Behind The Pod

That’s a wrap on Behind the Pod Series 5! Thank you to all of our creators, and to everyone who’s commented on episodes so far!

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Series 5, Episode 2: Podficcers of Color Roundtable Discussion 5

In this episode, the panel introduces two new members, flowersforgraves and DrPanda99, and discusses how they feel being a person of color impacts their work as podficcers and how they experience podfic fandom. They also discuss podfic events centering characters of color, events that were born out of their discussion last episode, and their experiences in exchanges/events as participants and/or mods. Finally, they discuss what fandoms they've been enjoying lately, as well as podfic recs.

Duration - 02:26:05

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Your Behind the Pod Series 5 release schedule is here - time to get excited about all the great podfic meta coming to your ears every weekend between now and May!

Sun 16th April: Episode 1 - Notebook Fanfic to Reading Online: Our Podfic Journeys
Sun 23rd April: Episode 2 - Podficcers of Color Roundtable Discussion 5
Sun 30th April: Episode 3 - "Pod Together" Alone
Sun 21st May: Party Favours are posted

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