Waiting: Discover Pods Awards taking nominations
All right, luvvies? Matt here with the Waiting edition of Ready & Waiting, a fortnightly newsletter from Foggy Outline.
The Waiting edition is all about what we’re working on behind the scenes. Usually our message to you in the Waiting edition is just “wait and see, stay subscribed”, but this time there are actually some things you can do:
enroll to be one of the first to get the remastered What do we mean by climate breakdown?
And if you like, you can always buy us a cuppa to enjoy while we’re working on all these things.
I Need A Miracle
is eligible for Best New Podcast of 2024 in the Discover Pods Awards. But it’ll only get on the final ballot if people nominate it! Would you kindly?
(It’s eligible for the Fiction category too – but you only get to be ‘New’ once, so that’s the one I’m concentrating on this time around.)
You’ve got until the end of October to nominate I Need A Miracle (and/or anything else you think deserves a Discover Pods Award!). The site asks for:
Name: [Your name.]
Email: [Your email address.]
Podcast name: I Need A Miracle
Podcast website: https://www.foggyoutline.com/ineedamiracle
Podcast category: Best New Podcast of 2024
Why are you nominating this pod?: [Write something you like about the show! Did it make you think? Feel something?]
If you’re feeling really generous, you could take what you write in the Why are you nominating this pod? field and reuse it as a review on Spotify, Apple Podcasts or Podchaser.
What do we mean by climate breakdown?
is the environmental literacy course we’re in the middle of remastering. Mum’s about three-quarters done with the animation work on the new version, and Dad’s been planning the script updates. We’ve also invested in three new ringlights, so the new filmed segments will be sharper and generally better to look at (as will the filmed segments of all new courses after this remaster!).
In the meantime, you can still take the original What do we mean by climate breakdown? course, and you’ll get access to the remastered version at no extra cost as soon as we push it live.
Looking forward to any of these upcoming releases? Let us know on Linkedin or Tumblr, or if you’re feeling generous, buy us a cuppa to warm us while we work!
🌝 The Moonlight Market (Joanne Harris) – Mum loves the way she always weaves a twist of magic into her stories. This one is unashamedly a fairy story from the start where the real world as we understand it exists alongside a hidden world.
🏊 London Tide world premiere recording (PJ Harvey and Ben Power) – I saw this musical version of Our Mutual Friend on stage earlier this year, and had almost given up hope of a cast recording. These are songs that really need to be heard more than once. It wasn’t originally going to be a musical; PJ Harvey was meant to be composing a score, not a book. But Ben Power kept responding to her tracks with lyrics, and now it’s a musical. Collaboration!
👩🍳 Gastronauts – the new cookery gameshow on Dropout is everything I hoped it’d be from the trailer. The chefs are professionals but their challenges are set by mischevious or unhinged comedians. The first challenge of the first episode is just to make the physically heftiest meal.
This is a mini Kawandi quilt Mum recently finished. The technique is traditionally used by the Siddi people of India. It's a handsewn quilt made using scraps of fabric that are too small to be useful for other projects.
Thanks for joining us behind the scenes! See you in two weeks for the Ready edition: a round-up of Foggy Outline things you can enjoy straight away, no waiting.