BBC Sounds, the BBC’s radio, podcast and music app, has released new figures, claiming a record audience of 4.06 million users per week. (BBC Radio reaches 34 million users per week across all platforms). The corporation also revealed that it achieved a total of 288 million global podcast downloads across the world during this quarter (making it about the same size as Wondery).
From Lemonada Media: Burnout, hosted by Connor Franta, explores the story of burnout, discovers how it affects your body and mind, and looks at why the easy solutions simply won’t work to solve a systemic problem. Burnout is produced by Lemonada Media and Mindful.
The Media Podcast with Matt Deegan comes from Radiodays Europe this week, with a special guest of Podnews’s Editor, James Cridland. Expect a discussion on Spotify’s appearance, plus a media quiz that James has no chance of winning.
Someone Knows Something, the award-winning investigative podcast from CBC, returns for a new season, focusing on “the abortion wars”.
Kuper Island is also brand new this week from CBC. An 8-part series, it tells the stories of four students: three who survived and one who didn’t. They attended one of Canada’s most notorious residential schools – where unsolved deaths, abuse, and lies haunt the community and the survivors to this day.
She Pivots is a new podcast with Marie Claire, hosted by Emily Tisch Sussman. The show is centered on women and how their personal stories inspired them to pivot and eventually led to success.
