The UK’s Brexit podcasts:

the temporal affordances of podcasting in a time of crisis

Wincott, Abigail ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3162-644X, Fauré, Laurent and Osorio-Ruiz, Natalia (2025) The UK’s Brexit podcasts:. In: Podcast in the future of journalism. Roma Tre Press, Rome, pp. 149-162. ISBN 979-12-5977-470-5

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Abstract / Summary

It is sometimes said we live in an age characterised by crisis. Taking Brexit as an example of a recent crisis moment, we explore the role of the UK’s political podcasts. Brexit was the subject of a huge amount of conventional media coverage in the UK and elsewhere, including radio, TV and short podcast series. But here we focus on two hugely popular, long-running, single issue podcasts: Brexitcast and Remainiacs, which emerged when podcasting was exploding as a popular form and became an unexpected audience hit. They reported on Brexit with far less efficiency than conventional media, taking up hundreds of hours of media time. Much of this time is spent on speculation, humour and domestic trivia. In this chapter we explore how these are used to dramatise and make sense of Brexit as a chaotic process that moves both too fast and too slow. In exploiting the temporal affordances of podcasting, these series carnivalise (Bakhtin, 1970) the sacred space of international politics and help to strip it of some of its power. No wonder this genre of political podcasting has endured post-Brexit, becoming a popular phenomenon in the UK.

Item Type:	Book Section
ISBN:	979-12-5977-470-5
Subjects:	Communication Communication > Journalism Film & Television > Radio & Podcast
Department:	School of Communication
Depositing User:	Abigail Wincott
Date Deposited:	09 Jun 2025 13:27
Last Modified:	09 Jun 2025 13:27
URI:	https://repository.falmouth.ac.uk/id/eprint/6060

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