Skype to add an official call-recorder; and Podnews em Português: ouça agora!

Skype will soon let you record your calls. The feature launches later this month in Skype 8; older versions of Skype will stop working in a few months.

Thanks to Megafono, the Brazilian podcast host, you can now listen to Podnews em Português every week. It’s a weekly podcasting news update, translated from our weekly update on Spotify and The Word from Mouth. Obrigado!

Kellie Riordan, the boss of ABC Audio Studios, is interviewed in PodMail and highlights radio’s relationship with podcasting. “Whether someone consumes [audio] in the on-demand environment or on a radio, to me that’s almost the wrong argument.”

Related to the above, Fantastic Audio is a new podcast from the University of Bedfordshire (an actual place, not from a sleepy children’s story) about making radio, and “exploring how we define what good audio is”.

Google Play Music appears to have had some issues with importing recent episodes: according to some podcasters it’s been stuck for five days. (It’s entirely different to Google Podcasts: here’s an FAQ all about that).

Audioboom have two new hires - former UK radio exec Mike Newman (Free Radio, Gem 106) is their London Head of Content Partnerships, and former advertising exec Umesh Barve is their Head of Partnerships in India.

50 years since the ultimate psychedelic movie Yellow Submarine was released, alt music station BBC 6 Music have released the A to Z of Psychedelia, a 36-part meandering journey through the golden age of psychedelia from the mid 60s with Marc Riley and Rob Hughes.

In the United Arab Emirates, podcast downloads are up by 100% year-on-year.

In Canada, podcasting is growing. 20% more Canadians have made podcasting a weekly habit in the last ten months, says Audience Insights.

Fans of aloof British accents might enjoy this episode of We Are Podcast, featuring Podnews’s editor, James Cridland.

The Sun in Minnesota interviews one of the hosts of The High Five Podcast, a comedy podcast; meanwhile NorthJersey talks with Michael Manzi and Joey Lewandowski who have a podcast featuring all of Nicholas Cage’s 86 movies, #CageClub.

HotPod 169 focuses on the US book publishing industry. The WSJ also covers this area. Nick also really likes Wilson FM, a curated podcast app.

Listicle, schmisticle: Podcasting Is Spry In July, No Lie is a list of the Legal Talk Network’s latest podcasts; 3 tips for the mobile podcaster from Blubrry helps podcasts like ours when we hit the road to Philly.