About
One Stop Podcasts is an independent podcast production and education agency based in Manchester, working with businesses, organisations, agencies, educators and people with something worth sharing.
We help turn ideas, expertise and conversations into professionally produced podcasts from the first thought about what the podcast could be through to recording, production, sonic branding and release.
We also work with agencies behind the scenes and bring podcasting into education through practical workshops, projects and staff development.
Different settings. Different audiences. The same underlying belief:
Start with something worth saying. Then make it worth listening to.
Built from more than two decades of sound, production and education
One Stop Podcasts was founded by Craig Burgess, an audio producer, sound specialist and educator with more than two decades of experience across music production, sound, higher education and creative practice.
Long before One Stop Podcasts existed, Craig’s work centred on many of the same skills that make a great podcast: listening critically, shaping sound, developing ideas, telling stories and helping people communicate clearly.
Alongside his creative work, Craig has spent much of his career teaching and leading degree-level courses in music production and related disciplines, helping students turn ideas into finished work while developing the creative, technical and professional skills behind it.
One Stop Podcasts brings those worlds together.
Professional audio and video production.
Creative thinking and storytelling.
Sound design and music.
Teaching, collaboration and communication.
Underpinning it all is a simple belief: the technology is only valuable if it helps people communicate something worth hearing.
That thinking shapes how One Stop Podcasts approaches every project, from developing the initial idea to creating something purposeful, polished and ready to reach its audience.
The best podcasts don't start with equipment
They start with a reason to exist.
Something worth exploring. Something useful to share. A perspective people might want to hear. A conversation that deserves more than thirty seconds on social media.
That’s why we don’t begin by asking which microphone you want to use or how many cameras you need.
We start by understanding what you’re trying to say, who you’re trying to reach and why a podcast is the right way to do it.
Then we build the production around that.
The idea leads. The technology follows.
One company. Three ways to work with us
Podcast Production
For businesses, organisations, experts and creators who want to turn an idea into a professionally produced audio or video podcast.
From strategy and development through recording, editing, sonic branding, publishing and ongoing production.
White-Label for Agencies
Specialist podcast production behind marketing, creative, PR, branding and communications agencies.
Your agency keeps the client relationship. We provide the podcast expertise behind it.
Podcasting in Education
Practical workshops, projects and staff CPD that use podcasting to bring communication, creativity, collaboration and digital production together around something learners can genuinely make.
Podcasting sits at an interesting intersection
It isn’t only audio or video production.
It isn’t only interviewing.
It isn’t only content marketing, storytelling, education or video.
Good podcasting can involve all of them.
That’s why the breadth of experience behind One Stop Podcasts matters.
We understand sound well enough to care about the details people shouldn’t notice.
We understand production well enough to know when those details matter and when they don’t.
We understand education well enough to explain complicated things without making them unnecessarily complicated.
And we understand that the person sitting behind the microphone is more important than the microphone itself.
Technology matters. People matter more.
People with something real to share
Our clients don’t all look alike.
They might be a business with expertise worth sharing.
An organisation with stories that deserve more space.
An agency whose client has just asked, “Could we do a podcast?”
A consultant who wants to turn years of knowledge into something people can actually spend time with.
A school looking for a different way to get pupils speaking, listening, researching and creating.
Or someone who’s had a podcast idea sitting in their head for years and has finally decided to do something about it.
What connects the best projects isn’t a particular industry or organisation size.
It’s having something worth saying and caring about how it’s said.
Craig Burgess
Craig is the founder and creative director at One Stop Podcasts.
His background spans audio, music and video production, sound design, sonic art, and more than two decades in professional creative industry and education, including research, senior academic and course leadership roles in higher education.
He’s particularly interested in the point where sound, communication, creativity and learning meet whether that’s shaping the identity of a new podcast, helping someone feel comfortable behind a microphone or watching a group of pupils realise they’ve just made something they’re genuinely proud of.
One Stop Podcasts grew from that combination of interests and experience.
And despite spending a large part of his career around audio and video technology, Craig still believes that the most important part of any recording setup is the person using it.
Organisations we've had the pleasure of working with...
What could we make together?
Maybe you already know exactly what you want to create.
Maybe you’ve got the beginnings of an idea.
Or perhaps you’re simply wondering whether podcasting could work for your business, organisation, agency or school.
You don’t need to have the answers before getting in touch.
Tell us what you’re thinking. We’ll help you work out what comes next.