Tuesday, November 24, 2009

Listening to podcasts --- Muggle Cast



I think this was the podcast analyzing Harry Potter that Mrs. Wilson mentioned once. I was looking around the book podcasts on iTunes and I saw this one, which sounded very interesting. I was pleasantly surprised. Though this was a long podcast and I didn't have time to listen to the whole episode, what I listened to was surprisingly attention grabbing and I will try to finish listening to this podcast tomorrow as we have the day off.

Muggle Cast is a little over an hour long and it is published a little irregularly, but about every ten days. It is an unscripted podcast. The show consists of a conversation, slightly sitcom like style, between three teenagers/young adults who talk about pretty much anything that has something to do with Harry Potter - meanings in the book, anecdotes about the movies, stories about the actors...they also receive e-mails with questions and thanks that they discuss in the podcast.

Sometimes, I thought they just spent a really, really long time discussing small little things such as one statement Harry made in the book for 15mn, but I guess this was really a podcast for the absolute fans. What I liked about this podcast is the variety that it included - e-mails, music, interviews...I think I should try to think up of more "genres" to use in my own podcast, and perhaps have other people talk with me on the show.

"The Muggle Casters" (pseudonym). "Lady Dumbledore." Muggle Cast. 23 Nov 2009: 185. 25 Nov 2009 <"file:///C:/DOCUME~1/SEAFB~3.FEL/LOCALS~1/Temp/MuggleCast_%20The%20%231%20Most-Listened%20to%20Harry%20Potter%20Podcast.url">

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