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My Dad Wrote A Porno enters podcasting Hall of Fame
My Dad Wrote A Porno has become the first inductee into the British Podcast Awards' Hall of Fame.
Guy Lambert, BBC, 28th September 2023Nudity, aliens and legal threats: what we learned from My Dad Wrote A Porno's Rocky Flintstone
After years of his erotica being turned into podcast gold, the mysterious author of Belinda Blinked finally broke his silence - with a wild interview. Here are the highlights.
Nell Frizzell, The Guardian, 12th December 2022How My Dad Wrote a Porno set the gold standard for podcast success
When Jamie Morton decided that reading his father's embarrassing erotica could make for a good podcast idea, he had no idea it would grow into a worldwide phenomenon. As the show comes to end after seven years, he and co-hosts James Cooper and Alice Levine talk to Isobel Lewis about how the industry has grown exponentially with - and perhaps because of - their show.
The Independent, 12th December 2022Forget Serial. My Dad Wrote A Porno proved comedy podcasts beat grisly true crime
Podcasts may have gone mainstream with Serial but today, funny shows are most popular - and Jamie Morton's dive into his dad's erotic novel showed them how it was done.
Nick Hilton, i Newspaper, 28th November 2022My Dad Wrote A Porno: an obituary
Ian Hawkins bids farewell to the podcast phenomenon.
Ian Hawkins, Chortle, 14th November 2022My Dad Wrote A Porno: the secrets of Britain's biggest comedy podcast revealed
As the show bows out, we meet its creators - and meet the mysterious Rocky Flintstone, the dad who inspired it.
Patricia Nicol, The Sunday Times, 13th November 2022Top of the Pods - How live podcasts are taking over comedy
The format has gone from low-cost side hustle to, for some, a lucrative bread-winner, and audiences are flocking to them.
Bruce Dessau, Evening Standard, 1st April 202210 of the best comedy podcasts
Sick of hearing about unsolved murders? Tune in to these pods about Kurupt FM, bobbly boobs and Louis Theroux's disco jam.
Hannah Verdier, The Guardian, 18th September 2020My Dad Wrote a Porno: interview
Questions from a pots and pans industry insider.
Paul Stanworth, BBC, 11th September 2019HBO special for My Dad Wrote A Porno to be filmed
Podcast My Dad Wrote A Porno is to film a special for HBO.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 20th January 2019