Camilla Tominey and Kamal Ahmed, the hosts of The Telegraph ‘s new daily news podcast The Daily T, say they plan to stand out in a crowded market through right-of-centre politics and proximity to their newsroom. The podcast, which launched last month , is currently the third highest-ranked daily news podcast in the UK on Apple Podcasts (ahead of The Guardian but behind the BBC) and fourth highest on Spotify in the UK (behind The Guardian, ahead of the FT). Last week Tominey and Ahmed bagged the first in-depth campaign trail interview with Prime Minister Rishi Sunak , using the opportunity to ask him both about his new proposed national service policy and his affinity for Star Wars.
Asked by Press Gazette whether the Prime Minister’s team needed any cajoling to do the encounter as a podcast rather than a traditional write-up, Tominey said “the reason they were persuaded by it at this time...
[was] we were able to sell this as a quite intimate medium and an opportunity for Rishi Sunak to show the real PM behind the kind of policy-obsessed nerd”. Podcasts, Tominey said, were more about “being discursive, not combative..
. he gave a very human and personal interview”. Ahmed said the interview had begun a long day: Sunak arrived in the Telegraph offices at 7:30 in the morning and “we were both still online with the comments at 9pm”.
He added: “The public consumes information in audio, in written word, in video...
when we have Rishi Sunak, it’s not just an audio .