Senior UK radio execs launch Podcast Live
Podcast Live will produce live shows featuring popular UK podcasters, starting with a politics-themed event with Iain Dale, James Delingpole and others this April
News By | 20 February 2019
A new venture producing live shows by popular factual podcasters, Podcast Live, launches today in the UK.
Podcast Live – led by Heart FM founder and former LBC boss Phil Riley (chairman) and British Podcast Awards creator Matt Deegan (creative director) – will stage interactive versions of some of Britain’s leading podcasts in front of a live audience. Events will be both single and multi-day, covering topics including politics, sports, lifestyle and health/wellness.
The other co-founders are finance director Michael Connole, formerly of Chrysalis Group and Global Radio, and John Myers, ex-CEO of Guardian Media Group Radio.
The first Podcast Live Event will take place on 7 April at the Light (1,000-cap.) at Friends House in London, and feature ten politics-themed podcasts, including Iain Dale and…