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Where words come to life 🪽
through a podcast & live event series
w/ @_mabel_evans_ & @benjamin.aston
Episodes on Apple Podcasts, YouTube & Spotify

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Thank you Elif (@shafakelif) for reminding us of the voices of nature. 🍃

You can find our whole conversation on YouTube, Spotify and Apple Podcast. The links are in our bio.

We hope you enjoy the first episode of the Wodcast and are grateful to everyone who listens, follows, shares, comments or likes.

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Episode sponsor: @summerour_architects

#Wodcast #SeasonOne #ElifShafak #Interview by @wod.cast

@wod.cast, a new long-form interview podcast “dedicated to exploring the power and beauty of words”, has launched with inaugural guest Elif Shafak.

📸 @stewartbywater

Read more on our website 🔗 by @wod.cast

Season One with Stephen Fry, Elif Shafak, and more.

You can now find us on all podcast platforms and our first episode with Elif Shafak (@shafakelif) will be released on the 17th of June. From then on, a new interview will go live fortnightly with a reflective episode in between.

#Wodcast #Season01 #education #art by @wod.cast

When we started Wodcast, we didn’t know if anyone would have the time, or take the time, to listen and reflect with us on something as small as words.

Nine interviews later, we’re so grateful to share that Season One has reached over 427,000 plays, from 196 countries and territories. Seeing listens arrive from every corner of the world in just a few months proves to us that, in a time of endless information and AI slop, many of us still choose to slow down and explore one of the things that make us human: language.

Thank you to every guest who sat down with us, to our crew who worked tirelessly to make every episode the best it could be, and above all to every one of you who listened, watched or shared an episode.

oh and by the way…. Season Two starts this Wednesday ✨ (4th of November)

Lots of love,
Mabel & Ben

Photograph by Steward Bywater (@stewartbywater)

#Wodcast #SeasonOne #Numbers by @wod.cast

“In the beginning was the Wod”
- Stephen Fry

Page 1 in our Wodcast Guest Book

Thank you to all our wonderful guests we had the privilege to sit down with during season one of Wodcast. We are deeply grateful to all the remarkable people who sat with us for an interview and equally grateful to all our listeners from around the world who tuned in.

The first episode of season two will go live in three days on Wednesday the 4th of November 💫

We will see you there.

(Missing from the line up is the formidable Tim Rice, who we recorded with before we had our guest book. We will be chasing him for an entry soon 😉)

#Wodcast #SeasonOne #GuestBook #Gratitude by @wod.cast

Wodcast Live • Chapter I • Words on Sound

Last Sunday evening we gathered in a Beduin tent tucked away behind the sky scrapers of Liverpool Street Station to listen to words, poems and stories.

Thank you to our wonderful speakers who all shared their interpretion of the theme “Words on Sound”. Benjamin (@benjamin.aston) started by sending a poem back in time before Karimah (@karimah.hassan) invited us to listen with our hearts as she reflected on her recent tate modern visit. Then our two brilliant story-tellers, Tom (@thstainer) and Henrietta (@rettob1977) transported us into the realms of our imaginations reminding us of the wisdom that lives in old tales.

Thank you also to our host Mabel (@_mabel_evans_) and to our two talented musicians who were in convesation through their instruments Nell (@nellnicholas) and Tobias (@tc_bulman).

A big thank you to everyone who joined and made the atmosphere cosy, reflective and warm. And a special thank you to Rose (@rosepurbrick) and Hebe for transforming the space with us.

Our next event, Chapter II • Untranslatable Words, will be on the 19th of November with our friends from the Translator Magazine (@translatormag). We hope to see you there. ✨

#Wodcast #WodcastLive #ChapterOne #WordsonSound” by @wod.cast

What does it mean to be human?

The last question we asked each of our season one guests. In this clip the award-winning film maker Waad Al-Kateab (@waadalkateab) reflects on what the word “human” means to her.

The full bonus episode is now live wherever you get your podcast 🎧

#Wodcast #BonusEpisode #waadalkateab #human by @wod.cast

The first season of @wod.cast is now complete 💫

We were so lucky to sit down with some remarkable guests and ended each conversation with the same question.

“How would you define the word ‘human’”?

Comment “human” and we will send you a link to the episode

In this clip you can listen to the inspiring novelist Elif Shafak (@shafakelif) as she shares what came to her mind after she heard the word.

Our season one word was given to us by Sarah Ogilvie, a professor of language and lexicography at the University of Oxford.

Thank you for receiving our first season with so much love and care. Season two comes November 4th 2026.

#wodcast #seasonone #bonusepisode #human by @wod.cast

WOD: HOPE

in collaboration with @onehope & @hughsummerour

This delicate word took us on a journey all the way to the heart of Napa Valley. Hope is an optimistic state of mind and a feeling of desire combined with the expectation or possibility of a favorable outcome.

Wodcast was invited to explore this word through 4 chapters inspired by One Hope Winery (@onehope) and the talented artist Hugh Summerour (@hughsummerour)

You can find more information on onehopewine.com 🍇🍷

Filmed by Mabel Evans (@_mabel_evans_)
Edited by Jahaan Noble (@the.noblest)
Produced by Wodcast (@wod.cast)

What does “hope” mean to you? 💫

#WOD #Wodcast #OneHopeWinery #HOPE by @wod.cast

“In One Brief Moment All Eternity” 🐦‍🔥
— by Elif Shafak (@shafakelif)

Thank you dear Elif for the opportunity to be in conversation with you about your new book. Your relationship to words, time and wisdom inspires me deeply. The stories you write are a gift to anyone who reads them and I am so grateful to have found your work (and words). Thank you for celebrating another moment of kairos with me. 💫

Thank you also to @waterstones for hosting this wonderful event and to @wod.cast for weaving this reality 💧🩵

#InOneBriefMomentAllEternity #ElifShafak #Wodcast #Kairos by @wod.cast

Announcing our first London live event!

Wodcast Season 1 is almost over, but our community of word lovers is here to stay. While we prepare for our next season, you can keep connecting to the Wodcast team by coming to one of our live events.

For our first London event, we’ll be meeting at St Ethelburga’s, Bishopsgate on October 25th. We’ll be hearing words from artists, storytellers and authors including @karimah.hassan, @willhunterr & @benjamin.aston and others, all on our October theme: ‘Words on Sound’.

For tickets, head to the link in our bio. For free tickets to all Wodcast live events, become a paid subscriber to our Substack, and unlock a host of other benefits beside!

See you on October 25th - we can’t wait to meet you.

#wodcast #intothewords #wodcastlive by @wod.cast

There’s one question Stephen Fry always gets asked…

Alongside his work as an actor and comedian, Stephen has written novels, autobiographies and non-fiction books. The secret, he says, is that there is no secret.

The Wodcast Episode 9: Stephen Fry is out now on Spotify, YouTube and Apple Podcasts.

#wodcast #intothewords #stephenfry #writingtips by @wod.cast