Award winning audio producers discover “electric” podcast trio on the tube.

Whistledown, the producers behind BPA Podcast of the Year “Press Play Turn On”, have launched a new podcast on Spotify.

Power Sisters features three lifelong friends who’ve juggled the demands of having high-powered careers with the challenges of raising a family.

The trio of black women - Rachel, Elaine and Caroline (they prefer to use first names only) met at school in South London in the early 90s. They talk candidly about the prejudice they’ve encountered, their struggles to get to the top of their chosen professions, and the pressure they’ve felt as representatives of their respective communities.

Rachel is a communications executive who worked at No 10 for both Theresa May and Boris Johnson. Elaine has a successful senior role in education and is coming to terms with a car accident in 2022, and Caroline is a lawyer.

Whistledown producer Liza Ward overheard the three women talking on the Northern Line and recruited them on the spot. “I was blown away by their extraordinary energy, enthusiasm, love and mutual support for each other,” says Ward, “and we’ve managed to capture that electricity in the studio where “the sisters” are completely at home.”

Power Sisters, produced by Liza Ward and Faye Lyons White, is the first of a series of planned releases from Whistledown which has been making radio programmes and podcasts for 25 years and has studio bases in London, Glasgow and Berlin.

The company produced the very first Spotify Original podcast, the weekly satire “We Need to Talk About” with comedian Jolyon Rubinstein, back in 2017.

“We really value our long partnership with Spotify,” says Whistledown Managing Director David Prest, “and the slate of titles we’ll be rolling out this year shows our commitment to quality podcasting”.