The Short Read

The podcasts you meant to listen to.

Pick up to ten shows. Every weekday morning before nine, one page: what they said, where they agreed, and where they did not.

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Choose your shows

Up to ten, from a catalogue we keep and listen to ourselves. Change them whenever you like.

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We listen overnight

Every new episode is transcribed in full and read for what it actually claims, not what its title says.

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One page before nine

Stories more than one show covered come first, because that is where the disagreements are.

Your sources, read in full.

You pick the shows

No feed, no algorithm deciding what matters this morning. The briefing is built from the ten shows you chose and nothing else.

Every line is attributed

Each claim carries the person who made it and the episode they made it in. Nothing is asserted on our own authority.

When your shows overlap

Two of your shows on the same story, or all ten, and you get every reading side by side with the exact point where they stop agreeing.

A verdict on each episode

Essential, worth it, skim or skip, with a line on who it is for, so you know which hour is worth listening to yourself.