The BBC World Service is a major player in the global podcast industry, with award-winning podcasts like 13 Minutes to the Moon, about the Apollo space missions, and Death in Ice Valley, which investigated the mysterious death of a woman in Norway in 1970. In 2020, the BBC World Service launched The Comb, a new podcast for young listeners in Africa, presented by Zimbabwean journalist Kim Chakanetsa, which combs through a different story each week from across the continent. The Global News Podcast is the BBC’s most successful podcast, with 167 million downloads in 2019. Kalki Presents: My Indian Life, with Bollywood actor, Kalki Koechlin, has been reaching young listeners in India. Other notable podcasts include Goodbye to All This, 30 Animals That Made Us Smarter, The Hurricane Tapes and The Bomb.
This is the BBC World Service’s first ever international podcast competition.
WORTH
- The winning idea will become a BBC World Service podcast. You will produce it with the support of a BBC production team.
ELIGIBILITY
- The competition is open to people aged 18 or over who are normally a full-time resident in Kenya, Nigeria or South Africa.
- You warrant that you have the right to live and work in the country of residence you have entered on this application for the period specified [up to and including the proposed podcast publication date] and are free to undertake the contractual obligations set out should you win the competition.
- Employees of a BBC Group company or the BBC, as well as their immediate families, are not eligible to enter.
- Entrants, anyone listed as creatively participating in the pitch or who creatively participates in the submitted audio must not be a professional – whether as a broadcaster, vlogger or posters of audio-visual material. For the purposes of this competition, a professional will be considered to be someone who makes more than half their income from presenting or any kind of production role or sharing audio-visual material with the public – including but not limited to those working in traditional linear radio and television broadcasting, on-demand services and video sharing on platforms like YouTube, Instagram or Facebook. Plus, you must not already have a credit on a ‘commercial’ podcast i.e. one that receives income through advertising and/or sponsorship, or is funded by a media organisation or other company.
- The number of creative participants attached to an entry is capped at a maximum of one.
DEADLINE: January 22 2021
To apply and for more information visit here
