Pods Like Us

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 podcasts. The rest of the episode is Ma...

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 speech and language therapy tha...

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 Belenky and Neil Veglio for the first in a...

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 Farriss and Kirk Pengilly, Bee ...

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, using dark humour as a c...

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-founder Ben that led to the lau...

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: Life of a Cancer, Jamie East's raw, h...

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 stay in care, and Nicola Br...

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 out of his own struggle transcri...

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 eleven!

In this bonus episode, host Marv c...

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 about getting more comfortable with ...

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 and stock footage advisor for films su...

Another packed look back at Marv's week since the previous Chronicles episode.

1. Intro
2. Lazy Sunday researching and recording the podcast When They Was Fab
3. #Soundbite from my discussion with Phil Better of The Podcast Mogul's Playbook
4. Listener reviews
5. Consolidation, Sodajerker On Songwriting, Song Exploder, and more recording
6. #Soundbite from my discussion with Rod Gordon of This Must Be Talking Heads
7. Completing the newsletter and editing...

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 out of an account on X, and a small win.

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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

00:21 Podbites newsletter and Patr...

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 Advisor and Podcaster Extraordinai...