WHAT YOU’LL NEED
How to prepare a premium-quality podcast
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he first thing you’ll need for successful podcasting isn’t a bit of hardware or software. It’s a theme. What will your podcast be about? Some podcasts take a single story, such as a real-life crime or a period of history, and tell the story over multiple episodes. Others focus on a core topic such as South Asian cooking, or English football, or Young Adult books, or what famous people’s last meal would be.
Your theme should be interesting to you; if your heart’s not in it, you’re not going to want to do it very often, or for very long. And ideally it’ll be something that nobody else is doing, or that you’ll be doing in a very different way, because that makes it a lot easier for your podcast to stand out.