Seven years ago, The Spectator began podcasting. Why? For fun, really. Our writers were always being invited to comment on national broadcast shows, and so we thought, why not create our own? Podcasts gave us a chance to give our own writers their platform – if you don’t know what podcasts are, think radio programmes on demand, just like Netflix.
It’s been a big success. We started with ‘The Spectator Podcast’, which now has over 30,000 listens each week. We launched Coffee House Shots, our political podcast, in 2016 – and then made it daily when Theresa May announced the snap election a year later. People seemed to like it so we just kept going. Last year, Shots was listened to over five million times.
We now have podcasts on topics ranging from politics to culture, literature to religion.
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