Pods Like Us

Get Through the Suck: The First 50 Episodes Martin sits down with Phil Better (Phil Lemire), host of The Podcast Mogul’s Playbook , for a wide-ranging chat about what makes podcasting work. They argue for audio-first over the video push and talk about why post-production is where most shows fall over. Phil explains how to market a show without burning out, why he wears a “Phil Better” mask, and wh...

Find Your Own Style: Ignoring Podcasting's Common Wisdom with Matt Bliss - In this episode, Marv talks with podcast producer, mentor and self-described philosopher Matt Bliss about how podcasting has changed since the pandemic pivot, and why he thinks the best advice is often the advice you tailor to yourself. Matt argues that "common wisdom" from the internet is mostly noise, that editing should...

The Heads, the Lawsuit, and the Long Road Back. How an Instagram Account Spooked a Band Reunion. This time on Pods Like Us, Marv sits down with Rod Gordon, the man behind the podcast This Must Be Talking Heads , to talk all things Talking Heads — and the story behind the show itself. Rod shares how an "unofficial" Instagram account he started in 2019 accidentally spooked the band into setting up t...

Engaged Views and Disengaged Truths - Pods Like Us Chronicles — Episode Show Notes Host: Martin "Marv" Quibell Episode Summary Marv opens with a look at the World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing (kicking off Saturday 22 August 2026), including a robot smashing Usain Bolt's 100m record and a musing on what happens when you put an LLM inside a humanoid robot. Then it's on to the week's podcast indus...

Liquid Content, Skip Buttons, and a Memory Walk - Episode Summary This week Marv shares a personal reflection on a memory walk marking one year since his mum's passing, then runs through a jam-packed week in podcasting news — TrueFans, Spotify's skip button backlash, YouTube's tougher monetisation rules, a new AI voice platform, African podcast monetisation struggles, Disney's deal with The Overla...

Risk, Rears, and Reverb Marv reunites with two old friends from the Nottinghamshire music scene — Dolby Atmos mixing engineer Kurt Martinez and music educator/dementia-charity worker Rob Huskinson — for a wide-ranging chat about immersive audio, career risk-taking, and what it actually means to teach music in 2026. Kurt walks through how he backed into podcast/audio-drama mixing via Audible's earl...

The Skip Heard Around the Podcasting World - Spotify's "Skip Forward" fallout The big story of the week: Spotify's new ad-skipping option for premium users, first flagged by James Cridland (PodNews) and picked up by Elsie Escobar and Rob Walch on In and Around Podcasting . Marv unpacks why it's such a headache for ad-supported podcasters, traces it back to Spotify's 2018 "Active Media" experiment...

Marv opens with a trailer for the podcast, But You Can't Stay Here , about a move from the US back to Lima, Peru in 2024 and the pull between two homes as their three-year anniversary approaches. He follows with two bonus clips: a 2025 conversation with Arielle Nisenblatt about her podcast-listening habits, and a fresh chat with old bandmates Rob and Kurt about mixing immersive/Atmos audio for pod...

On the Tip of My Tongue: Jonathan Hirons on Aphasia, Advocacy, and Podcasting This episode, Marv sits down with Jonathan Hirons, host of the podcast On the Tip of My Tongue , to talk about aphasia — a communication disorder that affects language but not intelligence or memory — and how it shaped his life and work. Jonathan shares the story of the sudden stroke that left him with aphasia, the speec...

Mercedes vs. Ford: The Great Podcast Artwork Debate - Marv (Martin Quibell) rounds up a busy week in podcasting, featuring a special roundtable on episode artwork with NJ Belenky (PodBiz) and Neil Veglio (PodKnows, Podmastery), plus the usual roundup of podcasting news, links, and listens. Panel: Should You Change Your Episode Artwork? (The "Mercedes vs. Ford" Question) Marv is joined by NJ Belenk...

Access All Areas: Bee France on a Lifetime of INXS Marv sits down with Bee France , host of not one but two INXS podcasts — INXS Access All Areas and Listen Like Fans — for a sprawling, story-packed conversation about the band that has shaped her life for nearly 40 years. From an accidental introduction via a friend's Duran Duran fandom to becoming genuine friends with band members like Tim Farris...

This week on Pods Like Us Chronicles , Marv sits down with Jamie East — Head of Podcast at DGM, and creator/host of Bad Blood: Life of a Cancer — for an unfiltered conversation about turning a chronic myeloid leukaemia diagnosis into one of the most honest podcasts around. Jamie talks about recording the first phone call within days of diagnosis, why he refused to cut the swearing out in the edit,...

From a University Dorm Room to RSS.com : The Alberto Betella Story - Marv sits down with Alberto Betella , co-founder of RSS.com , following a chance meeting at the Podcast Show in London. Alberto traces an origin story that stretches back two decades — from building the open-source Podcast Generator as a university literature student in Italy in 2005, to a serendipitous 2017 email from RSS.com co...

From CIA Cats to Community: This Week in Podcasting - This week on Pods Like Us Chronicles, Marv reflects on two long walks, a moving new podcast about cancer, and sits down with two brilliant guests shaping the future of audio drama and scripted podcasting. In this episode: 🚶 A seven-mile walk, a heatwave, and an intro built entirely out of numbers 🎙️ A powerful recommendation for Bad Blood: Lif...

Pods Like Us — Harry's Home: Bringing Alzheimer's to Audio Drama Host: Martin Quibell ("Marv") Guests: Helen Quigley (Producer, B7 Media) & Hannah Puddefoot (Writer) Episode Summary Marv sits down with producer Helen Quigley and writer Hannah Puddefoot to talk about Harry's Home — an audio drama adapted from Hannah's 2013 stage play, starring Phil Davis as Harry, a man returning home after a s...

Pods Like Us Chronicles — 5th July 2026 This week, Marv brings a re-recorded conversation, two guest-spot clips from other shows, and a full round-up of his week in podcasting. He opens with an improved re-recording of his chat with Tobiloba Sulaiman , creator of AuTrans , a transcription tool built for African languages like Hausa, Pidgin, and Nigerian dialects. Tobiloba explains how the app grew...

On Thursday the 2nd of July 2026 Marv spoke with Ana for what was intended to be around five or six minutes for a segment of a Chronicles episode, but it lasted a little bit longer. He decided instead of portioning off a five to six minute piece of the conversation to include it as a segment of the episode, that he would put out the longer discussion as what will now be episode one of season eleve...

Coming soon: Marv speaks with more people from the world of podcasting and online creatives, to find what you are looking for, whether it be a new show to get addicted to, tips for podcasting, or anything else.

This week Marv did more podcast editing, started writing articles, and more, but as the image shows, has still not got the new show art. Also this week he eats crow by apologising for a mistake the previous episode about listening times (thanks to Neal Veglio's Podmastery podcast ), and received more inspiration from King Crimson's Robert Fripp. He also agreed with Dave Campbell's Substack article...

Marv is joined by filmmaker, archive film researcher and founder of Stag Film Productions Mike Davis to discuss his new Green Film ' Dead, White And Blue '. In his filmmaking Mike reuses stock and archive footage that he pieces together, removes all of the sound from, and then creates a narrative around. As well as his work as a filmmaker in his own right, they also discuss his work as an archive...

Another packed look back at Marv's week since the previous Chronicles episode. Intro Lazy Sunday researching and recording the podcast When They Was Fab #Soundbite from my discussion with Phil Better of The Podcast Mogul's Playbook Listener reviews Consolidation, Sodajerker On Songwriting , Song Exploder , and more recording #Soundbite from my discussion with Rod Gordon of This Must Be Talking Hea...

In this episode Marv talks about what's happened with his podcasting journey between Sunday the 7th of June and Saturday the 13th of June. There are also clips from future episodes with Helen Quigley and Hannah Puddefoot of Harry's Home , RSS.COM founder Alberto Betella, and podcast producer, mentor and presenter Matthew Bliss . 1 Intro 2 Journal 1 - Finishing off editing, creating music, scammed...

It's a little bit more produced than last week's first ever episode of the Chronicles episodes, so I would love to hear what people think of it. Does it work with the different segments? Are the musical interludes okay, or would a bit of electronica, rock, or something else have worked better? Does it matter? Technically there are six elements to this episode, and here they are; 00:00 Introduction...

Marv gives some initial quick take aways from discussions that he has had with guests from recordings for future episodes. 1. Mike Davis - Founder of Stag Films, Writer, Producer, Director, and Archive Footage Advisor. 2. Hannah Puddefoot and Helen Quigley, the writer and the producer respectively of audio drama Harry's Home, which looks at the subject of Alzheimer's. 3. Phil Better - Podcasting A...

Marv recorded quick chats with three people at the event to find out what it is that they love about The Podcast Show London 2026. Over 6000 people in attendance!