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AWARDS
ADWEEK Audio Awards 2024: Best Podcast Making A Social Impact
Future of Media Awards 2024: Best National Podcast (Shortlisted. Winner TBC)
2023 Radio Academy's 30 Under 30
ARIAS 2023: Best Music Entertainment Show (Bronze)
Audio Production Awards 2022: Best Entertainment Producer (Gold)
Lovie Awards 2022: Best Health & Wellness Podcast (Silver) & People’s Choice
British Podcast Awards 2022: The Rising Star Award (Silver)
Independent Podcast Awards 2023: Best Business & Best Education (Nominations)
The Ambies 2022: Best Society and Culture Podcast (Nomination)
Audio Production Awards 2021: Best New Podcast Producer (Nomination)
Judging: Lovie Awards, Webby Awards, The Ambies, ARIAS, Audio Production Awards, British Podcast Awards, Independent Podcast Awards (Advisory Board member), Content is Queen Micro-Grants For Podcasters
AUDIO/VISUAL
Afghan Star, Hosted by John Legend (iHeart Podcasts/Samizdat Audio/Kaleidoscope), Series Producer
Financial Times: "It is cleverly produced, weaving the sounds of gunfire, chanting crowds and music to evoke the horrors and joys of Afghanistan’s turbulent recent history."
Best National Podcast (Future of Media Awards) - shortlisted, results to be announced
The Week's Best Podcasts of 2024
Apple Podcasts Editor's Pick
Featured on The Daily Show, CNN, in The Times, and in The Spectator.
BBC Radio 4's Short Cuts, Producer and Sound Designer
Thrill Seekers (Love + Radio/CBC/Vespucci), Series Producer
Release date TBC
Announced in Deadline
Fearne Cotton’s Happy Place App (Universal) - Studio Producer
Dish (Waitrose) - Lead Producer
Audiovisual series Dish is hosted by Nick Grimshaw and Angela Hartnett.
Stanley Tucci: "This is like the greatest podcast ever."
Named by Apple as one of the best shows of 2022.
Best Branded Podcast (Adweek Audio Awards), Best Branded Content (Lovies)
Throwback Throwdown (BBC Sounds & 1Xtra) - Series Producer
Hosted by Babatunde Aléshé, Poet, and Mimi The Music Blogger.
ARIAS 2023: Best Music Entertainment Show (Bronze).
Bad Money - Series Producer
Mashable’s Top 10 Podcasts of 2022: “Listeners will be left open-mouthed… the action unravels beautifully."
Great British Podcasts: “The story is an illuminating and sometimes baffling game of cat and mouse.”
The Guardian’s Favourite Documentary Podcasts: “The story of how the ‘Big Spender’ did it, told in six parts by Jason Wong, is an incredible one...”
Cheat! (Sony Music) - Producer
Ambies 2022: Best Society & Culture Podcast nomination.
One of my episodes was included in Spotify’s Best Episodes of 2021 playlist.
How We Got Animal Rights (UK Parliament) - Producer
Banged Up Abroad (National Geographic/Raw TV) - Researcher
Pitched and won a TV commission from National Geographic for Banged Up Abroad’s Undercover Arms Dealer.
The Smart 7: Millennial Special Edition - Producer
Peace at Last (BBC Radio 3) - Producer/Sound Designer
Mango Encounters (Mango) - Series Producer
The Wallet - Series Editor and Strategy Consultant
Silver Lovie Winner 2022, People's Choice Lovie 2022
ADWEEK Audio Awards 2024: Best Podcast Making a Social Impact
Featured in The Financial Times, Forbes, Stylist Magazine, Good Housekeeping and The Telegraph.
Power: The Maxwells, Bonus Episode (Sony Music) - Producer
The Future Lab Podcast (Randox/Goodwood Festival of Speed) - Advert Producer
One Year Like This (Absolute Radio) - Producer
WRITING
Meera writes an opinion column titled Revelations for Pod Bible - the UK's first magazine about podcasts.
"How do we make podcasting futureproof? What needs to be done to challenge the industry to innovate and produce daring content? In this column titled “Revelations”, Meera Kumar pokes and prods the audio industry and its creations to reveal the shows worth listening to and their place in the zeitgeist…"
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Goodbye 'Celeb' Podcasts: It's Time for The Next Frontier of Audio
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Outsourcing to Robots: Is Generative AI the Death of Creativity in Podcasting?
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Podcast Subscriptions - How to do it well and what's worth paying for
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Nomono Sound Capsule Review - Nomono sent me their brand new Sound Capsule to experiment with!