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Willard Foxton
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Creative Director at Novel Podcasts.

Made things like KILL LIST, HARSH REALITY and THE GIRLFRIENDS happen (and many others!). Won Ambie, BPA, APA, Signal and Ed Murrow Awards.

Toy soldier enthusiast.
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Willard Foxton @willardfoxton.bsky.social · 9d
A few months ago I was at the National Gallery, listening to a podcast executive proclaim the “bright future of audio” while literally haloed by angels in 3 metre tall renaissance masterpiece.

He was out of a job by the summer.

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The Halo, the Hype and the Hangovers
A time to take stock in limited series audio
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There is no bigger red flag for a human being imho than a self-authored wikipedia page
November 19, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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New Sounds Complete Radio post is up — and this one’s about how we found, made, and kept making one of the biggest narrative true-crime podcasts in the world: THE GIRLFRIENDS.

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How we made The Girlfriends*
Skip to the bottom to find out how I personally did not make the Girlfriends!
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November 19, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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Last night, because google is completely enshittified, I asked chat gpt how many German capital ships in WW2 were torpedoed by British submarines.

This is easily available data, I just couldn’t be arsed to read 7 Wikipedia profiles. Theoretically ideal chat GPT task

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moreperfectunion.bsky.social More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 1d
TurboTax is about to be integrated into ChatGPT, where customers will be guided through tasks tied to their tax filings or financial profile by the AI chatbot.

TurboTax owner Intuit is also paying OpenAI more than $100 million a year to power AI agents.
November 19, 2025 at 9:10 AM
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"Sure. Fuck it."
mattthr.bsky.social Matt Thrower @mattthr.bsky.social · 1d
This mural has gone up in Kingston, ostensibly for Christmas but AI has ensured it's actually to celebrate the return of our dark lord Cthulhu
November 18, 2025 at 3:47 PM
willardfoxton.bsky.social
Trying to read General Shaw's medal ribbons in WELCOME TO DERRY to work out what kind of service record he has.

He's got a presidential unit citation, and three campaigns in Europe and North Africa. 8th AF in WW2 i guess?
November 17, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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As an audio guy, the best format for this would be voicing up the text messages, imagine hearing RFK’s hideous penguin-from-Batman voice saying things like “wHaEver you dO, My wIfe anD yOur EdiTOr caN nevEr, EvEr knOw”

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kthorjensen.bsky.social K. Thor Jensen @kthorjensen.bsky.social · 2d
I have no interest in reading the Olivia Nuzzi article, but I would purchase an edition of her and RFK’s unexpurgated text messages
November 17, 2025 at 5:54 PM
willardfoxton.bsky.social
New Sounds Complete Radio post is up:

• why one of my best story-finding tricks is breaking;
• three banger pieces from Alex Sujong Laughlin on why podcasting is a tire fire;
• AND a rare ray of light: we’ve got a new season of The Girlfriends out

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Links I would slack you if we were colleagues...
Exciting things to listen or read about why society is broken
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November 17, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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It’s absolutely going to burn down. You literally have twice daily fire watches; when I used to play games with a guy who works in the House of Lords library he told me they had NINE fires in 2016

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politico.eu POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 4d
A final decision on how to repair Britain’s crumbling parliament is likely to be postponed beyond the next general election, according to four people familiar with the matter.
Final decision on fate of crumbling UK parliament delayed to 2030s
It’s a fire-hazard that’s prone to tumbling masonry — but fear of a public backlash is again delaying repairs to the world famous building.
www.politico.eu
November 16, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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My sense here (and we can now see the reverse with twitter being fully Nazi) is a lot of people in the “twitter was mainstream” era had the experience of seeing that kind of beef & that felt like massive pushback to them.

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jamellebouie.net jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 4d
i think a good example of Propaganda Works is the number of you who think that the national Democratic Party spent the years 2013 to 2020 denouncing Americans for insufficient Tumblr-speak
November 15, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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Just incredible we’ve reached the stage where he’s taking literal bars of gold to make decisions. Like a cartoon supervillain!

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mims.bsky.social Christopher Mims @mims.bsky.social · 4d
"It was tough to beat Apple, but the Swiss did it." said one administration official.

How the Swiss convinced Trump to drop tariffs with gifts of a Rolex desk clock and a 1 kg gold bar.

www.axios.com/2025/11/14/t...
How to lobby Trump with Swiss precision: gifts, gold and gab
How the Swiss broke a diplomatic logjam on tariffs by arriving with tributes fit for a king.
www.axios.com
November 15, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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Jesus Christ.
“I get 10 messages, DMs (direct messages) a game, (saying), ‘F— you, I’m gonna f— your family up,” one player said. “I personally hate gambling. Hate everyone talking about parlays this, parlays that. I hate getting DMs in my Instagram talking about, ‘You f—– up my parlay.’ I hate people sending me threats because I messed up their parlay,” another said. Terrible. Hate them. Every game, no matter if it’s a good game or bad game, you’ve got motherf—— sending death threats, saying racist s—. Every game. I guarantee you, if I check right now, I’ll probably have something from this game. Every game. Everywhere. DMs, Twitter. People be tripping, bro,” a player said. “I hope it doesn’t happen, but it’s going to come to a point where players are going to be targeted because people have lost so much money on them. That’s what I think. But hopefully I’m wrong.”
November 15, 2025 at 3:44 AM
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The long awaited time lapse of how i wrap my tentacle pots for shipping! Lots of bubblewrap around all the limbs then layered up to make a big ball and then secured in the box with paper all around!
October 18, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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@stelpavlou.com good answer on the bond stuff. I loved 51st state btw!
November 14, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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Very amused Dolly Parton and i started substacks the same week. It's trend, folks:)

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Dolly Parton | Substack
🦋 The Official Substack of Dolly Parton 🦋 I'm here to share stories and be inspired by you all.
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November 14, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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Nolan says he shot 2 million feet of film for his version of The Odyssey.

Unfortunately looking at the pics it's all extremely beige.

www.empireonline.com/movies/news/...
Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey is the epic to end all epics: 'We shot over 2 millions feet of film'
The legendary director tells Empire about the epic production of his historical blockbuster in an Empire exclusive. Read more and see a brand new image.
www.empireonline.com
November 14, 2025 at 11:00 AM
willardfoxton.bsky.social
Mildly nightmarish story about successful self-published authors doing well off TikTok shop, and then their life just becoming packing books with their family:

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[The Bottom Line] Indie authors selling on TikTok Shop
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November 14, 2025 at 9:53 AM
willardfoxton.bsky.social
Wrote a thing this morning about why WILD THING is comfortably the best podcast about Bigfoot ever made

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Wild Thing, I think I love you
Comfortably the best podcast about Bigfoot ever made
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November 14, 2025 at 8:54 AM
willardfoxton.bsky.social
The new Sounds Complete Radio post is up:

A podcast that somehow made me believe maybe, just maybe, Bigfoot might just be real.

Not really — but WILD THING is that good.

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Wild Thing, I think I love you
Comfortably the best podcast about Bigfoot ever made
soundscompleteradio.substack.com
November 14, 2025 at 7:30 AM
willardfoxton.bsky.social
Always love walking past James Smith and Sons in London. Always tempted to pop in and buy a sword cane in case I need to fight a duel at the opera
November 12, 2025 at 12:31 PM
willardfoxton.bsky.social
Are labour really going to do a leadership challenge 2 weeks out from a nationally significant budget
November 12, 2025 at 11:31 AM
willardfoxton.bsky.social
It’s not bad luck it’s structural.

Parties now select leaders based on direct democracy by absolute freaks, party members, and MPs are doing one of the worst jobs imaginable (with a genuine risk of death!) for the same money a supermarket manager or trainee lawyer gets.

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willcooling.bsky.social Will Cooling @willcooling.bsky.social · 7d
Nope - we've really just had the most atrocious run of bad luck when it came to Prime Ministers. You can see that in the most competent politician since 2007 (whilst PM) has the smallest drop off.
November 12, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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My first post on Sounds Complete Radio is up — about one of the wildest & most meaningful shows I’ve ever worked on:

Harsh Reality: The Story of Miriam Rivera

It's a story about a transwoman, a reality TV nightmare, and how we told her story as an award-winning podcast with a largely trans team.
November 12, 2025 at 7:37 AM
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Right, like this whole exchange is one of the funniest things I’ve ever read and really only works in print (or maybe, like, a Werner Herzog documentary.)

Anyway @matthewdessem.bsky.social please know that I think about this interview all the time, it’s a masterpiece.
How long does it take when you're getting to know somebody before you tell them that you're the guy who yells "Mortal Kombat!" in the Mortal Kombat theme song? Is that like an opener? I mean, it lay dormant for years. And now that there's all this hubbub of Mortal Kombat movies and everything, if I find somebody who casually tells me, "I used to play that game when I was a kid," I'm like, "Oh, really? | was the kid that yelled 'Mortal Kombat!'" I mean, it's true for you, but that's also sort of a classic unverifiable claim someone makes in a bar, right? Do people ask you to do the yell to prove it? When's the last time you remember yelling "Mortal Kombat"? Oh, yeah. I just did it last week. I see. Will you do it over the phone? Would I do it over the phone? Absolutely. Let's hear it. Mortal Kombat! Yeah, you still got it.
November 11, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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My last word on the matter
a tweet from 2020: (james bond being beaten up by a goon) GOON: bond you will maintain continuity BOND: Never GOON: the year is 2020 and you're roughly forty five, you were born around 1975 BOND: *spits out blood* i was a sea captain in world war two and i've been to space GOON: you son of a bitch
November 11, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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Absolutely delightful interview with Joe Marler, this: www.thetimes.com/article/7778...
November 11, 2025 at 3:37 PM