Jamie East has bad blood

• At some point 1 in 2 people will be affected by cancer. “Whenever I read that stat, I just always felt sorry for the other guy. Plot twist… you will occasionally be the other guy,” says Jamie East, who releases Bad Blood: The Diary of a Cancer today. Jamie, who is Head of Podcasts at DMG Media, was diagnosed with chronic myeloid leukaemia in June 2025; the show, which starts today, includes real-life conversations from his doctors appointments, and an audio diary.

• The Escucha Podcast newsletter has published its final issue. Starting in November 2020, the fortnightly Spanish-language publication focused on podcast reviews and criticism. “The crushing emergence of AI and the shift towards video by a large part of the industry have created a significant cocktail of two things that don’t interest me in the slightest”, writes Pablo Fisher; but he adds “Escucha Podcast was a beautiful project, the loveliest and best thing I’ve done in my professional life. It led me to meet incredible people, to listen to the best minutes of audio in our language (also the worst; the selection task hasn’t been easy).”

• Goalhanger has licensed its fiction podcast Sherlock & Co to BBC Sounds. The show currently gets 800,000 downloads each month, and will perform two sell-out live shows at London’s Southbank centre later this year.

• She’s on the Money, an Australian finance podcast, is celebrating 1,000 episodes today. The show, from iHeart Australia, is rewarding its community of listeners with prizes.

Tips and tricks - with Podcast Movement NYC

• In podcasts, music isn’t just a prop - it’s a protagonist; so says Lindsay Graham, the Founder of Thrumm. He was speaking at Podcast Movement last year.

Podcast News - with Airwave

With Airwave: In Attaboy Clarence, join Adam for talk about classic movies and old-time radio shows, featuring a specially selected episode each week.

The Podnews Weekly Review this week is co-hosted by Hall of Famer Elsie Escobar - we cover tools podcasters need to succeed, and all the latest news about the industry; plus, part of a international session from The Podcast Show.

Future Hindsight’s OCCUPY! An Unfinished Uprising hosted by Mila Atmos is a new series tracing the era-defining Occupy Wall Street movement. The series features firsthand accounts from on the ground to illuminate the movement’s lasting impact as Occupy approaches its 15th anniversary this September. Future Hindsight is now also partnering with PRX to bring the show to listeners.

In Navigating Net Zero with Alexia Kelly Series 1 in Review, Alexia steps back to reflect on what she’s learned in a first series speaking with leading climate activists. It’s an exploration of the ideas that surfaced again and again across thirteen remarkable conversations.

A new kids podcast and video series launches today, Mr Hugo’s Little Library, produced in partnership with RNZ, TVNZ, NZ On Air and Shaw Rocket Fun Canada. Mr Hugo’s Little Library follows three young friends as they meet an enthusiastic librarian and discover a magic library where books come to life - literally! Produced in New Zealand and starring George Fowler, a.k.a Hugo Grrrl, the series features a glittering cast of characters brought to life by talented performers from New Zealand and Canada’s drag communities.