Meet The WME Agent Helping Drive The Success Of A Wave Of British Politics Podcasts
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: The News Agents, The Rest is Politics, The Rest is History and Political Currency have taken the British podcasting world by storm of late and one man connects them all – Alex Bewley.
The podcast supremo launched WME‘s London digital department a decade ago and has pivoted over the past few years to focus almost solely on the audio format.
The past year has seen his team’s methods seriously begin to bear fruit, with Bewley occupying a front row seat to the runaway success of informal political chatshows The News Agents and The Rest is Politics, which continue to dominate the weekly UK charts.
The former is hosted by ex-BBC heavyweights Emily Maitlis and Jon Sopel, taking an in-depth look at daily talking points in the world of current affairs, while the latter has seen the oddball pairing of former Labour Party spin doctor Alastair Campbell and former Conservative Party minister Rory Stewart seriously catch on.
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