When we’re not filling our ear holes with amazing music, we love to binge on some insightful and thought-provoking podcasts. To celebrate International Podcast Day 2019🎙, we thought we’d share some of our favourites:

1. TED Radio Hour
Based on Talks given by speakers on the world-renowned TED stage, each podcast follows a theme – happiness, innovation followed by conversations that bring these ideas and concepts to life!

We particularly love their deep dives into topics around the arts and music. Have a listen to their recent episode; How Art Changes Us, featuring painter and sculptor Titus Kaphar, painters Dre Urhahn and eL Seed, textile artist Magda Sayeg, and conductor Benjamin Zander, each sharing ideas on the transformative nature of art and its ability to shape the way we see ourselves and the world around us.

2. Decomposed
If you’re a classical music fan – this podcast is right up your ally. Listen to the stories, secrets and scandals that have shaped the genre of classical music! It’s a riveting podcast with a mix of stories accompanied by symphonies.

3. Disgraceland
It’s not always about beautifully composed music – not with the Disgraceland Podcast anyway! Listen in to the criminal stories surrounding the most interesting and infamous music pop stars! 

From murder to misdemeanours dive into the colourful past of musicians.

4. The Guilty Feminist Podcast
“I’m a feminist but…one time I went on a women’s rights march, and I popped into a department store to use the loo, and I got distracted trying out face cream. And when I came out the march was gone.”

We particularly enjoyed Episode 131: Women in Classical Music, featuring Soprano Nadine Benjamin and Episode 150: Disobedience with our very own Ofa Fotu (Hot Brown Honey)!

5. Thoroughly Good – Classical Music Podcast
The perfect podcast to wind down to and listen to artists, writers, and audience members talk about  the world of classical music and the concert-going experience.