t be any more well timed. This easy-to-listen series, consisting of 15 minute episodes, delves into the issues surrounding this sausage factory; from the exploitation of the sob story to the long term consequences of overnight fame in the public eye. Expect a lot of names to pop up you may not have thought about for years, creating a lot of unexpected nostalgia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n