Retold: A Harry Potter Podcast

About Retold: A Harry Potter Podcast

Welcome to Retold! A podcast where I retell you my favorite stories of all time like Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings. Every week, my guests and I do a chapter by chapter retelling of the Potter books and we discuss our favorite lines, lore, and love for this series. We have also just started discussing Lord of the Rings and the world of Middle Earth! New Harry Potter episodes every Monday! New LOTR episode every Thursday

Publisher

Barry Watson

Category

arts · comedy · fiction

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

25 Feb 2025

Latest episode

5 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

92 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   5 Oct 2026

   Gandalf vs Dumbledore

   Gandalf vs Dumbledore? Basilisk vs Smaug? Shelob vs Aragog? These matchups and more in our fantasy fight night! Hope you enjoy the first every solo episode of Retold as I nerd out and attempt to deduce who would win in all of these matchups! Did I get any wrong? Do you agree? Let me know what you think in the comments! *OOTP chapter 20 will come out later this week. Shoutout to ⁨@TurningPages⁩  for all of the music in this episode. I LOVE their work.Music by Turning PagesYoutube: /  ⁨@TurningPages⁩ Podcast Patreon: www.patreon.com/retoldpodcast  Podcast Instagram: @theretoldpodcastPodcast Youtube: @theretoldpodcastPodcast Email: theretoldpodcast@gmail.com Episode Chapters0:00 Intro3:25 Basilisk vs Smaug7:00 Shelob vs Aragog10:15 Bilbo/Gollum vs Hermionie11:45 Bilbo/Gollum vs the sphinx13:15 Gandalf the Gray vs Dumbledore stats37:55 Gandalf the Gray vs Dumbledore fight51:45 Sauron vs Voldemort

2. 

   28 Sept 2026

   OOTP CH19 with Half Blood Pod

   Join me and Scott from the Half Blood Pod as we discuss bully beatdowns, Lee Jordan's commentary, and a surprising order of Merlin 1st class in chapter 19 of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. Half blood pod instagram: @halfbloodpod Half blood pod youtube: @halfbloodpod Podcast Patreon: www.patreon.com/retoldpodcast Podcast Instagram: @theretoldpodcast Podcast Youtube: @theretoldpodcast Podcast Email: theretoldpodcast@gmail.com Episode Chapters 0:00 Theme Song 0:42 Intro and this/that 9:40 Quizzitch 18:00 Ch19 Retelling 51:20 Ch19 Favorite lines 58:15 Ch19 Transfigurations 1:01:00 Ch19 Golden Snitches 1:06:00 Restricted Section 1:09:43 Outro and Credits

3. 

   24 Sept 2026

   3 Things The Hobbit Movies Do Better Than LOTR

   In this episode, I try to convince Jonathan and Hunter that there are SOME things that the Hobbit movies do really well, so well in fact, that they even do them better than the Lord of The Rings movies. Wish me luck! Podcast Patreon: www.patreon.com/retoldpodcast  Podcast Instagram: @theretoldpodcastPodcast Youtube: @theretoldpodcastPodcast Email: theretoldpodcast@gmail.com

Who has been a guest on Retold: A Harry Potter Podcast

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Brett (Brett's Thoughts)
• Professor Julian
• Stephanie
• Bailey
• Emily

Reach and audience

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YouTube views

1,820,920

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

4.9 / 5

12 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 64 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

81

Social presence

0

YouTube

86

Engagement

32

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