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This month we welcome special guest Louise Kattenhorn, BBC Sounds Podcast Commissioner.

She'll be swinging by to tell us about what's happening at BBC Sounds, podcast challenges and successes at the Beeb, how their podcast commissioning works and what they reckon makes a great podcast (based on what their audiences are responding well to)

πŸ™‚ About Louise

Louise commissions podcasts that sit under the BBC’s β€˜Pop’ Network brands, from Radio 1’s 6 Degrees with Jamie and Spencer and Scarlett Moffat Wants To Believe to Asian Network’s At Home with The Khans. Beyond β€˜chatty entertainment’ titles, her main focus for this year is a slate of music podcasts like β€˜Songs To Live By’. Her remit also includes BBC TV companion podcasts, like the very successful β€˜Obsessed with…’ strand. LBP (Life Before Podcasts) included making linear radio documentaries, and producing and Exec producing various specialist music shows for Radio 1 and 1Xtra.

πŸ—£ WHAT IS MIC'S PODCAST CLUB?

MIC's (virtual) Podcast Club is a space for podcasters to get advice from each other, chew the fat and be amongst your tribe for a couple of hours a month.

The virtual aspect means that YOU CAN COME FROM ANYWHERE!

MIC's Podcast Club is a free-for-all QnA asked and answered by the community there on the night. All designed to help you make awesome podcasts. We also invite the odd special guest!

We've covered loads of useful stuff like sponsorship, media coverage, mailing lists, trailers, remote recording, audiograms, microphones, growing your audience, "shortcasts" and rating and reviews.

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🎧 WHO'S IT FOR?

Our community is for podcast makers and includes professional podcast producers, hobbyists and DIY creators, BBC journalists, PR specialists and radio professionals - it really is for anyone who's crazy about podcasting.

If you make podcasts, this super useful meetup is for you! Just don't take our word for it... ask our community of awesome podcasters,

"I'm a podcaster thanks to MIC's Podcast Club " - Steve Blears, 'Pitch A TV Show' and 'My Garden' Podcast Producer

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⏲ HOW IT ROLLS

5:50pm - Doors Open
6pm - Podcast Club kicks off
6:10pm - Louise
7.00pm - break
7.10pm - Podcasting Q&A (ask us anything!)
8pm - Podcast Club Closes

There is no pressure for you to get involved, you're more than welcome to simply observe and soak up the advice / awesomeness.

Bring your own drinks πŸ˜‰

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❓❓ SEND IN YOUR QUESTIONS

To the MIC community & our guest - prior to the event, to ensure it gets answered on the night. Please note, we may not be able to answer every question about starting a podcast as this is a very popular subject we get asked about - a lot!

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🎦 THE EVENT IS HOSTED ON ZOOM and we will post the details on this page (with the password) on the day of the event.

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πŸ™‹β€β™€οΈAttendees who regularly come to at least 3 MIC meetups receive an invite to join our exclusive invite-only facebook group too - bonus!

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