Podcast

An episodic, on-demand audio programme distributed over the internet, typically via RSS or proprietary platforms such as Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and BBC Sounds. Podcasts are a dominant form of long-form audio media — 92% of UK adults listen to some audio content weekly — but remain largely inaccessible to people with aphasia, hearing loss, or cognitive disabilities because transcripts, when provided at all, are typically caption-style read-alongs rather than editable, downloadable artefacts with speaker diarisation and timestamps.