Podcasts

If you want proof that I can own a content product end to end, this is it: a show I concepted, built, ran and grew entirely myself, all from my kitchen table.

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During the first lockdown, like a lot of people, I threw myself into a passion project: The QuaranTea Break Podcast. In this weekly long-form interview show, I spoke to some of the biggest names in entertainment about how they were handling self-isolation and what they’d been watching, reading and doing. It was either that or sourdough (and that market was relatively full).

 

I recorded, scripted, and hosted it; produced and edited every episode; booked the guests; and devised the social marketing to promote each one. I also made the host his brew (it was lockdown; both the teamaker and teadrinker were me).

 

Guests included actors Robert Webb, Rufus Jones, Paul Chahidi, Tracy-Ann Oberman, Callum Scott Howells, Katherine Rose Morley and Jason Watkins, The Inbetweeners creators Iain Morris and Damon Beesley, writers James Graham, Sarah Phelps and Stephen S. Thompson, presenters Jake Humphrey, Simon Rimmer and Dev Griffin and stand-ups Kiri Pritchard-McLean and Dane Baptiste.

 

Alongside the usual lockdown chat, we got into the serious stuff that came with it: grief, isolation and loneliness. Regrettably, we also had to talk about the “Imagine” video.

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The response was overwhelming: the show reached No.31 in the overall Apple Podcast chart and fourth in TV podcasts, with individual episodes doing even better. Even Will Arnett tweeted about it.

Find the podcast on Spotify and wherever you get your podcasts.

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What it shows: full-stack content ownership – strategy, production, talent, editorial and audience growth, run end to end. The whole operation, by one person, under a very unique pressure.