Rethink Audio

The show that thinks about thanks, with the good, the great and the grateful. Presented by Angela Scanlon (BBC Radio 2, The One Show, Your Home Made Perfect)

Producer: Matt Hill (Series 1), Sarah Myles (Series 2), Louise Mason (Series 3-4)


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Supervet Noel Fitzpatrick chats to a whole host of amazing guests, celebrating the joy & love animals bring to our lives.

Producer: Emma Corsham

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Matt Lucas finds out what it’s really like to work in some of the most glamourous jobs you can do - and reveals what’s really going on behind the smiles of flight attendants, West End musical stars and Instagram influencers.

A Rethink Audio production for BBC Sounds & BBC Radio 2. The show entered the top 10 most listened to podcasts on the BBC Sounds app during its run over Q1 of 2020.

Producer: Sarah Myles

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DJ Annie Macmanus chats to artists, writers, musicians and a host of fascinating people about CHANGE. Each guest talks through the biggest changes they have overcome in childhood and adulthood, and how they effect change. The podcast explores how change punctuates our lives, how it can totally derail us and define who we are. How we confront it, react to it and how we try to activate change has never been more important than in this moment.

Producers: Matt Hill & Abby Hollick (series 1), Louise Mason (Series 2)

Research: Lalah-Simone Springer

Curators at the Imperial War Museums unpack some of the world’s most complex conflicts, from the Yugoslav Wars to the ongoing war in Syria.

Celebrity guests ask the simple questions about the most pressing conflicts of our time: What’s really going on in Yemen? How did the war in Afghanistan begin? What do we mean by 'The Troubles' in Northern Ireland?

Guided by an IWM curator, our guest is taken on a journey through the Imperial War Museum in London, discovering the objects, people and stories which bring a conflict to life.

Guests in the first series included Carey Mulligan, Jamali Maddix and Munya Chawawa.

“I was hooked” - The Guardian

Producer: Matt Hill

Your definitive guide to the year in film. Host Alex Zane discovers the challenges and victories behind making some of the most revered movies of the year. With in-depth interviews with the producers of those in the running for Best Film at the EE BAFTA Film Awards 2024.

Producers: Matt Hill & Ollie Peart (2024-)

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Journalist and sex educator Alix Fox (The Modern Mann, Unexpected Fluids) visits individuals and couples who have something interesting to say about their past and present loves, taking us through their sexual encounters from the first time to the last. It will be messy, sometimes sticky and often downright rude. So you might want to wear headphones.

Winner of two silver awards at the Radio Academy’s ARIAS 2017.

Producer: Matt Hill

After more than a decade in London, Danny Fortson returns to Silicon Valley to meet the techies trying to change the world - and make loads of money while doing it.

Producer: Matt Hill (series 1), Cheeka Eyers (series 2-4), Daisy Chakoo (Series 5)

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Once you've heard the facts, join Cheeka, Terry and Phill for their review of every grand prix - recorded (until recent events) in a pub.
Formula 1 needs fixing - and For F1's Sake are the ones to fix it. Definitely.

A Rethink Audio original production.

Producer: Matt Hill

Dr Rebecca Leon and Dr Sarah Taylor take a coffee break to share their clinical experiences and knowledge of diagnosing cancer in primary care. With warmth, wit and a passion for earlier and faster cancer diagnosis, they discuss how they assess patients, and the decisions and referral pathways they choose to get the best diagnosis and treatment. They also share relevant statistics.

Whilst this podcast may be of interest to everyone, it is aimed at primary care health professionals. GatewayC is funded by the NHS and is part of The Christie NHS Foundation Trust in Manchester.

Producer: Jo Newsholme

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One of the UK’s biggest podcasts. In the chart-topping Happy Place, Fearne Cotton talks to incredible people about life, love, loss, and everything in-between as she discovers what happiness means to them.

To date, Happy Place has been downloaded over 40m times.

Producer: Matt Hill

The High Performance Podcast brings you an intimate glimpse into the lives of high-achieving, world-class performers who have all excelled in their field with first-hand experiences and lessons to share. Find out what non-negotiable behaviours they employed to get them to the top and keep them there.

Hosting every conversation is sports broadcaster Jake Humphrey and leading organisational psychologist Damian Hughes. Jake is currently BT Sport’s Premier League anchor and former lead presenter of BBC’s Formula One coverage. Damian is an author and professor who continues to work with leading sports organisations to create a high-performing culture.

Producer: Finn Ryan

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The biggest ideas of our time brought to you by extraordinary authors, thinkers, and doers, in conversation with their editors.

Hosted by editors at William Collins imprint - Arabella Pike, Myles Archibald, Tom Killingbeck, and Carlos Darby - the show opened at a weekly editor’s meeting before getting into the meat of the interview.

Producers: Matt Hill

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The Soundbar is a podcast by Jabra about our ever-evolving relationship with productivity.


With the help of guests who are all world leaders in the field working to shape the conversation, we’re looking at the future of work, how technology is impacting the way we live, and how we can optimize our time to make our lives better.

Producer: Finn Ryan (series 1) & Daisy Chakoo (Series 2-)

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Join Mary ‘Queen of shops’ on her mission to place kindness at the heart of business. This is the future. It’s how we want to work. And it’s profitable. She’s joined by some great women (and men) who have proved it can be done.

Producers: Matt Hill (Series 1-2 ) & Ade Bamgbala (Series 3)

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From Scotch Whisky makers, Whyte & Mackay, join drinks columnist Abbie Moulton on a journey to unveil the stories and secrets of the whisky makers shaping the industry today - and crafting the whiskies of tomorrow.

Producer: Lauren Armstrong Carter

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In each episode Maddie Moate (CBeebies’ Maddie’s Do You Know?) explores the sounds of science and nature, joined by experts who'll guide us on all kinds of journeys; into a beehive, down the plughole, or up into a cloud!

In each episode, we'll bring you a new piece of music made from the noises we discover. Listen out for interesting sounds as we go along. We'll be going to some very interesting places because Sound Explorers can go anywhere!

Maddie's Sound Explorers is produced for Magic Star, part of Sony Music. Winner of Best Family Podcast at the British Podcast Awards 2021.

Producer: Martin Aust Zaltzwick

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Your essential guide to TV, radio, online media and the press, presented by Matt Deegan.

A spin previous incarnation as Media Talk at the Guardian, the show effectively became Rethink Audio’s first show when the decision to end the series was met with a crowdfunding campaign to take it independent.

Initially a collaboration with PPM Productions, the show restarted in 2015 - with the original show beginning in 2005, this is one of the UK’s longest running podcasts.

Producer: Matt Hill (2013-2018, 2021), Rebecca Grisedale-Sherry (2018-2020), Phoebe Adler-Ryan (2022-)

The podcast that explores the power of recall and the way it has shaped us. In this podcast, platinum-selling singer-songwriter Tom Walker discovers those places, faces, and half-remembered moments that have changed the lives of some very special guests, to reveal who they are today, where they've come from, and where they're going.

Producer: Lauren Armstrong Carter

Gabby Logan is middle-aged and unashamed.


But what does it mean to be at the halfway stage of your life? Here, Gabby talks candidly to well-known faces about their own midlife challenges and expectations, drawing on the advice of experts from sleep gurus, nutritionists, and doctors specialising on hormone treatment.

Producer: Emma Corsham (series 1), Anouszka Tate (Series 2), Lauren Armstrong Carter (Series 3-5)

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Our multi-award winning flagship podcast - amazing stories, emerging trends and sex advice - hosted by Olly Mann, with Alix Fox and Ollie Peart.

New episodes drop on the 10th of each month.

Producer: Matt Hill

Join Rochelle Humes as she speaks to her guests about parenthood, what they have learnt along the way and what they are still figuring out. Each week will cover a different theme, and there may even be some surprise little helpers, assisting Rochelle throughout.

Every child is completely different, what they want and need is never the same. So, whether you’re a new parent, a step parent, a parent to be or a parent just battling through the rollercoaster that is parenthood, follow The My Little Coco Podcast now.

Producer: Sophie King

A weekly show about fashion, life and everything in between. Hosted by comedians James Barr and Lauren Pattison, if you’re in the mood for a little bit of advice and a lot of laughs – this is the podcast for you. We’ll hear from celebrity guests on their latest obsessions and top life tips, and each week one listener will have their Big Question answered by our hosts: sort of like a fashion confessional.

A collaboration with River Island.

Producer: Matt Hill, with support from Sophie King and Charlie Murrel. Exec producer is Emily Bryce-Perkins.

Get to grips with the past, present and future of an idea in the news.

Each episode examines one story from the headlines, dipping into history to explain how we got to where we are today – and peering into the future to predict what will happen next.

With contributions from The Week’s writers and insights from leading subject specialists, The Overview provides a concise, engaging exploration of the debates and questions shaping the news agenda today and in the months to come.

This is our second collaboration with The Week. The Week Unwrapped began in 2017 and is 300 episodes strong.

Producer: Rich Jarman

How do you live your best life while navigating a disabling world? Broadcaster and disability rights campaigner Samantha Renke (she/her) and Lifestyle magazine’s editor Sophie-Marie Odum (she/her) are joined by guests from the disability community to ponder on this question and many more. What is dating with a disability like? Has public transport made enough progress? And how do you remain positive when things don’t always go to plan?

Uplifting news, in-depth interviews and entertaining car chat.

Producer: Joleen Goffin (2023-)

Hosted by LocalGlobe and Latitude co-founder and veteran investor, Robin Klein is a septuagenarian working in the tech sector: founding companies, investing in startups and helping businesses to scale for more than two decades.

Robin talks to experts from the world of business, tech and science about what they have learned in their own long careers and what excites them for the future about working or investing in tech and innovation.

The podcast’s title and theme - 20/20 Vision - nods to Klein’s 40 years’ of experience - 20 years in this century and 20 years in the last one backing innovative founders.It is also a reference to the phrase 20:20 hindsight - the full knowledge and complete understanding that one has about an event only after it has happened.

Producer: Penny Bell

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Ian Hislop and Private Eye magazine venture into the world of audio with a brand new podcast. Available from Private Eye at www.private-eye.co.uk or on Apple, Google, Stitcher, Spotify, Acast and Soundcloud. Hosted by Andrew Hunter Murray.

Producer: Matt Hill

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We all go through moments of doubt and uncertainty. But how do we stop them from holding us back? Trust expert Rachel Botsman speaks with incredible guests – from soldiers to poker players and psychologists to hostage negotiators – that will change the way you think about trust.


Heart-warming – and at times heart-stopping – these conversations ask what happens when we confront our trust issues, face our fears and open our minds to new possibilities.

Notable episodes include its British Podcast Award-nominated episode, Bloody Lies we tell the story of the infected blood scandal… and as special two-parter exploring the anti-vacc movement.


Producer: Matt Hill

Join host Rachel Botsman on this journey to unlock our rethinking ability - and listen as leaders, innovators, and creators revisit a profound moment from their career to reveal what went right, what went wrong, and what was learned.

A partnership with LinkedIn, this new series was built on the back of Trust Issues, our previous collaboration with Rachel and her team.

Producer: Anouszka Tate

Rethink Audio’s ambitious new daily series - featuring in each episode a curious moment from on this day in history. From when Kanye interrupted Taylor to the surprising origins of Vietnemese nail bars, The Retrospectors reveals all you need to know in under ten minutes.

The Retrospectors are Olly Mann (Answer Me This!), Rebecca Messina & Arion McNicoll, with Matt Hill.

Theme Music: Pass The Peas. Announcer: Bob Ravelli. Graphic Design: Terry Saunders. Edit Producer: Emma Corsham.

The UK’s biggest book club is back with an all new podcast hosted by television royalty; Richard Madeley and Judy Finnigan.

Each week, Richard and Judy discuss a brand-new book with its author, delving into the novel’s origins, themes, inspirations and much, much more. This is the perfect podcast for any book lover, and with each title available in your nearest WHSmith store as part of their exclusive Richard and Judy Book Club collection, it’s never been easier to join Britain’s biggest book club.

Producer: Anouszka Tate

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Fabulous and fascinating personalities give Sarah Beeny unprecedented access to the inside of their homes, and their lives.

Producers: Lucy Dearlove & Matt Hill


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Often we only get to see one version of someone – and usually only the best. 

In this fast, funny, frank new podcast series, Dawn O’Porter dives in with a variety of guests to explore all the sides to their stories. Each week, interviewees such as Matt Haig, Sara Pascoe and Scarlett Curtis open up about their highs and lows, their hopes and fears, and their lucky and unlucky moments.

Produced alongside the release of the book of the same name, this was the third collaboration between Rethink Audio and Harper Collins.

Producer: Emma Corsham

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A revolutionary photography app, produced in partnership with photographer Marcus Lyon and coders Calvium.

For more details on this project, check out our blog.

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Our flagship documentary series, where The Sunday Times’ Danny Fortson paints a picture of Silicon Valley - how it became the most important driver of tech and society on the planet, and where the people who run it are planning on going next.

Nominated for two British Podcast Awards and highly commended by The Society Of Editors as News Podcast Of The Year 2020.

Danny has been the West Coast correspondent for The Sunday Times since the beginning of 2017, covering all things technology and Silicon Valley. He also hosts our weekly Danny in the Valley podcast. Before moving to California, where he was born and raised, he spent more than a decade in London, where he grew up.

Senior Producer: Cheeka Eyers, Producer: Jim Carey, Script Consultant: Peter Price: Exec: Matt Hill

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From the team at People Management magazine, the UK's leading magazine for HR and L&D professionals, this monthly show answers pressing HR questions in a magazine format, including the best title for a feature Rethink Audio has ever created: Tim’s Pointers with Tim Pointer.

Producer: Matt Hill (2018), Anouszka Tate, (2019-2020)

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Magazine show by the team at Third Sector, the UK’s leading publication for everyone who needs to know what’s going on in the voluntary and not-for-profit sector.

Originally a monthly show, the podcast moved to a weekly schedule after a renewed focus on podcasting by parent company Haymarket in 2020.

Producer: Anouszka Tate (2019), Lindsay Riley (2020-)

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One of the nation’s most popular doctors, Alex George (Love Island), speaks to healthcare professionals who have gone above and beyond to care for their patients.


An A&E doctor at the height of this pandemic, Alex talks to an inspiring range of guests, giving us unique insight and exclusive access to those who often work in dangerous or austere environments.


This series is about celebrating healthcare heroes and telling their stories.


If you want to get in touch, please email askdralexgeorge@gmail.com

Producer: Penny Bell (Series 1-3)

Designed as everybody’s second favourite current affairs podcast, The Week Unwrapped discusses three under-reported stories that will have a big impact on our lives, but have somehow been pushed out of the headlines (and your first favourite current affairs podcast) by Brexit/Trump/Pandemics etc.

Winner of Best Current Affairs Podcast 2020 at the Publisher Podcast Awards.

Producer: Matt Hill (2017-19), Sarah Myles (2019-2020), Sophie King (2021-)