Demos Podcasts
events, interviews and interruptions
Get our podcasts!
There are three main ways to get these audio updates from Demos.
1. Find Demos podcasts on iTunes here
2. Set up your computer's music player to download the audio (mp3) files automatically whenever we add a new update. Get our podcast feed from Feedburner. Feedburner works a bit like an invisible paper boy.
3. Subscribe to the 'podcasts' blog RSS feed and click to download the audio (mp3) file yourself.
Our audio is kindly hosted by the marvellous Internet Archive - a fantastic and open resource full of sound, movies and text.If you have any problems finding or downloading the podcasts, you can email us here.
What are the Demos podcasts?
Missed an event but don't want to read the transcript? Would you like the 10 minute interview with the author of the report before you download or buy it? Then podcasting is for you.
Podcasts are audio updates. They're an easy way to get hold of talks, discussions and interviews - if you subscribe to the podcast 'feed' (like a subscription to a real newspaper), then your computer and internet connection take care of automatically delivering them you. Read the wikipedia definition of podcasting.
We have been experimenting with podcasts over the last year and but have now rationalised them into three different types:
1. Pamphlet Podcasts: Each time we launch a publication we conduct an interview with the writer(s) discussing their work. This is a good thing to listen to if you want the top line on a new collection, essay or pamphlet.
Rachel Briggs, Professor Paul Schnabel, David Goodhart, Feb 2008
Paul Skidmore, Kirsten Bound, The Everday Democracy Index, Jan 2008
Niamh Gallagher, Jamie Bartlett, Making It Personal, Jan 2008
Charlie Tims, Gerry Hassan, Glasgow 2020/Dreaming City, Dec 2007
Jamie Bartlett, Community Based Counter-Terrorism, Nov 2007
Charlie Edwards, Out of Step, October 2007
Charlie Tims, So, What do you do? October 2007
Peter Bradwell, Joost Beunderman, Celia Hannon, Seen and Heard, September 2007
Kirsten Bound, John Holden, and Samuel Jones, Cultural Diplomacy, September 2007
Samuel Jones, Peter Bradwell, As You Like, August 2007
John Holden, Robert Hewison, Cultural Value, August 2007
Molly Webb, The Disrupters, August 2007
Melissa Mean, The Bristol Urban Beach, July 2007
(Ok, ok, obviously this is not a pamphlet but it's still a demos project)
Sophia Parker, The Journey to the Interface, July 2007
Simon Parker, Sophia Parker, Unlocking Innovation - Why citizen's hold
the key to public service reform, July 2007
Simon Parker, The Collaborative State, July 2007
Jack Stilgoe, Nanodialogues, June 2007
Hannah Green & Celia Hannon, Their Space, Jan 2007
John Craig, Production Values, June 2006
Sarah Gillinson, Duncan O'Leary, Working Progress, June 2006
2. Thinky Podcast: There is a constant flow of people with interesting, new ideas coming through Demos, taking part in discussions and seminars. In these podcasts we broadcast these conversations.
Harry Cayton, Angela Couter, Healthy Conversations, October 2007
Charlie Leadbeater at the Demos Care Conference, March 2007
John Holden at the Launch of Cultural Diplomacy, February 2007
Look into My Ideas, Feb 2007
Ian Bremmer, The J-Curve, Nov 2006
Kathy Sykes & Jack Stilgoe, Discuss Public Engagement in Science, Oct 2006
3. Be a podcast: We believe in openly sharing ideas. The 'Be a Podcast' feature is an invitation for anyone to do just that. If you have an idea send an email to charlie.tims@demos.co.uk, and we'll consider it for a cast. Even better, record your own cast in less than 6 minutes and we'll host it on our site (see below for more information on this).
Bryony Randall "Modernism, Daily Time and Everyday Life", Feb 2007
Look into My Ideas, Feb 2007
DK from Mediasnackers, Jan 2007
Anamaria Wills "How to be a Creative Entrepreneur", Jan 2007
Tim Drake "Make a Difference", Dec 2006
We have no interest in owning what is said or commercially profiting from the ideas, but we do want to provide a platform for innovative thinking. We will be posting the audio with an 'Attribution-Sharealike' Creative Commons license on the Internet Archive (you can learn more about the license here).
Record Podcasts!
(Ok, they’re a bit hit and miss, but they're getting better. If you have an idea and you want to send it to us to put in a Demos podcast, this might help)
1. Capturing Sound
In the past we have used a mini-disc player or a real-time CD burner with a microphone, a digital dictaphone and the record function on Skype. We now mostly use Marantz voice recorder.
2. Editing
We use Garageband and Logic for Macs, but we know plenty of people who swear by (the free) Audactity (versions for both Mac and Windows available).
3. Moving it around
Large MP3 files can be hard to email. We tend to use the free file transfer service yousendit.com - if you want to send us anything try using this.
