01 · With friends
Friend-chat podcast ideas
Easiest to start: you and one or two friends, one topic, 15 to 25 minutes. Pick a recurring segment so every episode has a shape.
- Hot takes: one debate per episode
- Ranking things: snacks, songs, movies, sneakers
- Our week in 20 minutes
- Would you rather, with a guest
- Unpopular opinions
- Fantasy sports league talk
- The group chat, out loud
- Advice for younger siblings
- Rating our school lunches
- Things adults don't get about us
02 · Interviews
Interview podcast ideas
Interviews teach the most and are easy to get: adults love being asked about their work. Borrow questions from our podcast interview questions.
- Jobs I've never heard of: one adult, one career
- Grandparents' stories
- Teachers off duty
- Local business owners in your town
- Students who started something
- Coaches on what they look for
- Alumni from your school
- Immigrant family stories
- People who changed careers
- Your town's history, told by people who lived it
03 · School and clubs
School project and club podcast ideas
A podcast is a good way to present a project: talk through it with a classmate interviewing you, and you've practised your pitch at the same time. Drama clubs can make audio plays instead of a stage show. More in podcast ideas for students.
- Project explained: classmate interviews you about your project
- Audio drama for drama club
- Book report as a two-person review
- History as a news broadcast
- Science myths, tested
- Debate club highlights
- School news, weekly
- Sports team recap
- Language practice in conversation
- Career day, recorded
04 · Stories and reviews
Storytelling and review ideas
Solo shows work if you love a topic enough to talk about it alone. Keep episodes short and scripted until you find your rhythm.
- Game reviews
- Book or manga reviews
- Movie club for one genre
- Urban legends from your area
- Short fiction, read with sound effects
- Music you found this week
- Explaining one thing a week
- Mental health tips from teens, with a counsellor guest
- Life hacks for school
- Your sport, explained for beginners
05 · Record and publish
How to record and publish safely
A phone in a quiet room with soft furniture is enough. Record with the free voice recorder or Voice Memos, then clean up the room sound with noise removal. If you're under 18, publish with a parent or teacher, use first names only, and never share your school, address or schedule on air.
- Quiet room, phone close to your mouth
- First names only
- A parent or teacher signs off before publishing
Record on your phone, edit like a text doc.
Hilite removes background noise and lets you cut mistakes by deleting words.