$2.5m for Blue Wire

• Sports podcaster Blue Wire has raised $2.5m and says it’ll be profitable next year. It has so far raised $11.4m. Its podcasts should get 124m downloads this year, says company founder Kevin Jones.

• Acast has announced a new series of articles, Behind The Podcast, which will “share stories from the diverse mix of people and roles working within podcasting”. It focuses on Karla Patella, sound designer of Sweet Bobby.

• Global ad revenue is dropping, says WARC, highlighting concern about a global recession.

• NPR has expanded their Planet Money+ subscription channel. It now includes three sponsor-free shows, and bonus episodes. You can also subscribe here.

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From Pushkin: In Car Show, longtime Car and Driver editor Eddie Alterman tells stories of vital cars — the ones that have changed how we drive and live, whose significance lies outside the scope of horsepower or miles per gallon.

¿Quién Are We? is new from Colorado Public Radio - hosted by CPR News host May Ortega, it will feature stories about the wide-ranging identities and experiences of members of the Latinx community. Listeners will meet an amateur chef whose drive to recreate his grandmother’s green chile recipe helps him feel more connected to his heritage, an entrepreneur who turned his passion for plants into a business opportunity and an executive whose life revolves around a tight-knit community of minor league baseball fans.

Behind every successful person is a magnificent mum. My Mum Made Me is a new show featuring the perspective of adult children in the public eye. It’s hosted by Paul-Reza Afshar.

From the BBC World Service, The Bomb is back for a new series, focusing on a story from the 1940s: Klaus Fuchs, a German emigré, nuclear scientist and Soviet spy who worked on the British atomic bomb project, and fellow Soviet spy, Ursula Kuczynski, his handler. Who was Klaus Fuchs, the man who stole from Britain and the US and gave Russian intelligence the theoretical outline for creating the atomic bomb and the initial drafts for its development? What role did Ursula Kuczynski play in facilitating him?