This week BBC Sounds announced a new podcast called Couch to 5k, its collaboration with the Department of Health to encourage people to get into running. Each episode features an interview with someone who has been inspired to take up running.
The new podcast, presented by Giovanna Fletcher, features guests talking about how running transformed their life in a way to motivate you off the couch. Her first guest is the DJ Jo Whiley, who is also one of the coaches on the app itself.
What taketh the BBC away? Well, riding high in the podcast charts this week is The Happy Heat Pump Podcast, in the week that the BBC asked one of its hosts to stand down from his involvement. Hosted by the Radio 4 show PM’s Evan Davis and Bean Beanland from the Heat Pump Federation, the podcast looked at heat pumps, how they are becoming alternatives for gas boilers and why sales are currently low throughout the UK.
Whilst Evan Davis was initially allowed to co-host the show, he’s now been asked not to do so by his bosses. “As the series has gone on, as the world has progressed over the last few months, they have become concerned that anything like this, trying to inform people about heat pumps, can be interpreted rightly or wrongly as somehow treading on areas of public controversy,” he said at the start of the latest episode.
In other news, if you want to feel old this week, it has now been 30 years since Chris Evans took over the Radio 1 Breakfast Show. If you want a bit of nostalgia, some of the team behind the show made the series Breaking Breakfast, which looks at the show’s legacy.
