Answer Me This!
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| Hosted by |
Helen Zaltzman Olly Mann |
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| Genre | Comedy |
| Debut | January 2007 |
| Cited as | Best Internet Programme (Silver, 2010; Gold, 2011) Radio Academy Awards |
| Website | answermethispodcast |
Answer Me This! is a monthly comedy podcast by Helen Zaltzman and Olly Mann in which they answer questions submitted by the general public. Until recently, the podcast was recorded in Zaltzman's living-room in Crystal Palace. It began in January 2007 and has since become one of the UK's most successful independently produced podcasts. It has been named Podcast of the Week in the Radio Times, The Times,The Independent, and Time Out, as well as receiving plaudits in Q Magazine, the Financial Times, the Sunday Express, the London Metro, and The Observer. In 2009, the show became the first non-musical act ever to play the iTunes Festival.
Answer Me This! was nominated for Sony Radio Academy Awards in 2009, 2010, and 2011, in the category "Best Internet Programme"; in 2010, the podcast won the silver award and in 2011, it won the gold award. In 2012, it won a European Podcast Award.
The broadcast frequency was changed from weekly to fortnightly in January 2014, then to monthly from December 2016. The 300th episode was broadcast in October 2014.
Answer Me This! is hosted by Zaltzman, Mann, and Dr. Martin Austwick (a.k.a. "Martin the Sound Man"). Mann is the gadgets and games columnist for Reader's Digest and a regular pundit on Sky News and BBC Breakfast; Zaltzman has written and performed comedy on BBC Radio 1 and Radio 4, and performed live with Josie Long and Robin Ince's Book Club and School for Gifted Children. Zaltzman and Mann met at St Catherine's College, Oxford, where they both studied English. Austwick, a musician and singer, has a DPhil in quantum physics and works as a university lecturer. In 2011, Zaltzman and Austwick got married, with Austwick subsequently changing his name to Martin Zaltz Austwick.
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