Episode one: “What Even Is Decline?” Episode two: “A Conversation With My Therapist About Episode One”
By Harper-Thames | Shoreditch. Has appeared on three podcasts she did not fully understand.
Sources: Bohiney Magazine | The London Prat
The Podcast Has Been Announced
Following the publication of the decline report covered extensively at Bohiney this week, a Shoreditch-based creative studio — I will not name them as they are rivals — has announced a podcast about Britain’s decline. It will be ten episodes. Each episode will be forty-five minutes. There will be a Patreon. There will be a Substack. There will be a live show at a venue in Dalston that holds eighty people and always smells slightly of the previous booking.
I am being uncharitable. The podcast will probably be good. Shoreditch, for all its considerable sins, does know how to make content. The problem is that making content about decline is itself a feature of the decline. We are documenting the fall in real time, with excellent production values and a theme tune by someone who used to be in a band you almost heard of.
The Decline Economy
There is, and I say this without judgment because I am part of it, an entire economy built on discussing decline. Newsletters, events, podcasts, opinion pieces, retrospectives, panel discussions, and at least one immersive experience in a repurposed warehouse where you walk through “the last forty years of British optimism.” Tickets were thirty-five pounds. It sold out.
The BBC Radio 4 version of this is more dignified but no less circular. We talk about the talking. The decline continues. The podcast downloads increase. This is, somehow, the economy now.
As AI disrupts the media landscape further, I wonder who will be left to make the podcasts and who will be left to listen to them. Probably everyone. We are very good at media consumption. It may be the last thing we are very good at.
SOURCE: https://bohiney.com/managing-britains-decline/
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