Podcast Book Club
Podcast fans from all around - come and nerd out about podcasts and discover new shows along the way!
On Podcast Book Club - a different group of podcast industry pros sit down each week to pour over an episode of a show they admire.
We're a group of podcasting professionals who spend every day scripting, producing, engineering, and promoting podcasts. And in our free time? We’re podcast fans just like you. We love to listen to even more podcasts and figure out what makes the best podcasts so good.
So tune in and join the club - listen to podcast reviews of some of our favorite gems. We’ll give feedback on podcast content but also sound design, production, scripting, storytelling, and more.
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Podcast Book Club is produced by Alex Bennett, Head of Post Production at Lower Street. Alex is a domesticated audio nerd, who has spent the past five years learning about human social conventions via the medium of podcasting. From Edinburgh, Scotland he is an audio engineer that helps produce audio dramas in his spare time. Alex specialises in soundscapes and creative mixing. He has a deep and abiding love for sandwiches, and is the 2nd worst bowler at Lower Street.
Lower Street provides next-level podcast production services for ambitious companies: everything from podcast strategy and creation to growth. We’ve worked with companies like BCG to develop multiple podcasts like Climate Vision 2050, BCG Compliance, BCG Fintech Files, and BCG In Her Element. We’ve also helped produce: Cadence Bank’s In Good Companies; HPE’s Technology Now, Zuhlke’s Data Today, Northern Trust’s The Road to Why, Zoobean’s The Reading Culture; ICR’s Welcome to the Arena and ZeroNorth’s Navigating Zero.
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- Update frequency
- every 11 days
- Average duration
- 26 minutes
- Episodes
- 12
- Years Active
- 2023 - 2024
Quiz Show Podcasts! We listen to Lateral With Tom Scott
It's a classic PBC episode this time, as we go back to our roots and discuss a podcast to see what makes it tick. Lateral with Tom Scott is a quiz podcast, which is a really underrepresented format i…
The Pressures of Making a Daily News Podcast
Recorded November 2023. The news simply will not stop happening. It feels like every day we wake up, only to find that more things have occurred whilst we slept. So how do you turn all this relentles…
Can a Video be a Podcast? The Unstoppable Rise of Video in Podcasting
“Can a video be a podcast?” is an all-time favourite topic of conversation amongst those of us with “RSS 4 EVA” tattooed on the base of our backs. But for all the audio purists out there it’s hard to…
Season 2: Coming Soon to a Screen Near You!
We're back! And this time we're on video! Season 2 of Podcast Book Club is nearly here. In this new season we'll be covering video podcasts, trailers, history podcasts, daily news shows, and more! We…
BONUS EPISODE: Blowback. A Big, Bright, and Crisp Exposé of American Imperial Excess.
Season two of Podcast Book Club is on its way! Whilst the Lower Street team gets it ready, here’s a bonus episode in the form of a pilot. This was back when the gang of podcasting pros was first bein…
Stuff the British Stole: A Steely Investigation, with Overtones of Loss and Imperialism.
The Podcast Pros are back to investigate one of the many things looted by the British Empire. This particular item has four legs and a mop-like furry body - it’s the Pekingese dog! Their guide? Stuf…
30 for 30: A Juicy Sporting Odyssey, with notes of Pigskin and Wil Wheaton.
In this episode of Podcast Book Club, our podcast professionals investigate the intersection of sport and video games (and podcasting, I suppose). With their helmets and padding on, they’re diving in…
Slow News: An Oaked Classic, with Layers of Mystery and Hints of Darwin.
Podcast Book Club is finally dealing with an actual book review! Well, it’s a notebook. And there are a few of them. And it’s actually a podcast episode about those notebooks. But that doesn’t slip o…
Anthropocene Reviewed: A Deeply Human Story, with Overtones of Death and Decay.
In this episode of Podcast Book Club, the gang dons their plague doctor outfits, as they dive into the morbid history of the great morbidity itself, the plague. Having sourced all the appropriate he…
History of the World in 100 Objects: An Aged, Refined Classic, with notes of Attenborough and hints of Pipe Tobacco.
Ready for an adventure podcast fans? This week Lower Street’s podcast pros have been time-traveling. They’ve been soaking up the Stone Age views of Olduvai Gorge, and the palatial surroundings of a t…
Switched on Pop: An Opulent Noire Spoof, with Overtones of Music Theory and Budget Will Arnett.
This week the Lower Street gang dons their trench coats and trilbys to investigate the podcast Switched on Pop and its recent episode entitled “Who killed the key change in pop music?”
This particula…
Podcast Book Club - Coming Soon!
In a world drowning in content, a brave team of podcast pros are on a mission to find the best podcasts and figure out what makes them so good.
Want to discover new podcasts? Explore what makes a grea…