Telltale Industries · London and Toronto
We make shows that move people
Narrative podcasts and video series for the BBC, Audible, CBC and Global; for organisations with something real to say; and for our own channels.
Three ways in
One studio, three businesses
Commissions
Narrative series and formats, developed in audio and taken to video and television.
Brain of Britain for BBC Radio 4. Love, Janessa for the BBC World Service and CBC. Educating Daisy for Audible.
See the slateChannels
Shows we originate, own and run, on YouTube and every podcast app.
StoryCo is a top 20 culture podcast on Spotify, and rising fast on YouTube. Intoxicating History won a Signal Award.
StoryCo at storyco.site Watch StoryCo on YouTube Watch and listen to Intoxicating History Sponsor a showConsult
We help organisations decide whether a show will solve their problem, and when it will, we make it.
Google DeepMind, WWF, Taylor’s Port, the Leo Baeck Institute.
Start with a conversationSelected work
The shows
Google DeepMind: The Podcast
Google DeepMind · For a client
415,000 viewsfor one episode, with Demis Hassabis
Professor Hannah Fry goes behind the scenes of the world’s leading AI research lab.
StoryCo
YouTube and podcast apps · Original
Top 20culture podcast on Spotify, and rising fast on YouTube
Extraordinary stories, told by the people who lived them.
Love, Janessa
BBC World Service and CBC Podcasts · Commission
Three awardsAIB, Black Podcasting Awards and Signal, 2023; nominated for a Rose d’Or and a British Podcast Award
The search for the face of a global catfishing enterprise, and the most profitable dating scam in the world.
Brain of Britain
BBC Radio 4 · Commission
Britain’s oldestpublic participation quiz, now in its eighth decade
Radio 4’s general knowledge quiz, now made by Telltale and The Format People.
Intoxicating History
Podcast and YouTube · Original
Signal AwardBronze, food and drink, 2025
The history of drink, and the drink that made history, with Tom Parker Bowles and Henry Jeffreys.
Educating Daisy
Audible Original · Commission
Two seasonsand two British Podcast Award nominations, 2024
Six celebrities face their biggest challenge yet: to convince Daisy May Cooper to read a book.
Telltale Consult · for brands and institutions
Advertising rents attention. A show owns it.
Rented attention is bought by the impression and gone when the budget stops. A show is chosen, subscribed to and returned to each week, and it builds.
We start with four questions
- Who needs to care?
- What would make them?
- How do we reach them?
- How will we know it worked?