Short audio

Russell Davies

27 Jan 2026 — 1 min read

A screengrab of an Audiolog episode

I'm still doing Unoffice Hours, because they continue to be a delight. Yesterday's instalment was a fantastic chat about Short Podcasts with James King.

He is one of the few listeners to 4764 and make his own short collagey podcast at Audiolog. He's built brilliant tools for doing it and everything.

We were both wondering why there aren't more short podcasts.

Though just yesterday I listened to this episode of 99% Invisible about Audio Flux. These seem great, they're only three minutes, but they're still 'podcasts', they feel very authored and NPR. I imagine there's a lot of chat about storytelling. Not the fragmentary, random feeling of mine or James's efforts.

If you have/know of a very short podcast please let us know.

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