Hello, Matthew Grant here. Well, a slight shift to focus for this one that we sneaked in midweek.

With so many of you stuck at home i thought it'd be

kind of interesting to talk to pete roach who normally edits our weekly podcast and was also formerly

a sound engineer with the bbc he's got some great tips and techniques for best practices

whether you're recording podcasts webinars or whatever else you're doing this now online.

Pete, it's great to have you joining us sitting on the other side of the microphone this time.

So you've been doing some fantastic work behind the scenes tidying up the podcast we've been doing at in state London.

I thought in these days

when everybody is now communicating digitally and dealing with some of the challenges of that,

and also just to get the benefit of what you are doing with podcasts, it would be great just

to get some of your recommendations about how these have been successful based on your own

experience. So first of all, it would be good just to get a little bit of your own history and how you ended up doing what you're doing today. I started off in the BBC about 25, 30

years ago in the days when we used to cut tape with a razor blade and then stitch it together with a bit of

cellar tape. And then over the years, that moved into digital technology, where we used to make

programs on a laptop. And then I left the BBC and I

worked for various newspapers and people and I made podcasts for Frank Skinner and David Bedeal and

Dom Jolly and other people. And then as the years went by, and they were pretty successful podcasts.

And then everybody started to get a mobile phone, a smartphone.

And that's when podcasting, I think, really took off because everybody had it in the palm of your hand, you had everything you needed to download a podcast rather than listening to it at home on a computer.

So it's kind of exploded in the last couple of years.

And my work now,

it's predominantly podcasting, editing and producing. So we're going to talk a bit about what a podcast actually is, both of those that you may not know the specifics, but also to help people

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