Great podcasts get the best interviews, you note. As with many of the better investigative non-fiction podcasts, S-Town borrowed techniques from theatre and novel-writing to help tell its story, and, journalistically, carefully walked the tightrope between revelatory and exploitative. The wonderful S-Town had a small-town murder as its kick-off, but expanded into something much greater. The show wasn’t for me – Simmons made it clear he didn’t want to be found, which made me too uncomfortable to enjoy it – but it was a huge success. Missing Richard Simmons wasn’t true crime, but its week-by-week tracking-down of Simmons was a rolling mystery. And interestingly a couple of this year’s most successful shows took the true crime, whodunnit element and gave it a twist. True crime, especially murder that can be re-examined, step by step, by the podcast producers (and the listeners), is now a powerful genre. News stories are broken on podcasts, legal situations changed: Serial 1 reawakened interest in the 1999 cold-case murder of Hae Min Lee S-Town, this year’s Serial, has had legal repercussions, too.
The most long-standing shows have fans that have listened for a decade or more and such podcasts constantly garner new listeners, who binge for days until they’re all caught up.
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I t wasn’t so long ago that every podcast article began with an explanation of what a podcast actually is: how to find one, the difference between a podcast and a radio programme … At last, in 2017, such explanations are redundant.
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