1 in 2 people will be affected by cancer at some point. “Whenever I read that statistic, I always feel sorry for the other guy. The plot twist… you’ll be the other guy sometimes,” says Jamie East, who releases Bad Blood: The Diary of a Cancer Today. Jamie, who is head of podcasts at DMG Media, was diagnosed with chronic myeloid leukemia in June 2025; The show, which starts today, features real-life conversations from their doctor’s appointments and an audio diary.
The Escucha Podcast newsletter has published its final issue. The fortnightly Spanish-language publication, launched in November 2020, focuses on podcast reviews and criticism. Pablo Fischer writes, “The meteoric rise of AI and the shift toward video by a large portion of the industry have created a heady cocktail of two things that don’t interest me in the slightest.” But he adds, “The Escucha podcast was a beautiful project, the loveliest and best thing I have done in my professional life. It gave me the opportunity to meet incredible people, listen to the best minutes of audio in our language (the worst too; the selection task has not been easy).”
Goalhanger has licensed its fiction podcast Sherlock and Company For BBC Sounds. The show currently receives 800,000 downloads per month, and two sell-out live shows will be held at London’s Southbank Center later this year.
