Apple picks 'Slow Burn' as podcast Show of the Year - AppleInsider

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The Apple Podcasts Award victor for 2022 is "Slow Burn," a non-fiction show, which won for its sum of Roe v. Wade.

Made by Slate, "Slow Burn" primitively ran arsenic a a four-episode season that explored the events up to the archetypal 1973 Supreme Court decision. It was launched successful June 2022 arsenic inheritance to what would go the determination to overturn the landmark ruling.

"Apple Podcasts is wherever users observe caller shows, bask their favorites, unlock premium listening experiences, and enactment the creators who marque them possible," Oliver Schusser, Apple's vice president of Apple Music and Beats, said in a statement.

"Podcasting plays an important relation successful our lives — helping america enactment informed, support entertained, and get inspired," helium continued, "and we're pleased to grant the Slate squad with this recognition."

"I wanted to marque this bid due to the fact that I was truly discouraged by however polarized and stuck the speech astir termination was, and it seemed incredibly timely and important," big and Slate enforcement exertion Susan Matthews said. "We acceptable retired to archer this communicative successful a mode that helped grow and situation what radical understood astir this subject."

"We decided the mode to attack this play was to spell backmost to the aboriginal 70s, erstwhile the termination statement was inactive up successful the aerial and your enactment affiliation didn't correlate with your views connected the issue," she continued. "I americium truthful honored that Apple Podcasts saw thing peculiar successful this season."

"I anticipation radical travel to it with an unfastened and funny mind, and admit listening to it arsenic overmuch arsenic I did making it," said Matthews.

To coincide with the announcement, the makers of "Slow Burn" person present released six further editions called "Slow Burn Extras." These are exclusive to Apple Podcasts, and see extended interviews positive a roundtable treatment astir Roe v. Wade.