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Congratulations, you’ve made a podcast and no-one is listening to is! Welcome to the world of 99% of all podcasters. Being a podcaster can often feel like an exercise in having your dreams punctured. You want people to listen to your show? Well, guess what? You’ll probably end up with…

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From the ages of about 17 to 19 I was a cinema obsessive. It was really all that I took seriously. I’d go to 3–5 films a week, basically seeing anything that was on general release and often going more than once if I thought it was half-decent. …

If I believe one thing, it’s that there’s no objective “good” in podcasting. Sometimes people will recommend me a show and I’ll listen along and get nothing out of it. How could someone consider that good? I think to myself. And then, conversely, I’ll often evangelise for something that proves…

There is a line, in the final episode of the new Apple original podcast Project Unabom, taken out of the mouth of the Unabomber himself. “My bombing campaign ended 22 years ago, my trial was completed 19 years ago,” the anti-tech domestic terrorist wrote in a 2017 letter. …