Will Roe

Podcast Producer, The Times and Sunday Times

Will Roe is a multi-award-winning podcast producer who currently works for The Times and Sunday Times producing long-form narrative series for the Stories of our times podcast show. He's worked in radio for over 10 years, beginning at his local BBC radio station in York. In the last four years, he's moved predominantly into making narrative investigative shows. Shows that Will has produced include Who Killed CJ Davis? (which won gold for True Crime at the British Podcast Awards in 2021), Seventeen Years: The Andrew Malkinson story and The Messiah and his Kittens. He has also recently produced a two-part podcast on Britain's new far-right.

All Sessions by Will Roe

3:15 pm - 3:45 pm
Main stage

Creating long-form and narrative podcasts

Podcasts offer a huge wealth of opportunity beyond the interview format. Publishers are seeing success with hit series and investigations that play to what we do best: storytelling. This panel brings together some of the best to determine how to go about longer, narrative-style podcasts, and what to consider when planning them.