The BBC's first dedicated Commissioner of Podcasts is Jason Phipps. Big boss Bob Shennan wants the BBC to be more creative in this field "thinking beyond [network] brands".
Jason comes from The Guardian, where he has spent 14 years working on podcasts; for nine years before that he produced specialist music and pocasts for BBC Radio London and the World Service.
He brings to the role all the spatial awareness afford by a B.A. first class honours in sculpture from the National College of Art and Design, Dublin, followed by two years at the
Akademie der Munchen.
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