Introducing Bespoken - Scotland's premium podcast specialists

... ever got somewhere in the car, but felt compelled to stay listening to the radio until you were late for your appointment.

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... shut out the world with headphones, to spend quality time with your favourite show.

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... felt like the voice in your ears is your friend or confidante, and that you are part of their community (though you’ve never met).

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Those feelings – of intimacy, connection, and trust – are real, and they are backed by statistics.

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-         most people (around 70%) who start a podcast episode stay listening until it finishes.

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-         most listening is done alone; just 19% of respondents listened to audio in the company of others ‘frequently’, according to the 2025 Infinite Dial UK report.

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-         one survey (conducted in Spain by podcast host Acast) found that a massive 97% of daily listeners perceive brands more positively when they are promoted on podcasts.

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Podcast listening is growing year-on-year.

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Interestingly for us as Edinburgh-based podcast consultants; listening in Scotland is higher than elsewhere in the UK – with 23.3% (nearly a quarter) of Scottish adults listening each week, according to OFCOM’s Media Nations: Scotland 2025 report.

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An award-winning team

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Our team at Bespoken Media Scotland are multi-award winning podcast production and strategy specialists.

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But first and foremost, we are podcast fans. We love the craft of making radio.

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In 2025, we won a Special Commendation at Europe’s most prestigious audio awards, the Prix Europa, for our BBC Radio 4 documentary A Georgian Polyphonic Feast.

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The judges called our programme ‘joyous and beautifully crafted’.  They said it ‘celebrates the human voice, shared experience, and the beauty of sound’, and that it was ‘an unforgettable, immersive, and enriching listen’.

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Also in 2025, we won Silver in the Production Company of the Year category at the Audio Production Awards.

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Recently, our BBC work has included reporting from Uganda and South Korea for the BBC World Service, programmes across the schedule for Radio 4, and a 3-part mini-series about Olympic basketball, psychadelic rock, and the fall of the Soviet Union, for BBC Sounds’ Amazing Sport Stories strand.

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'They listen, they care, and they get it right'

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We have been trusted by the charity Our Time to produce deeply sensitive conversations for young people experiencing parental mental illness, over three seasons (and counting) of My Family, Mental Illness and Me.

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We produce series' for Aberdeen, Heriot-Watt and Edinbugh Napier universities, and have organically grown sector-leading podcasts about renewable energy (Local Zero, for the University of Strathclyde), and Scottish food and farming (OnFARM, for Scene and Herd PR and Marketing).

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We’ve built up a raft of glowing 5-star Google reviews. One recent client called us “kind, calm, and deeply skilled”, and “not just technically excellent, but genuinely lovely people to work with and full of energy and inspiration."

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The client went on: "They listen, they care, and they get it right.”

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So what can we do for you?

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Podcast production for your brand, business or voice

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We offer full end-to-end production of both audio and video podcasts, and all supporting promotional and social media assets. Let us handle all aspects of creating your organisation’s premium podcast, from initial format development to music creation, episode editing, written show notes, advertising, distribution to podcast platforms, promotion, and metrics.

Production skills training and consultancy

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We can provide your in-house team the skills and grounding they need to launch your successful podcast. We can also troubleshoot and identify improvements in your current podcast workflow, to ensure you are maximising your resources and reaching your audience.

Voice coaching and media skills

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Key members of our team are a former senior BBC journalist and a trained actor and voice coach; whether you are looking to be a better podcast host or media speaker, or just want tools for greater confidence and presence in team meetings, we can help with proven techniques and coaching to improve performance

Comms and marketing team extension

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We offer a white label service to agencies and marketers who want to offer premium podcast production to their clients with confidence. We'll be there, when you need us, as your in-house premium podcast experts.

If you want to find out more, or to have a no-obligation chat about how we might be able to help, get in touch any time. There is nothing we love more than talking to people and teams about their podcasts!

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