A Podcast for you?

Whether your budget is £2500 pounds an episode, for sophistication and pazazz, or just £500 for a rather simpler piece - Podcats can help you.. Our experienced radio producers and presenters give your podcast that all important professional polish. We can manage the whole process from concept to publication - or simply make and deliver top quality mp3 files to your IT department. Established in July 2005 we reckon we were the first professional Podcast Production Company in the UK!

Now offering professional Vidcast production too - see demo Podcasting has grown up and is proving a great way to communicate with like-minded enthusiasts, your customers, your employees or the movers and shakers in your industry.

Email for details or call 0845 25 75 170 (UK local rate)

Latest news

15/04/04

Podcats welcomes a new corporate B2B client on board - the global software company eglue. They have some ingenious solutions when it comes to real-time customer interaction management. On their first Podcats podcast, for their new site www.e-glue.com, marketing consultant Peter Hurst explains just why their solutions are so clever.

02/04/08

We're visiting the RSPB's newest education and visitor centre on this month's Nature's Voice podcast and it's just a stone's throw from the city of Newport on reclaimed land next to the Severn Estuary. Despite its position in the heart of industrial Wales it plays host to some fascinating species including the Avocet - the bird on the RSPB's icon - plus rare Spoonbills. On this podcast we join Kate Humble and the Mayor of Newport Alan Morris to cut the ribbon!

17/03/08

Spring has sprung and Compton Verney - the home of the Peter Moores Foundation art collection - has thrown open its doors to exhibitions of work by Alberto Giacometti and James Coleman And there's a new Podcats Talking the Walk podcast too which takes us to the grounds of this lovely grade one listed mansion near Stratford Upon Avon. Head groundsman John Schumann and garden historian John Phibbs take us on a fascinating stroll round this Capability Brown landscape conjouring up the splendour of the late 18th century and plenty of stories from John Schumann's thirty years as groundsman here.

11/03/08

More - MoreTh>nBusiness podcasts are on their way. Last year we made a series of 6 short podcasts with advice for small to medium sized businesses. They looked at broad range of issues from how to insure your company's vehicles to particular risks associated with running a hairdressing business. The new series looks at Business Start Ups, Working from Home and being a Landlord and are due for publication shortly..

21/01/08

It's Big Garden Birdwatch time again! The latest Nature's Voice Podcast looks at the history of this annual event - now in its 29th year. What started as something for the kids in the RSPB's junior club to do on a winter's day has turned into a valuable scientific resource. Find out more - inlcuding what the most exciting bird that TV wildlife presenter Chris Packham has ever spotted while taking part in the Big Garden Birdwatch.

17/01/08

Our first commission of the New Year is for a new episode in our award winning Talking the Walk series. We'll be in the grounds of Compton Verney in Warwickshire the home of a fabulous art collection, and regular exhibitions, founded by the Peter Moore's Foundation. The grounds of this lovely country house are classic 'Capability' Brown and are full of history. Visitors who pass through them on the way to the house don't often take advantage of these lovely surroundings and we hope the podcast will change this. All we are hoping for now is a crisp winter's day to record it!

20/12/07

We're celebrating Christmas with a confused robin who has already nested and laid eggs in a rusty old Range Rover in Befordshire. And in the latest episode of Nature's Voice we also take a look at some of the most unusual places this lovable bird's forbears have nested in the past - including the skull of a hanged highwayman! For that and a round up of the year from the RSPB's chief executive Graham Wynne click on the Nature's Voice icon. Happy Christmas.

24/10/07

Podcats wins Silver! Yes - we are building an awards cabinet in the Podcats office as our Talking the Walk series for South Warwickshire Tourism's Shakespeare Country website picked up the award in the Best Tourism Experience category of the 2007 Excellence in Tourism Awards at Birmingham's newly refurbished Town Hall last night. For more information see our newsletter.

There are three walks already published (Shipston on Stour, Southam and Warwick) with Stratford, Kenilworth, Alcester and Leamington Spa in the pipeline so we are going to be busy!

04/10/07

The latest podcast in the Podcats stable takes us to George Eliot Country. This is a spin off series from the hugely successful Talking the Walk podcasts (nominated for an Excellence in Tourism Award 2007). These podcasts include an audio drive and an audio walk in the Nuneaton and Bedworth area where George Eliot grew up and have been made for Enjoy Warwickshire to celebrate 150 years since the publication of her first work of fiction 'Scenes of Clerical Life'.

25/09/07

Podcats' 'Talking the Walk' is a finalist in the prestigious Excellence in Tourism Awards 2007 for the Midlands. The winners will be announced at a gala awards dinner at Birmingham Town Hall on October 23rd. The winners from there are automatically entered into the  Enjoy England Excellence in Tourism Awards 2008 - the Oscars of the tourism industry. So fingers crossed for the 23rd and beyond!

18/08/07

The third episode of the RSPB's Nature's Voice podcast features a celebration of 10 years on Otmoor near Oxford which has been reclaimed as wetland and is now encouraging rare species back to the south of England.

The podcast is breaking new ground in its collaboration between a production company like Podcats and the expertise on the ground from RSPB experts. RSPB staff have been trained to gather audio in the field using an HHB Flashmic. In this episode the RSPB's John Clare took the Flashmic to the Otmoor celebration and the raw audio was later transferred via USB to a computer and the wav files sent via ftp to Podcats.

Jane Markham, from Podcats scripts, presents and produces the podcast and adds further interview material, much of it recorded via ISDN links to the RSPB's offices around the country.

The resulting Podcast can range far and wide, without incurring the costs involved in sending a 'reporter' to each location (because RSPB people will be there anyway) while benefitting from the production standards of broadcast radio injected at Podcats with their experience in that field.

Download short Preview mp3 - John Clare on Otmoor

17/07/07

Coming soon - the latest in Shakespeare Country's Talking the Walk series will take us to Warwick. Thousands of visitors flock to the town's magnificent castle every year but are missing a treat if they don't venture outside those mighty walls to see what else is on offer.This time we're In the company of Warwick's Town Crier and the new episode is due for publication on July 30th.

Still to come in this series: Nuneaton - 150 years on from the publication of the first piece of fiction by the town's most famous daughter - George Eliot. And Stratford Upon Avon another town with certain literary connections!

07/07/07

Podcats' latest business to business Podcast is for More Than Business - a series of six snappy episodes aimed at small and medium sized businesses with advice about how to protect and insure your business against everything from fire to theft.

29/06/07

Nature's Voice - our new monthly podcast for the RSPB - has gone straight into the iTunes Science charts at number 7! The first episode focuses on the plight of the Albatross which is being driven to extinction - with Prince Charles in the vanguard when it comes to speaking up for these magnificent birds.

20/06/07

There's a right Royal launch for Podcat's latest Podcast! In the first episode of Nature's Voice Prince Charles will be telling us why he believes the magnificent Albatross must be saved from extinction.It will be published monthly for the RSPB and the first episode, which is out next week, also goes on location to on the Scottish island of Islay in the wake of the BBC's Springwatch! Don't miss it.

14/06/07

The new episode of the Royal Shakespeare Company's podcast is published today. It takes us behind the scenes at their new - temporary - Courtyard Theatre. This thousand seater, thrust stage auditorium is a working prototype for the transformation of the famous Royal Shakespeare Theatre on the banks of the river in Stratford Upon Avon. That's due to open in 2010.

12/05/07

The second Talking the Walk podcast is published today. Come with us to Southam in South Warwickshire on a walk to the newly restored Holy Well and around this delightful market town 8 miles from Leamington Spa.

It may be off the beaten track a bit today but it was once a major crossroads where the drovers route from Wales to the livestock markets in London passed with vast herds of cattle and flocks of sheep. crossed the coaching route from London to Birmingham and beyond and it is brimming with history!

28/03/07

The first in a new Podcats series called 'Talking the Walk' is to be launched on April 3rd in Shipston on Stour. Each walk will take you on a journey through the history and life of some well known and some not so well known towns in South Warwickshire. They aren't audio guides in the traditional sense in that they don't follow the tourist maps site for site, their aim is to bring a flavour of the real place to your iPod by hearing from the people who know it best - those who live there!

The series is for the tourism website Shakespeare Country and future walks include Southam, Nuneaton, Stratford Upon Avon and Kenilworth.

28/02/07

With Spring in the air Podcats has several exciting new projects in production including a great double act 'Mike and Dick' celebrating Shipston on Stour - an ancient town on the edge of the Cotswolds. Mike Ashley and Dick Burge have spent the last 40 years collecting artifacts and stories about Shipston and this podcast for Shakespeare Country and Stour Power brings its history to life. It's due for release soon - but for a taster click here

29/01/07

The Big Garden Birdwatch continues to climb the podcast charts - over the Big Garden Birdwatch Weekend the podcast made the top thirty most popular downloads from iTunes. This afternoon it stands at number 29! The latest episode (number 3) has just been published in which Kate Humble hears from birdwatchers around the UK about how they got on with their counts - and BBC Presenter Sarah Kennedy has a couple of usual sightings of her own!

15/01/07

Kate is number one! RSPB Big Garden Birdwatch hosted by BBC televsion wildlife presenter Kate Humble has gone straight in to the number one spot on iTunes Kids and Family pages. Episode two has just been published - can Kate imitate a Song Thrush and how did the children of Beckley School get on with the Big Schools Birdwatch? Answers in the latest episode of the Big Garden Birdwatch

3/01/07

Out now! Television wildlife presenter Kate Humble has teamed up with the RSPB and Podcats to front the RSPB Big Garden Birdwatch podcast. It is launched today and the fifteen minute magazine programmes will be published fortnightly. In the first episode Kate meets the RSPB's Richard Bashford to look forward to the big weekend at the end of January when they want all of us in our gardens counting birds.

30/11/06

In production - a new series for the New Year with the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds. Following the success of RSPB Birdnotes Podcats is producing a seven part podcast series for the society's annual Big Garden Birdwatch 2007. It will be launched in January in the build up to the event and continue until the results are released at the end of March.

10/11/06

Rugby walks kick off! You can now pick up mp3 players with Podcats Walks In the Steps of Rugby Football audio already loaded on them, from Rugby Visitor Centre, so if you and a friend want to walk the walks together you don't have to share your iPod!

18/10/06

Podcats latest production is online from today at a brand new website for small businesses. Mywatercooler is new site which gives small businesses an opportunity to meet online - to share experiences, find solutions to problems and establish informal business networks.

The website is run by More Th>N and we're looking forward to making future podcasts for them. There's even talk of doing a behind the scenes look at Podcats on a future episode.

12/10/06

Podcats go corporate! We are currently working on a new Podcast for one of the telecommunications industry's biggest players - Amdocs (who count BT, AT & T, China Mobile and Deutsche Telekom among their many clients around the world). The Podcast provides valuable information for the top people in their client's companies. And instead of inviting them to a 'webinar' where they have go on-line at a particular time to access the session they can listen to the Podcast where and when they choose.

This is true 'niche' casting! We are working on this project with penknife design and the next step will be to add graphics - from graphs and maps to the inclusion of video. A cost effective and convenient way to communicate with clients around the world.

22/09/06

Podcats first venture into vidcasting is here! We are delighted to release our first film - a short comedy - made by a remarkable team in Cambodia. KMF (Khmer Mekong Films) was born out of a BBC World Service Trust project to recruit and train local people to make a TV Soap Opera. That series - A Taste of Life - took Cambodian television by storm and with the backing of several of the original team from UK they have several films for Cambodian cinema in the pipe line. To watch or subscribe to The Ice Man click here

14/09/06

The Rugby Pathway of Fame audio walk is officially launched on Thursday September 21st but you can hear it now - the first in a series of audio guides to the historic town of Rugby. The town is not only the home of Rugby Football but also the famous public school which was the setting to the 19th century novel Tom Brown's School Days. In the first podcast we walk the first section of the tour which is made up of fifty brass rugby footballs set in the town's pavement. Former England Rugby star Les Cusworth and Blue Badge Guide Roger Bailey are our guides on part one of this fascinating walk.

The series is a Podcats production for Rugby Borough Council and from the end of September mp3 players with copies of these podcasts are available from The Visitor Centre so you don't have to share your iPod!

01/09/06

Coming soon - rugby star Les Cusworth, takes a walk around the historic town where the game was born. Les, a former England fly half, later an England coach and now director of Rugby for Argentina, joins Blue Badge Guide Roger Bailey on the Rugby Pathway of Fame - a trail of the 50 brass rugby footballs set in the pavements of Rugby town centre. They trace the history of the game from 1823 to the present day.

This lovely town in the heart of England is also home to the famous Rugby School.

The first in this new series of Podcats podcasts starts later this month - and extra copies will be available on mp3 players from Rugby's tourist information centre if you want to walk the route with them - but don't want to share your iPod!

17/07/06

The third Sensational Shugborough Podcast is here. As the dates of this year's concerts draw near we meet some of the people who will be working hardest over the first weekend of August! Plus a few last minute extras and the winner of the champagne, picnic and table for four for the Proms Concert night is announced.

05/07/06

Coming soon - on the Blue Plaque trail through the historic streets of Rugby, proving there's more to the Rugby than rugby! Blue Badge guide Roger Bailey talks us round the route and maps out the definitive walk for you to download, the rest is up to you. It's all part of new series of Podcats Podcasts for Rugby Borough Council's visitor centre.

Click here for an audio preview

25/05/06

Why was Romeo and Juliet 10 minutes shorter in Shakespeare's day than it is now? Professor David Crystal - one of the world's leading experts on Shakespeare's language - explains! Hear him on the latest Royal Shakespeare Company Podcast

29/04/06

Podcats welcomes the Royal Shakespeare Company to the fold with a fascinating interview with one of the UK's most respected and best loved writers Fay Weldon.

This year the in RSC has launched their most ambitious project ever - to stage the bard's Complete Works! And there's plenty more besides the plays - from a balloon orchestra to street theatre and a series talks and discussions called Broadside Brunches in the RSC Cafe Bar. Fay Weldon is May's guest and she talks to Jane Markham about whether to take liberties or not to take liberties with the plays of England's greatest playwright.

19/04/06

A busy day at Podcats, with not only the launch of the new episode of Sensational Shugborough - see below - but also the long awaited Spring edition of RSPB Birdnotes.

The summer visitors return - the first swallows arrived in my garden last week - and on Otmoor there's even a drumming snipe but has the Bittern boomed yet? Plus a down to earth look at the risk of Avian flu to the Birds of the British Isles following the discovery at the beginning of the month of a dead swan with the HN51 virus with the RSPB's Andre Farrar.

19/04/06

It's here - meet the redoutable Mrs Stearn, head cook in the Victorian kitchens at Shugborough Hall in the latest episode of Sensational Shugborough . Shugborough Hall is a working Victorian estate with it's farm, laundry, brewery and kitchens run by costumed characters from this lovely National Trust property's history. Click on the link to take you to the new episode.

18/04/06

The next episode of Sensational Shugborough is due to be published any day now. Shugborough, which is a National Trust property, is leading the way when it comes to offering a 'real' history experience. They are recreating their walled garden using historical implement and gardeners dressed and living the part. Jane Markham meets Mrs Stearn the 19th century head cook for a taste of life below stairs.

03/04/06

The latest Antiques Man podcast - number 16 - has just been published. The subject this time, a Staffordshire Pottery figurine. They were known as flatback figurines and were often handpainted by children as young as 13. If you want to know more click here to go to the Antiques Man page.

14/02/06

Sensational Shugborough - promises to be the event of the summer in the heart of England and a lone Spitfire takes to the skies. If you'd like to be there there's a competition to win tickets for four people, with a champagne picnic to enjoy along with the music. Click on the image to listen or subscribe.

8/02/06

There's a fabulous prize to be won in Podcats' newest podcast - due to be launched any day now. It includes tickets, a picnic and champagne for one of the most exciting events of the summer in the heart of England! Find out how you could be a winner when "Sensational Shugborough" arrives on Podcats later this week.

25/01/06

Coming soon to Podcats - a World War 2 Spitfire flies in! A new podcast, "Sensational Shugborough" will be looking forward to a magical weekend of music and fireworks at one of Britain's loveliest stately homes. We'll be hearing from the pilot of this classic plane about how this particular magnificent man in his flying machine gets to the party on time!

6/1/06

The Antiques Man is tipped by the Times in their arts section as their Podcast of the week:

"PODCAST OF THE WEEK
From Lovejoy and David Dickinson to The Antiques Man. A guy who probably wouldn’t be seen dead in an Australian jungle, Kevin Jackson, of Flog It and Bargain Hunt fame, talks about the antiques and collectables (silhouettes and Victorian pipes, for example) that he finds for his eBay shop, Delphis Antiques. Jackson also answers any queries you might have about your own antiques. Just e-mail him with photos, if possible, and he’ll respond in a future podcast.. www.podcats.co.uk"

4/1/06

The winner of the first Antiques Man competition was AJ Angal who receives $25 (about £15) off his next purchase at Kevin Jackson's ebay antiques store. There'll be a new competition next week and if you'd like to see what he's got on sale now click on the Ebay logo on the Antiques Man page.

23/11/05

There's a new competition for The Antiques Man - win $25 (about £15) off your next purchase from Kevin Jackson's Ebay store by being the first to identify the mystery object from the clue in the podcast and the photo on the Antiques Man page.

If nobody wins this week there'll be another clue in the next Antiques Man podcast.

8/11/05

7/11/05

The latest RSPB Bird Notes is now available - click on the Robin in the right hand column to take you straight there. Jane Markham talks to the RSPB's Head of Species Conservation about the implications that the threat of Bird Flu poses to the UK's wild birds. Plus a look back at Feed the Birds Day and the winner of the competition.

3/11/05

It's 60 years since their first performance - and The Philharmonia Orchestra celebrates with their first Podcast. Classic FM's Bob Jones takes you behind the scenes to find out what makes them tick. Click on their link in the right hand column to take you to there.

2/11/05

30/09/05

Another first for Podcats? The first podcast to celebrate the heritage, history and the rich culture of the birthplace of England's greatest playwright. Shakespeare Country is joining the Podcats list this November with a podcast that looks ahead to the Royal Shakespeare Company's exciting plans to present the bard's complete works - every play, sonnet and poem - during 2006.

The website www.shakespeare-country.co.uk has bundles of information about visiting Stratford Upon Avon, Warwick and the other historic towns in this part of the heart of England - from drama to historic castles to beautiful gardens - plus where to stay and what's happening while you're there.

25/09/05

The Antiques Man is here - the first of a weekly series of podcasts focussing on the world of antiques and collectables. Kevin Jackson, from BBC television's Bargain Hunt and Flog It talks about the treasures he comes across on his weekly forays for antiques for his Delphis Antiques Ebay store where you can also see (and bid) for some of the items he talks about. He can also tackle your questions about your own antiques. Email him with your queries, and photos if possible, and he'll answer as many as possible in the coming weeks.

14/09/2005

Coming soon The Antiques Man. Kevin Jackson, antiques expert from BBC television's Bargain Hunt and Flog It, makes his Podcats debut with the first of a weekly series of podcasts about the world of antiques.

Kevin has been passionate about antiques from childhood and started in the business at 14 when he took a Saturday job at Biddle and Webb's auctioneers in Birmingham! 20 years later he uses the knowledge he has gained over that time, as a valuer and auctioneer, as a partner in delphisantiques.com one of the new generation of dealers making their living on line with Ebay.

08/08/05

The first Podcats production - The RSPB's Bird Notes - is now up and running. Click on the logo in the right hand column to go straight to the podcast,

This is a pilot show for Europe's largest wildlife conservation charity with features, interviews and competitions. If this first episode is well received Bird Notes will become a Quarterly podcast - one for each season.

Ipodcast.org.uk, a UK podcast directory for educators, schools and colleges, are running a feature on Bird Notes on the front page of their website and emailed to say:

'This really was extremely high quality content, production and audio engineering - your experience shines through and this podcast is a credit to your new organisation' Dave Jobbings

The Podcast Bunker awarded it five stars and Bruce Chandley from their website emailed to say:

'Excellent quality audio and great content. It is so nice to hear excellent productions such as this. Your listing will be up on the Podcast Bunker today. Thanks and produce them more often than quarterly!'