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Meta
by Peter Wells
Meta is a podcast about podcasts. Each week Meta will interview the best podcasters in Australia and overseas to find your next favourite show. We'll take you behind the scenes of your favourite podcasts to hear hosts as you've never heard them before. Find out what motivates podcasters, and how much work is involved to get the shows you love to your headphones. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episodes
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Spotify's Hybrid Podcast Model
Late last year, streaming music service Spotify gave podcasters the chance to blend published music into their shows. Spotify’s podcast creation tool, Anchor, lets creators embed songs from the streaming service’s vast library of music. While there are hundreds of services offering royalty free...
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Get Fucked Gary - Industrial Relations with Urzila Carlson
Industrial Relations with Urzila Carlson Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Peter Kafka On Digital Media
Peter Kafka has been speaking to the most important people in media for the last decade. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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A Labor Of Love And Beer Money
Think your podcast is niche? The Mac Admins podcast speaks to a tiny group of professionals each week - it has done for five years now. The show has gone from a weekly catch up has turned into "some beer money" - thanks to the hosts understanding and communicating with the community. Hosted on...
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Scott Galloway Wishes He Was Australian
Scott Galloway is one of the smartest thinkers with a microphone. Im so glad I was able to speak to him Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Accidental Podcaster Fiona Reynolds On Her Hit Show, Accidental Celebrity
In her long career as a journalist, Dr. Fiona Reynolds reported on the Thredbo landslide, interviewed Bruce and Denise Morcombe, who sacrificed their privacy to appeal for help in the search of the son Daniel, and spoke with Rosie Batty, who became the face of change in the move against domestic...
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Declan Fay on The Sweetest Plum and Cross Bread
Declan Fay has been podcasting for a decade. in 2021 he is close to celebrating 200 episodes of his podcast The Sweetest Plum, an indie comedy pod. We also talk about Cross Bread, one of my favourite pods of 2020. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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The Hardest Word - A Pod about apologies
The host of The Hardest Word was an early adopter of the podcast medium, creating podcasts Hootville and The Anglican and the Atheist in 2004. He was a young kid with a pocket full of pod-dreams. Alas the dawn of podcasting's golden age was a decade away and the podcasts withered along with his...
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Kellie Riordan On Leaving The ABC And Going It Alone
As head of ABC Audio Studios for the last decade, Kellie Riordan was responsible for some of Australia’s most loved podcasts. Riordan championed a diverse slate of shows, from the true crime series Unravel, Ladies We Need To Talk, and an unflinching look at someone experiencing a mental health...
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Tracking The Far Right In Australia
Yeah Nah, Pasaran is a weekly show dedicated to putting fascism and the far right under the microscope. The independent podcast has become a must listen for those wishing to track the organisation of far right movements in Australia. The podcast takes its name from the anti-facist rally cry ¡No...
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Greg Larsen On Valuing Your Work
Greg Larsen tells a familiar story of life as a comedian during 2020. He had a show ready to debut at the Melbourne Comedy Festival when covid cancelled the festival. But rather than scramble to move his work online, Larsen had been podcasting for some time, and had built a loyal audience. “I was...
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Behind the Scenes of A Red Hot Australian Christmas
Red Hot Australian Christmas is a darkly funny 45 minute radio play set during last year’s devastating bushfire season. It’s the story of Heather, a matriarch trying her best to ignore the fires and host Christmas for her extended family. She stays strong even as the mercury rises and smoke…
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Oh No! It's Ross and Carrie!
You know that meme of the girl sitting beside the ice cream sign, "this is what its like to listen to podcasts"? That's me whenever a new episode of Oh No Ross and Carrie drops. If you've never heard their show, you're in for a treat, there's so many amazing episodes in the archives to explore....
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Marc Fennell on Stuff The British Stole
Marc Fennell is the busiest man in podcasting. Beyond his weekly technology podcast, Download This Show, Marc has made a series of short run series for Audible, and is now back at the ABC with Stuff The British Stole. Marc shares how he came up with the show, from development to pitch, and then…
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The Storytelling Matrix and Days Like These
Days Like These, the latest podcast from ABC Studios, will feel immediately familiar to podcast fans. The series has the structure and tone of classic non-fiction podcasts, like This American Life, while still sounding completely Australian and unique. Producers Rachel Fountain and Ian Walker are...
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Tim Ross On Life's Rich Tapestries
Podcasts can be incredibly niche affairs, allowing creators to indulge in their obsessions without chasing mass market appeal. Case in point is comedian Tim Ross' latest, House Stories; a short run series on the rarely seen tapestries of the Sydney Opera House. When I mentioned how niche the...
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Productivity During a Pandemic with Amantha Imber
Dr Amantha Imber is an organisational psychologist, best-selling author, and founder of Australia’s leading innovation consultancy Inventium. Her thoughts have appeared in Harvard Business Review, Entrepreneur, Forbes, and Fast Company and she is the author of two best-selling books: “The...
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Nazeem Hussain Saved A Troll's Life
Nazeem Hussain was preparing for a month-long run at the Melbourne International Comedy festival, followed by a national tour, when COVID-19 upended his plans. Knowing all Australian comedians were in a similar situation, Hussain launched a podcast: The Survivor’s Guide to Coronavirus. Hussain…
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Brianna Peterson On Entertaining Kids In Lockdown
Brianna Peterson may have one of the most recognisable voices for the under ten set. For the last two years Peterson hosted Imagine This, an ABC science podcast for kids, that answered the big questions like why we get hiccups, and why mosquito bites are so itchy... Peterson has since gone...
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Amanda Palmer Is Watching The Collapse Of America From New Zealand
American singer-songwriter Amanda Palmer was part-way through a world tour when COVID-19 shut the world down. As luck would have it, she was in New Zealand when her flights were cancelled. "I think I won the jackpot on this one very much by accident, but I am really, really lucky, as an American...
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Kara Swisher - Zuckerberg and The Road To Hell
Kara Swisher joins me to talk about her new podcast with the New York Times, Sway. We also discuss her twenty year career on the tech beat, 500 episodes of Recode Decode, and discovering the big dog, Scott Galloway, for her podcast Pivot. Along the way we talk about the importance of finding a...
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Matt Bevan - Trump Is Not Playing Four Dimensional Chess
After three seasons of the ABC's excellent political podcast Russia, If You're Listening, host Matt Bevan is back with new episodes focused purely on the last four years of Trump. Now renamed America, If You're Listening, the show will dive deep into a different defining moment in the US...
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Rachael Brown - Trace
Among the glut of true crime podcasts released post Serial, one series stood out. Trace, from ABC’s Rachael Brown, ignored the sensationalist trappings of so many true crime yarns, remembering the victim and her surviving family are real people, not binge-worthy characters created for our...
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Amy Donaldson and Hunter Mulcare - Two Shrinks Pod
Amy Donaldson and Hunter Mulcare host one of my favourite independent podcasts, Two Shrinks Pod. The pair join me to discuss how the pod came to be, as well as mental health in the time of covid, is our government offering enough support to vulnerable people, and exactly what mental health issues...
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Julia Gillard - A Podcast Of One's Own
Former Prime Minister Julia Gillard joins me to discuss A Podcast of One's Own, her show exploring women in leadership. Gillard's guests include Hillary Clinton, Cate Blanchett, Sally McManus and Deborah Frances-White. Her podcast remains upbeat and empowering, despite the structural misogyny so...
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Baratunde Thurston - We're Having a Moment, How to Citizen
Baratunde Thurston os an award-winning comedian, writer and activist. In 2020 he has released two podcasts, We're Having a Moment, a short run series looking at the Black Lives Matter movement, and the US response to covid-19. He is has recently launched a podcast How To Citizen, which champions...
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001 - Tegan Taylor and Dr Norman Swan - Coronacast
I spoke with Tegan Taylor and Dr Norman Swan of Coronacast on two occasions. Once in June, when Australia's collective response to Covid-19 seemed to have sheltered us from the major health and economic effects. I spoke to them again in early August, with my hometown of Melbourne deep in weeks of...
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Meta Trailer
After a few months work, I'm so happy to share Meta, a podcast about podcasts. Thanks to all the wonderful people who took the time to be interviewed. Featured in the trailer: Tegan Taylor and Norman Swan from Coronacast Baratunde Thurston from How to Citizen Monika O'Hanlon from Would You Rather...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Meta is a podcast about podcasts. Each week Meta will interview the best podcasters in Australia and overseas to find your next favourite show.
We'll take you behind the scenes of your favourite podcasts to hear hosts as you've never heard them before.
Find out what motivates podcasters, and how much work is involved to get the shows you love to your headphones.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
HOSTED BY
Peter Wells
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Meta is a podcast about podcasts. Each week Meta will interview the best podcasters in Australia and overseas to find your next favourite show. We'll take you behind the scenes of your favourite podcasts to hear hosts as you've never heard them before. Find out what motivates podcasters, and how...
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Meta is created and hosted by Peter Wells.
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