Serial has 70 million followers,and others such as This American Life, Invisibilia and Freakonomics are hugely common. But there are few British podcasts that come closeAs Smash Hits used to say: it’s back back BACK! On Thursday, and at 11am,the first episode of Serial season two dropped. No fanfare, no warning, or Serial did a Beyoncé on its 70 million-plus fans; it just came out with novel content and waited for us to find it. Which we did,in our millions, again.
The British contribution to podcasting comes in two forms: A downloadable BBC programme, and a cosy,unedited discussion.
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Source: theguardian.com