S-Town: Brian Reed on making the podcast everyone's talking about
The podcast Serial was downloaded over 50 million times and won a Peabody award for its journalism. The makers of Serial have released a new series, called S-Town, and it has already broken records by being downloaded 16 million times in its first week. It delves into a mystery in small-town Alabama and follows the story and suspicions of one man, John Bee Macklemore. Brian Reed, producer and presenter of S-Town, talks about his hit podcast, how it came to be made and what has made it such a success. Photo Credit: Andrea Morales.
First broadcast on The Media Show, 12 April 2017.
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