Northern News
Hosted by Amy Gledhill and Ian Smith and Amy and Ian · Plosive
4.8from 389 ratings
- 223
- Episodes
- 6
- Transcribed
- 389
- Ratings
- Monthly
- Cadence
- 2023
- First episode
About Northern News
Hosted by comedians Amy Gledhill and Ian Smith – two Northerners living in London –on a mission to find the juiciest stories from their hometowns and beyond. Join them each week as they scour the local rags of the North to find the stories you didn’t know you needed to know. Do you have news from the North? Write in to northernnewspod@gmail.com (mailto:northernewspod@gmail.com) Want even more Northern News? Join us on Patreon at patreon.com/NorthernNews (http://patreon.com/NorthernNews) Follow Northern News on Instagram @NorthernNewsPodcast Produced by Plosive. Artwork by Welcome Studio. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.
- Publisher
- Plosive
- Category
- comedy · comedy · news
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 21 Feb 2023
- Latest episode
- 22 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
6 of 223 episodes have a transcript.
22 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
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15 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
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8 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
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And you think the vape has made that better?
Published 22 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] Yeah. Is it a fruit or a veg? I guess it's a veg because it grows out of the ground. Is that what a veg is? It doesn't have seeds in. Is that all a veg is? I think so. So is a tree a veg? Yeah. I don't know if it's any of them. Botanically, rhubarb is a vegetable. It is a perennial herbaceous plant related to sorrel and dock, where the edible part is the stem. However, it is treated as a fruit in the culinary world. Okay. I don't care how you treat it. What is it? Yeah, it's a vegetable. Wow. Yeah, so it's weird to stew a vegetable. Yeah. Because it wasn't even like a rhubarb crumble. It was rhubarb custard. […]
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- Tom Rosenthal
- Phil Wang
- Lou Sanders
- Rob Auton
- Jessica Knappett
Reach and audience
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- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 5.0 / 5
- 35 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.8 / 5
- 354 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 76 / 100
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- Quality
- 95
- Social presence
- 94
- YouTube
- 0
- Engagement
- 96
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Who hosts Northern News?
Amy Gledhill and Ian Smith and Amy and Ian host the show. Published by Plosive.
How often do new episodes come out?
The show publishes monthly, based on its RSS feed.
Does Northern News take guests?
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