"Radio is about two-thirds of all time spent listening to audio in the UK. Podcasting is 9%. We have so much space to grow, four, five, six times bigger than we currently are. How exciting to be at the beginning of a medium."

If you're involved in podcasting in any way, there's a decent chance you're subscribed to James Cridland's essential Podnews newsletter. Podnews has been running since 2017, but James has worked in audio since 1989, including a career in radio. On this episode, we get into some of the tips and tricks we can learn from our sister medium, the problem of all podcasts being thought of as chat shows, and why an agreed-upon definition of podcasting matters more than we might think.

"Those rich landscapes in your mind can be as vast and as detailed as your imagination can be."

Sarah Golding a multitalented voice actor, director, and writer. She works as production manager at the Wireless Theatre Company, is the organiser of the Audio Drama Hubfest, and is the host of the Indie AF podcast.

"When you have a lot of sound and then you suddenly go to silence, it's such a disarming contrast. It's like if you're doing puppetry and you drop a puppet."

Lindsay Harris Friel writes The Fiction Podcast Weekly newsletter. She's the creator of Jarnsaxa Rising, co-host of Life in the Ted Lane, and I'd highly recommend checking out her 11th Hour Audio piece, Ladies and Gentlemen, The Automatics.

"Radio and podcasting is the strongest form of painting pictures. In the same way, when we read a book, we fill in those gaps, we create the characters, we create their voices, we create the picture."

The Photowalk embraces the mindfulness of walking with a camera, being in the great outdoors and making pictures.

Each Friday, Neale invites you to lace your boots and walk with him as he shares stories of inspiration, letters and pictures from your own walks and talks with photographers and creative people worldwide.

An introduction to the Audio Indies podcast. Please subscribe or follow on your listening app of choice.