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Wodcast

Benjamin Aston, Mabel Evans

Booking Overview

A fortnightly interview show focused on language, culture, creativity, identity, and the ideas that shape personal and collective life, featuring writers, musicians, filmmakers, activists, and other prominent cultural voices. Credible pitches include accomplished authors, lyricists, artists, filmmakers, cultural thinkers, and experts with a compelling personal or professional relationship to language and meaning; booking difficulty is high given the caliber of recent guests.

Metrics

Episodes: 12

Frequency: Every two weeks

Rating: 4.6/5.0

Estimated listeners: 100 - 1,000

Gender skew: Neutral

Listener location: United Kingdom

YouTube: 5.7k subscribers

Instagram: 121.0k followers

Page updated: Oct 28, 2026 · How we check this data

Contact Information

Publicly listed emails

mabel@wodcast.co.uk

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Host

Benjamin Aston - Co-host of Wodcast, exploring the words that shape lives, cultures, relationships, and imagination.

Mabel Evans - Co-host of Wodcast, exploring the words that shape lives, cultures, relationships, and imagination.

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

high
Typical Credentials:  
Established writers, musicians, filmmakers, poets, activists, cultural thinkers, and leaders with recognized professional achievements and a thoughtful perspective on language, creativity, identity, meaning, or personal transformation.
Required Achievements:  
Major creative or cultural body of work, Published books or acclaimed documentaries, Recognized awards or significant industry distinction, Leadership of established cultural, social, or business initiatives

Recent Guest Discussions

Tim Rice - Lyric Writing, Songwriting, Storytelling, Titles, Rhyme, Rhythm, Language, Memory, And The Relationship Between Words And Music.

Waad Al-Kateab - Freedom, Syria, Revolution, Translation, Displacement, Home, Belonging, Solidarity, Memory, Filmmaking, And The Power Of Words.

Nick Mulvey - Surrender, Creativity, Songwriting, Poetry, Christianity, Masculinity, Nature, Faith, And The Limits Of Language.

Remi Olajoyegbe - Success, Transformation, Grief, Leadership, Belonging, Ritual, Emotional Language, Embodiment, And Living And Leading From Wholeness.

David Larbi - Happiness, Contentment, Poetry, Creativity, Authenticity, Burnout, Boundaries, Emotional Vocabulary, Silence, And Presence.

Recent Topics

Art, Language, Poetry, Songwriting, Philosophy

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on
Wodcast
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What Does It Mean to Be Human? | Season One Bonus Episode

October 21, 2026

For our Season One bonus episode, we return to the question at the heart of so many of our conversations: what can a single word reveal about the way we live, the way we relate to one another, and the world we share? This season, we’ve explored where words come from, what they carry, and how their meanings shift through the people who use them. Now, thanks to Sarah Ogilvie, Professor of Language and Lexicography at the University of Oxford, we have our word of the season: Human. We invited ea...

E9 - There Is No Perfect Word | with Stephen Fry

October 07, 2026

What if words can never mean exactly what we want them to mean? Stephen Fry has spent a lifetime exploring language: writing it, performing it, studying its history, and delighting in its strange contradictions. In this final episode of Season One, we sit down with Stephen to explore what words can and perhaps cannot do. We begin with “happy”, a word Stephen traces back to hap, meaning chance or what happens. From there, the conversation opens into a much bigger question: if language is metap...

E8 - The Words Behind the Songs | with Tim Rice

September 23, 2026

Today, Wodcast sits down with Sir Tim Rice one of the world's most celebrated lyricists and one of only a small number of people to have won an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony, for a wide-ranging conversation about words, songwriting, storytelling and the strange alchemy of turning language into something that lasts. From Jesus Christ Superstar, Evita and Chess to The Lion King and Aladdin, Tim has written some of the most recognisable lyrics of the last half-century. But this conversation is l...

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Frequently asked questions

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Wodcast
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How do I get in touch with Wodcast?

Wodcast is hosted by Benjamin Aston and Mabel Evans. Its publicly listed email is mabel@wodcast.co.uk. For guest bookings, the host or producer is usually the best person to reach. Podseeker helps you find direct host and producer contacts and pitch from your own inbox.

What is the email for Wodcast?

The publicly listed email for Wodcast: mabel@wodcast.co.uk.

How many listeners does Wodcast have?

Podseeker estimates Wodcast reaches 100 to 1,000 listeners per episode. Only the publisher has exact numbers.

Who is an ideal guest for Wodcast?

Wodcast typically books industry leaders. Typical guest background: Established writers, musicians, filmmakers, poets, activists, cultural thinkers, and leaders with recognized professional achievements and a thoughtful perspective on language, creativity, identity, meaning, or personal transformation. Common among recent guests: Major creative or cultural body of work; Published books or acclaimed documentaries; Recognized awards or significant industry distinction. Recent guests include Tim Rice, Waad Al-Kateab, and Nick Mulvey.

How hard is it to get booked on Wodcast?

High. It mostly books established leaders in its field.

What topics does Wodcast cover?

Recent episodes cover Art, Language, Poetry, Songwriting, and Philosophy. Pitch an idea tied to one of these topics and mention a recent episode.

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