Wolverine comes back for a second season

• Marvel and Stitcher have announced Marvel’s “Wolverine: The Lost Trail” - the second season for the “critically-acclaimed scripted podcast series”. It will be available exclusively on Stitcher Premium starting in Q1 2019, and will be released on other podcast platforms later in the year.

• The US mid-term elections are taking place today. Pew’s After The Fact podcast focuses on research surrounding voter attitudes and top issues during this “very different” midterm environment. Plenty of other podcasts will be covering the election. We don’t care how you vote, as long as you do.

• Auphonic, an online tool that processes podcast audio, has announced further customisation of its leveler controls. (It’s a good way to get your LUFS level right).

• “The ear is an erogenous zone”. Sarah Torporoff went to the Paris Podcast Festival. Luckily she speaks French, so was able to understand it all. Enjoy this writeup of the event.

• Job: Chartable is looking for a product engineer, based anywhere in the US.

• Play podcast bingo with this helpful card from podcast producer Alex Laughlin.

Podcasts

Almost Tangible has recorded a performance of Macbeth entirely on location at Glamis Castle in Scotland. The recording is done in full binaural, for an added immersive effect. It’s the first in a series of audio plays.

Six years ago, the CBC’s radio drama department was closed due to budget cuts. PlayMe is a hit indie-turned-CBC podcast that “turns contemporary plays into bingeable audio dramas”, bring audio drama back to Canadian ears.

Chat Sematary is a new Stephen King podcast from Deanna Chapman. The podcast dives into the work of the King of Horror and the resulting adaptations. The first episode is released tomorrow. Deanna Chapman is the Podcast Network Manager at Jabberjaw Media.

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