The Pod Files - Friday 11 April 2025

 

The ‘casts -

(Notes spoken to Siri, and edited later if I remember

(Changed tactic now where starred dialogue denotes quoting from the show’s own notes

Roger Bolton's Beeb Watch - 2 April 2025: Roger is joined by James Cridland, editor for Podnews and radio futurologist, to discuss the BBC Annual Plan, and about the possible monetisation of the BBC’s audio services. *"The only change going on here is that we're getting rid of the BBC Sounds app, and you have to use the not-very-good-as-a-replacement bbc.com/audio. So, if you're using a smart speaker or Tuneln, then, reading that paragraph, you would expect that you will still be able to have a listen, which is brilliant. But they've kind of hidden that under a bushel. They only put that on the website last week, but that's a significant thing, if that's what that means."

Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day - 9 April 2025: vouchsafe

Composers Datebook - 9 April 2025: Festival Music for Vienna, by Strauss

StarDate - 8 April 2025: Heavy Metal

Daily Tips That May or May Not Help You with Arielle and Ned - 10 April 2025: A Tip For Airplane Entertainment

The Icarus Complex - 16 March 2025: Chapter 30 | The One with Hannah - Part Four

Composers Datebook - 10 April 2025: Skrowaczewski's 'Imaginary

Passacaglia'

Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day - 10 April 2025: chary

StarDate - 9 April 2025: The First Stars

Daily Tips That May or May Not Help You with Arielle and Ned - 9 April 2025: *A Tip For Setting Expectations (w/Liz Hake) - April 2025 Guest Tipper Liz Hake is here with a tip to make your relationships, both professional and personal, go smoother. / Liz is a public speaking coach, keynote speaker, and real estate pro from Seattle whose mission is to empower others to step into their full potential with clarity and confidence.

The Stupid History Minute - 9 April 2025: Famous Amos Chocolate

Chip Cookies

SmartLess - Sean woke up nervous, Jason had new computer security measures. And Will seems fine too. They all mention that they have to try and push the right for voting and understanding politics. The show reflects that. This is a rarity in that they all know ahead who the guest is, the governor Tim Waltz, who at this time was running for Vice President. 

New Podcasts - 7 April 2025: *How to Age Up is a new season of The Atlantic's popular How To series, launching today - co-hosted by Atlantic staff writer Yasmin Tayag and producer Natalie Brennan. / Together they will examine how our scientific understanding of the aging process is expanding and if our cultural thinking is keeping pace - including looking at how we normalize aging and why we continue to push back against its inevitability.

7 Good Minutes - 28 March 2025: How To Develop The Self-Discipline You Need For Success (The Easy Way)

Fanzone from TrueFans - Season 1, Episode 11: 9 April 2025: *Stream Icon - Find out how you can pay a podcast creator based on the amount of time you listen to an episode. / Your favourite podcasters are going to love you! / Music: How It Is from Ketsa Music

5 Good News Stories - 5 October 2024: *Viral Buddy the Elf Decoration / Kate Middleton's Christmas Service / Hallmark Channel Christmas Movies Lineup / Universal Orlando's Christmas at Hogsmeade / Broadway Bar's Early Christmas Decorations

7 Good Minutes - 28 March 2025: Extra - Self-discipline is...

The Official Marvel Podcast - 9 April 2025: *Behind the Scenes of Daredevil: Born Again with Executive Producer Dario Scardapane - This week, Marvel Television's Daredevil: Born Again Executive Producers Dario Scardapane and Sana Amanat discuss episode 7 spoilers (2:33). Then, Dario shares how he brought the Daredevil and Kingpin rivalry back to TV screens (6:59). Later on, we'll hear from The Bowery Boy's host Greg Young on the real-world history of Hell's Kitchen (14:22).

Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day - 11 April 2025: kitsch 

Podnews Daily - 10 April 2025: *Merger creates UK "podcasting supergroup" - In the UK, three podcast production companies have announced a merger. Platform Media, Listen and Goldhawk - all owned by PodX - are to merge under the Platform Media name, dubbed a "podcast supergroup". / Acast has partnered with Supercast to offer paid subscription tools. They'll be available to all Acast podcasters, allowing them to easily sell exclusive audio and video content, ad-free feeds, and the ability to engage with other fans. / PodcastOne has seen video views "surge 218% year-over-year". The company posts to Rumble and Substack as well as YouTube and Spotify.

StarDate - 10 April 2025: Ulugh Beg Observatory

Sounds Profitable - 10 April 2025: *Spotify Video Converting RSS,

Podcasting's Fandom Boost, & More - The Impact Spotify's Video Has on Publishers by Bryan Barletta / The Fandom Phenomenon / What's Working in Podcast Advertising Right Now: Insights from Libsyn Ads at Podcast Movement Evolutions / DeepCast has announced a big expansion of their Deepcast Creator features for Podsites, opening up more customization options, custom pages, embedded media support, and a built-in contact form. / Podcast One has announced a 218% year over year increase in video views on their content distributed across leading services like YouTube, Rumble, Substack, Spotify, TikTok, and Apple+ / Acast has teamed up with Supercast to allow podcasters on Acast to access Supercast's suite of tools to create and grow premium podcast subscription programs. / Australian broadcaster ARN Media has launched Integrate, a creative solutions team responsible for creating integrated ideas for brands and developing long-term partnerships. / Wondery has a new investigative podcast dubbed Death County, PA, in which investigative journalist Joshua Vaughn looks into a series of mysterious inmate deaths in Dauphin County Prison. / EMARKETER predicts US creator podcast revenues will approach $1 billion this year, according to their forecast.

Daily Tips That May or May Not Help You with Arielle and Ned - 11 April 2025: *A Tip For Weekend Reconnections - Pick a friend. Old or new. Reach out. This weekend. See how they're doing. Then, let us know how you're doing.

Leave The Gun, Take The Cannoli - season 1 episode 8: 9 April 2025: *Death by a Thousand Cuts It's difficult to imagine "The Godfather's" torrid Sicily scenes being filmed anywhere but Italy. Yet, if Paramount executives had gotten their way, Michael Corleone's love affair with Apollonia-played by Simonetta Stefanelli, an unknown actress who spoke no English— would've transpired on a Los Angeles studio lot. Fortunately, things didn't turn out that way. "The Godfather" decamped for Sicily in the summer of 1971, and no one was more pleased about this change of scenery than Francis Ford Coppola, who was finally able to distance himself from the overbearing Robert Evans and his spy Jack Ballard. Coppola's respite wouldn't last long, though. He returned to America with 90 hours of footage badly in need of editing. Naturally, Evans and his fellow biawigs had opinions about that, way. "The Godfather" decamped for Sicily in the summer of 1971, and no one was more pleased about this change of scenery than Francis Ford Coppola, who was finally able to distance himself from the overbearing Robert Evans and his spy Jack Ballard. Coppola's respite wouldn't last long, though. He returned to America with 90 hours of footage badly in need of editing. Naturally, Evans and his fellow bigwigs had opinions about that, too. In Episode Eight, Mark and Nathan follow Coppola and the cast and crew on their journey across the Atlantic and back again, discussing the director's original three-hour cut of the film, Nino Rota's iconic score that almost never was, and Evans's tennis injury and subsequent drug addiction. [I want to see the five hour cut of the first Godfather film! I absolutely love the maybe five or so hours of deleted footage that are on the boxset that I own!] 

New Podcasts - 7 April 2025: *Canardian - Season two of Canardian, "the podcast gossiping about Canadian hometowns", is here. Falen Johnson, co-host of the beloved podcast The Secret Life of Canada, joins the show to discuss Brantford, Ontario. It's from Pod The North, and hosted by Kattie Laur.

Daily Dad Jokes - 10 March 2025

Audio Poem of the Day - Episode 1,673: 2 November 2024: X Number by Chris Glomski

Daily Facts - 30 May 2024

MinuteEarth - 21 November 2024: Plate Tectonics Explained

The Slowdown - episode 1126: 27 May 2024: Today's poem is Not So Much an End as an Entangling by Linda Gregerson.

New Podcasts - 7 April 2025: *The Girlfriends: Spotlight - The Girlfriends: Spotlight is new from iHeartPodcasts and Novel Audio today. The new instalment will feature eight gripping episodes exploring untold accounts of women caught in the web of crime, survival and justice. It's hosted by Anna Sinfield.

Daily Dad Jokes - 11 March 2025

Womanica - 5 June 2024: Barbara May Cameron

Daily Life Pro Tips - 28 May 2024

7 Minutes For Yourself - 29 April 2023: Grow With It! - Achieving New Levels of Success by Exploring Your Abilities

Table Manners with Jessie and Lennie Ware - season 1 episode 8: 27 December 2017: *Clara Amfo - Superwoman of the airwaves Clara Amfo pops over for this week's Table Manners and before we know it we're talking Fifty Shades sex scene music, blocking your mum on WhatsApp, deadly spiders and Prince, a lot of Prince... By the way this is the last show of the current series, thanks so much for listening and stand by for more Table Manners in 2018! xxx

The Daily Poem - 11 October 2023: *Scowl Unraveled: A Farmer's Redemption Through Grace - Today's poem is about Contempt in the style of Wendell Berry. / Poems generated from OpenAl ChatGPT API with proprietary prompts. / This podcast is produced by Klassic Studios

5 Minute Biographies - 30 March 2017: *Vincent Van Gogh - S02E10 - In the tenth and final episode of season 2 of the 5 Minute Biographies podcast, we take a brief look at the short and sad life of a genius from the world of art - Vincent Van Gogh.

Wikipedia Featured Article of the Day - 29 February 2024: Blood on the Floor (Turnage)

Fanzone from TrueFans - Season 1, Episode 12: 11 April 2025: *Extras Icon - What happens when you click on the three dots icon on the episode screen? / You'll find out a little more about: Sharing episodes. / Marking as played. / Downloading. / Reporting. / Music: How It Is from Ketsa Music

The Daily Quiz Show - 9 December 2024: Sports and Leisure 

Bucket List Careers - 11 January 2024: *Finding Balance and Fulfillment: Dara Astmann's Key Strategies for Ambitious Moms - Dara Astmann's bucket list career? Becoming a life and career coach who works with mothers to make themselves a priority - so that they in turn can figure out what is on their bucket list! We brought Dara back on the podcast to share how she pulled off her full pivot from corporate to entrepreneur, committing to her coaching business after nearly two decades in marketing and sales with Paramount. Dara's guiding ambitious moms who are ready to confidently pivot towards a career that ignites both passion and balance. Whether returning to work after kids, managing the juggle of work-life balance, becoming unstuck with a mid-career pivot or renewing your professional fulfillment at any stage, Dara shares her tactics for turning the focus inward, allowing yourself to feel supported in your larger goals and dreams!

7 Good Minutes - 29 March 2025: The Magic of Everyday Moments: A Journey into Slow Living

Radio Headspace - 16 March 2021: Too Much Focus

Question of the Week - 2 November 2020: *How do bats roost upside down? - Satish asks: "how does a bat sleep the whole day hanging from a tree? Won't being upside down affect blood circulation?" Phil Sansom went to find the answer, with help from Western University's Brock Fenton…

Naked Scientists In Short - 5 December 2011: *Chemistry at the Synchrotron - This month, we celebrate the international year of chemistry by exploring the wide range of chemical discoveries and research taking place at Diamond. We investigate the role of chemistry in pitting erosion, photovoltaics and nanowires as well as reveal how Diamond has been used to unearth a new source of mercury poisoning...plus all the latest news and event from diamond including a wake up call revealing the benefits of caffeine!

7 Good Minutes - 29 March 2025: Extra - The art of slow living is about...

The Puzzler with AJ Jacobs - 13 January 2025: “Sander’s Sand” with Sam Sanders