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U.K. Podcast Companies Want What the U.S. Has, Looking Past the BBC The public broadcaster has long dominated audio production in Britain. But new podcast companies are taking inspiration from America and finding investors to shake up the industry. When Renay Richardson started Broccoli Productions, “my main goal was not to be dependent on the BBC,” she said.Credit...Suzie Howell for The New York Times March 15, 2021 LONDON — In November 1922, the BBC sent out its first radio broadcast. Back then, the public broadcaster provided one hour of content a day, but in the century since, BBC R...
by David Prior Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, Johnnie Ray... can Billy Joel help disentangle one of the most complex yet relatively unexplored periods in modern history? We Didn’t Start The Fire (WDSTF) is the name of a new history podcast, launching today, and will investigate the fraught nature of American, Korean and Cuba-Soviet Union relations from 1949 to 1991. It's produced by Manchester-based audio-on-demand network Crowd Network, and will each week use a line from Billy Joel’s seminal song to unravel a different topic associated with the subject. The start of the series will ...